HTC is not releasing Halfbeak, or more watches with Android Wear: report – CNET in Spanish

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despite the fact that multiple leaks suggest the imminent launch of a smart watch from HTC, the manufacturer taiwanese would be denied the development of Halfbeak, this rumored smartwatch.

“I can tell You that we will not have a watch with Android,” said Chialin Chang, president of phones and connected devices in the HTC at TBreak, a site that we know little about its reliability. “We will not have a clock in the near future”.

Usually, a report is so vague it would not have as much value mainly because they are unaware of the reliability of the source. However, the specialized sites 9to5Google and Android Police have picked up the information and confirmed with our own sources that HTC will launch a smart watch with Android Wear.

CNET in Spanish contacted HTC to ask for a comment. We will update this article when you get a response.

the rumors of The HTC Halfbeak date of 2015 and pointed to a smart watch dial round and that it would be made of the hand of Under Armour, an athletic company with which HTC has a relationship in a long-lived but few fruits.

The watch believes in development for some time, and its launch has been speculated for the Mobile World Congress to be held next month in Barcelona. However, the report would demonstrate that the Halfbeak will not see the public light — and perhaps no other clock of HTC.

Both 9to5Google as Android Police says that their sources reported that the clock filtering is a watch that was once available, but since more than a year ago and that its creation was stopped for various reasons. “This is a prototype. It worked well, but I had a bad battery,” said the source of 9to5Google.

it is Not a surprise that HTC is putting a break (or brake final) to the manufacture of watches and clocks smart. According to IDC, in the third quarter of 2016, of the five brands of watches intelligent, more distributed units, only Lenovo (via Bike) uses Android Wear, combined with the fact that the manufacturer in china had a drop of 73.3 percent compared with the same period of 2015.

But the manufacturers are not losing interest in the Android platform for watches just because. Google, the company that is behind the development of Android Wear, appears to have put in the second term the second version of the operating system. Android Wear 2.0, expected for the autumn of 2016, had a delay and everything seems to point that it will arrive in February.

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