Michal Ždanský If there are high hopes for any hypothetical new Apple product, it's the "iWatch," an iPhone accessory designed to act as an extended arm of the phone connected via Bluetooth. According to earlier reports, the watch is indeed in the testing phase and is supposed to use a flexible display. He appeared to be the most suitable candidate Willow Glass from Corning, the company that already supplies Gorilla Glass for iOS devices. However, Bloomberg reported last week that the aforementioned flexible glass will be ready for mass production in three years.
The president said it Corning Glass Technologies, James Clapin, during an interview in Beijing, where the company opened a new $800 million factory. “People are not used to glass that can be rolled up. People's ability to take it and use it to make a product is limited." Clappin said in an interview. So if Apple wanted to use Willow Glass, we would have to wait at least another three years before the watch would appear on the market.
But there is another player in the game, the Korean company LG. It already announced in August 2012 that it would be able to deliver flexible OLED displays to Apple by the end of this year. By this deadline, however, according to Korean Times LG was able to produce less than a million such displays, so real mass production could only take place in the course of next year. According to the original report, it was supposed to be flexible displays intended for the iPhone, but this does not mean that Apple cannot change the parameters of a possible order and use the display for any application.
The server arrived today Bloomberg with more specific information about the Apple Watch. According to their sources, the smartwatch is one of the next big projects of the head of design, Jony Ivo, who reportedly already ordered a large number of Nike sports watches for his team to study the issue a few years ago. According to the project The Verge work around a hundred engineers.
Interestingly, the "iWatch" should run the iOS operating system instead of a proprietary system similar to the one Apple uses for the iPod nano. At the same time, the software of the iPod nano 6th generation was precisely the vanguard of the Apple watch thanks to its shape and the presence of the Clock application. Existence Pebble and other watches from third-party manufacturers are nevertheless evidence that iOS is largely ready for such devices, especially in terms of Bluetooth protocol capabilities.
Other reports from unnamed sources speak of achieving an ideal battery life of 4-5 days on a single charge, with prototypes to date reportedly lasting only half the target time. And the most interesting thing at the end: Bloomberg claims that we should see the watch in the second half of this year. So is it possible that Apple managed to push LG or Corning to make a watch?
Google has already announced that the Glass project will be on sale this year. The timing couldn't be better.
Will they also get slower and slower every time with a new FW like my iPad and iPhone? then time could go slower and I could finally have a longer day.
after a while they will also produce scumbags...
And why not? It would be the best iHajzlpápír in the world, and above all it has to have Bluetooth… because everything is better with bluetooth….
We'll see how it goes. If they have calculated that it will bring them more than iTV or something, then they will definitely go for it. Now I would be interested in the "features", durability, material, well, just everything.
I don't want to have to charge them every day.
Anyway, I'm more willing to go for it if the price is "normal"
I still don't understand why watches should necessarily be rounded or bent or flexible... and I probably wouldn't be the target group. In addition, apple could come up with some kind of iWatch mode for the iPhone so that I don't have to have BT turned on, but at the same time the watch can connect to the iPhone.
It should be a separately sold product imho. Of course, cooperation with iZariadenia must be. If it were to be another blockbuster, a trendsetter, it can't just be a BT watch displaying mixed calls and SMS. Not something that is completely naked without an iPhone.
I can also release a supplement for the new iPhone, but it won't be big. New iHracka.
I also can't imagine that people would put down Rolex or other overpriced watches to put on an Apple watch. Those who wear Nike maybe... in short, I expect something other than a watch. It can easily be put on the hand, but the clock does not have to be there.