A report claims that Huawei had approached the vendor for Apple's heart sensors for a contract, but asked many, many detailed questons.
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A report claims that Huawei had approached the vendor for Apple's heart sensors for a contract, but asked many, many detailed questons.
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There's still no release timeline for a next-gen Apple Watch capable of detecting irregular heart rates without third-party accessories. But it's definitely in the works.
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Probably the most groundbreaking Apple Watch accessory yet comes from a little company called AliveCor, serving EKG readings in 30 seconds.
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28-year-old James Green is living well with his Apple Watch and an app that was able to detect an abnormal resting heart rate.
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If you're still holding onto the first-generation Apple Watch, packing a single-core S1 SoC, your watchOS 4 update will lack a few key features.
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The price? $69.99. Not bad at all for a fitness band with integrated GPS and swim-proof water resistance. But will it take hold in a struggling market?
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And hey, it's quite a looker of a fitness band for how affordable it is. But the Honor Band A2 is an overall whip-up from its first iteration.
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Priced at $140, the Garmin Vivosmart 3 wearable shows pretty complex wellness info and smartphone notifications on a hidden display.
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The "new" Fitbit Alta HR is billed by the global leader in wearable devices as its "slimmest" heart rate-tracking product yet, costing just $150 and up.
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Not quite ready to take GPS specialist Garmin very seriously as far as smartwatch manufacturing goes? It looks like hundreds of thousands of early wearable device adopters are doing just that every quarter nowadays, and the reason is simple.Unlike Samsung, Motorola or Huawei, which insist on addressing an excessively broad audience without providing compelling use cases for their fancy intelligent timepieces, this American multinational technology company perfectly caters to a niche that’s not too ...
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With plenty of fingers pointed at Fitbit’s “all over the place” heart rate technology inside fitness-focused wearables not long ago, you may have been wondering about the reliability of similar features built into the costlier Apple Watch.But as its key selling points include fancy Retina AMOLED displays with Force Touch, powerful processors, extravagant build materials like ceramics or ...
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Fitness company Polar recently introduced its first Android Wear health tracker. The M600‘s operating system and ecosystem seemed like a bonus to the company’s bread and butter — its optical heart rate monitor.Well, if you don’t want to pay extra for the privilege to have apps and be hip like the rest of those Android Wear wearers while still knowing, you now have an option with the M200.The two major tech pieces to the M200 are the optical heart rate sensor, backed by the company’s three ...
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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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It looks like activity tracker pioneer and wearable market leader Fitbit has much more important things to worry about than declining profits and prospectively stagnating sales, as a class action lawsuit filed a few months ago may end up greatly harming ...
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