This could have been the Microsoft smartwatch that finally and rightly stayed in the development drawer

It is true that the _wearables_ market is not going through its best moment. Well, to tell the truth, it is a type of device that is suffering a clear downward trend. Except for Samsung and its _smartwatch_ and Apple with the Apple Watch, most manufacturers have abandoned this type of product in recent months.

In the case of Microsoft, its presence has been even more anecdotal. He only dared with two physical activity bracelets (the Microsoft Band and the Band 2) that are already history and did not come to have any _smartwatch_ on the market.Does this mean that they didn't try? None of that, because they had a project in development that, although it was cancelled, had the objective of launching a smart watch on the market.

And luckily it stayed on the way…

When these types of devices were still in full swing and were seducing consumers, from Redmond they thought they could launch a watch of this type on the marketIn fact, there was talk of the Microsoft Moonraker leaked by Evan Blass. But this one we are talking about was not a _smartwatch_ to use, but rather a very particular model.

It would be a kind of _smartwatch_ but designed for the Xbox It was a device that among its specifications sported a 1.5 screen inches, a 6 GB storage memory, a heart rate sensor and something that has not yet been extended to these devices, such as an LTE connection that made it totally independent.A team that would also have been made of an aluminum alloy that would have made it very visually attractive and resistant. In the end it all came to nothing.

But not for Hikari Kalyx, a Twitter user who has managed to get hold of a box of these smartwatches. And although they don't work, he is trying to get his batteries chargedto see how they could have worked if Redmond had finally decided to make them a reality.

Maybe at Microsoft they decided not to bet on this type of device because they already saw more or less clearly that it was a product that had a short path. Come on, as if they had seen the future of _smartwatch_ in a crystal ball The truth is that seeing the current panorama in this niche market and despite the fact that Microsoft's decisions often leave us surprised, we cannot deny that perhaps, on this occasion, they were right.

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