Samsung’s Android Wear Watch and Google-Less Phone Coming This Year

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Samsung’s product roadmap for 2014 looks an awful lot like the 2013 version. In an interview with Reuters, the Korean company’s senior VP for product strategy, Hankil Yoon, says that Samsung will introduce a new Android smartwatch as well as a “high-end” Tizen smartphone this year. What’s different, however, is that the watch will run  Android Wear — Google’s customized software designed specifically for wearables — and that the phone might actually ship this time around.

Samsung’s first attempt at putting together an advanced smartwatch based on Android, the Galaxy Gear, met with a very rough reception at the tail end of last year, and the company quickly switched to its own Tizen software for the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo. In…

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