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Fossil to Announce New Slimmer Android Wear™ Smartwatches, Activity Trackers and Smart Analog Watches during Baselworld

by Isaac Oburu

Fossil Brand, an innovator in both the fashion watch and wearable space, will announce its latest activity trackers, smarter analog watches and slimmer Android Wear smartwatches at the 2016 Fossil Global Exposition. Coinciding with …

Tags:Android Wear| Smartwatches| Wearables

Smartwatches Will Remain Dominant to 2020

by Tom Allen

An expanding vendor base, as well as rising consumer awareness and demand, will push annual wearable growth to double digits between 2015 and 2020, says IDC. This year, worldwide shipments are expected to reach …

Asus Adds Android Wear 6.0

by Tom Allen

The latest software update for Android Wear has been rolled out to the Asus Zenwatch 2 (WI501Q and WI502Q). This version adds speaker support; wrist gestures for control and screen dimming; and video and …

ABI Research Survey Finds Only 35% of U.S. Consumers Considering Purchase of Smart Watch; Fashionable Design, Price, and Differentiation Needed

by Isaac Oburu

In its latest U.S. mobile accessories analysis survey, ABI Research, the leader in transformative technology innovation market intelligence, finds only 35% of respondents are considering buying a smart watch in the next 12 months. …

Tags:Smartwatches| Wearable Market| Wearables

Technavio Announces Top Four Emerging Trends Impacting the Global Smartwatch Market Through 2020

by Isaac Oburu

Technavio’s latest report on the global smartwatch market provides an analysis on the key trends expected to impact the market outlook through 2020. Technavio defines an emerging trend as a factor that has the …

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Acer Extends Android to Premium Jade Line

by Tom Allen

Acer clearly sees Windows as a business proposition, and at MWC was reinforcing that feeling with new offers on the Liquid Jade Primo smartphone (Acer Looks to Gamers, Chromebooks and “PC Phone”). We saw …

Soneira: Always-on Screens Will Hurt Smartwatches

by Tom Allen

Ray Soneira of DisplayMate has postulated that the always-on OLED display on Samsung’s Galaxy S7 (Samsung Chooses VR, Cameras and Gaming) will “significantly” reduce the need and demand for a smartwatch, because the device …

Tags:AMOLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 23 - Issue 08

AUO Shows AMOLED for 2016

by Tom Allen

AUO has used an event at its headquarters in Hsinchu, Taiwan to show new products and technologies. These included both large and small displays, and were not limited to LCD displays. AUO CEO Paul …

Wearable Growth in Triple Digits

by Tom Allen

The worldwide wearable market jumped forward in Q4’15, says IDC, due to the rising popularity of fitness trackers and the Apple Watch. 27.4 million units were shipped in Q4, 126.9% higher than Q4’14. For …

Garmin® introduces vívoactive® HR – a GPS smartwatch with wrist-based heart rate

by Isaac Oburu

Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd., today announced vívoactive HR, a GPS smartwatch with Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate technology. The vívoactive HR helps keep track of active moments throughout the day, …

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Garmin Boasts of Always-on Watch

by Tom Allen

Garmin has developed a new device that combines watch and fitness tracker functionality. The Vivoactive HR is a GPS smartwatch with Garmin’s Elevate heart rate technology. As well as heart rate, the device counts …

UK Wearable Ownership ‘No Longer Niche’

by Tom Allen

Apple led the UK smartwatch market in Clicked’s dataA study from UK-based Clicked Research has found that wearable ownership in the country has doubled over the last 12 months, with 12% of the UK’s …