The wearable device market is quickly becoming saturated. Many companies trying their luck in this market are sticking with smartwatches while a few like Google have also tried to make smartglasses a thing. Don’t count BlackBerry out. The company is conducting internal research on different wearable devices to land on one that it finds worth making. Looks like a BlackBerry smartwatch may be a possibility after all.
This was confirmed by BlackBerry’s president of enterprise solutions, John Sims, during interviews with reports at the Super Mobility Week in Las Vegas. Sims confirmed that BlackBerry is doing internal research on wearables but nothing is set in stone at this point in time. Wearable devices under consideration include smartglasses and smartwatches.
Sims, who also looks after BlackBerry Messenger, told reporters that “I would love to have…BBM on a wearable.” Its an area of research for the company which is already trying to position BBM as a separate product. The messaging service was separated into its own division when the company was restructured last year and its possible that BBM’s popularity might be used to push a wearable device.
However it is still too soon to say when a BlackBerry smartwatch or any other wearable device for that matter will hit the market. Perhaps the company will decide to not jump on this bandwagon until its smartphone sales pick up once again. We’ll have to wait and see, meanwhile, BB fans can keep their fingers crossed for a wearable.
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