Macotakara
Japanese blog points to a couple of
reports in the present edition of the Economic Times newspaper discussing rumours about the iWatch Apple is supposed to be working on.
Based on
the first report [Translated], Apple has started sampling 1.5" OLED screen manufactured by RITEK subsidiary
RiTdisplay.
In the same report there are also claims that RITEK's joint
venture RitFast is likely to be supplying the digitiser and sensor technology
for Apple's iWatch.
These reports mirror a December claim about
Apple's plans for RiTdisplay's 1.5" screens plant a seed that Intel is
also associated with Apple's project, but features a detail, pointing out that
Apple was originally thinking to employ a 1.8" panel in the device.
This
screen, nevertheless, turned out to be too big and Apple moved over to the
1.5" size.
On the second report [translated]
provides a summary of the industry when it comes to smart watches, containing rumours pointing out that Foxconn has recently received instructions for Apple's
iWatch. Order volumes are quite low reported to be around 1,000 pieces, the production
trial can only be described as a mini trial.
The rumours of the said
Apple watch ramped up in the month after the December report that Apple and
Intel were working jointly on this project, even the The New York Times noted
that Apple was "experimenting" with
curved display designs and Bloomberg declaring that Apple
has 100 product designers
focusing on the project.
The rumours really peaked in the month of
February and March of 2013 amid claims that the unit could be released "in 2013", but
things have now gone a bit quite and for the past few months there have been no
news at all.
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