Articles tagged "Android Wear"

Today the Fossil Group has announced that it's entered an agreement to sell Google some secret still in development smartwatch technology for $40 million. The deal involves intellectual property related to that technology, as well as some of...

According to data from ABI Research, Apple dominated the global smart wearable market in Q2 and Q3 of 2018 with a 43.35% market share. That slice left the likes of Fitbit, Huawei and Samsung with about 8% each. Interestingly, there is nothing in...

Mobvoi just unveiled the TicWatch C2, a sequel to the TicWatch 2. It’s a Wear OS timepiece that includes most of the features you might want from a smartwatch while keeping the price in check. You can pre-order it right now at $200/€200, it will...

In spite of past rumors claiming the contrary, Google will not be launching a Pixel Watch this year. The company has confirmed this through Miles Barr, its director of engineering for Wear OS, speaking to Tom's Guide in an interview today. The...

At IFA Casio has unveiled its third-generation smartwatch, running Wear OS by Google. The Pro Trek Smart WSD-F30 is the successor to the WSD-F20 launched last year. Like its predecessor, it has MIL-STD-810G compliance for durability and...

Skagen is introducing its latest smartwatch – the Falster 2 – about half a year after the first Falster (which was shown off at CES). Despite the short time span between the two, there are several major updates. The case is now swim-proof and...

Fossil introduced the fourth generation of two of its Android Wear smartwatch lines – meet the Fossil Q Venture HR and Q Explorist HR. They are available for pre-order and will ship out on August 26. Fossil Q Explorist 4th...

Fashion brand Emporio Armani announced the Emporio Armani Connected 2018. Is this finally a fashion smartwatch without compromise? Wearing a stylish fashion branded smartwatch often led to compromise with many popular features such as GPS,...

Over the last two weekends, we’ve reflected upon the highlights that 2018 has brought us so far in wearables and looked forward to the major up’n’coming releases. For some, the tech we wear on our wrists is a series of compromises. For example,...

Introduction Last week we covered the wearables to come out already in 2018, but now we'll take a look forward to what we'll be strapping to our wrists later this year. While the first half of the year yielded few surprises, our expectations for...

Introduction Summer's here, so let’s reflect back on the wearables that 2018 has brought us so far. As it's World Cup time, let's 'ick-off and coin yet another cliched football analogy: It’s a game of two halves Let’s analyze the...

Fossil is among the few players to actually make gains in the smartwatch market with sales doubling last year and in early 2018 reaching 14% of the total smartwatch market revenue. Recently, 7 new smartwatches surfaced on FCC's website and now a...

Earlier this month, a smartwatch with model number LM-W319 passed through USA's FCC and the very same device has just been approved by the Korean regulatory authority - KCC. Unfortunately, the listing doesn't say anything that we've already...

It's going to be a busy year for LG with its plethora of wearables. A lot of leaks recently started to pop up with small bits of information regarding future LG smartwatches. Just last month, the Korean company filed three new smartwatches on the...

Marc Jacobs has released an Android Wear version of it Riley watch (the original was a hybrid). Details are a little messy right now as it seems that retailer Target has mixed up the specs of the smart and the hybrid Riley watches. Anyway, the...

The Huawei Watch 2 (2018) is official and not much has changed since the Watch 2 Pro. This model is available with nanoSIM or eSIM that connect the smart timepiece to 4G networks, plus a cheaper Bluetooth-only version. The screen is a 1.2” OLED...

Apple and Xiaomi lead the smart wearable market in Q1 of 2018 with 3.8 million and 3.7 million shipments respectively, as per Canalys data. Apple's shipments were bolstered by the Watch Series 3 and the addition of LTE, while 90% of Xiaomi's...

The well-known leakster, Evan Blass, just shared that Gear smartwatches running Wear OS were spotted on the wrists of Samsung employees. All Samsung Gear smartwatches over the past three years run Tizen OS, which is rather functional and offers...

Availability for Google Pay on Wear OS has expanded its reach. Wear OS devices in Russia and Poland will now be able to use Google Pay. This brings the total number of markets where the service is available to seven. Back in March, three markets,...

Android Wear stalled – perhaps due to lack of new hardware - but Huawei hasn’t given up on it, it seems. What is has given is counting to 3, so here’s a rumor for the Huawei Watch 2 (2018). To be fair, the specs are pretty similar so this really is...