Google is apparently about to ramp up its wearable device business in a major way. That would seem to be the case thanks to a few clues, the most recent of which is a new job listing spotted by Android Police that shows the company is looking for a “Vice President, Hardware Engineering, Wearables” for the Google Hardware team.
According to the job description, this executive will “work collaboratively with the Senior Leadership team for Google Hardware and will be responsible for the design, development, and shipment of all Google’s Wearable products.” When you couple this new position — as well as the $40 million Google just paid Fossil for secret, unfinished smartwatch tech, which the image at the top of this post is a reference to — you can start to see how it adds up to something important about the direction of Google’s wearable efforts.
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New job listing suggests Google may be thinking about building its own smartwatch originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 8 Feb 2019 at 23:07:29 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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