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, dubbed 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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