{"id":993729,"date":"2026-02-19T09:09:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993729"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:50:18","slug":"meta-reboots-smartwatch-plan-aims-debut-in-2026-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/19\/meta-reboots-smartwatch-plan-aims-debut-in-2026-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta reboots smartwatch plan, aims debut in 2026: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram-owner Meta Platforms plans to release its first \u200bsmartwatch this year, the \u200bInformation reported on Wednesday, citing two people familiar \u200bwith the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The company has revived its &#8220;Malibu 2&#8221; smartwatch project, the report said, adding that the device, set for release later this \u200cyear, will \u2060feature \u2060health tracking and a built-in Meta AI assistant.<\/p>\n<p>Meta explored a smartwatch \u200broughly five years ago, the Information said, including plans at one \u200bpoint for three-camera-equipped versions but it shelved the effort in 2022 as a part of broader spending pullbacks in \u200bits Reality Labs unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram-owner Meta Platforms plans to release its first \u200bsmartwatch this year, the \u200bInformation reported on Wednesday, citing two people familiar \u200bwith the matter. The company has revived its &#8220;Malibu 2&#8221; smartwatch project, the report said, adding that the device, set for release later this \u200cyear, will \u2060feature \u2060health tracking and a built-in Meta AI assistant. Meta explored a smartwatch \u200broughly five years ago, the Information said, including plans at one \u200bpoint for three-camera-equipped versions but it shelved the effort in 2022 as a part of broader spending pullbacks in \u200bits Reality Labs unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}