HTC has no plans to jump into wearable tech market
Sep 16, 2013, 18:24 IST
Robert Downey Jr. has been signed up as the brand ambassador for the Taiwanese mobile major HTC to bring in some change with the ‘Here’s To Change’ campaign. But change does not necessarily mean that you jump on to the bandwagon where the rest of the industry is latching on to. We had a discussion with Jack Yang, HTC’s South Asia Chief, and asked if we are going to see some wearable gadgets such as a smartwatch from HTC as well?
He replied that HTC has no plans to make a smartwatch and the primary focus of the company is still the mobile phone. Moreover, he feels that his customers would not want to take off their precious Rolex watches and wear those smartwatches. But he did say that he is looking forward to more innovations on the wearable tech front as far as clothing is concerned. Yang strongly believes tech clothing will be a bigger hit than a smartwatch.
A smartwatch from HTC would have been pretty neat, as the company is great at designing. Also, one of its primary partners in chipsets, Qualcomm, has recently launched a smartwatch called TOQ, which Qualcomm wants to present to its OEM partners including HTC, to build upon and market as their own. However, as far as new innovations from HTC are concerned, we would just get to see some new smartphones in the coming weeks. These include the much appreciated HTC ONE Mini, smaller version of HTC ONE, and HTC ONE Plus that has dual SIM capability and an expansion slot.
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He replied that HTC has no plans to make a smartwatch and the primary focus of the company is still the mobile phone. Moreover, he feels that his customers would not want to take off their precious Rolex watches and wear those smartwatches. But he did say that he is looking forward to more innovations on the wearable tech front as far as clothing is concerned. Yang strongly believes tech clothing will be a bigger hit than a smartwatch.
A smartwatch from HTC would have been pretty neat, as the company is great at designing. Also, one of its primary partners in chipsets, Qualcomm, has recently launched a smartwatch called TOQ, which Qualcomm wants to present to its OEM partners including HTC, to build upon and market as their own. However, as far as new innovations from HTC are concerned, we would just get to see some new smartphones in the coming weeks. These include the much appreciated HTC ONE Mini, smaller version of HTC ONE, and HTC ONE Plus that has dual SIM capability and an expansion slot.