A rumor had made its way about HTC, which would prepare a smartwatch in early 2015, this rumor was denied shortly afterwards. But today is very knowledgeable upleaks which reveals some of the technical characteristics of the connected watch, codenamed Petra.
After the famous Hima is at Petra’s turn to wait for the formalization of its trade name. It was in the month of January that the rumors about HTC that would work on connected shows have surfaced. We now know more about this object connected, this is still rumors anyway.
Firstly this HTC Petra would not watch Android Wear and Android-Only, the Taiwanese manufacturer has chosen to expand the range of possibilities with his house and OS compatibility with Android (KitKat or higher) and iOS (7 or more). HTC will reach a larger audience with sound produced by this fact. What we also know is that the watch would have a battery life of 3 days.
The firm is not like everyone else, she first made the choice of a house OS and propose the final 3 different sizes for his watch and two combinations of different colors, or Blue Teal / Lime and Black / blue-gray. That’s not all; this watch would have IP 57 certification, so it is waterproof and dust proof (waterproof and dustproof).
A small weight of 23 grams which would contain a screen 1.8-inch 32*160 PMOLED flexible and ST Micro STM32L151 chipset . Of course it can connect Bluetooth; a GPS chip is also integrated. Beyond all that, this Petra will do all the other watches are like the alarm, notifications, weather, calendar, music, sport and sleep analysis etc …
This shows their name connected HTC Petra code should be marketed in the first quarter of 2015 and begins to expand worldwide in the US first; it may accompany the arrival of the HTC One M9. Then we should hear again about in the coming weeks.