Facebook might be Working on a Smartwatch for 2022

More From Author

See more articles

Apple Macs hit a record high 6 million sales...

Apple's Silicon M1 chip helped Macs witness their greatest Q2 sales ever. Apple reached 6 million shipments in...

Could Jack Grealish be Pep Guardiola’s new Lionel Messi...

Jack Grealish has enjoyed a superb campaign for Aston Villa. Although he spent a significant period sidelined...

AMD Records All-Time High Price as it Blasts through...

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc (AMD) saw its shares reach an all-time high price today. The chipmaker had...

Social media mammoth Facebook is rumored to be working on a smartwatch. Facebook is planning a 2022 summer release. According to a report by The Verge, the smartwatch will boast a display with two cameras, which can be detached from the wrist for clicking photos. Interesting right? The photos can be shared across Facebook and Instagram, straight from the watch.

The smartwatch will use one of the cameras for video calling. The other one will be capable of auto-focus and 1080p video recording. Facebook is reportedly working with other partners to create accessories for the watch. These accessories can include attachments that allow the cameras to be fitted to things like a backpack. Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, wants the company to build more consumer devices which will help Facebook expand furthermore.

Facebook had reported a wrist-based device at the beginning of this year. The device can read electrical signals from the user’s neurons and interact with devices through gestures. This device dealt more with ambient computing and augmented reality (AR) technologies. We still cannot deny its similarity to a smartwatch in looks.

History in Consumer Devices

Facebook also sells Portal smart display in some markets. This is much like Google’s Nest and Amazon’s Echo branded devices. This smartwatch would not be Facebook’s first consumer device. Remember the Facebook Phone? The company tied up with HTC in 2012-13 to make the HTC First, commonly referred to as the Facebook Phone and we have come a long way since.

Pros and Cons

Making consumer devices would also help Facebook by gathering more user data. More the user data gathered by the company, the better its advertising services. There will be a concern among people to buy Facebook-built products looking at their recent history with Portal.

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

━ Related News

Featured

━ Latest News

Featured