A 500,000 yen smartwatch appears from Louis Vuitton and freely combines with smartphones.

Louis Vuitton's smartwatch "Tambul Horizon Light Up"

Louis Vuitton will release a smart watch "Tambour Horizon Light Up".The price in Japan starts at 434,500 yen.It is expensive as a smartwatch, but it may be rather cheap if you think of Louis Vuitton watches.With 24 LEDs, you can fully enjoy the "Vuitton wearable" experience that you can never taste with other smartwatches, such as colorful lighting and customization functions of the dial.[Photo] Collecting smartwatches of high brand manufacturers is not easy, but it reproduces the world view of Louis Vuitton firmly. Speaking of smartwatch, Suica can be used and can be used for payment.I think there are many people.There are many smartwatches other than Apple, but recent trends have enhanced their health records as an activity meter, and coordinates with smartphones, which have improved battery capacity and enhanced body design.increasing.When the Apple Watch came out, it was said that "I can do anything with a smart watch alone", but in reality many smartwatches move in the direction of strengthening the function of constantly acquiring biological and health data.I am.Recently, Huawei's smartwatch is popular because of the good design and the length of the battery.There is a limit to using the app on a small smartwatch screen, for example, Uber ends the Google smartwatch app a few years ago.Recently, in the Apple Watch app, when it started, it was displayed as "Please switch to a mobile app".It means that the number of users who says "if you can't use the app with a smartwatch" is not really large.Louis Vuitton's Tambul Horizon Light Up works on its own OS, but you can't add the app later.In addition to customization with various writing effects, measurement of steps, heart rate, use of pre -installed apps such as timer and music, alipay, and swipe the display to the left, the "My Travel" function is launched, and the world of Louis Vuitton carefully selected.You can display the city guide in 30 cities, travel planning, and board boards.These information will be updated as appropriate, but you will enjoy various functions in the closed OS.It's not a smartwatch that adds an app to increase the function.Tambourg Horizon Light Up is equipped with Quarcom's Snapdragon Wear 4100 in the chipset, and has a built -in heart rate sensor.Nowadays, smartwatches combine chipsets and sensors, and if you put the OS, you can use some trendy features recently.For this reason, high -brand companies like Louis Biton have low thresholds for smartwatches.Nevertheless, commercialization of high -brand smartwatches is not really easy because it is necessary to finish, design, and user interface that match the brand image.By the way, Tumbourg Horizon Light Up has been certified by Apple's MFI (Made for iPhone).Not as much as Louis Vuitton, the market has already sold many branded smartwatches.However, in cooperation with the iPhone, the options were narrowed, such as some products that were partially restricted.If you are Tumbourg Horizon Light Up, you can link on the iPhone without any inconvenience by MFI authentication, so even those who want a branded smartwatch can purchase with confidence.If Apple has a function restriction on a high -brand smartwatch, it will rather reduce the appeal of the iPhone.If a smartwatch comes out of other high brands in the future, they will be a product that has acquired MFI certification.People who have their favorite branded bags and wallets and wear clothes will be able to unify watches with the same brand.Watches, which are also fashion items, and various manufacturers and brands, are likely to be more free.

Yasuhiro Yamane