Smartwatch

Meta (formerly Facebook) has pulled the plug on plans for a smartwatch to rival the Apple Watch, at least for now — reports Bloomberg. The company had been working on the wearable, internally codenamed "Milan," for at least two years. Bloomberg got a look at images and video of a prototype of the no-longer-in-development device, revealing...

[caption id="attachment_372533" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Android Central[/caption] The folks over at Android Central recently shared images of what appears to be an early sample of Google's long-rumoured Pixel-branded smartwatch, sent to them by an anonymous reader. The source described the smartwatch as "a testing model for the Internal Pixel team," and revealed it was left behind by...

After suffering from an almost-stagnant 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the smartwatch market recovered with a significant market growth in 2021 led by Apple Watch shipments. According to the latest Counterpoint Global Smartwatch Model Tracker report, the Apple Watch again proved its dominance in the smartwatch market with a 30 percent market share in the...

As reported by The Information, social media and tech giant Facebook is currently working on its very own smartwatch product (via Yahoo! News). According to the report, Facebook hopes to bring its own smartwatches to market by 2022, and the product(s) will be geared toward the health and fitness space. A smartwatch developed by Facebook will be...

Smartwatch sales surged in the second quarter while sales of basic wearable fitness trackers declined for the first time, signaling a turning point in the market, according to data released Thursday. Market research firm IDC reports that the market for smartwatches like the Apple Watch and Android Wear devices grew nearly 60.9 percent during the second quarter of 2017 compared...

Garmin is known for making great fitness smartwatches, but they face stiff competition when compared to watches from Apple, Samsung, and Fitbit. Its latest wearable, however, has a more affordable price. According to a new report from Ars Technica, Garmin today announced three new wearable devices that it will debut at IFA 2017 in Berlin, including the vívomove...

According to a report by Yahoo! Finance, a series of production mishaps has delayed the launch of Fitbit's first true smartwatch, forcing the fitness tracker company to push an original spring launch to this fall. At least two sources familiar with the matter said that Fitbit’s design team ran into problems making its smartwatch fully waterproof, which...

The new build for Google’s official smartwatch/wearable platform, Android Wear 2.0, is probably close to being finished, so this is good news for all of you who have latched on to the Android smartwatch bandwagon. Google is rolling out what is the final Developer Preview of Android Wear 2.0, and it’s got a few new things in store....

Today, Samsung has released apps for the Gear S2, Gear S3, and Gear Fit 2 on the iOS App Store, making them compatible with the iPhone. Users can download the Samsung Gear S app for the Gear S2 and Gear S3 or the Samsung Gear Fit app for the Gear Fit2. Once the appropriate app...

Apple might unveil its third generation Apple Watch in the third quarter of this year, and will feature improved battery life and overall performance, says a report from Digitimes. The report mentions that the next generation of wearable devices by Apple will be manufactured by Quanta, a manufacturing company based in Taiwan. This is not the […]

Smartwatches may not be massively popular devices in the scheme of things, but Google isn’t giving up on them just yet. In fact, the company is working with a manufacturer to launch two new smartwatches in 2017. Up until now, Google’s smartwatch strategy has been to develop Android Wear software and work with watch makers […]

Future models of the Apple Watch could get a little bit slimmer if ideas discovered in a new Apple patent ever come to fruition. The patent application in question details a haptic motor that located in the band of the watch instead of the watch itself, which would allow for the device to slim down considerably....