The Verge reported over the weekend that Huawei's quirky Talkband B2 fitness tracker will be the first non-Jawbone device to enter the Jawbone software ecosystem, thereby throwing the troubled device maker a lifeline. The underlying fact may be correct, but the analysis is a little muddied. There is clearly a wearables ecosystem fight going on. Apple and Google are doing … [Read more...]
Chinese Tech Giant Huawei Opens “Aesthetics” Design Center in Paris
Huawei is an immense tech company that you may not have heard of if you're entirely US-centric. It focuses mostly on its domestic Chinese market, India, and emerging economies. You know: most of the world. It had a huge presence at Mobile World Congress. If there was any doubt, though, that its ambitions are large, word comes today that Huawei is opening a "Paris Aesthetics … [Read more...]
MWC Day 0: Huawei Joins the Smartwatch Hunt with Android Wear and Jawbone
Chinese tech giant Huawei announced a stainless steel smartwatch at Mobile World Congress that runs Android Wear and relies on Jawbone's UP software ecosystem. Huawei, the world's third largest cellphone maker, is very little known in the United States consumer market -- although it is no stranger to the enterprise world -- but has been working hard to raise its … [Read more...]