Wearable: OnePlus Watch name leaks as ex-employee reveals it has been within the works for a short time

Wearable: Exclusive: The OnePlus Watch might be a year within the making

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We may finally get a OnePlus Watch. The rumored wearable has appeared during a listing on a web regulatory body's website – and TechRadar has exclusively learned that the Chinese smartphone manufacturer has been considering a smartwatch for a short time.

The listing, spotted by 91Mobiles, appeared on the IMDA (Infocomm Media Development Authority) website and clearly states the name as 'OnePlus Watch' and describes it as a 'wearable watch'. The model name is additionally listed as 'W301GB'.

This isn't the primary time we've heard a few potential OnePlus Watch. Back in 2015, company co-founder Carl Pei revealed the firm did consider launching a smartwatch, but cancelled it at the eleventh hour . We even need to see some designs of the would be watch the subsequent year.

However, this point round the OnePlus Watch rumors may bear fruit. Here's why.

Actively looking into a smartwatch

TechRadar has spoken exclusively with a former OnePlus employee who told us the firm has "actively been looking into a smartwatch for the last year."

While they would not comment any longer on the matter, it adds fuel to the present latest OnePlus Watch leak, that there really may be a smartwatch within the works.

The fact OnePlus is considering a smartwatch again isn't an enormous surprise. With the introduction of its new 'Nord' brand, the corporate has been clear that it plans to launch a variety of products which include quite just smartphones - although the primary device in touch this name was the OnePlus Nord handset.

The firm has already branched out and makes the OnePlus TV and a variety of wireless and true wireless headphones, including the OnePlus Buds.

It appears OnePlus is keen to create its own ecosystem of products, and a smartwatch looks like a logical next step, because it would compliment its current device line-up.

Another important point to notice is that the recent arrival of the Oppo Watch. While OnePlus and Oppo maintain that they're two very separate companies, if you reminisce through their portfolios there's quite a couple of products that look rather similar. 

This means there might be some level of potential collaboration between the 2 , and therefore the latter's new wearable could help form the idea for OnePlus' first offering - but nothing is confirmed yet.

There's currently no word on the OnePlus Watch release date, and there is still an opportunity it doesn't arrive, but with the OnePlus 8T and OnePlus Nord Lite rumored to launch within the next month or two, we might be just weeks faraway from a possible outing of the firm's first wearable.

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