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Steven Waltzer
| Sep 19, 2018
According to Strategy Analytics Wearables (WDE) service, global core wearable (fitness band + smartwatch) revenues grew a healthy 29% YoY in Q2 2018 due largely...
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Neil Mawston
| Sep 13, 2018
The new Apple Watch Series 4 will launch commercially worldwide from September 21st, 2018.
Apple’s latest smartwatch goes beyond a fitness tracker a...
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Jack Narcotta
| Sep 13, 2018
Hampton’s ARRAY Wi-Fi smart lock is a hub-free smart home device, marking another entry in a small, but growing, segment of the smart home device market. ...
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Neil Mawston
| Aug 30, 2018
It is being widely reported this week that Apple has recently purchased Akonia Holographics, a US startup that creates color displays (lenses) for augmente...
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Neil Mawston
| Aug 02, 2018
Global smartwatch shipments soared +56% YoY in Q2 2018.
Smartwatches are now among the world's fastest-growing electronic gadgets.
Apple Watch lost ground to ...
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Neil Mawston
| Aug 02, 2018
Global fitnessband shipments dipped -19% YoY in Q2 2018. Fitnessbands are losing ground to smartwatches. In what's left of the fitnessband market, Xiaomi i...
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Neil Mawston
| Jul 24, 2018
Corning of the US has recently introduced Gorilla Glass DX and DX+ optimized for wearables. The protective coating is antireflective (for better reading) a...
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Neil Mawston
| Jul 24, 2018
Insomnia and lack of sleep are common problems in modern society. How can wearables, such as Apple Watch, help you sleep better? Can wearable vendors differenti...
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Jack Narcotta
| Jul 18, 2018
The next stage in the evolution of the smart home, it would appear, won’t be about placing more Echo Dots (or Google Home Minis, for that matter) around a...
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Neil Mawston
| Jul 12, 2018
We forecast global smartwatch revenues will rise by an impressive +33% in 2018. Apple Watch, Garmin and others are benefiting from consumers' buoyant deman...
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Neil Mawston
| Jul 12, 2018
Hearables -- or smart headphones -- are deep-in-ear wireless devices optimized for voice comms, medical monitoring, fitness tracking, and other featur...
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Neil Mawston
| Jul 05, 2018
Wearable device makers, such as Huawei, Qualcomm and LG, will target children under the age of 13 for fresh growth next year. Which brands, products and regions...
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Neil Mawston
| Jul 05, 2018
Rumors abound that Google will launch a Pixel smartwatch in the United States and worldwide during the fourth quarter of 2018. What is the likely strategy?...
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Neil Mawston
| Jul 05, 2018
Apple Watch is dominating the China smartwatch market today. This wildly popular model is crushing competition from Huawei, Samsung and others, a...
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Neil Mawston
| Jul 05, 2018
Garmin’s global fitnessband revenue share has doubled in the past year. It is the world’s fastest-growing major vendor. A strong blend of attra...
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Neil Mawston
| Jul 04, 2018
Qualcomm recently introduced its Snapdragon Wear 2500 chipset, which is optimized for the (quietly) growing category of child-focused and parent-focused smartwa...
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Neil Mawston
| Jul 04, 2018
It is being reported by Russian media that some Russian army troops will be using military-grade, ruggedized smartwatches from 2018 / 2019 onwards.
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Neil Mawston
| Jul 04, 2018
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) last month granted Huawei a patent for a smartwatch that can store a pair of Bluetooth earbuds ins...
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Jack Narcotta
| Jun 18, 2018
“Power to the people” as the saying goes, and that message is coming through loud and clear in the smart home security market. Do-it-yourself smart ...
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Jack Narcotta
| Apr 30, 2018
Security service provider incumbents beware: the Amazon juggernaut has set its gaze on the smart home market, and security is front-and-center. A quiet launch i...
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