Apple Watch may get a brand new rugged variant aimed toward athletes and excessive sports activities fanatics, says a brand new report citing individuals acquainted with its improvement. Apple usually refreshes its Apple Watch lineup yearly in September. In 2020, it launched a less expensive Apple Watch SE together with the Apple Watch Series 6. The report says that Apple may add a brand new rugged variant to the present fashions in 2021 or newest by 2022. The rumoured Apple Watch is imagined to solely differ in design and construct, and will have the identical specs because the Apple Watch fashions that launch alongside.
Sometimes known as the “Explorer Edition” inside Apple, the rugged variant of the Apple Watch is imagined to have an impact-resistant casing, much like those seen on Casio G-Shock fashions, reports Bloomberg. It is imagined to have a rubberised exterior, which is healthier suited to excessive environments than the stainless-steel, aluminium, or titanium casings at present on provide with the present Apple Watch fashions. Apple has not commented on the speculations of a rugged smartwatch and the report says that the wearable may be delayed or finally cancelled.
Besides the information of a rugged smartwatch within the works, the report additionally says that Apple is engaged on a brand new swim-tracking function for the Apple Watch. This may improve the potential of the swim-tracking exercise modes on the present fashions, however the report doesn’t say if this shall be a {hardware} or a software program enchancment.
Apple led the worldwide wearable shipments in This fall 2020 with a market share of 36.2 p.c, in line with data from market analysis agency IDC. As per one other report from IDC on India’s burgeoning wearables market, the Cupertino-based firm led the sub-category of smartwatches with a 51 p.c market share in 2020.
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