Posted by admin on 14 February 2013 at 19:22

Screenshots of an unannounced Samsung smartwatch’s test OS?

We were just tipped off a few screenshots which are allegedly from an unannounced Samsung Smartwatch’s test Operating System. You will have to take this news with a pinch of salt as we are not sure if the screenshots are real or not. The weird thing is that the smartwatch uses “Altius” as it’s codename, in the screenshots, whereas we are sure that Samsung is using the “Altius” codename for the upcoming Galaxy S IV and not a smartwatch, this and a few other reasons indicate that these screenshots might actually be a hoax.

First of all Samsung doesn’t use codenames on their splash screen, like you can see in the first image Samsung Galaxy “Altius”. The UI doesn’t meet Samsung’s UX guidelines and Samsung never uses mirror effect on their branding, like you can see in image 3-5. One more thing, in image 3 & 4 it says code “altios” not “altius”.

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13 comments on “Screenshots of an unannounced Samsung smartwatch’s test OS?”

hot_spare on 14 February 2013 at 19:45 said:

this ‘smart’ watch thing is suddenly getting serious. lot of attention from apple and samsung side. another battleground in making..

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hakker-im on 14 February 2013 at 20:25 said:

By the Looks of it , it looks like to be designed for WP OS………..

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samisax on 14 February 2013 at 21:19 said:

Can anyone translate that Altius OS text for us?

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shahi on 14 February 2013 at 23:03 said:

So we can buy a watch with brand of Samsung that the brand say that it would be perfect watch!

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galaxynote22 on 15 February 2013 at 01:47 said:

Its obvius a FAKE:
1) The DPI of these images are for a 2,5 or 3 inch display, really BIG for a watch
2) The “SKT” at the corner looks a bit pixealted and condensed, it could be added.
3) Samsung NEVER uses a Watermark for his prototypes, take a look at the leaked S3 early prototype.
4) Also, Samsung NEVER uses the “Beta” word on his projects.
5) Sammobile get these images by a guy in twitter that he dont know if it was an SIV protoype or something, if you go to @sammobiles and see the conversation, you will see the link redirecting to an asian profile with these images.

Sorry my bad english.

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Mad Mac on 15 February 2013 at 07:12 said:

If they put GPS ang provision for a running app, I’ll take it. But for this to be readable it is going to be huge.

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CrashUnit on 15 February 2013 at 13:44 said:

I’ve seen a fictive Samsung Pen that used the new bendable flexscreen. The pen can be used for phoneing and more too, wasn’t presented or anything on the CES 2013 so, but I believe it can be true that market leaders like Samsung will create a watch that sort as everything appearing in sci-fi movies that we’ve used to watch as a kid starting to come alive now in a smooth but rapid speed, just flying cars will take it’s time