If you pair your Vector Watch to a Windows Mobile device, you’ll want to make sure that your smartphone runs Windows 10 Mobile. While the current version of the Vector Watch app supports both Windows 10 and the older Windows Phone 8.1, the next version will drop support for the older operating system to focus solely on Microsoft’s latest one. The Vector team […]
Wearables
Concept Sunday: Rolex Cosmopolitan Smartwatch
Rolex is certainly one of the best known luxury brands when it comes to watches. And while it has yet to launch a smartwatch, concept wearables built around its brand are not uncommon. We featured the Rolex Navigator smartwatch on Concept Sunday about a year ago while an earlier one envisioned Rolex collaborating with Apple to come up with the iWatch by Rolex. […]
Microsoft Outlook lands on Android Wear smartwatches
The latest version of the Android version of Microsoft Outlook comes with a new feature that smartwatch users may appreciate. The email app has been updated to include a dedicated Android Wear client. The update, which bumps the version number to 2.1.0, will deliver Outlook notifications right to your wrist. It will also allow you to read your emails and reply to them either with a pre-set message […]
Samsung Gear S2 classic in Rose Gold and Platinum now available in Canada
Samsung Canada promised back in February that the Samsung Gear S2 classic in Rose Gold and Platinum would come to Canada in the Spring. With temperatures finally warming up, both smartwatches are now available in Canada. Samsung Gear S2 classic specifications: Processor: 1.0GHz dual-core Operating system: Samsung Tizen Cellular connectivity: None Other connectivity: 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1, NFC Display: 1.2-inch Super […]
Mobile and wearable payments to reach $95 billion annually by 2018
Mobile and wearable payment adoption is expected to skyrocket over the next few years. A new study by Juniper Research predicts that mobile and wearable contactless payments could hit US$95 billion (about CA$122 billion) annually by 2018. In comparison, mobile payments hit US$35 billion last year. Sales of smartphones and other mobile devices have dwarfed those of wearables to date and […]
ustwo launches Face Maker for Android Wear
ustwo, the company better known for the popular game Monument Valley, has dabbled in building Android Wear watch faces for some time now. It was among the first to offer an interactive watch face when Google unveiled the feature last year. With their newest watch faces, they decided to take a somewhat different approach. This time, rather than focusing on customizing the information you […]
Fluent: 53% believe that Apple Watch is not a successful product
The Apple Watch, much like other wearables, continues to divide consumers. A recent survey by Fluent found that less than half of the 2,578 American adults polled agreed that “the Apple Watch is a successful product.” But when the advertising technology company narrowed its focus down to regular Apple product users, that number jumped to 62%. It jumped even higher to 77% when the question was […]
KGI Securities: No major design changes for Apple Watch until 2017
Following Drexel Hamilton analyst Brian White’s prediction that Apple would unveil a thinner Apple Watch as early as WWDC 2016, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has weighed in with his own predictions. In his latest note, Kuo predicts that physical changes will be slight with the focus instead being on upgraded internal components. Kuo’s prediction of “spec improvements with limited changes to form factor design” suggests […]