Samsung is developing a smart watch ("smartwatch") that can make or receive calls without having to be linked to a mobile phone, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
Samsung, the world's largest producer of smartphones, is negotiating with telephone operators in the United States, South Korea and Europe for the so-called "watch-phone", which would be introduced to the market between June and July, the Journal quoted him as saying. people familiar with the company's plans.
The smartwatchs currently on the market, such as Samsung's Gear line, the Sony Smartwatch or the future Motorola Moto 360, among many others, have to be connected to a phone to receive and send messages and perform other basic functions.
But Samsung's new device, which will have the company's Tizen operating software, would be independent, although this would mean paying for another telephone line cell phone.
At the same time, this new equipment could take photographs and manage emails independently. In addition, it will come equipped with a heart monitor, the newspaper reported.
The Samsung device would not be the first watch capable of making calls; In 2003, the Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo offered a wrist cell phone, the Wristomo. Samsung had a similar device for the time that did not go on sale.
Meanwhile, a company called Kairos states that at the end of the year it will have a wristwatch on the market that combines the best of the traditional watch segment with computing.
Thus, it is a conventional wristwatch, with mechanisms of Swiss or Japanese origin (you can choose); On them, a transparent LCD screen would provide the conventional computing part (see the notifications that arrive on the smartphone, who is calling us, etc.).
The company is not well known and many doubt the veracity of its statements; The device, if it becomes a reality, will have a price of between $500 and $1,200, which leaves it well above conventional smart watches, which are around $300.
It will be available between December and next March, depending on the model. Even if it does not come true, it shows what for many is the ideal of the smartwatch: a wrist device that is intelligent, but that looks like a normal watch.
Source: La Nación
Updated on: 05/06/2023 14:50:57
