Samsung Pay launched last year in South Korea and the U.S. In the six months that it has been available, some five million registered users have processed over 500 million dollars in transactions. The company is now getting ready to bring its mobile payment platform to at least seven more countries this year. Samsung first announced the expansion on Friday and mentioned […]
Concept Sunday: Utopian Smartwatch
Wearables manufacturers are catching on that they will need to do more than simply shrink and change the colour of devices to attract a wider female audience. Meanwhile, industrial designer Imaan Naeem (who works for Motorola Mobility) has come up with her own concept for what she bills as the “ideal smartwatch for women such as myself.” The Utopian smartwatch is […]
MWC 2016: LG 360 VR headset for LG G5
As expected, LG today unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, the LG G5, at Mobile World Congress. Along with it, LG unveiled a line of accessories, including some that will take advantage of the smartphone’s modular design. Among these is the LG 360 VR headset. Unlike other VR headsets such as the Google Cardboard or Samsung Gear VR, the LG 360 […]
MWC 2016: ALCATEL ONETOUCH becomes alcatel
ALCATEL ONETOUCH, the TCL-owned company behind the ALCATEL ONETOUCH Watch and Alcatel GO WATCH as well as a number of smartphones and tablets, today announced that it is changing its name. Explaining that it was “right time to launch the new branding,” the company will now operate under the much simpler name alcatel. With the new branding also comes an increased focus on millennials, “who […]
Will.i.am Dial smartwatch
The Black Eyed Peas’ Will.i.am first jumped from music into the world of wearables in 2014 with the introduction of the i.am+ Puls. He followed that up with a Gucci partnership announced at Baselworld 2015. Reviews for the Puls (now described by its own creator as a “beta gadget”) were overwhelmingly negative but that has not deterred him from coming up with […]
Smartwatch shipments beat Swiss watch shipments in Q4 2015
The Swiss watch industry may not have entered another ice age just yet but it appears that winter has arrived. The latest report from Strategy Analytics has found that smartwatch shipments topped those of traditional Swiss watches for the first time in Q4 2015. It estimates that 8.1 million smartwatches shipped while Swiss watch shipments hit 7.9 million units. While the former […]
Motorola unveils new VerveLife line of wearable accessories
Motorola, now owned by Lenovo, is launching a new line of wearable accessories under the VerveLife brand. In all, five new accessories will be offered initially. They include a wearable camera, three sets of headphones and a GPS pet tracker. The VerveCam is billed as an “ultra portable lifestyle video camera.” It will offer motion video with 2.5K resolution at 30 fps and a […]
Acer and Victorinox announce smart wearable accessories partnership
Victorinox, the company behind the famed Swiss army knife, and Acer today announced a new partnership that will see them incorporate wearable technology into the Swiss company’s product portfolio. The objective of the partnership is to develop accessories that will give lifestyle products such as a Swiss-made watch the functionality offered by wearable technology. The first product to emerge from this new partnership will be […]