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Smartwatch Pricing Tier Emerges As Withings Sets $450 Price for Activé Watch

November 10, 2014 By Dan Rosenbaum

5.Withings_Activité_black_moveIt looks like smartwatches that put a premium on appearance are settling around a pricing neighborhood: $400 to $500.

Withings has started taking pre-orders for its Activé watch — an attractive timepiece that subtly measures your progress to a daily movement goal — and pegged the price at $450. That’s the same neighborhood as the Michael Bastian / HP watch, and in the low end of the spectrum being bruited about for the Apple Watch.

This pricing certainly has little to do with the technology; low-end fitness trackers now sell for $50, and even highly capable devices like the Jawbone UP3 comes in at $180 and the Fitbit Surge will sell for $250. But $500 is not an eye-blinker for a nice watch with a couple of extra functions built in.

Of course, that watch has to look nice. But the Withings is pretty elegant, if a little bland, the Bastian watch is a solid timepiece, and the Apple Watch is — well, we’re not sure about that yet. But $450-$500 looks like an OK price for this new segment.

 

Last updated by Dan Rosenbaum on November 18, 2014.

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