We’ve known for some time now that Samsung has been working on a round smartwatch – the name ‘Orbis’ has been tossed around a lot when talking about Samsung’s round smartwatch. But today, we’ve gotten what is as good as official confirmation from Samsung itself that it’s working on a round smartwatch thanks to its announcement that it will be making available its latest software development kit (SDK) for its “Next Generation Gear”, accompanied by screenshots of a round smartwatch device.
Given that Samsung is releasing its own SDK suggests that the new round Gear device will be running Tizen once again, but this time it has the backing from several suitors including CBB, Yelp, Baidu, FidMe and Apposter to help it look more attractive to developers. Presumably this move is aimed at helping to drive more third party development on Samsung’s wearable platform, one of the traditional weakness of Samsung Gear line-up to date (except the Samsung Gear Live of course, which runs Android Wear). It’s an interesting move, and we’re excited to see what comes of it and what the device ends up looking like.
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Source: Samsung via Phones Review
