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Title: Apple is still considering putting a camera on the Apple Watch
Post by: HCK on June 26, 2019, 04:05:22 pm
Apple is still considering putting a camera on the Apple Watch

What you need to know

Previous Apple patents suggest it is still considering the idea of adding a camera to the Apple Watch.
It submitted the idea for a camera integreated into the band back in September 2016.
Though the idea is intriguing, Apple has seemingly opted not to include it into the Apple Watch so far.
A new patent suggests Apple has considered placing it on the band.

Apple is still considering putting a camera on the Apple Watch according to some of its patents. The patents, first spotted by AppleInsider, suggest that Apple has toyed around with the idea of placing the camera at the end of a flexible band.

The patent, which was filed to the US Patent and Trademark Office back in September 2016, show that Apple is not done with the idea of placing an "optical sensor," as it calls it in the patent, on the Apple Watch through the best way possible. Here's exactly how Apple describes the patent:


  A camera optical sensor is disposed at a distal end portion of a camera wat...

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