Japanese Watchmaker Casio Partners with Polar Electro For Upcoming Fitness Products

Casio Computer, a Japanese watchmaker, has teamed up with Polar Electro, a Finnish heart rate monitoring pioneer, for its latest fitness smartwatch, the two companies announced on Tuesday (Feb 28).

Casio debuted its first smartwatch in 2021, using Google's Wear operating system, and thus entered the wearables market dominated by Apple and Samsung.

Casio has announced that it will incorporate Polar's technology into its newest smartwatch. Polar stated that it would also make its algorithms available to other commercial partners.

The financial details were not disclosed.

"For years, we have seen a growing global interest from people wanting to better understand their own health and bodies," Casio's head of global marketing Takashi Uema said in a statement.

Casio Computer Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational electronics manufacturer headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo. Calculators, mobile phones, digital cameras, electronic musical instruments, and analogue and digital watches are among its products. It was founded in 1946 and released the first entirely compact electronic calculator in 1957. It was an early digital camera innovator, and in the 1980s and 1990s, it developed numerous affordable home electronic keyboards for musicians, as well as the first mass-produced digital watches.