Fitbit kicked off 2016 much as it finished 2015: At the top of the wearables market. It remained the top manufacturer in the wearables market in Q1 2016 as overall shipment volumes reached 19.7 million units, a 67.2% jumped from the 11.8 million units shipped in same quarter a year ago. While volumes grew as expected, the top five manufacturers list […]
Smartwatches
HTC smartwatch coming “week of June 6th?”
The last we heard about the HTC smartwatch, it was to have been released “before the end of April.” Now a couple of days into May, there is still no sign of it. Evan Blass, formerly known as famed leaker @evleaks, today took to Twitter to indicate that the launch had been pushed back to the week of June 6th. […]
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 […]
HTC smartwatch to “turn the industry on its head,” says CEO
It was a rather quiet Mobile World Congress for HTC this year as there were no new product announcements. The final consumer version of its HTC Vive headset (for which pre-orders begin on February 29th) was the star attraction. Instead of competing against LG, Samsung and others at MWC 2016, HTC will instead introduce its next flagship smartphone “very soon,” according […]
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 […]
HTC smartwatch set to launch in April?
Famed leaker Evan Blass, also known as @evleaks, last month suggested that HTC would finally launch its first smartwatch in mid-April. He reaffirmed today via Twitter that HTC is still on track to have its smartwatch out “before the end of April.” Small consolation, HTC fans: you'll be able to pick up the watch before the end of April. — Evan Blass (@evleaks) […]
Worldwide wearable sales to grow 18.4 percent in 2016
If Gartner’s latest worldwide wearable sales numbers are to be believed, 2015 may have been a bigger year for smartwatches than initially believed. Juniper Research pegged 2015 smartwatch sales at 17.1 million units. Gartner estimates that 274.6 million wearable electronic devices were sold in 2015 with 30.32 million of those being smartwatches. It also expects that smartwatch sales alone will hit […]
Spending on activity trackers doubled in 2015
Consumer spent more than twice buying up new connected activity trackers in 2015 than they did the previous year. A new report by The NPD Group found that sales grew 110 percent, jumping from US$692 million in 2014 to US$1.46 billion in 2015. Unit sales jumped 85% from from 7.2 million to 13.4 million with the average selling price (ASP) increasing from $US96 to […]