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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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Gina Luk
| May 11, 2021
The wireless communications services industry is highly competitive in the US. T-Mobile US is considered the third largest mobile operator in the U.S. for Busin...
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William Ablondi
| May 06, 2021
Recently Amazon announced that it is expanding its Key by Amazon delivery service to allow delivery people to enter customers’ garages to leave groce...
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David Kerr
| Apr 29, 2021
2020 was a hugely challenging year of shifting priorities, changing end user needs and increased complexity in supporting the needs of huge numbers of workers ...
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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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Gina Luk
| Apr 20, 2021
LPWA shows rapid growth, NB-IoT leads the pack
Many IoT applications do not require significant bandwidth or ultra-low latency to function effectively. As the w...
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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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Neil Mawston
| Mar 22, 2021
New research from SA shows more than a half-billion wearables were sold worldwide for the first time ever in 2020.
TWS Bluetooth earbuds an...
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Neil Mawston
| Mar 20, 2021
Wear OS by Google reclaimed second place in the global smartwatch market during Q4 2020.
Can Wear OS catch Apple watchOS in 2021?
Full reports here and h...
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Gina Luk
| Mar 05, 2021
COVID-19 has changed the velocity of digital transformation and this year's predictions from Mobile Workforce Strategies are shaped by the disruptive forces of ...
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Neil Mawston
| Feb 24, 2021
Mobile operator, 1&1, has partnered recently with TCL to launch a 4G kidswatch in Germany.
TCL's Movetime Family Watch MT40 comes with LTE videocalling, an...
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Neil Mawston
| Feb 15, 2021
New rumors this month suggest Facebook is developing a 4G or 5G smartwatch.
Why might it make a "Facewatch"?
What could it look like?
Do US consumers care?
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Neil Mawston
| Feb 04, 2021
Speculation continues to fly around the Internet this week that Apple's rumored VR headset could cost as much as US$3,000 retail if (or when) it is launche...
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