Five months after Motorola’s sleek Moto 360 smartwatch was first unveiled, you can finally order one.
The Moto 360 is now available for $250 from Motorola’s website, the Google Play store, and Best Buy stores, Motorola announced this morning. It will also get metal band options later this fall for $299 (you’ll also be able to buy the metal band separately for $80).
The smartwatch was undoubtedly the highlight of Google’s Android Wear platform when that was announced back in March, and it also showed up at Google I/O in June (where we finally got our hands on it). The Moto 360 is the first Android Wear smartwatch to sport a round watchface, and it turned plenty of heads early on because it looked far more like a high-end watch than another clunky smartwatch.
While LG and Samsung rushed to release their Android Wear devices, the G Watch and Gear Live, Motorola took its time developing the Moto 360. And that decision will likely pay off. Both Samsung and LG’s smartwatches feel like first-generation gadgets. The Moto 360, on the other hand, is our first glimpse at the future of wearables: High-end gadgets that don’t look like gadgets at all.
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