It seems like everybody is making smartwatches these Clarence Shepard Day Jr. : Apple has one , Samsunghas a few , and you’re able to get wearables from Motorola , ASUS and more . Microsoft even made one . But I ’m not talking about theMicrosoft Band — I’m talking about the Microsoft Moonraker : the company ’s cancel smartwatch .
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Never heard of it ? Do n’t eat away : until Friday , nobody else had either . The terminate product just recently surfaced on the Tumblr of a Microsoft design employee . The blog was chop-chop deleted , but not before the Moonraker ’s mock - up selling image made the bout : we ’re looking at a stock , square - faced smartwatch with rounded corner , brightly colored radiocarpal joint - bands and a Metro - inspire Windows port .
Rumor has it that Nokia was shopping the wearable around at Mobile World Congress last year , but did n’t go anywhere . Sometime after Microsoft bought the company , the Moonraker was kill to put more focus on Microsoft ’s band , which had more sensing element and tracking features , but a less full-bodied watch interface . The specifics are hard to guess at , but from these image , we can at least tell apart that Moonraker could make call , receive texts and emails , count tone , hear to the radio and run a Facebook app . The mock - up also has a camera outback feature — perhaps for selfie - stick shutter restraint ?
As cool as this window into what might have been is , I think Microsoft made the right selection . Moonraker seem a lot likeevery other smartwatchout there without doing anything to make itself tolerate out . The Microsoft Band was , at least , alone .
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