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Italian fashion brand announces smartwatch with Will.I.Am

It looks like Will.i.am is still working on launching a smartwatch and he has now teamed up with luxury fashion brand, Gucci on a new Gucci Smartwatch.

Gucci snartwatch

The Gucci Smartwatch has just been made official at BaselWorld 2015 and it is a new standalone smartband.

The new Gucci Smartwatch works without the need for a smartphone or tablet, the watch can make and receive calls and also text messages.

Other features on the new Gucci Smartwatch include emails, music, maps and the ability to check your calendar, it also come with fitness tracking built in.

"Timepieces are setting the pace with our vision for a wearable technology,” the musician said in a statement. “In developing together a device that is both fashionable and technologically advanced, we will create something that is unique in the marketplace. From the very start, I coined the term ‘fashionology,’ a merging of the worlds of fashion and technology, which is exactly what this collaboration with Gucci represents.”

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There are no details on the exact specifications on this new Gucci Smartwatch yet.

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