A OnePlus smartwatch is finally coming in 2021

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OnePlus will inescapably be managerial a smartwatch in 2021, CEO Pete Lau has announced on Twitter, marking the headmost foray into wearable equipment for the smartphone company. There's not mucho details yet on the usable device,. including what smartwatch OS it'll run, a price, or surfaced a firm absolution date -- Lau only notes that it'll be "released early verging year."

The intellection of a OnePlus smartwatch isn't a new one; the congregation had reportedly designed a Wear OS (then still self-named Android Wear) smartwatch a few years ago. OnePlus ultimately nixed that product, though" "We had completed the diamond except we still decided to scrap it," Lau said in an interview with the Bank Artery Journal. "We have to be focused."

Many of you said you wanted a watch, and as you numen have heard over the weekend--we're managerial one, to be towards early verging year. Wishes do come true.. #

-- Pete Lau (@PeteLau) December 22, 2020

OnePlus has started to estuary out boundlessness phones in contempo years, though: in distension to its high-end smartphone lineup each year, the congregation now makes an gallimaufry of headphones, a budget line of Nord phones, and surfaced smart TVs.

The launch of a OnePlus smartwatch in 2021 -- the headmost from the congregation -- likewise comes hot on the heels of the absolution of the Oppo Watch earlier this year, which was agnate the first-ever smartwatch that Oppo had made. Given that there's been no shortage of similarities in the past between Oppo and OnePlus articles (the two companies share an owner, the massive conglomerate BBK Electronics), it's possible that the usable OnePlus watch may take some cues from the existing Oppo Watch.

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