Credit: SlashGear[/caption]We have seen the recent announcement for the Pebble Watch at the CES show in Las Vegas last month as many of you are aware. This generated a lot of coverage for the idea of a smartwatch connected to your smartphone via Bluetooth letting you know what is going on with your phone. It will tell you who is calling without having to look at your smartphone. It can tell you who your latest email or text message is from and related information. It can tell you the time instead of taking your smart phone out of your pocket. So many of us have stopped wearing a watch that it has lowered the sales of them. Look around and see how many people are wearing a watch.
Watches seem to no longer be relevant since your smart phone has the time on it. But the Pebble Watch looks like it is going to alter the slide in sales for watches by providing something that is so much more than a watch. A smartwatch adds technology and intelligence to wearing a watch which was not available before now. There have been some examples of smartwatches in the past few years, but nothing like we are going to be seeing this year. The Pebble Watch is just the beginning.
Both Samsung and Apple are rumored to be working on one right now and there are probably other companies as well looking at the technology. Samsung could well be coming to market with one to coincide with the coming Galaxy S4. With images found for a possible screen by SlashGear, it is looking more likely that we will be seeing one from Samsung in Q2. And they lay out a very good case for these images representing what we might be seeing on a smartwatch from Samsung. But what is being rumored right now creates far more questions than there are answers.
And then there is Apple. There is growing talk for the iWatch which is the assumed name that many are calling an expected smartwatch from Apple. And for this one, there is talk it will be one made of curved glass to be more form fitting to your wrist. We have all heard about the coming flexible glass displays for smartphones, so why not for smartwatches? There is no reason not to expect to see smartwatches with curved displays on them.
There are many other watch like items to monitor your health or athletic activities out right now and many of them reside on your wrist. Technology continues to shrink and become more powerful, so the idea of moving some of that technology to your wrist will be something which will grow a lot this year. This could even mean that we will start to see smartphones moving to your wrist in the years to come.
Are you going to be looking at putting a smartwatch on your wrist this year?
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