Samsung may be working on a hybrid smartwatch, according to this patent

Samsung hybrid smartwatch patent

Samsung is one of a very small number of number of hardware makers, along with the likes of Apple and a few others, that's still bullish about the smartwatch market. 9to5Google has gone so far as to argue that Samsung's Galaxy Watch is the king of the Android smartwatch hill -- though Samsung, it seems, might be planning to try something new with a future smartwatch release.

A just-published patent seems to indicate Samsung is looking into the idea of a smartwatch that also has a separate analog mode. Per Phone Arena, this would be a bit of a departure from the more traditional idea of the digital smartwatch segment that Samsung first entered five years ago.

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