The Korean tech large has secured a brand new trademark for a machine that the UK Intellectual Property Office categorizes below "Class 9." This class of merchandise consists of good rings and software for good rings, wearable computer systems, wearable digital electronic communication gadgets, and extra. The trademark consists of the "Samsung Curio" moniker, and as described above, the classification links the title with wearables comparable to good rings and acceptable software program. In light of these events, Curio - short for curiosity or a rare, unusual, or intriguing object - is perhaps the title of Samsung's smart ring as soon as it is ready to hit the market. Or it may not. Simply put, Samsung has been securing trademarks for numerous wearable devices it has not yet launched. At one point, the elusive smart ring was believed to be named "Galaxy Ring." One might argue that Galaxy Ring sounds much more like a industrial Samsung product than Curio, but neither appears to have been set in stone but.

Samsung is thought for trademarking monikers that do not always grow to be attached to real merchandise, so we'll have to wait and see. Right now, the only constant ingredient of the Samsung smart ring story is that the corporate keeps reminding us of its existence via trademark applications. How close this new sort of wearable product is to release, we don't know. But in contrast to the Galaxy Ring / Samsung Curio, the XR headset was confirmed by Samsung and Google, and regardless of what it is going to be referred to as, the product is predicted to compete with the Apple Imaginative and prescient Pro subsequent yr. Mihai is a blogger and column writer at SamMobile. His first Samsung telephone was an A800 which took a lot of beating, and part of him still misses the novelty of the clamshell design. In his free time, he enjoys watching exhibits, documentaries, and stand-up comedy