Apple Inc. expects to join Samsung and Sony in the wearables territory this fall, with a tentative October launch date scheduled for its long-rumored gadget, Re/code reported.
The consumer electronics company hopes to hold an event that month to showcase the device, which will feature the HealthKit health-and-fitness measurement app it unveiled this week at its 2014 Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Japanese newspaper Nikkei also reported on the forthcoming wearable, adding that Apple will produce 3 million to 5 million of the devices per month — a number that tops total 2013 global sales of watch-like gadgets. The device is expected to have a curved organic light-emitting diode, or OLED, touchscreen and allow users access to smartphone messages.
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Reports of an iWatch stretch back to early last year, when the Cupertino-based company began filing to trademark"iWatch." There was even speculation then that the device wouldn't drop until the second half of 2014.
