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Neil Mawston
| Aug 19, 2021
The first half of 2021 was good to Apple Watch. It hit record shipments and revenue.
Series 6 Bluetooth (non-cellular) is Apple's no.1 Watch and by far the wor...
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Neil Mawston
| Aug 12, 2021
Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch 4 and Classic smartwatches -- launched worldwide this week -- bring to the table an updated version of Google Wear OS 3 and a r...
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Neil Mawston
| Aug 02, 2021
We conducted this week an informal survey of dozens of global tech influencers on LinkedIn.
We asked if they would ever wear a smartring on their fin...
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Neil Mawston
| Jul 26, 2021
Smartrings are a niche wearable so far. But there are signs of renewed interest, from Oura and others. Sometimes worn by royalty, like Prince Harry. What is the...
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Neil Mawston
| Jul 16, 2021
The Internet is reporting this week that details of the new Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 have (again) been leaked, this time in Canada.
Officially not due until Augu...
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Neil Mawston
| Jul 16, 2021
New research from our Wearables service predicts the untethered VR headset market will be worth several billion dollars worldwide ...
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Neil Mawston
| Jul 16, 2021
New research from our Wearables service predicts global fitnessband sales grew +2% in 2020, but they will dip -2% in 2021.
Demand for Fitbit, Xiaomi Mi Band an...
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Neil Mawston
| Jun 10, 2021
The drumbeat of rumors for a Facebook smartwatch continues to get louder...
New reports this week speculate it will be an Apple Watch rival, for summer 2022, a...
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Neil Mawston
| Jun 10, 2021
We polled tech influencers worldwide on LinkedIn and asked if they would buy a pair of Snap's new AR Spectacles.
Snapchat has built an...
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Neil Mawston
| Jun 03, 2021
Huawei this week has introduced its new Watch 3, the first smartwatch with HarmonyOS.
Watch 3 uses 4G eSIM and is packed with sensors at a premium price for ca...
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Neil Mawston
| May 27, 2021
We note Snap, of the US, is recently making aggressive new moves in smartglasses.
First, the Snapchat developer bought WaveOptics, the supplier of AR disp...
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Neil Mawston
| May 27, 2021
Huawei may be down-and-out in cellular phones, but it continues to regrow fast in cellular smartwatches.
Our new report (here) finds Huawei doubled its global ...
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Neil Mawston
| May 27, 2021
New research from our Wearables (WDE) tracker shows Realme and OPPO were the fastest-growing major wearable vendors worldwide in the first quarter of 2021.
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Neil Mawston
| May 14, 2021
Surprisingly, the answer appears to be "no"...
Our User Experience Service (UXS) surveyed 1,000 smartwatch owners in the United Kingdom and found music is thei...
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Neil Mawston
| May 14, 2021
Fitbit, of the US, is now one month in to its ongoing blood-pressure study for wristworn wearables.
Fitbit is exploring whether Pulse Arrival Time (PAT) can be...
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Neil Mawston
| Apr 22, 2021
New research from our Wearables (WDE) service shows Apple Watch is now BIGGER by revenue than 98% of all smartphone vendors on the entire planet.
Apple Watch i...
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Neil Mawston
| Apr 22, 2021
Global wearables revenue rose +20% YoY in Q4 2020, hitting a record high. Apple, Huawei and others lead the way.
Clients can read the full dataset here.
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Neil Mawston
| Apr 22, 2021
Five of the world’s 10 largest wearable brands are now Chinese. Xiaomi, Huawei, Realme and others are making inroads to smartwatches and elsewhere. The in...
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Neil Mawston
| Mar 31, 2021
Huawei, Xiaomi and Fitbit are the "big three" brands who together account for the majority of all fitnessband revenues on the planet today.
Xiaomi Mi Band...
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Neil Mawston
| Mar 24, 2021
Global 2G / 3G / 4G smartwatch shipments jumped a healthy +28% in 2020.
Consumers like the standalone nature of cellular smartwatches -- no smartphone nee...
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