Microsoft’s smartwatch will reportedly work with Android and iOS, monitor your heart rate

Microsoft has been rumored to be working on a smartwatch for more than a year now, and a refresh report today suggests the company is preparing a sensor-rich device. Forbes reports that Microsoft’s smartwatch will work with iPhones, Windows Phones, and Android handsets, and will measure heart rate to sync the data to devices. Microsoft is said to be using engineers from its Kinect division to make the smartwatch “continuously measure heart rate through the day and night.” There’s no precise timeline provided for the rumored smartwatch, but Forbes suggests it could arrive as early as this summer with two days of battery life.

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