Some people are unhappy that smartwatches need the support of
smartphones to do anything interesting. Those people would prefer if
smartwatches could do at it alone – according to The Korea Herald, Samsung will make just
such a watch, called Samsung Gear Solo.
Samsung has filed a patent with the Korean Intellectual Property
Office for the Gear Solo name, but that name might change before the smartwatch
hits the market.
The
Gear Solo will pack a SIM card for independent mobile connectivity – both data
and voice. The device will initially be available for SK Telecom, which is
developing the watch alongside with Samsung, but a worldwide rollout shouldn’t
be ruled out.
Samsung has a watch phone before
there was such a thing as smartwatches back in 2009. That one used a
relatively large miniSIMs (compared to today’s nanoSIMs) and ran an unnamed
proprietary OS. Speaking of which, it’s not clear what Samsung will do with the
Gear OS now that Android Wear is official – the company just dropped Android in
favor of its own Tizen OS.
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