Microsoft to push smart watch: Can sync with different platform phones

Beijing time, May 30 Morning News, Forbes magazine recently learned that Microsoft is ready to enter the market for wearable computing equipment, plans to launch a smart watch with a variety of sensors to monitor the user's heart rate, and with the iphone, Android phones and Windows Phone phones to sync data. The industry believes that Microsoft's entry is an astonishing advance in the market for wearable computing devices dominated by Samsung and Apple. According to several sources, the product will use Microsoft's Xbox Kinect department's expertise in optical engineering to achieve continuous monitoring of heart rate during the day and night. In addition, the smart watch has a battery range of up to two days, similar to Samsung Gear Fit. It's not clear when the smart watch will be released, but it's going to be the fastest this summer. Remarkably, the smart watch will not only work with Windows Phone phones, but also support the iphone and Android phones. A Microsoft spokeswoman declined to comment on the news and said: We don't have any news to share at the moment. Some preliminary information shows that the smart watch is already ahead of current motion-tracking devices such as gear Fit, which requires the user to manually enable heart rate monitoring when used. The message shows that Microsoft's device can monitor heart rate continuously for a day. The product looks similar to gear Fit, providing a full color touch screen with a size of about half a piece of chewing gum, while the touch screen position is inside the wearer's wrist. This unusual screen position may be designed to help users more easily view notifications while bringing greater privacy. Cross-platform smart watches will be another bold move by Microsoft CEO Seia Nadra Satya Nadella. This April, under his impetus, Microsoft released an ipad version of Office suite. Nadra said at a meeting earlier this week that Microsoft's software and services needed to be released through all devices, and it is time to develop the next heavyweight product. While a cross-platform approach would weaken the impact of Microsoft's software ecosystem, it is commercially reasonable. Windows phone has failed to get a high share in the smartphone market. By the end of 2014, Windows phone's share of the global smartphone market would be 3.5%, far below Android's 80.2% and 14.8% of iOS, according to research data. "Microsoft needs to take advantage of Apple and Android platforms," said Rick Sherlund, an analyst at Nomura Securities, recently Rick Cherende. In 2013, Microsoft had a revenue of 77.8 billion dollars, about half of which came from Windows and Office software. Cherende that Microsoft should start a fundamental transformation similar to IBM's. IBM is now a service company. Enter the wearable computing equipment market for a period of time will not give Microsoft's profit to bringHelp, but the market is getting hot. Apple is likely to launch a iwatch smart watch later this year, and Samsung is expected to release a new smart watch, which will be able to make independent calls this summer. Wearable computing equipment, like Fitbit and Jawbone, has been priced at $ billions of trillion, and Jawbone has recently been implicated in the takeover rumours. Microsoft's hardware products have a bad past. Microsoft executives expect the smart watch, which integrates a rich sensor, to replicate the success of the Xbox and Kinect, rather than the same mistakes as the Zune music player and the surface tablet. Development of large data according to the source, the Microsoft Kinect Department's Optical engineers, as well as designers and data scientists, have developed a software platform for smart watches that collects data from a variety of sensors. Samsung is also applying large data technologies to health and wearable devices. In Wednesday, Samsung unveiled more details about Sami, an open bio-data platform. The platform is available from devices such as gear, Fitbit and Jawbone, and will be open to developers later this year. Microsoft may also want to use the data generated by smart watches in a similar way, along with information from Outlook emails and schedules. In addition, Microsoft appears to be ultimately the mainstream way to develop wearable computing equipment. Two years ago, it was reported that Microsoft had obtained a patent for wearable computing equipment. This is a wrist strap that detects the movement of the user's arms and controls the user's mobile device. In 2012, it was rumored that Microsoft was developing a wearable sports accessory that could connect to the Kinect play fit service, code-named Joule. This March, Microsoft acquired a number of patents for osterhout and watch equipment from the company at a price of $150 million. It now appears that Microsoft has finally developed a device worn on the wrist and aimed at a wider market: any sports enthusiast who uses smartphones. This is not a device that only supports Kinect or Windows. Cross-platform strategy will also help Microsoft through the sales of Verizon and AT&T operators. Among them, At&t annual sales of Fitbit and Jawbone and other wearable equipment revenue to reach 1 billion U.S. dollars. Operator salespeople can bundle Microsoft smart watches with smartphones, at least for non-Samsung handsets and iphones. Verizon and At&t are now under t pressure to find innovative ways to make sure that the price of smartphones is competitive. Continuous tracking of heart rate is also an attractive feature for sports enthusiasts. Dr. Michael Blum, a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, Michael Brum that continuing tracking of biological data through wearable devices will give health professionals aClass new data. And if basic metrics like heart rate become more accurate, doctors can use the data in a more rigorous way. But there are insiders who believe that heart rate monitoring is not a big selling point for wearable computing devices, unless such devices can judge and analyze data. Mike Lee, MyFitnessPal co-founder of nutrition tracking applications, said the data alone could not help wearable devices through so-called steering tests. In other words, if a user forgets to wear a wearable computing device when he goes out, he is willing to go home and take it. If the user wants to, then the test is passed. If you forget to bring your smartphone, most users will want to go back and get it. However, this is not the case for wearable devices such as Gear Fit. "The key is what you can do with the data and how to feed it to the user," says Mike. (D-Gold)