Is fitness the future of wearables?

Although the “wearables” category is somewhat new to Pocketnow, devices that are meant to be worn, rather than carried, have been around for quite some time. In the very early days they were called pocket watches. Eventually they evolved into timekeepers that we wore around our wrists. Original versions just kept track of time, but other features were added in: day of the week, day of the month, and even moon phases eventually came to wrist watches. Some got barometers, stopwatches, countdown times, calculators, even simple calendars. When Microsoft released its SPOT ...

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What I want from the Galaxy Gear 2

A watch that simply tells the time just doesn’t do much for me.  I’ve been using smart watches since the early Microsoft S.P.O.T. devices hit the market in 2004. If you include the Casio calculator watches from the 1980′s and 1990′s, my experience predates the time I’ve spent with smartphones and even PDAs. I tried a few of the Sony “smartwatch” offerings, but wasn’t too impressed. Then the Pebble came along and it’s adorned my wrist ever since. ...

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