After
the ZenWatch, Asus is working on yet-another smartwatch. The Zenwatch
was the first Android Wear smartwatch with a customised UI, featuring
the Asus ZenUI interface. However, this time around the company has
decided to ditch Android Wear in order to increase the battery life of
the watch, according to FocusTaiwan.
“CEO
Jerry Shen said Asus could turn to a second mobile operating system for
a future smartwatches in order to achieve longer battery life, leaving
behind the Android Wear system used on its current ZenWatch,” said the
report.
The
non-Android Wear device is also expected to run MediaTek’s still
under-development system-on-chip. The company believes that using the
new chipset and another mobile operating system, it could help the watch
achieve a battery life of seven days, instead of the typically one-day
battery life that the watches now-a-days offer.
This
doesn’t mean Asus has decided to bid goodbye to Android Wear. The
company also plans a sequel to ZenWatch that will run Android Wear and
will most likely be launched in the third quarter of 2015.
Posted by : Gizmeon
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