Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/01/apple_watch_rumour/
It's JUST possible, but Apple MIGHT not make an iWatch in 2013
And if it did, it just might be Rather Dull
Posted in Hardware, 1st January 2013 11:15 GMT
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What's better than smartphone that is not strapped to your wrist? A smartphone that IS strapped to your wrist.
In what is a strange rumour even by the standards of supply chain rumours - Chinese manufacturing news site iPhone.TGBUS [1] says that Apple is planning to release a watch in 2013, and the story has been widely circulated.
Citing supply chain manufacturers, the site says that the iPad-makers have commissioned parts for a 1.5-inch OLED screen watch with bluetooth, an Intel chip, a SIM card, apps and Siri control. The putative iWatch would be able to interact with a coupled iPhone and will be out in the next six months, claims the site.
Going by that feature list - if Apple did go ahead with this product, it would be doing little more than adding a SIM card and a strap to its watch-sized iPod Nano. We hope they'll be aiming higher than that in 2013.
It's already possible [2] to buy armbands and watchbands for iPhone and iPods.
Wearable computing will could conceivably be a big trend next year but here on the Reg vapourware desk we're hoping for graphene T-shirts and augmented-reality hats rather than wrist-phones. ®