After being shown off at the IFA 2015 in Berlin three months ago, the Moto 360 Sport is finally ripe for launch. Motorola recently shared the release dates of its upcoming Android Wear smartwatch.

Per the OEM's official blog post, the Moto 360 Sport will first release in France and the U.K. on Dec. 18. It will then make its U.S. debut on Jan. 7, where it will retail for $300 on the Motorola website as well as on other online retailers. Other countries that will get the device in early 2016 are Brazil, Canada, China, Mexico and Spain.

The wearable sports a 1.37-inch circular screen with a 360 x 325 resolution display. It is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 400 processor carrying four cores. There's 512MB of RAM, 4GB of native storage and a 300 mAh battery.

Furthermore, the Moto 360 Sport contains an optical heart rate sensor and built-in GPS, making it a perfect companion during sports and other fitness activities. It comes with a silicone body that is both water and dust resistant with IP67 certification. It will be available in three color options namely white, black and flame orange.

The Moto 360 Sport runs on Android Wear. The OS is the Google's first dedicated smartwatch platform which is based on the Android operating system for smartphones. According to Wareable, Android Wear includes a wide array of customization and interactive features. However, its main focus is on time-telling and notification delivery.

In other Motorola smartwatch news, the Moto 360 (2014) is now available on the Google Store for only $100. AndroidCentral noted that Google will ship orders free of charge.

The price cut seems to be permanent as the original Moto 360 is over a year old. Motorola is surely clearing out its closets to make room for newer models. Of course, the Moto 360's price could still plummet in the future, but it certainly won't go any higher anymore.

The last-gen wearable has a circular 1.56-inch 320 x 290 LCD screen fortified with Gorilla Glass 3. Its traditional watch design is accompanied by an always-on screen that tells the time even when it's set in power-saving mode.

TechRadar reported that the design was so simple and attractive that it quickly inspired other smartwatch OEMs to follow suit. Prior to the Moto 360, smartwatches had a slab design akin to a miniature calculator.

"Everything before it was a screen on your wrist, a mini-tablet made to bring you easy notifications. Those are a warped evolution of computers, not watches,' critiqued tech reviewer David Pierce of The Verge. "The Moto 360 is to a sundial as the iPad is to a stone tablet: it's the same, only completely different."