Social media giant Facebook is building a smartwatch that will let users send messages and also offer health and fitness features, according to a new report from The Information.
The device is said to be an Android-based smartwatch, though the report does not say whether Facebook intends for the device to run Google’s Wear OS.
It also says Facebook is working on building its own operating system for hardware devices and that future iterations of the wearable may run that software instead.
Facebook’s smartwatch will work via a cellular connection, letting users send messages through its services and also connect to the services or hardware of health and fitness companies, such as Peloton Interactive, according to the report.
Menlo Park, California-based Facebook has been foraying into the hardware sector in recent years, coming up with products including virtual reality headset Oculus and video chatting device Portal.
