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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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Gina Luk
| Aug 26, 2021
Findings from our latest survey carried out in Q2 2021 on the US Enterprise Mobility Adoption and Trends 2021 have now been published.
Enterprises in the U.S a...
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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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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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