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hey everyone welcome to the inside scoop I'm cnet's Cara tsuboi joined by senior writer Josh Lowensohn and today we're talking about the category of smartwatches last night Samson revealed that they actually are working on a SmartWatch product which is this is crazy it kind of but they would reveal so much right yeah I mean this is a product that does not exist yet and they say hey guess what we're working on one yeah I guess what competition the other funny thing is that it's 2013 and we're talking about watches being cool again how did this happen right who even wears the watch oh that's kind of a watch Nikes doing them that's why right because the combination of a watch in a fitness band which a lot of people are doing yeah so the big rumor here is that this would be possibly a companion device something you'd have if you already had a smartphone something that could connect to the internet but wouldn't need all that equipment on it you know it uses your smartphone we've already seen products like that from companies like pebble obviously this ties into products it ties into your smartphone to use from that same data and sync over data Samsung however has built smartwatches in the past they haven't been available here in the US and they've been really expensive yeah so these were six seven hundred dollar devices in Europe released in 1999 in 2009 and those were really just kind of like this weird amalgam of like a SmartWatch and cell phone in one and it didn't work because it was too expensive it wasn't a great watch it wasn't a great smartphone and it was too expensive and people just didn't buy them right so what do you think makes something they can do it this time I guess like what you said slimming it down stripping it down a bit yeah and I think Samsung's also learned a lot about what people want I mean from their products they kind of have this tendency to throw out a lot of stuff and see what sticks we saw that with the Galaxy Note you know this is the first phone like in recent years with a stylist it's really done well you know like yeah like it's kind of rebirth that idea that came from the Palm Pilot so we can't talk about watch wars without talking about some of the apple rumors that Apple perhaps is designing their own watch and these are just rumors right yeah i mean the basic idea is that there are hundred people somewhere working at apple presumably that some of the same folks that are working on iOS and what we have on the iPhone the iPad I'm creating some wearable technology you know whether it's a watch or some sort of armband you know we're not really sure yet but the whole idea is to really and that ecosystem from mp3 players tablets and smartphones I mean that there's so much room for growth there yeah at least that's what analysts think they think there's like billions left to spend oh all right we'll see watch work just heating up thank you so much senior writer Josh Lowensohn I'm Kara Tsuboi thanks for watching the inside scoop