Tag: smartwatches

March 13, 2023

Huawei’s most premium current smartwatches, namely the Watch 3, 3 Pro, GT 3, GT 3 Pro and the GT Runner, are now receiving the latest HarmonyOS 3 update globally. The new OS brings a couple of new features and under-the-hood […]

March 31, 2022

Smartwatches have definitely come a long way from their humble and clunky beginnings around a decade ago in terms of both overall functionality and mainstream appeal, but if there’s still one big thing that the industry’s top players need to […]

June 18, 2021

The wearables segment encompasses everything from smartwatches and fitness bands to true wireless earphones, and in the first quarter of 2021 demand continued to climb across the continent of Europe. Apple continued to dominate with AirPods and the Apple Watch […]

June 18, 2021

It became clear how uncertain the future of current smartwatches is with the new Wear OS by Google and Samsung. We initially thought that the wearables we have now are not equipped with the horsepower to support the update. In […]

May 12, 2021

Huawei’s next big event is on June 17th, apparently, which is when they’ll unveil the Huawei P50 series. Before that sources have leaked one other big event, taking place on June 2nd. That will be focused on new tablets and […]

July 1, 2020

Every two years, Google refreshes the Snapdragon Wear platform with new chipsets. Since Snapdragon 3100 was launched back in 2018, it makes perfect sense that we would get another SoC (system-on-chip) this year. The new Snapdragon Wear 4100 platform promises […]

April 4, 2019

Although it doesn’t specifically refer to the rumored Pixel Watch, Google has filed a patent that suggests its future smartwatches will have a new system so you can smoothly switch the strap. Filed by Google and published yesterday (it was […]

April 1, 2019

Google’s Android Wear had a shaky start, but it’s now an increasingly mature platform thanks to the Android Wear 2.0 update and the switchover to the Wear OS name in early 2018. Android Wear may be over, but Wear OS […]

February 28, 2019

Samsung and Fitbit both quadrupled the number of smartwatches shipped in the holiday quarter of of 2018 compared to the same period in the previous year, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics. The growth has caused Apple’s share […]

January 10, 2019

CES 2019 certainly hasn’t disappointed for new TVs, laptops or generally strange tech, and it has been a particularly strong year for wearables too. Smartwatches, fitness trackers and all the other gadgets we’re now sticking to our bodies were scattered […]

December 17, 2018

Thirty seconds after pressing my finger on the side of my new Apple Watch Series 4 smartwatch, an electrocardiogram chart appears on the screen of my iPhone. Until two weeks ago, I would have had to go to a doctor’s […]

November 16, 2018

I don’t know about you, but my number one smartwatch-related complaint is battery life — no matter how I use it, my Wear OS watch barely makes it through the day. Now, Google has an update to its Wear OS […]

November 5, 2018

The smartwatch market is picking up speed. It grew so fast – 53% year over year based on data from Counterpoint – that even though brands shipped more units than before, their shares fell. Apple remains king of the hill. […]

August 23, 2018

Apple will soon debut an updated Apple Watch with a thinner body and larger screen, if rumors are correct. By far, Apple’s smartwatch has been the category’s biggest seller, though perhaps not as big a hit as Wall Street had […]

May 24, 2018

2018 is shaping up as an interesting year for wearables. Google has recently rebranded the faltering Android Wear platform to Wear OS and is reportedly planning to launch three Pixel-branded smartwatches by the end of the year. Between Qualcomm’s releasing […]

January 26, 2018

Smartwatches and fitness trackers may one day benefit from artificial intelligence tech, or that’s what Huawei thinks may be possible in the future. Peter Gauden, Huawei’s global senior product marketing manager, told TechRadar, “The Huawei Watch 2 and Band 2 […]

August 8, 2016

The Apple rumor mill is heating up once again, just weeks before the release of the iPhone 7, but this time the news about the Apple Watch. However, instead of incremental software upgrades or new watch band designs, the latest […]

May 5, 2016

2016 is the year when we were supposed to have jetpacks and flying cars. Instead, we got smartwatches, the supposed new category, a beginning of a new niche that has started to form. Some devices, however, do stand out in […]