Maybe Fitbit can be more than just a niche exercise product
Fitbit might not be turning in the results of yesteryear, but riding the wave of Versa to beat analyst expectations demonstrates there might be mass-market appeal for the brand.
Fitbit might not be turning in the results of yesteryear, but riding the wave of Versa to beat analyst expectations demonstrates there might be mass-market appeal for the brand.
The smart watch euphoria never took off, so logic surely dictates the price point was just too low… Hang on a sec.
It has been reported that Apple is partnering with Intel to give the Apple Watch independent 4G connectivity, but that will just make it more expensive and no less pointless.
The latest global wearables market data from Strategy Analytics reveals that Apple now heads the whole sector despite its products being by far the most expensive.
The speculation is finally over and once more the big annual iPhone event fell hopelessly short of the hype, as usual.
So far 2016 has been a year of smartphone recovery for Samsung but with reports of exploding batteries in the new Galaxy Note 7 phablet, not everything is going according to plan.
Research firm IDC says shipments of the Apple Watch have dropped by 55% resulting in the first year-on-year quarterly shipment decline for the smart watch sector.
There is growing consensus that shipments of the Apple watch may have peaked, at least for now, with market tracker Strategy Analytics forecasting a 12% decline this year.
The ongoing quest to find a point for smart watches continues with the latest raft of tweaks to the Android Wear platform.
As the race for leadership of the wearables market entered the third quarter, Fitbit is still leading the field, having doubled it sales but Xiaomi is emerging as a strong challenger to Apple in smart watches.
South Korean electronics giant LG has taken one step forward and one step back in the wearable technology race.
Designer watch maker the Fossil Group is to buy wearable tech maker Misfit for $260 million to acquire its cloud platforms, application portfolio and engineering team.
Android Wear has now added support for mobile to its range of wireless networks. The wearable gadget maker already offers support for Bluetooth and wifi.
At the launch of Galaxy S6 edge+ Samsung also revealed it had partnered with a bunch of influential fashion types in an apparent bid to refresh the band ahead of a new smart watch launch.
New data from analyst firm IDC reveals the wearable device market, which includes fitness bands and smart watches, increased by 200% year-on-year in Q1 2015 to hit 11.4 million units shipped.
It’s been a good week for the company formerly known as Palm, with LG Electronics revealing at CES 2015 that it is developing a smart watch running webOS – the mobile platform developed by Palm.
At CES 2015 there has been a small whirlwind of activity and announcements about the mobile-powered technology. In the main, it’s been about wearables and the smart watch so far, but there’s also been some weird and wonderful conceptions giving us a glimpse of what might become reality in 2015.
Shipments of smart wearable are set to rise five-fold over the course of the second half of 2013, according to analyst forecasts. Just over 200,000 smart wearable band devices, such as smartwatches, were shipped in 1H13. However, the number shipped in 2H13 is expected to see an increase of more than 500 per cent, according to analyst firm Canalys.
The worldwide smart watch market is set to exceed 5 million units next year, according to research published this week. Apple is rumoured to be readying a smart watch device this year, and estimates suggest that over 330,000 smart watches were shipped in 2012, led by Sony and Motorola, while recent start-up Pebble Technology joined Sony as a market leader in 2013.
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