This is What Facebook's Upcoming Smart Watch Looks Like

[MacRumors]

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has been working on a smart watch designed to compete with the Apple Watch since early this year, and now Bloomberg has obtained pictures of the device.

The smart watch has a design that's not too far off from the Apple Watch, but it is wider and rounder with more curved edges. There is a camera at the bottom of the display, along with a control button on the right side.

According to Bloomberg, the watch features a detachable wrist strap and a button at the top of the case. Prior rumors have suggested the watch will have a detachable display with two built-in cameras for taking pictures and videos to share to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

A camera on the front of the display will be used for video calls, while a secondary camera on the back can be used for capturing photos when the body is detached from the stainless steel watch frame.

The device will offer a cellular connection that does not require a smartphone, and wearers will be able to send messages with services like Messenger and WhatsApp. It is also expected to have built-in health tracking features like a heart rate monitor.

Meta, which operates social networking site Facebook, already sells Oculus virtual reality headsets and the Facebook Portal video calling devices, but the smart watch will be its first wearable. Meta is planning to launch the watch as early as 2022, but there is no solidified timeline for release as of yet and plans could still change. If the device does debut in 2022, it will compete with the upcoming Apple Watch Series 8.

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[dantracht]

Meta on my wrist? HARD PASS.

 

[macsplusmacs]

Meta reading your blood pressure and meta sending it to your insuruance company and you not meta, really, paying higher health ins. costs because of it.

 

[FishyFish]

That's a NOPE from me

 

[MacDevil7334]

The detachable design is an interesting idea. Unfortunately Facebook is so untrustworthy that I would never consider buying this or any other piece of hardware they make.

 

[macsplusmacs]

does one really want their wrist hacked?

one does not think so.


camera?!!!

My lol broke.

 

[Morichan]

Smartwatch by Meta, as if it wasn't enough they added camera. Just big no!

 

[nutmac]

Of course it has a camera, used for sending user's meta data back to the HQ.

 

[BradWI]

They couldn't pay me to wear that.

 

[jwsf28]

Features include: Whispering sweet conspiracy theories into your ear every night while tracking your sleep, forwarding contentious memes to relatives around the holidays, and helps delegitimize elections while you track your workouts!

 

[macsplusmacs]

Quick, The AntiTrust division is coming after us.

CHANGE THE SUBJECT.

CHANNGGGGEE THE SUBBBBBJECTTTTT!!

 

[IUBall22]

Hard pass

 

[Seoras]

LOL! Is that a camera on the front of it? I wonder what that's for.... ?
You need brand trust for wearables.
That's something that Facebook doesn't have and certainly won't get by changing its name to Meta.
It's like they're asking people to pay for a wrist version of an ankle monitor.

 

[Red Oak]

I can’t wait to watch thiis fail. Just like FB Home and Portal

You have to be nuts to wear this

 

[Think|Different]

Look, I don't really care what they do or have done – put the (earned) bias aside and convince me that this company doesn't just throw things at the wall and sees what sticks. It's unreal. I can't think of another behemoth LESS focused. Facebook – no, I'm not saying Meta – needs to respect the brand 'laws of contraction' vs the 'laws of expansion' if they want to be relevant in 10 years. Quit with these cameras, these watches, these glasses – that is NOT you. Double down on how decent Facebook Marketplace is vs the ridiculousness that eBay has become. Support and build out your actually desiredproducts and make an Instagram iPad app. I don't care, really, but god, it's not rocket science... that is, till they announce a rival space division. Despite every article's comments saying to 'delete it' (or worse, that they did it "years ago and never looked back"), the company and Zuck is going NOWHERE but, god, the increasingly lack of relevancy must really mess with him.

 

[DMG35]

This will be a flop on the level of the Amazon phone. Massive fail.

 

[acorntoy]

“We see you!”

 

[Boardiesboi]

Why would ANYONE want FB on their wrist 24/7? Is the data mining on FB on your phone not enough?

 

[sorgo †]

They should call it the Wotch.

 

[coolbreeze2]

This will be a flop on the level of the Amazon phone. Massive fail.

There was an Amazon phone? I totally missed that one.

 

[Cameraman12]

I can't believe this is real.

 

[dojoman]

i feel bad for people that work on this sh***y product.

 

[jrlcopy]

Meta on my wrist? HARD PASS.

Yeah... I bet they are gonna start giving away their hardware for free so they never have to ask you to opt out of ads.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

It’s a piece of junk 😂

Number 1 smart watch to spy on people. Real time!

 

[macsplusmacs]

So he stuck the Meta watch in the only place he knew the enemy would not find it. His #ss.