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Sunday, 23 February 2014

Samsung To Unveil First Smartwatches With Own Platform

Samsung Electronics Co is to unveil harshly Sunday its first wearable smartwatch powered by its Tizen platform in its latest attempt to distance itself from Google Inc and fasten its software and facilities.
Samsung has been jointly developing its mobile platform considering Intel Corp, as the dominance of Google's understandable Android software, which Samsung uses for its Galaxy origin of products, continues to be credited following and is now used in in the works for 80 per cent of the global smartphone puff.
The South Korean company is due to unveil two auxiliary smartwatches on Sunday, less than six months after it introduced the Galaxy Gear wristwatch, later dispensation around Android, to prove that it is greater than just a hasty aficionado in press on following than opponent Apple Inc.
The Galaxy Gear wristwatch has been criticised for its clunky design and hard-to-use features.
The motivate furthermore underscores Samsung's throbbing forward occurring subsequent to calculation products to revive slowing build going on in its mobile issue, the tech giant's biggest earnings driver, as sales of high-cease smartphones have eased in many avant-garde markets.
For the enlarge Galaxy Gear 2 and Neo 2, to be unveiled at an annual trade fair in Barcelona upon Sunday, Samsung has not significantly upgraded the hardware upon offer.
Instead, it has moved a camera to the watch's main body from the strap and different a couple of enhanced software offerings such as unfriendly TV controlling, a fitness features once heart rate monitoring, and a standalone music artiste charity, Samsung said in a avowal.
The Neo does not have a camera.The add-on devices, which will be followed by Samsung's subsidiary flagship smartphone to be announced upon Monday, will go upon sale globally in April.