The South Korean technology company—currently the top seller of smartphones—is in talks with telecommunications carriers in the U.S., South Korea and Europe about the watch-phone, and hopes to unveil the gadget between June and July, the people said. It will run on Samsung’s homegrown operating system, Tizen, which was co-developed with Intel Corp.
The people declined to say what the device will be called, or whether a user will make calls by holding the watch up to his or her mouth.