Along with new handsets such as the Galaxy Alpha, Samsung is expected to introduce the Gear Solo smartwatch in early September at Berlin’s IFA show. News of the watch comes from Korea’s Yonhap News and was picked up by Phone Arena. According to the report, the new Gear Solo will have a SIM card slot for mobile broadband connectivity.

The launch of such a device wouldn’t surprise me in the least. Samsung’s smartwatch strategy started last fall with the original Galaxy Gear running Android.(s goog) Since then, Google has announced its own Android Wear smartwatch platform and Samsung has switched the Galaxy Gear’s software to its own Tizen operating system. A number of follow-up watches have been variations on the same theme with the Gear 2 and Gear Neo smartwatches, each with incremental differences from their predecessors.

Adding a SIM card slot to the product line sounds like the…