In an era where smartwatches are becoming more and more popular, luxury brands have also released smartwatch models in recent years. We are going to discuss the smartwatch released by MICHAEL KORS. MICHAEL KORS is an American luxury brand founded in 1982 that shares its designer’s name and offers men’s and women’s apparel, accessories, shoes, fragrances, swimwear, eyewear and watches, as well as women’s jewelry.
According to the official website, there are four lines of Michael Kors’ existing smartwatches, the Access Gen 5E, Gen 5E Darci Pave, Access Gen 5 Lexington and Gen 6 Bradshaw. Only the Access Gen 5E is a smartwatch series, the remaining three series are all oversized smartwatches. Except Gen 6 Bradshaw series is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon, all the other series of smartwatches are powered by Wear OS by Google.
Pros：Being different series, they are all priced differently. From $250 to $425 to meet the different needs of different people. Different series of smart watches have different strap materials, including rubber strap and stainless steel, which can meet the needs of different occasions. All the smartwatches by Michael Kors are compatible with iPhone and Android, and have AMOLED display, social media updates, text/mail alerts, App notifications, smart help from Google, build-in fitness tracking, voice assistant, heart rate tracking and water resistant. Besides the Access Gen 5E product line, they also have swimproof technology, payment method and GPS distance tracking.
Cons: As a entry luxury brand, Michael Kors is famous by bags and clothes but not smartwears. Althought smartwatches by Michael Kors have fancy looks, but it also look big in prices. MICHAEL KORS’s smartwatch dails are generally on the large side, which may not be a good choice as someone who goes to gym often. Wearing a smartwatch with a large watchface when you are doing exercise may affect your exercise movement, and the large weight may cause you to bump the watch during exercise. Luxury brand watches will also be more expensive to repair than other brands. Compare to smartwatches by specialized brand they also have other short boards. They use AMOLED display on their smartwatches. The AMOLED display screen of MICHAEL KORS’s smartwatches would be more easier to get damaged compare to other OLED screen smartwatches. This also will cost more when you need to repaire the face of your smartwatches. The most important things of wearing a smart watch is when you working out in a gym, it could track your fitness. Although MICHAEL KORS’s smartwatches have fitness tracking but don’t have any sports mode. Sports mode will record your work out more spcifically. As a smartwatch, it can be said that it has really only a few features, and compared to the price the cost performance is not so desirable.
An Cost-Effective Alternative To Michael Kors Smartwatch – GARMIN
GARMIN is a brand from Taiwan China, founded in 1989. The founders Dr. Min-Huan Kao and Gary Burrell are specialize in the aerospace technology industry, GPS, navigation and aerospace electronics, respectively. The two founders have professional engineering backgrounds in aircraft and ship navigation and communications technology. The brand GARMIN can be said to specialize in integrated navigation devices with an all-in-one design. Gradually, the brand has been applying related communication and navigation technologies to the aviation, marine and automotive navigation, outdoor and fitness markets. In recent years even under the influence of Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi these market giants, GARMIN brand of smart wear products still sold high sales. And the brand not only has a good reputation in China, the industry has developed to overseas markets such as Japan, Singapore and some European countries.
Here I recommand a GARMIN smartwatch for you.
GARMIN Lily is a fashion smartwatch that includes a lot of features. First of all, it has six different color designs for people to choose from. The exterior design demonstrates elegance and confidence.
The GARMIN Lily watch is compatible with ios and andriod. Its face is with a diameter of 34.5mm and its weight is 24 grams. The GARMIN Lily has a touch screen and is waterproof to 5 ATM. Health features include menstruation and pregnancy management, daily resting heart rate, abnormal heart rate alert, respiratory rate detection, pulse oximetry, body electric detection, stress detection, relaxation reminder, breathing timer, sleep monitoring and water log. Female consumers may be more inclined to this product because of the menstruation and pregnancy management feature. I think GARMIN has done a very humane job on this point because some women will download recording apps in their phones to keep track of their periods and pregnancy. If women who need that function use this watch, it will greatly facilitate their lives. Mental health is also an increasingly important part of people’s lives nowadays, and stress detection will better monitor people’s mental health. This function of sleep monitoring is a very useful feature for people who want to check the quality of their sleep and those who have poor sleep quality.
In addition to this, it also has 11 sports modes. Exercise modes include strength training, aerobics, elliptical, mountain climbing, yoga, Pilates, breathing exercise, running, treadmill, cycling and swimming. Smart Connect features include Smart Notifications, Control Phone Music, Calendar, Weather, Text Reply, Find My Phone and Find Watch. This watch can be said to be a professional smart watch that allows you to enjoy the convenience and speed in both sports and life.The price of this product is around $250 to $300. It has more features than MICHAEL KORS’s smartwatches and also more reasonable in price.
Overall I think the GARMIN Lily is better in terms of appearance, functionality, interactive system and price.But the matter of buying a smartwatch still depends on what suits you and what you like. I hope my article can provide you with some inspiration and ideas when shopping for smart wearable devices. The development of technology is to facilitate people’s lives, and we hope that everyone can buy products to their satisfaction.
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