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Wearables Devices Shipments to Rise to 237.5 million by 2021

by Alan Spencer

According to IDC, the overall wearables market is expected grow after a brief slowdown last year, which was brought about by delayed launches and vendors struggling to maintain pace. IDC forecasts that new vendors, …

Tags:IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 11| Wearable Market

Wearables Market Achieves All Time High in 2016

by Alan Spencer

According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker, shipments of wearable devices reached 33.9 million units in the last quarter of 2016, growing 16.9% year-over-year. This represented an all-time high for the wearables …

Tags:IDC| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 09| Wearable Market

Enterprise Wearables to Shift to Body-worn Devices says ABI

by Bob Raikes

The enterprise wearable market is experiencing a shift from wrist-worn devices to body- and head-worn wearables said ABI Research which forecasts enterprise wearable shipments will grow from 30 million shipments in 2016 to nearly …

Tags:Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 01| Wearable Market

Smartwatch Market Grows Cold with Same Old Designs

by Steve Sechrist

In case you missed it, Apple’s non-growth in the Smartwatch market has hit a new high (errr, low?) with a whopping -72% market growth (year over year) according to data from IDC last week. …

Tags:Flexible Displays| Smartwatches| Vol 23 - Issue 43| Wearable Market| Wearables

Samsung Boosts Smartwatch Target

by Bob Raikes

Samsung is widely reported to have increased its target for sales of its Galaxy S3 Watch which will start to ship in Q4. Reports have said that the company hopes to ship five million …

Tags:Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartwatches| Vol 23 - Issue 39| Wearable Market

Wearables Benefit the Workforce

by Yvette Raikes

Wearable device shipments are expected to rise from almost 202 million this year to over 501 million by 2021, according to the Wearable Device Market Share and Forecasts report from ABI Research. In 2016, …

Tags:Eyewear| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 38| Wearable Market

IDC Picks WatchOS as Winner for Smartwatches

by Milos Pavlovic

IDC released its latest forecast for the smartwatch and wearables market and expects the total market to reach 20 million units by 2020. The company defines smartwatches as those that can run third party …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartwatches| Vol 23 - Issue 37| Wearable Market

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

Shirts Display Pollution Status

by Tom Allen

Nikolas Bentel, a designer in New York City, has released a range of shirts that change colour in the presence of pollution, according to Mark Fihn’s Flexible Substrate. Bentel worked with Autodesk to develop …

Tags:Fabric & Textile Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 32| Wearable Market