Smartwatches

Another “Samsung Unpacked” event has come and gone. The Korean electronics maker didn’t disappoint this year, as it released the Galaxy Gear – the company’s highly anticipated first-dive into the world of smartwatch-style devices. But while the gear understandably grabbed all the headlines, the company made some significant changes to its Note lineup as well. Continue Reading →

The focus on Wednesday may be on Samsung’s Galaxy Gear, but none other than Qualcomm is entering the smartwatch market with a device it’s calling Toq. It’s a touchscreen smartwatch designed to be used with Android devices, and is serving as a showcase for Mirasol — Qualcomm’s low-energy display technology that’s struggled to find acceptance. Continue Reading →

Samsung has formally unveiled the Galaxy Gear smartwatch, which connects to an Android smartphone via Bluetooth, following a number of leaks running up to the event. At around the size of a regular watch, it has a 1.63-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, 1.9-megapixel ‘Memographer’ camera on the side of the device for capturing snaps with a Continue Reading →

Watch out, Samsung: Google has some smartwatch development projects of its own, and it quietly snapped up Los Altos, Calif.-based WIMM Labs last year to kickstart these efforts. WIMM Labs not only gives Google the talent and technology to build a smartwatch, but actually an Android-based app platform tailored for consumers’ wrists. WIMM Labs was Continue Reading →

Samsung is set to reveal its Galaxy Gear smartwatch Wednesday, Sept. 4, in Berlin. But this weekend, we got a first look at the watch. Here it is. The press has been speculating about the hardware and design, and leaking information, since word got out that the company would be designing its smartwatch to rival Continue Reading →

A Samsung executive has confirmed speculation that it will unveil a new smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, at an event next week. Lee Young-hee, executive vice president of Samsung Mobile, tells the Korea Times that the device will be based on Android and feature a “non-flexible” display. Lee calls the Galaxy Gear a “wearable concept device,” Continue Reading →

It looks like Samsung will beat Apple to market with a smartwatch by at least nine months or perhaps even longer. A new report from Digitimes cites an analyst at Kuala Lumpur-based CIMB Group in stating that Apple’s “iWatch” will likely launch in the second half of 2014. In the meantime, Samsung’s Galaxy Gear has Continue Reading →

On September 4, Samsung is widely expected to debut the Galaxy Note 3 and possibly a smartwatch called the Galaxy Gear. Introducing a product isn’t the same as offering it for sale, however, so how long will consumers have to wait for the new products? Not long suggests one site. SamMobile, which generally has good Continue Reading →

Speculation has been rife that Samsung might introduce their first smartwatch along with the Galaxy Note III at the UNPACKED Episode 2 event on September 4th, and now we can confirm that Samsung will indeed unveil the Galaxy Gear smartwatch on the same day it takes the wraps off its third-generation Note, the specs of Continue Reading →

The crowdfunding campaign for the Kreyos smartwatch project has passed $1 million in support, proving once again that backers love them wearables. Kreyos is still at a fraction of the $10 million of support that Pebble raised last year, but it has managed to raise 10 times the amount it was asking for on IndieGogo. Continue Reading →