Vitae London is a UK-based watch company with a somewhat different proposition. Each watch they sell provides a South African child with the school uniforms, bag and footwear required to attend school for a year. This week, it unveiled a new collection of watches that will be offered alongside its original Classic watch line. The Vitae London Walmer collection aims for a more contemporary look, […]
Apple Watch 2 to come with built-in cellular connectivity?
The Apple Watch is now a year old and Apple has yet to reveal exactly how many it has sold. In an article published a week ago, The Wall Street Journal pegs sales at 12 million in that first year alone. At an estimated average price of US$500, that would have been worth about US$6 billion in revenues to the […]
Xiaomi Mi Bunny MITU Children Smart GPS Watch unveiled
Adults may have to wait until the second half of the year to strap a Xiaomi Mi smartwatch to their wrist but children won’t have to wait so long. The Chinese company has unveiled the Xiaomi Mi Bunny MITU Children Smart GPS Watch. Much as we have seen with other smartwatches aimed at children, the primary aim of this wearable is […]
Xiaomi Mi Smartwatch to launch in second half of 2016
Rumours that Xiaomi was working on a smartwatch have been around for more than a year now. They resurface regularly with the latest ones suggesting that it would launch in the next couple of months. A new report now reveals that none other than company co-founder and vice president Liu De has now confirmed that the Xiaomi Mi smartwatch is […]
Rick Osterloh returns to Google to lead new hardware division
Former Motorola Mobility President and COO Rick Osterloh is headed back to Google reports Re/code today. The move comes just over a month after we learned that Osterloh was leaving Motorola in a sweeping organizational and leadership restructuring effort. Reporting to CEO Sundar Pichai, he will head up a new hardware division that will move all of Google’s hardware projects under one business unit. The new […]
Fitbit Charge 2 and Fitbit Flex 2 coming soon?
Newly discovered trademark filings may have revealed what Fitbit has in store for us for the coming months. The company kicked off 2016 with the introduction of the Fitbit Blaze smart fitness watch and the Fitbit Alta fitness band. At least two more devices could be on their way later this year. Fitbit has filed trademark applications for the Fitbit Charge […]
Apple Watch loses market share as smartwatch shipments soar in Q1 2016
While numbers are still relatively small, smartwatch shipments continue to pick up steam. Research firm Strategy Analytics today reported that global smartwatch shipments reached 4.2 million units in the first quarter of 2016. This is a sharp 223% increase from the from 1.3 million units shipped the same quarter a year ago but down sequentially (unsurprisingly) from the 8.1 million shipments in […]
Upcoming Samsung Gear Fit 2 and Gear IconX earbuds revealed?
Samsung launched the Gear Fit, a fitness-focused wearable, back at MWC 2014. It featured a 1.84-inch Curved Super AMOLED display and not only tracked health and fitness data but could also display a range of notifications when paired with a Samsung smartphone. Newly leaked images obtained by Evan Blass (none other than famed @evleaks) have revealed what appears to be the successor […]