Fire-Boltt launched the Dream “wristphone” near the start of this year. The wearable device was basically a phone with a form factor of a smartwatch. Now the company is one-upping itself and has decided to slap a camera on their newest offering. Let’s delve into what the Fire-Boltt Snapp has to offer and also discuss its potential price in Nepal.
Fire-Boltt Snapp Overview
Design and Display
The Fire-Boltt Snapp looks like a standard smartwatch for the most part. What sticks out, quite literally, is a protrusion on the right that houses a camera. There is also the company branding and “android” written on it. The watch case appears to be metal, but nothing has been specified about it. It is IP67-rated though. Apart from that, it is available in three strap choices and a plethora of colour options.
On the front, it comes with a 2.13-inch squiricle display. It is an AMOLED panel, stretches 410 x 502 pixels in resolution and supports AOD.
Performance
Under the helm, Fire-Boltt Snapp has a quad-core Cortex CPU coupled with Mali GPU. Fire-Boltt shies away from telling the name of the processor as well as the Cortex type. It is probably something old like the Cortex-A7, which was featured on the Fire-Boltt Dream. For what it’s worth, all we can say is it is an ARM-based chipset.
This watch comes in two configurations, the lower of which has 2GB RAM and 16GB storage. This is the same combination as the company’s older offering. Meanwhile, the higher variant is available with 4GB memory and 64GB storage. This is on par with what some budget smartphones offer even to this day. Software-wise, the Fire-Boltt Snapp boots on Android with access to the Google Play Store. But it is unclear which version of the OS it is running on. Once again, it is likely an older version so that the watch’s limited hardware can handle it well enough.
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Camera and Battery
Fire-Boltt has placed heavy emphasis on the fact their latest offering has a built-in camera and even conveniently named it “Snapp”. The company does not outright mention the resolution of the shooter, they’ve hidden it like an easter egg. It is apparently a 2MP ClarityX camera with which users can snap photos, take videos, live stream, and scan QR codes. Scanning QRs will be quite a taxing job with this one since the camera is facing, well, towards the user’s face. But hey, it’s good that it has such a feature in the first place.
For power, the Fire-Boltt Snapp comes with a 1,000 mAh cell, which could potentially be the largest on a wearable device. Even the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra and Apple Watch Ultra 2 pale in comparison in terms of battery capacity. The former comes with a larger 590mAh unit while the latter settles for somewhere around 542mAh. With this, the watch offers 30 days of usage on standby and half of that with phone calls being taken.
Connectivity and Smartwatch side of things
Closing the gap with a smartphone, the Fire-Boltt Snapp comes with a SIM slot on its left side. Here, you can place a nano-SIM and get a cellular network. You can make phone calls, send text messages, and access the internet — that too with 4G speeds. Additionally, it works with WiFi (2.4GHz only) as well and has GPS support. The company has not mentioned it, but it should come with Bluetooth too.
Fire-Boltt spends a great deal of time talking about Snapp’s smartphone-esque aspects that it forgot to talk about the smartwatch side of things. Nevertheless, the Amazon listing of the product reveals that it is equipped with heart rate and blood oxygen tracking sensors. So, it can do the basics of a smartwatch too.
Fire-Boltt Snapp Specifications
- Design: Metallic-looking body with camera bump on right and SIM slot on left, IP67-rated
- Strap Materials: Metal, Silicone, Leather (Strap)
- Display: 2.13” AMOLED Panel, AOD support
- Resolution: 410 x 502 pixels
- Chipset: Quad-core Cortex CPU + Mali GPU
- RAM: 2GB or 4GB
- ROM: 16GB or 64GB
- OS: Android (Unspecified version)
- Camera: 2MP ClarityX HD camera
- Sensors: HX3605 heart rate sensor, Blood oxygen
- Navigation: Yes
- Battery: 1,000 mAh Lithium Polymer, 30 days standby, 15 days calling
- Charging: About 3 hours
- Connectivity: NanoSIM, 4G cellular, Single-band WiFi 2.4GHz, Bluetooth
- Colour Options: Alpine Olive, Archaic Black, Black Storm, Cherry Blush, Cocoa Brown, Jet Black Luxe, Marlet Maroon
Fire-Boltt Snapp Price and Availability
This cool product was announced on 26 August 2024 and has been available for purchase starting a day later. The company mentions its MRP to be INR 24,000, but it’s likely to make it seem as if offers are running. Buyers can get it at INR 5,999 and INR 6,499, based on the configuration. If the Fire-Boltt Snapp arrives in Nepal, we expect its price to start at NPR 10,499.
| Fire-Boltt Snapp | Price in India (Official) | Price in Nepal (Expected) |
| 2GB + 16GB | INR 5,999 | NPR 10,499 |
| 4GB + 64GB | INR 6,499 | NPR 11,999 |
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