Samsung today unveiled a new consumer version of its Gear VR headset during Facebook’s Oculus Connect 2 keynote. Unlike the Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition for Galaxy S6 which the company released earlier this year, this new version will be compatible with a greater range of devices, including the Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S6 edge+, S6 and S6 edge. Unfortunately, compatibility does not […]
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Vertu luxury smartphone brand considering luxury wearables
Vertu has been selling luxury smartphones since 2002, first as a Nokia brand and since 2012 as its own company. Vertu today unveiled its latest smartphone, the New Signature Touch (pictured below), which carries a selling price that starts at €8,400.00 (about US$9,400 or CA$12,500). In an interview that followed the unveiling, Vertu CEO Max Pogliani confirmed that the company is now […]
Pebble unveils round-faced Pebble Time Round
Pebble today became the latest smartwatch manufacturer to offer a round-faced smartwatch. Following the launch of the Pebble Time and Pebble Time Steel, the company today unveiled the Pebble Time Round. Pebble Time Round is faithful to timeless watch design while being a true Pebble at heart. The beautiful, always-on, e-paper display discreetly camouflages the smarts within. Summon timeline to keep tabs […]
Fitbit Surge firmware update offers new features and better battery life
The next firmware update for the Fitbit Surge will deliver both new features and significantly better battery life to the company’s “Fitness Super Watch.” Among these will be timer and stopwatch features but two other additions are likely to be more useful. The next update will add “Run Cues” which will offer automatic notifications for predetermined milestones such as time elapsed or distance […]
Nokia HERE for Gear app coming to Samsung Gear S2
Nokia HERE is already available for the Samsung Gear S smartwatch. It should come as no surprise then that Nokia today announced that it is coming to the new Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch.The preinstalled Samsung Maps app will integrate with HERE for Gear app when turn-by-turn navigation is required. HERE for Gear will work in companion mode. As soon as […]
watchOS 2.0 update now available for Apple Watch
Many Apple Watch owners were disappointed when Apple last week delayed the release of watchOS 2.0 due to the discovery of a critical bug at the last minute. There is good news today as the update is now available for download and it includes a fix for that nasty little delay. The highlight of the update is the new native […]
What is Pebble counting down to?
Pebble has just finished shipping all of its Pebble Time Steel smartwatches to Kickstarter backers. You’d think it would slow down for just a moment and catch its breath after closing out the most successful Kickstarter campaign over but, instead, it’s already teasing something new. A small countdown appeared at the top of its website last week. A quick bit […]
Concept Sunday: Vision Pro Watch 3 revealed
We did not have to wait very long for Hass.T to give us a better look at his Vision Pro Watch 3 luxury smartwatch after he teased us last month. It is billed as “my own answer to the Apple Watch, LG Watch Urbane, the Moto 360, in fact, all of the smart wearables you can buy.” The Vision Pro […]