HTC is working on a smartwatch with a built-in camera

During a recent interview with the Financial Times, HTC CEO Peter Chou said he is very interested in the connected watch segment. We learned that the firm has been working on the development of several such devices in recent years, but none of them have come to light.

For a possible entryHTC in the smartwatch market, Chou explained that nothing will be done immediately, as he thinks the technology is still in its infancy. On the other hand, as Bloomberg tells us today, Taiwanese seem to have already started work on the next watch, which should launch in the second half of 2014.

HTC Smartwatch planned for the second half of 2014

And the first news of the report about it htc smart watchis that it should work on Android. There is nothing surprising in all this, but because Bloomberg saw fit to report this, we decided to do the same.

The second element, which is more important this time, is that the Taiwanese brand’s connected watch is a integrated camera. This tells us its position and above all shows that it is a direct competitor of the Samsung Galaxy Gear, thus leaving the Sony Smartwatch 2 out of the game.

A launch scheduled for the second half of 2014.

While only two players really have a place in the connected watch market today, Google, Xiaomi, Apple iWatch and htc smart watch who will eventually come and jump on the bandwagon at the right time.

It’s a market that currently represents $1.4 billion in retail sales this year and should reach $19 billion by 2018. We cannot say that this segment is not promising for manufacturers.

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