WCRC Brands Illustrated up till 15 October

ALCATEL ONETOUCH WATCH A lcatel’s OneTouch Watch brings a few really good ideas to the table: it’s affordable. It’s waterresistant, reasonably. Its battery lasts several days. It works with both iPhones and Android phones (iOS 7 and Android 4.3 and later). And, best of all, it doesn’t have a separate charger: it has USB in its band. The watch runs its own software but has three interchangeable watch faces: two round analog-style ones and one digital. The band is a little hard to put on: it’s stiff, mostly because it also houses a flip-out USB port on the edge of the band’s tip. The OneTouch runs its own operating system. Tap on the screen, and there’s a colorful grid of apps and features. The watch hooks into your phone’s notifications, allowing you to individually turn the fire hose on and off for individual apps. The OneTouch Watch doesn’t have a microphone or speaker, so you can’t dictate messages, or listen to calls. GALAXY NOTE 5 Price: 50,000 INR G alaxy Note 5 is the smoothest, sleekest stylusequipped jumbo-screen smartphone. On the plus side, it’s ablaze with slim, shiny, large-screened luster, a strong camera, a retooled stylus and killer battery life. But the Note 5 only incrementally improves upon last year’s Note 4, while also sealing in the battery and doing away with the expandable storage slot (there is, however, free cloud storage). The Note 5, while eye-catching, is also the least distinctive of the Note line. It’s still Samsung’s only phone for 2015 with a stylus (and a good one at that). 67

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