By: iPadfanzz staff on December 31, 2012
Reports suggest that Apple is building a ‘smartwatch’ using the firm’s iPod Nano. The device will use Intel chips and new low-power Bluetooth technology and is all set to go on sale next summer.
The watch will reportedly have a one-and-a-half inch LED screen and will let users to send and receive email, texts and Facebook alerts as well as communicating with other devices wirelessly though Bluetooth. For voice commands, Apple’s voice assistant Siri would be used.
However, according to some tech blogs, the iPad-maker is supposedly working on something big. They say it will be much more than a watch.
The market is already filled with a number of watches based on similar pattern. Recently, a popular Kickstarter project from Pebble gave life to the concept. It had nearly 70,000 backers, but due to delays it will be out in early 2013. Thousands of consumers also use fitness products that resemble watches to track calorie intake and calories burned. A lot of these products sync and share data with iPhones via Bluetooth.
An affordable iwatch from Apple could affect the sales of some popular devices like the Nike Fuel Band, Fitbit and Jawbone Up.
Wearable computing products is a growing trend in the industry and obviously Apple will also thrive on such tech products that behave less like tech products, but with a human touch. Rival Google, has a product in Project Glass that appears to be gaining in popularity, but the price is currently prohibitive.
Till now Nano is Apple’s smallest device, bigger than only the Shuffle, which though looked awkward but was an excellent beginning – and perhaps a precursor — to the Pebble smart watch.
In all probability, this could be the next big thing from Apple in 2013 and with its technology prowess it can easily play the market.
Though the iWatch is just a rumor right now, but we’re hoping it’s more … much more.
