Articles tagged "Android Wear"

Samsung Executive Vice President and head of software development Janghyun Yoon has issued a statement, confirming that future Galaxy Watches will indeed run Google's Wear OS, instead of Tizen OS. The confirmation comes following months of...

Samsung appears set to announce the Galaxy Watch4 and Galaxy Watch Active4 in Q2 of this year, per usually reliable tipster Ice universe. It appears that Samsung will skip the Galaxy Watch Active3 and jump it straight to number 4, for series...

A controversial new rumor has been shared by typically reliable tipster Ice universe that Samsung's next watch will replace Tizen with Android. This isn't the first time we're hearing of Samsung using Android Wear OS in place of Tizen - Evan Blass...

Last year Fossil introduced its Gen 5 smartwatch with Android Wear, Snapdragon 3100 chipset and a $295 asking price. Today the maker is introducing its Gen 5E smartwatches which come in a smaller 42mm casing alongside the 44mm option from last year....

Oppo unveiled its Watch on March 6 and today it's releasing it in China with its custom OS, ECG sensor and attractive price tags. Oppo Watch has a square AMOLED screen which is either 1.6" or 1.9" in diagonal, depending on the variant. There...

Yesterday Xiaomi quietly-unveiled the Watch Color but skipped revealing any specs prior to its January 3 release in China. Thankfully, a leaked retail box can fill-in the blanks and confirm some of our earlier suspicions. The Wear OS-based Xiaomi...

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...