{"id":177440,"date":"2021-02-13T09:16:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T06:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/facebook-is-building-an-android-based-smartwatch\/"},"modified":"2021-02-13T09:16:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T06:16:24","slug":"facebook-is-building-an-android-based-smartwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/facebook-is-building-an-android-based-smartwatch\/","title":{"rendered":"#Facebook is building an Android-based smartwatch"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Facebook<\/a> is building an Android-based smartwatch<\/strong>”
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\n Facebook continues to expand its hardware aspirations. According to a report by The Information<\/a>, the company is actively working on a smartwatch, offering the usual array of fitness, messaging, and notification features. This should be too surprising, considering Facebook tried to buy Fitbit before Google snatched it up.<\/p>\n

According to the report, the device is expected to launch by next year, with a second version to launch as soon as 2023. The first version will run an open source version of Android, which seems to suggest it\u2019s not running the traditional Google-centric Wear OS, but rather some kind of fork. The report also notes the social network is concurrently working on its own hardware operating system, so it\u2019s possible that\u2019s what the device might end up running in the second iteration.<\/p>\n

The tracker will app<\/a>arently emphasize health and fitness features, and it\u2019s expected to be able to connect to services and harware from fitness companies \u2014 Peleton is mentioned as a potential option.<\/p>\n

This being Facebook, the device is expected to come with a variety of social features, including allowing people to track workouts with friends or chat with trainers, as well as some kind of quick messaging capability.<\/p>\n

The report also suggests future versions of the watch will be able to control Facebook\u2019s planned augmented reality glasses, which aren\u2019t expected to launch until 2023. The social network bought CTRL-labs<\/a> in 2019, a company that built an armband that interpret your brain signals for controlling devices. Facebook apparently hopes to incorporate that technology<\/a> into a future smartwatch for controlling its AR headset.<\/p>\n

Although there\u2019s no price estimate yet\u00a0Facebook apparently plans to \u201csell the watch near the cost to produce it,\u201d as it has for the Oculus Quest. I would expect it to be in line with other high-end trackers and smartwatches. The Fitbit Sense, for instance, costs $280, while the Apple Watch Series<\/a> 6 starts at $400.<\/p>\n

As usual with these leaks and rumors, don\u2019t get your hopes up too much (assuming you\u2019re one of the few people \u2018hoping\u2019 for a Facebook smartwatch); The Information notes the watch could still be pushed back or scrapped altogether.<\/p>\n

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\n Published February 13, 2021 \u2014 06:16 UTC\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n