13 April 2021, 10:39 am EDT By
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OnePlus Watch dreams have been brewing for years. In 2016, OnePlus' former CEO Carl Pei tweeted sketches of a wearable that the company had been working on for at least a year, but that device never came to light.
After 5 years, the world of wearables is a lot different. Devices from Samsung, Apple, and Fitbit have matured and found their identities, while Wear OS appears to be in chrysalis.
OnePlus wants to enter this industry, and it needs a way to stand out against its competitors. Instead of relying on Google's Wear OS for its smartwatch debut, the company has come up with its own software.