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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
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
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| | 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
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 …
Tags:Samsung| Smartwatches
by Isaac Oburu
Omate announced the Omate Rise Limited Edition smartwatch with Amazon Alexa Voice Service available later this year. The watch will be available for pre-order Sept. 1-3, 2016 on the Omate Rise Indiegogo page for …
Tags:Smartwatches
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
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 …
Tags:Mediatek| Smartwatches| Wearables
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
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
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
by Isaac Oburu
Apple ranks highest among manufacturers of smartwatches, and Samsung ranks highest among manufacturers of fitness band devices, according to the J.D. Power 2016 Fitness Band Device Satisfaction ReportSM and J.D. Power 2016 Smartwatch Device …
Tags:Apple| Samsung| Smartwatches
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
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