Google appears to have, a maker of Android smart watches a year ago. quietly WIMM Labs acquired The team behind the company has become part of Google’s Android division. WIMM Labs could include a development platform for “micro-apps”.
Alla year stands on the site of the company not WIMM Labs Developer Preview Kit delivers more ‘because an exclusive, confidential agreement relating to the technology. ” The kit was on the developer version of the WIMM One: a display device that runs on Android and can be for a smart watch to make stops in a wristband. Only last Friday, gave Google opposite GigaOM to have. WIMM Labs acquired Simultaneously with the acquisition, the Google domain Smartwatch.com got owned.
least part of the smart watch-maker is merged into Googles Android branch. It is not clear whether the developers will not really work on smart watch software. However, it seems the most likely reason for the acquisition that WIMM Labs a platform for developers had to make. “Micro-apps” Thus there are in WIMM Labs’ micro-app store apps to control smartphones, for example, to call or to operate the music player but there are also stand-alone apps for smart watch, like a calculator.
WIMM One was a relatively thick smart watch with 1.4 “screen that 22 grams weighed, support bluetooth and wifi and an accelerometer, magnetometer and disposal to 32GB storage memory. Should Google to a smart watch or platform before work, then that new evidence that “wearable electronics” from manufacturers strongly on the rise. So, Samsung will next week the Galaxy Wear smart watches announcement, Sony has already two generations of its smart watch released and there are rumors that Apple to such devices works.
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