Facebook Watch: Everything we know about the rumored Meta Watch

facebook/meta watch leaked design with camera notch on blue background

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Meta — the company formerly known as Facebook — has long said to be planning a smartwatch. Information technology'due south a bold ambition, given the enduring popularity of the Apple Spotter and other offerings from the likes of Samsung and Garmin, simply it seems that the company does have some truly innovative ideas to endeavour and distinguish the Facebook Smartwatch from almost of the other devices on our list of the best smartwatches.

Putting aside the event of whether people really want Facebook on their wrist besides as their phones, the company has a mixed record when it comes to hardware. The Oculus Quest 2 is equitably a runaway success, but Facebook Portal less so. And while few will remember the HTC ChaCha — a smartphone with a dedicated Facebook push button — those that practise will retrieve that it inappreciably gear up the world debark.

Here's everything we know nearly the Facebook Smartwatch so far.

Facebook Smartwatch design

Although the quality varies massively, there'southward very little material difference between one smartwatch and another at the moment. Only suffice it to say Facebook is considering a major disruption in this respect.

We're apparently looking at a detachable display — something nosotros haven't seen since the Fitbit Blaze. Merely while the long retired Fitbit allowed you to remove the body of the watch for charging, here it's for photographs and video. You lot can meet how this might expect in a patent diagram below, uncovered by GizChina.

Facebook smartwatch patent — (Paradigm credit: GizChina)

Co-ordinate to The Verge's sources, the forepart of the screen volition have a basic camera for video calls from the wrist (with a notch, unfortunately), just removing the display from the instance will reveal a 1080p car-focus camera for both photos and video. The idea is for users to capture both snaps and footage of their daily adventures for easy sharing with Facebook, much like the visitor'due south recent spectacles, Ray-Ban Stories.

This design also means that Meta is obviously because unconventional ways of wearing it when not on the wrist. Two within sources accept said that the company is discussing the camera with third parties, meaning it could be mounted like a GoPro.

One other more conventional item: apparently the wear is likely to come in white, black or gold.

Facebook Smartwatch features

The curious thing almost a design that seems entirely focused effectually photography and video capture is that the earliest report well-nigh a Facebook Smartwatch didn't fifty-fifty mention cameras.

Instead the report, from The Information, claimed that the watch would be focusing on messaging and heath. For the quondam, Facebook Messenger is said to be baked in, and for the latter, the visitor is apparently looking at the possibility of necktie-ins with companies like Peloton.

Curiously, this early written report too said that the Facebook Smartwatch would not need a smartphone to run, with the company instead apparently talking to carriers about LTE support. While that may seem odd, given smartwatches' most useful feature is the delivery of notifications, this might at least make privacy-conscious users more than inclined to give the Facebook Smartwatch a spin.

The watch will apparently run on a custom version of Android, simply not Wear OS. Though it'due south claimed that this is but for the beginning version, with subsequent upgrades moving towards an operating arrangement developed by Meta itself.

Facebook Smartwatch possible release date and price

The starting time generation of Facebook Smartwatch is predictable at some point in 2022, with a 2d-generation version possibly following in 2023.

The Verge's written report says that the Facebook Smartwatch will be in the $400 region, putting it, somewhat optimistically, firmly in Apple tree Lookout man territory.

Freelance contributor Alan has been writing most tech for over a decade, covering phones, drones and everything in between. Previously Deputy Editor of tech site Alphr, his words are establish all over the spider web and in the occasional magazine too. When not weighing upwardly the pros and cons of the latest smartwatch, yous'll probably notice him tackling his ever-growing games backlog. Or, more probable, playing Spelunky for the millionth time.

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Facebook Watch: Everything we know about the rumored Meta Watch