Neptune Duo: An Even Stranger Wearable
The first wearable device by Neptune was a phone for your wrist. The second wearable from Neptune, called Neptune Duo, will be a phone for your wrist AND a device – like a smartphone – that uses your smartwatch as a base. So it's as if the team at Neptune decided that it didn't make enough sense for the smartphone to be the key device – like it is now – and decided to switch places with the smartwatch. How strange, you might say – how weird it is that they'd do such a thing!
Lucky you, we've for a full Neptune Pine review ready for you to peruse. That's the first Neptune wearable. That super odd device has all the abilities you'd normally have on your smartphone, but here wearable on your wrist.
For Neptune's second trick, they've got something entirely different.
Sort of.
In addition to completely redesigning their smartwatch, making it a band instead, they've added a device that's very similar to a smartphone.
This device sits in your pocket like a smartphone, and indeed functions very much like a smartphone, but can't do anything unless its paired with your Neptune smartwatch. Have a peek at the whole conglomeration in this video.
They're calling the Neptune Duo smartwatch the "Hub" while the smartphone-like device is called the "Pocket Screen."
The smartwatch Hub runs Android Lollipop while the smartphone-like Pocket Screen runs... something we're not sure of synced with the watch.
Looks pretty great, doesn't it? Even if the device's concept is strange and it's not necessarily something you'll end up using – the video makes it all look pretty impressive.
For now, this really, truly is a concept. It's a rendering.
The device is part of a sort of self-made crowd-funding effort at the moment where you're invited to "reserve" your device for a fee, then pay the rest of the cash once the device is ready to ship.
There's one tier where you can pay $49 USD now and $649 when shipment becomes available. There's another tier where you can pay $199 now and $399 later (that's a discount of about a hundred bucks.) There's also a one-time fee tier for $489.
But the company doesn't say when they'll ship, exactly, only that it'll likely be before the end of this year. Take that how you will.