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A Microsoft Smartwatch Is Coming
Microsoft is the latest technology giant preparing to jump into the wearables market, with plans to offer a sensor-rich smartwatch that measures heart rate and synchs with iPhones, Android phones and Windows Phones, Forbes has learned.
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Does Anyone Even Want a Smartwatch?
Does Anyone Outside Silicon Valley Even Want a Smartwatch?
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Four Decades Later, HP Gets Back Into Smartwatch Business
In 1977, the company introduced a pioneering, unsuccessful - and eventually legendary - high-tech timepiece.
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Apple will reveal its wrist gadget next month, says Apple watcher John Gruber
One of the biggest mysteries in tech is on the cusp of being solved. Apple's highly anticipated wearable device for the wrist will be shown off in September, according to the well sourced Apple observer John Gruber. Responding to a Verge story today on the Moto 360 charging dock, Gruber announced the gadget's unveiling with characteristic understatement.
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HP made a smartwatch in 1977, and you can buy a prototype for $14,500
Long before we were debating the merits of Android Wear and the rumored iWatch, companies were experimenting with quartz technology, LEDs, and miniaturized circuits to create the ancestors of the modern wearable. HP — which made some of the most important calculators back when calculators were a big deal — pitched in with the HP-01, a busy hunk of metal that took the crown as the world's first calculator watch.
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Kreyos smartwatch is just the latest crowdfunded, wearable horror story
Ever since Pebble struck it big on Kickstarter, there’s been no shortage of startups looking to cash in with their own smartwatches, fitness bands and gesture-control rings. But as backers of the Kreyos Meteor smartwatch have discovered, funding these projects on sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo is a risky proposition, and one that rarely goes as planned.
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Samsung’s 6th smartwatch has a 3G modem and a massive curved display
Making a good product is hard, and if you don't have a solid vision, there's nothing like iteration to help get you there. Samsung has taken this strategy to heart in the smartwatch category, where, in less than a year, it has released the Galaxy Gear, Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo, Gear Fit, and Gear Live. Late last night, the company took the wraps off of smartwatch #6: The Samsung Gear S.
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Apple's rivals hope its iWatch makes 'wearable' work
Know what a "Wearable" is? Most top tech executives would struggle to define it. Now they're hoping that Apple will do it for them. Next week, Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is expected to stride into the market for wearable accessories that link wirelessly up to phones and create a template for other firms that have struggled to create products consumers would want to be seen in.
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6 Reasons The Apple Watch Is A Rip Off
Ok we admit it, the Apple Watch is a good device. The issue we have with it however is its cost. At $350 it is the most expensive mass market smartwatch, and what you are paying for more than anything else is Apple’s brand name and marketing. Below you can read 6 reasons why we think the Apple Watch is indeed a rip-off
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Apple Watch: Much ado about nothing
I don't get it. Based on my demographic standing; by sheer dint of my position within the tech press; as someone who grew up with the first Macintosh in his house and a subscription to Macworld, I should be standing and applauding and ferociously tweeting my awe and amazement at the unveiling of Apple Watch. Yet, I am not. Apple did not save wearables, as many thought it would. Apple caved to the incredibly high bar of expectations set by the public.
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Here’s How Apple Will Convince You to Buy a Smartwatch
It will start with a friend. A friend who lives in San Francisco, maybe. Or who works as a venture capitalist. Or who recently had a birthday. This friend will be wearing an Apple Watch. And at first, you'll giggle. It's a wrist computer! It looks silly, like something out of Dick Tracy. You'll say something snide, like, "Get a lot of dates with that thing?" The friend will laugh good-naturedly.
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Microsoft Might Launch A Smartwatch In A Few Weeks
Microsoft plans to launch a smartwatch within a few weeks, Parmy Olson of Forbes reports. The watch will reportedly have fitness-tracking capabilities, including a heart rate monitor. It'll also work with other mobile platforms, not just Windows Phones, Olson reports.
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Microsoft enters smartwatch market with $200 Microsoft Band
The Microsoft Band smartwatch is designed both for life at and outside of work, with run tracking, sleep monitoring, plus a customized Intelligence Engine that can modify and suggest workouts -- as well as email, texts, and even Cortana.
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Microsoft Band: Tech critics say the cross-platform wearable seems like a winner
Microsoft has decided not to be a slacker when it comes to the newly blossoming wearable category and has churned out its new fitness-focussed smartwatch – Microsoft Band – without wasting much time.
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The Invisible Design Behind the Apple Watch's Many Faces
It’s a rare combination of financial security and artistic obsession that make Apple—and the Apple Watch—hard to beat.
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Apple Watch Pre-Orders Near 1 Million
Enthusiastic Apple fans were eager to place their order for Cupertino's new wearable on Friday. Some 957,000 people in the U.S. pre-ordered an Apple Watch on Friday, according to new data from digital commerce researcher Slice Intelligence. Apple has yet to release official sales data for the watch, but Slice Intelligence tapped its panel of more than 2 million online shoppers to size up demand for the wearable, finding that early Apple Watch buyers spent an average of $503.83 per watch.
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Apple Has Finally Approved Pebble’s Apps
Less than 48 hours after putting out a call to action to its supporters, Pebble has apparently convinced Apple to move its new smartwatch apps onto the App Store. The smartwatch maker posted an update on its Kickstarter page for the Pebble Time on Friday to share the good news—and to thank its supporters for letting Apple know that they’d sure like to have access to Pebble’s apps.
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Pebble Time vs. Apple Watch
With the retail version of Pebble Time launching, maybe you're torn between it and the Apple Watch? Let's compare the features and specs of the two smartwatches.
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Android Wear almost isn't worth it for small-wristed folk
Smartwatches are amazing and fantastic additions to staying connected to everything. Unless of course, you happen to be someone of the smaller boned variety.
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Android Wear reportedly getting watch-to-watch sharing features
Google is launching brand new watch-to-watch communication features for Android Wear that are not unlike those on Apple's Watch, according to Phandroid. Users w...
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