Wearable shipments grew in the second quarter following two quarters of decline. Smartwatches saw the most year-over-year growth during the second quarter but hearables had the highest market share.
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Fitbit's flagship smartwatch is now more affordable thanks to a significant 33% discount on Amazon. You can snag this smartwatch with advanced health and fitness capabilities for only $199.95.
You can save up to 15% on Apple Watch Series 7 (GPS and Cellular), Apple's latest smartwatch. Besides, purchasing eligible models gets you an additional 20% discount on Beats Earbuds.
Google is rolling out an AFib detector to a variety of Fitbit watches in the United States following necessary approval of the algorithm by the United States Food and Drug Administration.
Garmin has released a new report showing the growth of activities it recorded on its smartwatches. Indoor activities saw the most growth with Pilates being the most popular activity overall.
The analyst firm IDC has said that smartwatches have begun to displace wristbands as the price gap between the two products closes. Customers want smartwatches as they are more capable devices.
Brandon Schneider has credited his Apple Watch for saving his life as it had alerted people when he fell unconscious and received severe head injuries. Brandon has urged all to use their watches well.
According to the listing, the Galaxy Watch4 and Watch4 Classic feature a radial dial and a water-resistant body. In terms of software, Samsung will ditch its Tizen OS in favor of Google's Wear OS.
At its product launch event today, Huawei announced the new Huawei Watch 3 and 3 Pro, featuring the company's new HarmonyOS. The watches feature a premium design and all the features you'd expect.
Samsung is entering a partnership with Google to revamp Wear OS as a unified platform for smartwatches, but its existing Tizen smartwatches will still be supported for a good while.
A new report indicates that Samsung is preparing to move away from Tizen to Google's Wear OS for its next smartwatch. However, it will still be using a version of One UI on top of it.
YouTube channel Unbox Therapy has revealed the upcoming smartwatch from OnePlus a few days before the March 23 event. The design reveal and spec leaks leave no room for imagination.
OnePlus' rumored smartwatch has had a bunch of its features leaked. This includes support for Warp Charge, which can reportedly give you a week of battery life with 20 minutes of charging.
IDC data has shown that people turned to purchase wearables as their disposable income rose due to the closure of most retail outlets because of coronavirus. The market grew by 28.4% compared to 2019.
Hublot and the Premier League have joined arms to create a new smartwatch called the Big Bang e Premier League. The luxurious smartwatch is a limited edition and only 200 of it have been made.
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Gartner has said that spend in the global wearable market will reach $81.5 billion this year, up 18.1% compared to 2020 where spend reached $69 billion. Ear-worn devices will create the most spend.
Samsung is offering some discounts on the Galaxy Watch3 through Amazon right now, starting at $299 for the 41mm Bluetooth version and $379 for the 45mm LTE variant, marking a saving of up to $100.
Samsung's latest smartwatch brings back the rotating bezel and keeps the premium aesthetic of its predecessors. It's the best smartwatch hardware, but there are some problems with Tizen.
Google has detailed the features making it to the Fit app for Wear OS devices, including the new Tiles, quick settings toggles, custom goals for workouts, a Touch Lock feature, and much more.
The Galaxy Watch3 has a smaller and lighter design than its predecessor, and it also has new features like blood pressure monitoring and an ECG. It runs Tizen, so it works better with Samsung phones.
The Honor Watch ES is a sleek-looking smartwatch that offers a lot of the features you'd expect from a fitness smartwatch at an affordable price. Most notably, it brings guided workouts to the table.
The Honor Watch GS Pro is a fitness-oriented smartwatch designed for the outdoors, and while it's not a great fashion piece, it works very well as a fitness and health tracker. Here's our review.
Samsung has announced that the titanium variant of the Galaxy Watch3 will launch on October 2, but it will only be available in the 45mm size and Mystic Black color at launch, with no LTE.
The second generation of nubia's smartwatch featuring a folded display, the Watch, is here. The latest wearable from nubia has dropped a few grams and a few features - one too many, perhaps.
Samsung has begun rolling out a software update to last year's Galaxy Watch Active2, which introduces some of the features that launched on the Galaxy Watch3, such as fall detection.
Samsung's latest smartwatch is just over one month old, but the company is already discounting the 45mm model to $365, 15% off its usual price. However, you're limited to the Bluetooth model.
Honor has announced a couple of new smartwatches, one with a more rugged design for the great outdoors, and a more modern-looking one. Here's our first look at both of the offerings.
Canalys has reported that the North American wearables market grew by 10% in Q2 2020 but that the average selling price was dragged down as more people opted for low-end activity trackers.
The OPPO Watch's design is very blatantly inspired by the popular Apple Watch, but in the end, OPPO delivers an experience that makes it worthy of staying on my wrist, even if it's not perfect.
While Fitbit is in the process of being bought by Google, it's still making its own wearables, and today it launched the Fitbit Sense, its top-tier fitness watch with electrodermal sensors.
Fossil is rolling out a major update to it's Gen 5 smartwatches that brings a bunch of new features including sleep tracking, a new Wellness app for better health tracking, VO2 max support, and more.
OPPO introduced its Wear OS-based smartwatch a couple of weeks ago, and it looks strikingly similar to the Apple Watch. It has a beautiful AMOLED display, a Snapdragon Wear 3100, and 1GB of RAM.
Samsung has added an Aluminum Edition to its existing lineup of Galaxy Watch Active2 4G smartwatches. It further announced that the entire range of Galaxy smartwatches will now be made in India.
Garmin is adding a new tactical smartwatch to its lineup in the form of the tactix Delta. It's a multisport watch built to military standards, and it has a kill switch to delete all user data.
IDC has predicted that wearables will achieve more than 300 million unit shipments this year. The figures expected this year are 71.4% up from last year when 178 million units shipped.
Huawei has announced that it plans to bring HarmonyOS to more devices in 2020. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the firm said that it has no plans to ship it with smartphones and tablets at this time.
Today, Fossil announced the Hybrid HR. It includes a stylish design, a 27mm display, and mechanical hands. Fossil is also promising that the hybrid device gets two weeks of battery life.
A new report suggests that Google may be interested in buying the wearable manufacturer Fitbit, which has been looking for buyers due to disappointing market performance and declining market share.
Like last year's model, Huawei's Watch GT 2 promises weeks of battery life, but it adds a bunch of features like music playback, the ability to talk on the phone, and an always-on display.
A feature announced earlier this week, Fossil today announced the ability to answer calls on its Gen 5 Smartwatch when tethered to an iPhone, making it the first Wear OS watch to do so.
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