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New Android Wear Functions Coming Soon
Google is talking officially about an upcoming update to Android Wear, an update that will include several interesting improvements to the UI. Several of the improvements are designed to trim the...
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Samsung SDK Tips Features of Next-Gen Smartwatch
Samsung today released the software developer kit for a smartwatch dubbed Project Orbis. From the docs shown on SamMobile, this round-face device is very much not an Android Wear device. Chief among...
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New Canalys Figures Show Fitbit Leading Wearables Market — For Now
Canalys, which has a better-than-most handle on the size and shape of the consumer wearables market, is out with its 1Q15 numbers, and they show Fitbit maintaining its lead in a growing market....
View ArticleIDC Puts Fitbit Number 1 in Trackers, with Xiaomi in Second
IDC says Fitbit is the world’s top vendor of fitness trackers for the first quarter of 2015, with Chinese Xiaomi in a strong second thanks to its $15 Mi Band. Overall, the world market for trackers was...
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Samsung Sneaks Next Gear Smartwatch
Samsung held a press shindig today to show off its latest cellphone and phablet (a word that our spell-checker seems to think is OK), and used the occasion to give a quick look at the Gear S2...
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Apple Watch a Close Number 2 Behind Fitbit, Says IDC
We’ve been saying for months that we won’t judge the Apple Watch a success or failure until we see hard numbers from a company like IDC. Now, the market intelligence company says Apple shipped 3.4...
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Samsung Announces Gear S2 Round Tizen Watch
As expected, Samsung has announced a new round-faced smartwatch, the Gear S2. Continuing Samsung’s embrace of the open-source Tizen operating system and rejection of Android Wear, the Gear S2...
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Samsung Gear S2 Smartwatch Will Reportedly Work with iPhones
A company the size and scale of Samsung does not likely enjoy being a runner-up, even in a market as small as smartwatches. That makes Digital Spy’s scoop all the more interesting: the upcoming Gear S2...
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Samsung Great S2 Round Smartwatch Goes on Sale Friday
We’ve written before about the round Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch. The company announced today that the watch will go on sale October 2, but it may be a little hard to find. Although you’ll be able to...
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Why Wearables Makers Should Get Into The Content Business Today
You may not see the intersection of ESPN and fitness trackers, but it’s there — and if you make trackers, there’s an opportunity to be had RIGHT NOW. There’s a guy named Joe Pulizzi who runs something...
View ArticleSamsung Drops Out of Top Five Fitness Tracker List, says IDC
IDC’s 3Q15 wearables figures are out, and Fitbit is the big winner while Samsung the big loser. The market research firm says Fitbit sold 4.7 million devices in the third quarter, twice as many as it...
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Samsung BioProcessor Sensor Promises More Advanced Wearables
Those of us obsessed with finished goods can forget that Samsung is one of the world’s powers in microprocessors. The Korean giant announced this week a new sensor chip, the BioProcessor (part number...
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In the Same Vein: New Recognition Technology from Samsung
Fingerprint and iris scanners might soon be old hat in the recognition game. Samsung’s recently published patent “Wearable Device and of Operating the Same” is for a wearable device that can identify a...
View ArticleIDC Says Apple Shipped 11.6M Watches Last Year, About Half of Analysts’ Guesses
iCharts Research firm IDC reported last week that Apple sold about 11.6 million watches in 2015, a figure that’s about half of what stock analysts had been expecting. For the full year, the company...
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Google Reportedly Readies Android Wear Watches of its Own
The website Android Police is reporting that Google is getting ready to ship a pair of Android Wear smartwatches under its own brand. This bodes ill for the health of Android Wear. The whole point of...
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Canalys Predicts 7.5M Cellular Smartwatches This Year; 54M by 2020
The market research house Canalys is projecting that 53.6 million cellular smartwatches — ones that don’t need to be tethered to phones — will be sold in the the year 2020. At first blush, that looks...
View ArticleSamsung Licenses Valencell’s Ear-Worn Sensor Tech
We get many announcements of corporate alliances and licensing deals crossing our desk every day, but the one between Valencell and Samsung looks particularly provocative. Valencell makes interesting...
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Samsung’s WELT: A Terrible Thing to Waist
Samsung, while it’s not putting out fires, recently announced that the WELT, the company’s e-belt product, has met its Kickstarter goal and is ready to go to market. What, one might reasonably ask, is...
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Samsung Ships New SoC for Wearables
We do love us a good component story here ate Wearable Tech Insider, and this one almost got past us. Samsung is now shipping mass production of its Exynos 7 Dual 7270 application processor, a 14nm...
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Apple Leads a Flat Smartwatch Business, Says IDC, With Garmin Strong
The authoritative market research company IDC says smartwatch sales dropped 51.6 percent last quarter from the year previous, although it suggests that the results are distorted by Apple’s vast success...
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