Long gone are the days of BlackBerry and Windows Phone. We now live in an era of duality, with your choice of smartphone being between iPhone and the wider world of Android. Whichever you pick, the smartwatches that go with them usually come down on one side of the other.

It’s an Apple Watch if you have an iPhone, and those wearables won’t work on an Android phone. And while Google and Samsung watches play nice with Android, they won’t connect to an iPhone.

But a smartwatch has just been announced that does reach an olive branch out to the other side, and is confirmed to work no matter what phone you have.

The OnePlus Watch Lite is the latest smartwatch from OnePlus, with the company confirming it will launch on December 17 alongside the firm’s OnePlus 15R and Pad Go 2 Android tablet.

The Watch Lite stands out though because despite coming from an Android brand, it will be compatible with iPhones as well as any Android handset.

“The watch introduces cross-OS dual-phone pairing capability, allowing it to connect to two phones simultaneously—supporting combinations of Android & Android or Android & iPhone,” OnePlus said in a press release. “This ensures users receive synchronized notifications and call alerts from both devices.”

Not only will the watch work with your iPhone, OnePlus is saying you can be connected to two devices at once and can get notifications from both. This in itself is rare in the smartwatch world, and suggests the OnePlus Watch Lite does not run on WearOS, Google’s wearable operating system, which is what the flagship OnePlus Watch 3 uses.

The Watch 3 does not work with iPhones, though stood out for its clever dual processor design that extends battery life into four or five days thanks to energy efficiency gains.

It likely is not WearOS for the OnePlus Watch Lite given OnePlus also confirmed the device will last up to 10 days with “typical use”. It has a 1.46-inch AMOLED display with 3,000 nits peak brightness, along with an 8-channel heart rate sensor and 16-channel blood oxygen sensor.

Its body has a Phantom Black stainless steel finish, rare to see on a ‘Lite’ model that will presumably be cheaper than the £319 OnePlus Watch 3. The Lite even packs in dual band GPS for run tracking, supports more than 100 sports modes and weighs in at just 35 grams.

There have been a lot of excellent smartwatches released this year, and OnePlus is keeping up, by the sounds of it. I’m intrigued to see how much functionality, if any, iPhone users lose by opting for this watch over an Apple Watch. I presume a lot – though unconfirmed, the OnePlus Watch Lite may not be able to download third party apps if it doesn’t run on WearOS, making it more of a fitness tracker that looks like a smartwatch.

All will be revealed, including the price, on December 17.