The Galaxy Watch Active specs keep coming in different rumor and leak shapes, and they don't seem to agree on certain components.
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The Levi’s and Google smart jacket is coming this fall for $350
The Levi's and Google smart jacket made an appearance at SXSW, together with the availability and pricing information: this fall for $350.
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Huawei Fit Quick Look: Fitness meets elegance
If there’s one thing that Huawei proved last year is it could make a damn fine smartwatch, and this year, fitness takes the stage. You’ve heard me say it time and time over, Android Wear and fitness don’t really match, unless you talk about the Polar M600. We actually don’t blame Huawei for just skipping the drama of trying to figure that out, and are actually pleasantly surprised by the approach with the Huawei Fit.
We were recently invited to a private event in NYC to showcase the company’s Holiday gift offerings that include all of its latest and greatest products, which included some of our favorites like the Huawei Matebook and the Honor 8. It also served for us to learn about the new Huawei Fit, which blends the elegance of the Huawei Watch design on a sleeker chasis and a more efficient approach.
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Snapchat Spectacles, because we all loved Google Glass
Update: Spectacles.com is live and details some of the features of the product, including that Android phones will be connected via Wi-Fi while iPhones will be connected through Bluetooth. Clips as long as 30 seconds can be recorded.The Wall Street Journal combined a feature on Snapchat‘s sharp millennial CEO, Evan Spiegel, and the empire he has built with a new product peg. A hardware peg, to be precise.Despite what many consider
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Withings Steel HR Smartwatch First Look: Subtle and Stylish
Following the acquisition with Nokia, Withings has unveiled an ambitious update to its smartwatch offerings. The original Activité fitness tracker was praised for its simplicity and analog clock face delivery of work out goals. Adding heart rate monitoring though requires a more complete way to deliver information.The Withings Steel HR continues the fitness tracking of previous watches, while adding a heart rate monitor, and a better system for notifications. All in a gadget which will monitor your health stats for up to 25 days on a single replaceable watch battery. Here’s our ...
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Asus ZenWatch 3 First Look: Circular style with extra buttons
Asus delivers a substantial shift from previous ZenWatches. New for this year is a circular display, a casing made out of stainless steel, and a pair of new programmable shortcut buttons. It’s a clean look with a dramatic flare thanks to a little strip of rose gold.Asus is addressing battery life thanks to a new Qualcomm CPU, and a novel magnetic quick charge system. Included with the watch is an external battery which can top off the watch while still being worn.And while Android Wear remains fairly stock, Asus does have a collection of applets which might appeal to folks looking to ...
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Polar M600 is company’s first Android Wear fitness tracker
Update: Updated with specifications.One fitness company flying under the mobile circles’ radars is Polar. And there’s good reason: all the products it has been putting out compete more along the lines of Garmin and Fitbit. The big ace it has up its sleeve, though, ...
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Xiaomi Mi Band 2 delayed with mass-production issues to blame
Xiaomi’s second nifty and cheap fitness band will have to wait a bit longer before it gets officially released. That’s according to Huang Wang, CEO of Xiaomi-associated Huami.Responding to a netizen’s question on when and how the Mi Band 2 will be sold, Wang said that mass-production process has been pretty stressful and that there isn’t enough inventory to ...
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Patent and trademark pushes show off an eye-catching Samsung Gear Blink
First-person-view cameras, sometimes called “action cameras,” have been pretty popular in the marketplace. But while these cameras are fairly small, when attached to a human, they’re not exactly low-profile. Google Glass shrunk down the camera and put it in an infamous pair of glasses.But Samsung may be onto something with a camera in a contact lens.SamMobile is reporting that the ...
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Official new Apple Watch magnetic charging dock leaks
Pick up a new Apple Watch, and you’ll soon find yourself charging your wearable via the included magnetic charging cable. The little puck may not be much to look at, but it gets the job done, and it’s small enough to use anywhere. Some users crave something a little bit more elaborate from their charger, and for them there are plenty of third-party charging accessories, ready to augment that magnetic charger with a stand. Now it may finally be time for Apple itself to offer users an ...
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Misfit Shine 2 debuts as a fitness wearable meeting up with the internet of things
The wearable tech category has seen some intense stratification in its infancy. From Fitbits to Android Wear, the Runcible (when will that ever come?) to Neptune, we’ve seen plenty of cross-streaming between
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Ditto: a wearable unlike any you’ve seen before
I’ve worn a smartwatch ever since my LG G Watch arrived (which I’ve subsequently replaced with a 1st gen Moto 360). Both of these wearables, and wearables in general, have solved a challenging problem that I didn’t even know I had. My phone spends a lot of time on my desk, on my nightstand, or on the dash of my car. I don’t like to be “one of those guys” that has his notifications turned up so the whole office hears when you’ve got an email, need to head to a meeting, or are getting a call. Unless my phone is in my pocket, it’s unlikely that ...
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Can the Gear S2’s awesome hardware overcome its software shortcomings?
Samsung does some really cool things, especially when it comes to displays: curved edges, round screens, and even screens that wrap part way around your wrist! That last one was one of the things that attracted me to the Galaxy Gear S – the big, beautiful screen that wrapped around your arm. However, two aspects to the otherwise amazing wearable kept it off my wrist: it ran Tizen when Android Wear was just gaining in popularity and functionality, and you could only pair it to a Samsung phone or phablet.This ...
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The 4 worst arguments against the smartwatch
I remember the moment I realized smartwatches had a chance at being the next big thing in mobile. It was the spring of 2012, I’d just spent a week with the original Pebble, and I suddenly found myself unable to live without it. It was 1999 all over again: I was a wristwatch-wearing man, and leaving the house without it prompted angry expletives and a day full of accidental glances at an empty wrist.Three years later, smartwatches have made the jump to the mainstream consciousness. No longer ...
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Empty Nest: what I miss (and don’t) about the Apple Watch
I’ve learned that there are two things about being a mobile technology reviewer.The first thing: you get to handle awesome gadgetry days or weeks ahead of its official release date, and you’re not just allowed to use the heck out of it; you need to, in order to do your job. That’s the awesome thing.The other (less-awesome) thing: you eventually have to give it all back.Empty Nest is a recurring column discussing what I miss -and what I don’t- about the devices I’ve had to return.•I ...
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