The smartwatch arena is heating up with all the major manufacturers joining the bandwagon. After recent reports of a bizarre Nokia smartwatch prototype, we have rumours that HTC is planning to launch an Android smartphone.
According to a report published on the Bloomberg website, HTC is planning to release an Android smartwatch which will be ready for launch next year.
The report doesn’t name a source and says that the news comes from a person “familiar with the matter.”
Not much is revealed about the device. The report says that the smartwatch is definitely going to come with a camera for clicking photos much like the one seen on Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch.
There is no word on the pricing or the full feature list. The device is slated to hit shelves by the second half of 2014.
The smartwatch segment is showing signs of explosive growth in the future. Samsung managed to beat other companies to release the first mainstream smartwatch. The Galaxy Gear
features a 1.63 inch screen along with a 1.9 MP camera. Although it only has official support for apps curated for the device, it was recently hacked to run full Android apps.
HTC’s slipping market share has got the alarm bells ringing in the company. The HTC One failed to spur a reverse trend in the dismal sales record of HTC smartphones. Yesterday, the company’s CEO announced that he will be concentrating on the innovation and product development aspect of the organisation to hopefully engineer a turnaround.
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