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Neil Mawston
| Mar 31, 2022
HarmonyOS -- a rival to Wear OS and watchOS -- hit a record high of 4% global smartwatch shipments marketshare in the second half of 2021.
Coming from zer...
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Neil Mawston
| Mar 31, 2022
New research (here) from our Wearables (WDE) team shows fitnessband shipments slumped -40% YoY worldwide in the final quarter of 2021.
The fitband market is ta...
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Neil Mawston
| Mar 31, 2022
Huawei may have taken a knock in smartphones, but it is alive and kicking in wearables...
New research this week from our Wearables (WDE) team shows Huawei ove...
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Neil Mawston
| Mar 17, 2022
When you think "Huawei", you think "smartphone"...
Few people realize Huawei is actually a very popular smartwatch brand -- among the top-5 worldwide.
Hu...
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Neil Mawston
| Mar 17, 2022
Good to see Xiaomi this week promoting two important smartwatch models to its growing wearables portfolio.
The Watch S1 has been on sale already sinc...
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Neil Mawston
| Mar 17, 2022
We note this week that Ray-Ban Stories smartglasses are quietly expanding their retail footprint across more countries in Europe.
First launched in 6 mark...
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David Kerr
| Mar 03, 2022
On March 2, Fitbit voluntarily recalled Ionic smartwatches sold between 2017 and 2021 due to over 115 reports of overheating and subsequent burn hazards.
The ...
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Gina Luk
| Feb 25, 2022
MWC Barcelona 2022 is fast approaching, bringing together the latest developments in mobile alongside today’s most influential visionaries. Under the MWC ...
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Philip Kendall
| Feb 24, 2022
As analysts from our Enterprise and Service Provider Groups finalize their plans for MWC 2022, we share thoughts from the team on topics we expect or hope to se...
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Neil Mawston
| Jan 20, 2022
New research from our Wearables (WDE) tracker predicts global smartwatch sales will grow a healthy +22% in 2022.
Smartwatches, like Apple Watch, are a high-val...
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Neil Mawston
| Jan 20, 2022
CES 2022 in Las Vegas this month was a surprisingly active show for wearables.
Dozens of new devices and partnerships were unveiled. These are the ones that ca...
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Neil Mawston
| Jan 20, 2022
New research from our Wearables (WDE) tracker predicts worldwide shipments of cellular-enabled wearable devices will grow an impressive +30% in 2022.
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David Kerr
| Jan 06, 2022
Smartwatch sales continue to post strong growth and represent one of the hottest CE product categories of this decade so far.
Strategy Analytics latest...
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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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Jack Narcotta
| Nov 02, 2021
As one of the higher profile companies participating in Amazon’s Alexa Fund, smart thermostat company ecobee received tens of millions of dollars from Ama...
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