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Blogs
This Year May Shape Up To Be A Watershed For Wearables
Wearable tech may play a part in preventing illness, particularly the spread of COVID-19
Wearables
Timex Challenges Garmin And Fitbit With GPS Watch That Lasts 25 Days On A Charge
Timex's new budget GPS fitness tracker could challenge Garmin and Fitbit.
AI
Redefining The Next Generation Of Human Machine Interaction: A Q&A With Mobvoi: TechRadar Pro
From a Chinese startup to an AI giant
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Samsung Offers 4G LTE Gear S3 Smart Watch
Samsung has added 4G LTE availability to its Gear S3 smart watch to further untether the device from users’ phones. The LTE version of...
news
Apple Watch Returns Global Smart-Watch Shipments to 1% Growth In Q4 2016: Strategy Analytics
Global smart-watch shipments reversed their recent downward trend and grew 1 percent annually to hit a record 8.2 million units in the fourth quarter...
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Apple Watch Tops In Market Share In ’15
Apple Watch captured a 52 percent share of global smart watch shipments in 2015 in a product segment that still lacks a strong use...
Home Automation
More Than 1 In 5 Intend To Use A Smart Watch To Control A Smart Home
Many consumers who own or plan to buy a smart watch will use it to control smart-home devices, a Parks Associates survey found. More...
CES-2016
LG V10 Phone Gets 2 Screens & 2 Front Cameras
If you thought you couldn’t be any more glued to the single screen in your pocket, you might want to take a look at...
CES-2016
LG Getting Smarter About IFA
Seoul, Korea – LG is getting smart with the planned product introductions at the Sept. 4-9 IFA show in Berlin, where the company will...
news
HP: Beware Smart-Watch Security Flaws
Palo Alto, Calif. — Smart watches have significant security flaws, HP found in testing 10 devices. All of them “contain significant vulnerabilities, including insufficient...
news
Research: Apple Sold 4 Million Smart Watches In Q2
Boston – Apple wouldn’t disclose sales of its Apple Watch, but research company Strategy Analytics is happy to disclose its estimate that Apple shipped...
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Canalys: Apple Tops In Wearable Bands In Q2
Palo Alto, Calif. – Apple hasn’t been in the smart watch business for very long, but it already became the world’s top vendor of...
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Alcatel OneTouch Adds Smart Watch
Irvine, Calif. – Cellphone maker Alcatel OneTouch expanded its selection of smart watches with the launch of a white sports version of the Alcatel...
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Smart Watches Help Drive Increase in Consumer Confidence Toward Technology Spending
Arlington, Va. – Consumer confidence toward technology spending and the overall economy both increased slightly in June, according to the latest data released today...
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Lenovo Unveils Smart Watch, Smartphone Concepts
Beijing – New product concepts demonstrated here by Lenovo at its first global technology event include a two-screen smart watch and a smartphone that...
news
LG Watch Urbane Rolls Out At $349
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. – The LG Watch Urbane, the first smart watch incorporating Google’s latest Android Wear OS version, is rolling out in the...
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Apple Watch Plays Hard-To-Get
Cupertino, Calif. – Apple was set today to begin shipping the first Apple smart watches that consumers began preordering on April 10, but the...
Blogs
Futuresource: Traditional Watches and Smartphones on a Collision Course
At both CES and MWC this year there was a clear design drive to make smartwatches look more like analogue watches in an effort...
news
Analysts See Apple Watch Gaining Top Share Despite Premium Price
New York — Analysts are already saying the Apple Watch will top the market-share charts in 2015 despite less-than-a-day battery life and premium pricing....
news
Burg’s Cellphone Watch Targeted To Kids, Seniors
Nyack, N.Y. – Burg, the maker of cellphone-equipped smart watches, is targeting its latest wearable to kids and seniors. The $129 Burg 31, which...
news
Huawei Unveils First Smart Watch, Other Wearables, 7-Inch Phablet
Barcelona, Spain – Huawei came to the Mobile World Congress (MWC) today to announce its first smart watch, second-generation TalkBand wearables, and what is...
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Vector Readies 30-Day Smart Watch
London – Start-up Vector Watch, founded last year by former Timex Group president Joe Santana, plans to launch a smart watch that delivers 30-day...
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Broadcom Wants To Bolster Android Wear Watches
Irvine, Calif. – Semiconductor supplier Broadcom wants to bring longer battery life, built-in GPS, and other features to Android Wear smart watches. During the...
news
Timex Cellular-Equipped Smart Watch Debuts
Middlebury, Conn. – Timex launched its first cellular-equipped smart watch, which is available through AT&T stores and AT&T’s website. The touchscreen-equipped Timex Iron Man...
CES-2016
LG Readies Fashion-Oriented Smart Watch
Seoul – LG is expanding its selection of Android Wear-based smart watches with its first all-metal model, which resembles a luxury watch. The LG...
news
Canalys: Battery Life Hampers Android Wear Sales
PALO ALTO – Android Wear smart watches accounted for only 720,000 of only 4.6 million smart wearable bands shipped globally in 2014, and it...
news
Alcatel OneTouch to Add Phones, First Smart Watches
Irvine, Calif. –Alcatel OneTouch, the TCL Communications brand, will go to International CES with its first smart watch selection, an expanded selection of LTE...
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Futuresource: U.S. Tops In Wearables
London — The U.S is No. 1 when it comes to wearables adoption compared with its European counterparts, and purchase intent is rising, Futuresource...
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Asus Launches Zen Smart Watch
Fremont, Calif. — Asus rolled out its first smart watch for the U.S. market through the Google Play store and Best Buy.com, but the...
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Microsoft Enters Wearables Market
Redmond, Wash. — Microsoft began offering its first smart band through its stores and website at $199, beating Apple to the market and further...
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T-Mobile, AT&T Plan Samsung Gear S
New York – T-Mobile and AT&T said they will carry Samsung’s recently announced Gear S smart watch in the fall. Neither offered a price...
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Casio G-Shock Watch Gets Smarts
Dover, N.J. – Casio America is adding Bluetooth Smart to a G-Shock watch to control a smartphone’s song selection and volume, adjust music equalization,...
Blogs
Innovation No Longer The Sole Province Of Apple
Competitors stole a lot of thunder from Apple in the past couple of weeks, diverting consumer attention away from the iPhone launch and reinforcing...
news
Motorola Unveils Next Letters In Smartphone Alphabet
Chicago — Motorola unveiled its second-generation Moto X and Moto G Android smartphones, increasing the screen size of both models and the processor speed...
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Timex Readies Cellular-Equipped Smart Watch
Middlebury, Conn. — Timex, which has diversified from watches into fitness watches and bands, is further expanding its lineup with the industry’s first cellular-equipped...
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