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IDC Optimistic for Wearables in China

by Milos Pavlovic

Chinese companies shipped 9.54 million wearable devices in the second quarter of 2016, an increase of 13.2% from the previous quarter and up 81.4% from a year earlier, according to IDC’s China Wearable Device …

Tags:China| IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 23 - Issue 36| Wearable Market| Wearables

Asus is Off-Site at IFA

by Milos Pavlovic

Asus was not on the show floor and had an event away from the Messe. It showed a number of new products including the new ZenWatch 3 which has switched to a circular design. …

Tags:Asus| Convertible PCs| GPUs| IFA 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| PCs| Smartwatches| Vol 23 - Issue 36

Big Focus on Quantum Dots by Samsung at IFA

by Bob Raikes

On the first day of press events, Samsung held a launch event for the Samsung Gear S3 smartwatch, attended by its staff, partners and press at the Templedrom venue in Berlin. The S3 is …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Game Playing| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HFR - High Frame Rate| IFA 2016| Large Display Monitor| LFD - Large Format Display| Mobile Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| Samsung| Smartwatches| Vol 23 - Issue 36

Samsung Expands Smartwatch Portfolio with Gear S3

by Isaac Oburu

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today unveiled the Gear S3, a striking and innovative smartwatch that further solidifies Samsung’s leadership in the wearables category. Inspired by traditional timepieces and the art of watchmaking, the Gear …

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Omate Watch Supports Amazon Alexa

by Bob Raikes

Omate, an indiegogo project, announced that its smartwatch would be available in its Limited Edition form from Dec 2016 and will cost $199. Later, it will cost $349. Onate, which raised $ 240,000 in …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 23 - Issue 34

MediaTek Powers Polar M600 Sports-Optimized Android Wear(TM) Smartwatch

by Isaac Oburu

To meet consumer demand for smarter, feature-rich fitness and activity wearables, MediaTek today announced it powers the newly launched Polar M600, an Android Wear sports-optimized smartwatch. Equipped with advanced features, including Polar’s optical heart …

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MediaTek Powers Polar M600 Smartwatch

by Isaac Oburu

Mediatek SoC is being used to power the Polar M600: a smartwatch using Android. The watch uses Mediatek’s MT2601 SoC and features a a 1.3″ screen.

Tags:Back Panel| Mediatek| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Taiwan| Vol 23 - Issue 30

Are Smartwatches a Product of the Future…?

by Bob Raikes

… and will they always be? A couple of weeks ago, I mislaid my watch. I was at home and it wasn’t one of those cases of ‘travel attrition’ (I have a theory that …

Tags:Smartwatches| Vol 23 - Issue 29

Apple Decline Constrains Whole Smartwatch Market

by Tom Allen

Q2’16 was the first time that the global smartwatch market contracted YoY, with shipments falling 32%, says IDC. Shipments reached 3.5 million units: significantly down from the 5.1 million shipped in Q2’15. Apple, shipping …

Tags:IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 23 - Issue 29

Rumour: Google Developing Own-Brand Watches

by Tom Allen

The watches will apparently look similar to Motorola’s Moto360Android Police says that Google is producing its own smartwatches, potentially under the Nexus brand, with its own digital assistant built in. One larger model (codenamed …

Tags:Google| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 23 - Issue 27