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Neil Mawston
| 9月 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
| 9月 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
| 9月 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
| 9月 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
| 8月 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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Neil Mawston
| 8月 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
| 8月 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
| 8月 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
| 8月 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
| 7月 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
| 7月 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
| 7月 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
| 7月 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
| 6月 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
| 6月 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
| 6月 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
| 5月 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
| 5月 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
| 5月 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
| 5月 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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