While Apple is heavily rumored to be making an “iWatch” product and Lee Young Hee, executive vice president of Samsung’s mobile business, says his company is readying something similar. “We’ve been preparing the watch product for so long,” said Lee to Bloomberg. “We are working very hard to get ready for it. We are preparing products for the future, and the watch is definitely one of them.”
According a survey of users by mobile deals site BuyVia, 26 percent of respondents said they were interested in buying a rumored iWatch, 38 percent said they were not interested while 36 percent said they weren’t sure. The top five features respondents said they’d like to see in a watch were e-mail and texting, phone calls, GPS, Wi-Fi and weather updates.
“While consumers are seemingly divided about their desire to own the rumored Apple iWatch, it’s fascinating that the most desired features for the watch mirror popular iPhone capabilities,” said BuyVia CEO Norman Fong. “It’s as though consumers are only interested in a watch that offers everything the smartphone does, only in a more convenient ‘package.’ What they seem to crave is a way to more easily access iPhone features everywhere they go.”
Source: CNN.com
