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Google Is Working On Two Android Wear Smartwatches, Says Report (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A new report from Android Police says Google is working on two Android Wear smartwatches. The Verge reports: "The two smartwatches -- one codenamed Angelfish, the other Swordfish -- are said to place a heavy focus on the Google assistant artificial intelligence 'bot' that headlined the company's recent I/O keynote. In terms of size and design, the larger Angelfish watch fits somewhere in between the 42mm and 46mm sizes of Lenovo's Moto 360. It'll feature LTE connectivity, built-in GPS, and a heart rate monitor, so it's got everything necessary for a little independence from your smartphone. The watch design reportedly features three buttons. There's a circular crown like many other Android Wear devices, but Angelfish also has two other buttons, and it's not yet known what they do. The smaller, thinner Swordfish watch has a look that resembles the Pebble Time Round, according to Android Police, with much less bezel surrounding the circular display. It's got just a single button, and might ship without the LTE, GPS, and heart rate sensor included inside the higher-end model. They could appear sometime this fall alongside new Nexus phones and the launch of Android Wear 2.0, though Android Police suspects they'll be announced separately." Researchers at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, were able to track a smartwatch wearer's hand movements at an ATM and figure out their pin with 80 percent accuracy on the first try.
so that it can track your pin regardless of the hand used!!
So it can have a battery life of 5 minutes?
at tracking your every move.. gps and lte modem built in, among other things, just for that purpose, don't kid yourself.. it's not about you, it's about the treasure trove of data you will give them.
Shouldn't the first try be either 0% or 100%? :)
It's sad because 30 years ago when I was a teenager, this sort of stuff would of been great. Now though, I know the reality of the situation, that it's used to track users to harvest information and data.
Be seeing you...
Wake me up when someone will come with a watch-sized smartphone with a battery lasting no less than 1 day!
Anything else is just a complex variation on bluetooth earbuds.
Sent as ripples into the electromagnetic field. No single photon has been harmed in the process.
Ah, those are codenames. The finished ones will be known as Orcrist and Glamdring.
One of the few weapons able to injure the watch-king of Cupertino.
In recent times Google has been lagging behind a lot. They had a go at social media with Google+ years after Facebook had already conquered the markets and now it's the same thing with smartwatches. The only difference is of course that nobody has conquered the smartwatch market because there are no fucknig markets to begin with as nobody is interested about that crap.
Another major flop that comes to mind was Google Video. They overcame that by giving up with their own solution and went ahead and bought YouTube because they were unable to figure out early enough how big videos would become. Oh, and let's not forget Jaiku. Jaiku was in fact established before Twitter, but Google bought the wrong fucking company and did it too late, too.
Then there's also Google Hangouts. They failed with that one too and now they're trying to catch up, but that's something they'll never be able to do.
Seriously. The market for "Smart" watches must be about 3 dumb asses with more money than sense. What is the point ? A 2.99 watch off fleabay will tell the time for several years using one small coin battery and a smartphone does everything a "smart" watch can do... But better.
"Dumb" phones more like.
You, anonymous sir, deserve mod points. Well played.
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