“This week, rumors from Chinese site Commercial Times (via 9to5Mac) said that early production of a next generation Apple Watch was beginning at supplier Quanta later this month,” Matthew Panzarino reports for TechCrunch. “Late last year, 9to5Mac projected that a new Watch could appear at a March 2016 event.”
“I’m not so sure that we’ll be seeing it that early. Several things that I’ve heard (from several sources) indicate to me that we won’t see a major new hardware model of the Apple Watch in March,” Panzarino reports. “Design partnerships, accessories, that kind of thing maybe but not a “Watch 2.0” with a bunch of new hardware features.”
“I’ve now heard a bit more that suggests that Apple might ship a minor revision of the Apple Watch that includes a FaceTime camera and not much else — but still that it would not be a full ‘Watch 2.0’ with casing changes and major improvements,” Panzarino reports. “I spoke to Creative Strategies analyst Ben Bajarin, who says that supply chain checks are showing no movement that would indicate a new Watch model in production as of yet.”
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