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Neil Mawston
| Feb 09, 2023
Qualcomm this week pulled back the curtain on a new 5G modem optimized for premium wearables.
The Snapdragon X35 5G Modem-RF System chipset is the fi...
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Neil Mawston
| Feb 09, 2023
New research from our Wearables (WDE) research team shows the new Watch Ultra captured an impressive 1 in 10 of all Apple Watch shipments worldwide in the final...
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Neil Mawston
| Feb 09, 2023
Our Wearables and Smartphone analysts will be on the Mobile World Congress (MWC) show floor, at the Fira, in Barcelona, Spain, from Sun 26 Feb to Thur...
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Juha Winter
| Feb 06, 2023
We expect global fitness band revenues to dip by -15% in 2023 on an annual basis, due to falling unit sales, stronger competitive pricing pressure in some regio...
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Neil Mawston
| Feb 02, 2023
Our Wearables analysts will be on the Mobile World Congress (MWC) show floor, at the Fira, in Barcelona, Spain, from Sun 26 Feb to Thurs 2 Mar, 2023.
If you wo...
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Neil Mawston
| Dec 07, 2022
Global fitnessband shipments slumped more than -40% YoY for the third consecutive quarter in Q3 2022. It was a terrible quarter.
Re-locking down in parts of Ch...
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Neil Mawston
| Dec 07, 2022
Following a sluggish Q2, where growth slumped to zero due to recessionary headwinds, the global smartwatch market roared back to +15% YoY growth in the recent t...
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Neil Mawston
| Dec 07, 2022
New research from our Wearables (WDE) team shows Google's Wear OS platform grabbed its highest level of global smartwatch marketshare for 7 years in the recent ...
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Neil Mawston
| Oct 18, 2022
If you thought Huawei (of China) had disappeared from the mobile gadget industry, then think again...
New research from our Devices team shows Huawei became fi...
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Neil Mawston
| Oct 18, 2022
China today is the world's 2nd largest smartwatch market. Only the US is bigger.
China has been growing at an average rate of +25% per year during the past hal...
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Juha Winter
| Oct 14, 2022
Even though the smartwatch market experienced a year-on-year unit sales plateau (0% growth) in the second quarter of 2022 for the first time since 2016, don&rsq...
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Neil Mawston
| Sep 02, 2022
We note Garmin this week introduced two new wearables at the IFA 2022 tradeshow in Berlin, Germany.
First up is the mid-high-tier Venu Sq 2 smartwatch, wh...
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Neil Mawston
| Sep 02, 2022
Global cellular smartwatch shipments rose +6% YoY in the second quarter of 2022, outperforming the overall smartwatch industry as cellular penetration cont...
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Neil Mawston
| Sep 02, 2022
Global fitnessband shipments have been in freefall for the past year. And it's getting worse.
Those low-cost fitness trackers that you wrap around your wrist t...
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Neil Mawston
| Aug 19, 2022
Interesting to see the wearables community challenging recently the official measurement and definition of specs for multiple smartwatch and fitness d...
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Neil Mawston
| Aug 19, 2022
Google announced its Pixel smartwatch back in May 2022. Recent Internet chatter now suggests the new watch, due in Sep-Oct, will soon support Google Fi&nbs...
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Neil Mawston
| Aug 19, 2022
SA forecasts the untethered VR headset market to build an active installed base of 32 million units worldwide by 2027.
This...
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Neil Mawston
| Aug 05, 2022
Qualcomm, a chipset vendor, is making a fresh drive into smartwatches with its new and improved Snapdragon W5 platform. The W5 component range is smaller, ...
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Neil Mawston
| Aug 05, 2022
New research from our Wearables (WDE) tracker shows Apple Watch Series 7 was the world's no.1 bestselling smartwatch model in the ...
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Juha Winter
| Aug 04, 2022
We expect global smartwatch revenues to grow +20% in 2022, rebounding after the Covid slowdown in 2020, but moderated by nagging inflation a...
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