Apple, Sony, Nike working on smart wrist devices

Wednesday 22 August 2012


Cellphones have already entered into watches' turf as a time-telling tool. Now, the technology companies are also eyeing your wrist to strap it with a smart device. 

With the latest update, Sony has launched a new Smartwatch, a 2-inch-square display screen that can show emails, social media posts and other pieces of text. Sony’s smartwatch is power-packed with Google’s Android operating platform. Just like Apple’s iPod nano, it displays four apps at a time in a grid pattern. The most Users can get alerts about key events like an incoming call, text, messages and social feeds has 15 pre-installed apps and can store up to 255 applications.

Stephen Sneeden, Sony's product marketing manager has shared his views that the new smartwatch becomes a remote screen where users will have the ability to control phone with a number of different applications.

Device reviewers added,  the new wrist devices won't replace smartphones, but rather connect to them. It is expected that these devices will continue the basic task of telling the time, while eliminating the need to dig a smartphone out of your pocket or purse just to know time.

Besides Sony, companies like Apple and Nike, along with dozens of startups are also planning to strap a device on user’s wrist.

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