23.10.2013, 16:44 clock
Samsung has one, even three Sony, Google and Apple are working: There is talk of Smart Watches . But not only these major players have aspirations abzubekommen a piece of wearable technology cake, also from the Taiwanese HTC said to have been working diligently on a SmartWatch on Android base , which should be more than just a gimmick course.
that HTC does not want to introduce any SmartWatch, says CEO Peter Chou told the Financial Times. HTC had worked it claimed that years ago with Microsoft on a SmartWatch, but this cooperation was apparently not successful. He also referred to the smartwatch currently available and more than gimmick gimmick, no real everyday use. Right here one wants to fix, so Chou. The market of “wearables” was only the beginning – as it was with the smartphones wittere you a great opportunity. Details about the product, however, he did not let himself elicit.
A little more light on the upcoming Tim Culpan SmartWatch can bring in experience from Bloomberg. Should HTC’s SmartWatch according to a source who was familiar with the matter, to be equipped with Android and have a camera on board – much like the Samsung Galaxy Gear. More than these features are not known according to the report, since the device was apparently still in the design phase and not specific features, price or sales strategy are ripe. However, it said that the SmartWatch during the second half of 2014 go on sale.
If HTC really should bring such a product to the market until the second half of 2014, this could almost be too late. Because the competition is not sleeping and is partly a far better stand so it can be assumed that Samsung has launched its second Galaxy Gear with flexible display and sophisticated operations on the road by then, including Google’s SmartWatch “Gem” is likely to be published until then – Apple iWatch could be on the market by then. HTC would thus fall behind and would ultimately only a kind of “me-too” product at the start.
Chou mentioned in the interview with the Financial Times, also a new under development tablet, which will be great and “disruptive”. About the technical features that will make the device particularly, however, it remained covered. Since the Taiwanese have been getting on the tablet sector, no foot on the earth, we remain a little skeptical in this regard. Those who remember the HTC Flyer from 2011, and the 10-inch tablet HTC Jetstream, which was ultimately sold in the U.S., this maybe can understand. If HTC should really do it, to build a ground-breaking tablet that would certainly be good for the company, but it is time to deliver the Taiwanese, because given the awkward financial situation HTCs them swim gradually the skins and means it.
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you are obviously both combative and CEO Peter Chou also the Chairman Cher Wang, who has a substantial stake in the company, seem to have staying power. Whether this optimism associated with the alleged deal with Amazon, some speculation.
Source (s): Bloomberg, Financial Times (registration required); mockup: Hasan Kaymak [via engadget]
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