You know you’ll buy a smartwatch
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The announcement yesterday by Google that it is extending Android into the wearables sector can only mean that sooner or later – and it looks like it'll be sooner – we are all going to be wearing some kind of smart watch.
Already, Motorola has announced that it will be launching an Android Wear based watch – called Moto 360 – later this year and that it will be available in a range of styles.
Meanwhile, the world waits with bated breath for Apple to bring its rumoured iWatch to market, despite there being no real evidence of such a product. And Intel is said to have won an auction to buy Basis, developer of the Basis health tracker – a device which also tells the time as well as keeping track of your personal fitness.
So far, devices like the LG Smartwatch have been fairly lumpy affairs; the Pebble, for example, is about half an inch thick. But Moto 360 – at least from the advance images provided – looks to be more like the size of a watch you would readily wear.
During a press briefing at the recent Embedded World event in Nuremberg, a presenter said: "We don't need it, we don't want it, but it's coming and we'll buy it." Is this going to be your take on the smartwatch?
