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get ready for the many styles of smartwatches I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update when the foretold apple iwatch emerges in the fall season it will come in many forms at least that's what's being reported by The Wall Street Journal sources told the paper that apple SmartWatch will include more than ten sensors some designed to track health and fitness as you would expect and this watch may come in multiple screen sizes for different styles that would be refreshing if true because bulky smartwatches don't look stylish on thin wrists and that's not the only I watch report out this week reuters has sources seen that the iWatch screen will be slightly rectangular measuring 2.5 inches diagonally now you're going to see lots of variation in Smart Watch screen sizes this year Samsung debuted the gear fit with a long and thin screen and Motorola is going round when it launches its Android wear watch now these companies are getting creative to see what sticks with consumers and you know who else is testing different sizes blackberry yep blackberry has not given up the fight it's coming out with a new smartphone that looks kind of square and blocky this is the passport the screen measures 4.5 inches across and there's a stretched out qwerty keyboard at the bottom it's like trying to be a tablet ish phone but we shall learn more about the passport in September as for other phones future Android and Windows Phone devices will have a new security feature Microsoft and Google signed an agreement with the New York Attorney General to add a kill switch that will render a device useless if stolen the hope is that it will discourage smartphone theft and before we end let us reflect on the sudden craze of the app called yo the app does one thing it sends a message to someone with the word yo that's it just yo it started as a joke for april fools but it took off in popularity after the Creator announced that he raised more than 1 million dollars in funding all that for an app that is essentially just like poking someone on face book but I regret to inform the 50,000 of you who downloaded this app that yo has been hacked a Georgia Tech student said he was able to access any yo users phone number and spam users with many o's you can spoof accounts and pose as someone else we knew yo and push notifications can be programmed with longer messages the apps creator confirms that he's working on fixing these problems but the moral of the story don't trust a jokey app with your phone number yo that your tech news update we can always find more at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey