Nubia Alpha Brings a Smartphone To Your Wrist; Coming Later This Year For €449

Feb. 26, 2019

Price and Availability

The base Bluetooth-only variant of theNubia Alpha has been priced at €449whereas the eSIM variant will retail at €549. These two watches will be the stainless steel variant, but if you want something shiny and fancy, well, you will have to shell out another €100. The 18K Gold stainless steel variant will run you €649.

The Nubia Alpha is designed to be a smartwatch, packing all of the functionality that one expects to find in a full-fledged smartphone. It combines everything from a small screen, camera, and battery into the wearable form factor.

The Nubia Alphasports a 4-inch flexible OLED screen, with a 960×192 pixels display resolution and it might look odd at first but you can easily watch videos in an ultra-wide view here. The device runs Nubia’s custom AlphaOS, which packs almost every app you could think of, including a gallery and video app.

Nubia has also tried torevamp how you interact with the Nubia Alphavia A.I.M, i.e the Air Interaction Mechanism, where you don’t need to touch the screen to control the device. It includes a complete dialer app, speaker and microphone for calling on the move – that too in a private mode. You can even place a video call via the 5MP camera on the Nubia Alpha.

Nubia Alphaincludes a 500mAh battery pack, which the company states would easily last you up to 2 days on regular use. The smartwatch will provide you up to 14 hours of music playback and up to 5 hours of voice calling over the eSIM (10 hours on Bluetooth).

So, what are your opinions on the Nubia Alpha? Does the smartphone wearable intrigue you? Let us know in the comments below.