On February 23, it was reported that the patent of 'apple watch' was exposed, and 'Google glasses' opened personal booking in the United States, which once again aroused people's heated discussion about the future of wearable devices. Many manufacturers have joined in the research and development of wearable devices. In the field of smart watches, Iwatch has just been exposed. Samsung, Apple's old enemy, has also begun to take action. The galaxy Altius smart watch has been exposed. So far, technology giants including apple, Samsung, Google, Microsoft and Sony have entered this field. Smart watch is likely to become another hot spot after tablet and smartphone.
Iwatch appears, another product will come out according to jobs' will
Apple launched the iPhone, touch-screen smart phones began to sweep the world; Apple launched the iPad, tablet computers become the world's most popular consumer electronics products. Now, apple is going to make Iwatch, and a storm of copying iPhone and iPad is brewing.
Smart watch with flexible touch screen
This week, Appleinsider, a website that often reveals Apple's inside story, revealed that Apple has submitted a patent for the 'Iwatch like' device's flexible touch screen display, which illustrates from one side that apple is indeed developing smart watches.
It should be noted that although jobs has left apple, the Iwatch will certainly carry jobs' will. The reason is that it often takes a long time for Apple products to be developed and put into the market. For example, during the patent lawsuit of Apple Samsung century, the original iPad prototype was disclosed in court. The iPad prototype in the photo appeared from 2002 to 2004. As we all know, the iPad was only released in 2010, and Apple iPad was approved eight years ago.
According to the data, apple submitted the patent to the U.S. patent and Trademark Office in August 2011, and named it 'flexible, two-way stable touch screen', which can be wrapped around the human wrist or other parts. It is worth noting that jobs also died in this year.
According to Apple's patent, the device will be able to connect with other mobile devices, such as the iPhone, via Bluetooth or WiFi. The device can also adjust the play list on the flexible touch screen to check the latest missed calls and reply to SMS messages. In addition, there are news that Apple has more than 100 employees engaged in the development of smart watches.
However, there are many giant manufacturers that pay attention to wearable devices, especially smart watches. Now the pattern is that not only apple has noticed the smart watch, but also Microsoft, Sony, Google and so on.
The smart watch stories that have happened
As a company that can compete with apple in the world, Samsung has recently joined the battle group of smart watches. According to the group pictures recently exposed by the daily telegraph, the activation interface of the new smart watch is very similar to that of the galaxy S4 and other products. Its name is' Galaxy Altius'.
In October 2012, Google won the patent of smart watch. The smart watch is equipped with a micro processor, with wireless transmission function, can send and receive information. With its own camera, it can take videos, and its function is similar to that of Google glasses. The exposure of this patent has to make people have flaws in Google watch.
In addition to giants like Samsung and apple, smart watches also give innovative companies opportunities. One of the most famous is pebble smart watch, which was shown on CES in 2013. This smart watch can receive SMS, email and other alerts (such as IMessage, Google Talk and social network alerts). Compared with apple, Samsung and Google, the company launched products rather than staying at the conceptual level.
Going back, Sony is a participant in another smart watch. In early 2012, Sony launched a smart watch called 'Smartwatch', which can be used and controlled with Android smart phones. Its market price is $149. The watch can receive any data sent from Android phones, including updates to Facebook and twitter streams. It can also remotely control the mobile audio player software, and also run applications with various functions, such as controlling the camera software of the mobile phone.
Similar to the experience of tablet, Microsoft has played the role of pioneer and loser in smart watch. In 2004, Microsoft and swatch announced the launch of a $150 wireless data watch, named paparazzi. The new watch uses Microsoft's MSN direct wireless data service to provide news, sports, weather and stock price summaries.
Who is it? The future of smart watch behind the fog
In fact, despite the hot concept, doubts about smart watches have never stopped. In particular, the concept watch products of apple and Samsung are still hidden behind a lot of fog, and even people are discussing which is the mainstream of the next wave of technology fever compared with smart glasses.
Google CEO Larry & bull; page has been seen on the Internet many times wearing smart glasses, which at least proves that smart glasses make people more convinced of its existence than apple, Samsung and Google smart watch. But there are still a large number of well-known experts and authoritative media standing in the smart watch, they think that smart watches will be popularized to users faster than smart glasses.
The New York Times analysis points out that consumers may not be able to accept smart glasses for a while, or they may think it's a terrible thing (the radiation or high temperature is so close to the brain is frightening). Wrist is a place where users can accept new experience. After all, people have a long history of wearing electronic watch like devices.
Investors are also optimistic about the smart watch project. For example, due to lack of funds, pebble smart watch once raised funds on KickStarter website. Later, it became a classic case of fund-raising, raising $10 million in just a few weeks.
What's more, smart watches will bring about a revolution, similar to smart phones replacing function phones and tablets impacting PCs. For example, Piper Jaffray, a well-known analyst of Piper Jaffray in the United States, said that Iwatch will be the first step in trying wearable computing, and wearable computing will gradually replace iPhone and other smartphones in the medium and long term of more than 10 years. '
In addition, analysts believe that even if Iwatch can't become a product to eliminate mobile phones or push back the development of smart phones, Iwatch may also become a complementary device to iPhone. Business insider holds the above view. If you think about the high-end users of iPhone and the large number of users in the world, you can see the future of smart watch.