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Neil Mawston
| Dec 15, 2021
New research from SA shows Wear OS by Google grabbed 15% global smartwatch revenue share in Q3 2021, its highest level for years.
Wear OS is benefiting from gr...
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Neil Mawston
| Dec 15, 2021
BoAt, an Indian firm that makes TWS headphones and smartwatches, is quietly rising up our global wearable rankings.
BoAt is already a top-15 global wearables b...
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Neil Mawston
| Dec 15, 2021
Updated research from SA shows global 4G cellular smartwatch shipments grew a healthy +30% YoY in the third quarter of 2021.
Cellular smartwatches remain one o...
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Neil Mawston
| Nov 11, 2021
New research from our Wearables tracker (here) forecasts the global untethered VR headset market to be worth US$6 billion by 2026.
By segment, we find smartpho...
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Neil Mawston
| Nov 11, 2021
New research (here) from our Wearables tracker forecasts over 80% of all smartwatches sold worldwide will use an OLED display in 2022.
OLED delivers a high-qua...
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Neil Mawston
| Nov 11, 2021
We forecast global hearables sales will rise over +60% in 2022, from a low base, as consumers begin to embrace ear-based biometrics.
Samsung, Bose, JBL, Huawei...
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Neil Mawston
| Oct 28, 2021
We predict global smartglasses industry revenue will grow +11% in 2022.
Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Huawei and others lead the way, while ev...
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Neil Mawston
| Oct 28, 2021
We forecast global smartglasses sales will grow +2100% thru 2026. Google, Facebook and others are among the early pioneers. Apple is the industry giant everyone...
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Neil Mawston
| Oct 06, 2021
Apple Watch Series 7 launches in stores next week, on Friday 15th October, 2021.
It is the biggest wearables event of the year.
How many units will Apple sell...
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Neil Mawston
| Oct 06, 2021
Global smartwatch revenues will rise +18% in 2021, cementing the rebound after Covid.
Unit volumes will rise, but prices are dipping.
Our new report -- publis...
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Neil Mawston
| Oct 06, 2021
Recent research from our Wearables Tracker shows global fitnessband revenues fell a hefty -22% YoY during the first half of 2021.
Rising competition from fitne...
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Neil Mawston
| Sep 17, 2021
We posted this week a brief, informal survey among our contacts on LinkedIn.
We asked whether the new Facebook Ray-Ban Stories smartglasses, on sale now f...
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Neil Mawston
| Sep 14, 2021
Apple Watch Series 7 launched worldwide today and carries a 20% bigger display and more recycled metals than ever before. This greener marketing will appeal to ...
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Neil Mawston
| Sep 14, 2021
Interesting to see Xiaomi today unveil its new Smart Glasses concept.
Billed as "an engineer's look into an advanced future", the spec...
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Neil Mawston
| Sep 10, 2021
Facebook and Luxottica this week teamed up to launch Ray-Ban Stories.
A pair of camera glasses that will sell for US$300 to young-at-heart social media fans wh...
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Neil Mawston
| Sep 09, 2021
We predict global wearable shipments will grow a healthy +17% in 2022.
Apple, Huawei, and Xiaomi will remain among the market leaders next year. They have good...
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Neil Mawston
| Sep 02, 2021
New research from our Wearables Tracker shows Amazfit, of China, became the world's 4th largest wearables brand for the first time ever in Q2 2021. It broke int...
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Neil Mawston
| Sep 02, 2021
Global cellular smartwatch shipments jumped a healthy +44% YoY in the second quarter of 2021. Growth has finally returned to pre-Covid levels.
Cellular 4G smar...
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Neil Mawston
| Aug 27, 2021
New research from our Wearables Tracker shows global smartwatch shipments soared 47 percent annually to reach 18 million units in the second quarter of 202...
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Neil Mawston
| Aug 19, 2021
Facebook has been saying for some time it wants to turn into a "metaverse company".
Essentially, this means a shift from today's "flat" 2D Internet to tomorrow...
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