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Samsung Partners with Designers for Gear S2 Bands
Samsung Partners with Designers for Gear S2 Bands Smartwatches aren’t just for geeks anymore and more fashionable buyers are going to be looking for ways to customize their devices. One of the easiest ways to match your watch to your outfit is by having a wardrobe of interchangeable bands. Samsung makes this easy to do with the new Gear S2 and Gear S2 Classic models so it’s only natura...
AT&T CEO Predicts Connected Smartwatches
AT&T CEO Predicts Connected Smartwatches The smartwatches currently on the market are capable of doing an amazing number of tasks but they can’t do any of them unless they’re connected to a compatible smartphone. According to the CEO of one wireless giant, that could be changing in the near future. Glenn Lurie, CEO of AT&T Mobility, spoke at the Code Mobile conference in Half M...
Best Buy Boutiques to Hit Macy’s for the Holidays
Best Buy Boutiques to Hit Macy’s for the Holidays rands like Gucci, Montblanc, TAG Heuer, Fendi and Tissot. If you’re planning to hit a Macy’s store to start your holiday shopping, you’ll notice something new to tempt your credit card this year. Macy’s will be teaming up with Best Buy to offer in-store electronics departments. The shops, which will start appearing in ...
Fitbit Exec Disses Smartwatches
Fitbit Exec Disses Smartwatches As the market is flooded with more smartwatches promising to do a myriad of tasks, is there still a place for the plain old fitness band? Woody Scal, Fitbit’s chief revenue officer, says definitely “yes.” In an interview with Bloomberg Business, Scal made a case for why the smartwatch won’t be making the fitness band obsolete anytime in the n...
$800 Huawei Gold Smartwatch Spotted on Amazon
$800 Huawei Gold Smartwatch Spotted on Amazon Are you craving a shiny gold smartwatch but don’t want to pay $10,000+ for the Apple Watch Edition or even $1,200 for the LG Watch Urbane Luxe? How about a gold-plated Android watch for under $800? Huawei has tried to keep the details of its new smartwatches under wraps until the release date but some of the items appeared for sale on Amazon a fe...
Report Claims Apple Ships 3.6M Smartwatches
Report Claims Apple Ships 3.6M Smartwatches Usually the first to toot its own horn, Apple has remained mum on exactly how many units of its smartwatch have been sold since the device went on sale earlier this year. Now a new report sheds some light on how well the Apple Watch has done in its first few months on the market. A new report from analysts at International Data Corp. claims that Apple sh...
More Android Wear Smartwatches On the Way
More Android Wear Smartwatches On the Way For most of 2015 the Apple Watch has held the spotlight but the lucrative holiday shopping season is coming and there are more wearables about to make their debuts. According to a report from CNET, four major names in tech will be introducing their latest smartwatches at next week’s IFA electronics trade show in Berlin. Asus, Huawei, LG and Motorola ...
Smart Watches Banned from Exam Rooms
Smart Watches Banned from Exam Rooms Remember the good old days when cheating on your exams required ingenuity? Part of the challenge was not getting caught and expelled from school. Kids today have more technology at their fingertips but some schools have caught on and are way ahead of them. Smart watches have been banned from Australia’s VCE exams to keep students from using them to cheat....
Holidays Should Be Hot for Smartwatches
Holidays Should Be Hot for Smartwatches Sales of smartwatches are currently in a slump with orders for the Apple Watch dropping an estimated 90% since the hoopla of its launch earlier this year. Even so, the makers of wearable devices shouldn’t panic yet because a new report claims that smartwatches are becoming more popular and sales will boom over the 2015 holiday season. According to a re...
Growth Predicted for Smartwatches
Growth Predicted for Smartwatches Maybe the Apple Watch hasn’t caught on as it was expected to but that doesn’t mean that smartwatches don’t have a niche. A consumer survey by Business Insider Intelligence revealed some very interesting points about the future of wearable devices. First, the market for wearable devices is expected to experience major growth over the next few year...
Cartier Chief Disses Smartwatches
Cartier Chief Disses Smartwatches As other high-end watchmakers like TAG Heuer announce plans to launch luxury smartwatches to compete with the Apple Watch, Cartier intends to stick to the classics. Of course with a legendary name like Cartier, you don’t need to follow fads. Speaking at the reopening of the posh Cartier Champs Elysees boutique, brand chief Stanislas de Quercize was blunt abo...
Universities Ban All Watches in Exam Halls
Some of us may have been guilty of hiding crib notes in our pockets or writing exam answers on our sleeves, but today’s students have much more sophisticated ways of cheating. That’s why some colleges and universities are banning all watches in exam halls—rather than examine the wrists of all students to see if they are wearing devices that would allow them to sneak a peek...
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