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LG’s New Android Wear 2.0 Watches Are Rumored

February 2, 2017 By Dan Rosenbaum

We're starting to see detailed reports about the imminence of the next generation of Android Wear watches. Android Police and TechnoBuffalo are running sneak photos of two versions of the LG Watch Style. (Seriously, can some smart branding person please whack LG upside the head?) There are two versions being tipped: a standard Android Wear 2.0 watch at $249, and an LTE … [Read more...]

How Accurate Are Walking Trackers? A Report from CES 2017

January 9, 2017 By Dan Rosenbaum

How Accurate Are Walking Trackers? A Report from CES 2017

For the last few CES shows, we've been strapping on as many fitness trackers as would fit on our wrists, hitting the floors and conference rooms, and comparing results. We don't expect accuracy -- we don't do a manual count of steps -- but we hope for a degree of consistency. When we first did this three years ago, trackers showed error of more than 35 percent, which meant the … [Read more...]

Apple Leads a Flat Smartwatch Business, Says IDC, With Garmin Strong

October 24, 2016 By Dan Rosenbaum

The authoritative market research company IDC says smartwatch sales dropped 51.6 percent last quarter from the year previous, although it suggests that the results are distorted by Apple's vast success last year. In 3Q15, when the Apple Watch was generally available for the first time, Apple sold 3.9 million units, IDC said, accounting for 70.2 percent of the market. This … [Read more...]

IDC Says Basic Wearables Growing Fast; Fitbit, Xiaomi, Apple, Garmin Top Vendors

September 7, 2016 By Dan Rosenbaum

IDC is out with its quarterly count of the fitness tracker market, and it's finding that basic models are growing fast, while more advanced gadgets aren't. The market researcher breaks the world down into "basic" and "smart" wearables; the latter supports third-party apps, the former doesn't. If you accept those definitions, and we think it's a little simplistic, IDC's count … [Read more...]

Smartwatch Sales Plunge, says IDC, and It’s All Apple’s Fault

July 21, 2016 By Dan Rosenbaum

IDC is out with its latest quarterly numbers for the smartwatch industry, and it shows a whiplash kind of decline. Overall, shipments fell 32 percent in the second quarter of 2016 compared to a year previous, with Apple's sales dropping by 55 percent. Even at "only" 1.6 million watches shipped, Apple remains far and away the market leader, with 47 percent of the market. … [Read more...]

Fitbit’s Road to Success Narrows

May 5, 2016 By Dan Rosenbaum

Wearable Tech Insider does not do stock or financial analysis, but Fitbit's 1Q results, released yesterday, said interesting things about the state of the company. Sales and earnings in the quarter beat analysts expectations, but the company's profit outlook for 2Q were a third to a half of what was expected. (Sales, however, were projected to be strong.) As a result, the … [Read more...]

Faster Next Gen Apple Watch to Have Cellular SIM, Says WSJ

April 25, 2016 By Dan Rosenbaum

We're coming up on the first anniversary of the Apple Watch's announcement -- as opposed to its shipment -- so expect a lot of stories about its shortcomings, benefits, and future. The Wall Street Journal has one such, which cites "sources" as saying the next version of the watch will have a faster processor and be able to connect directly to cellular networks. Both guesses … [Read more...]

IDC Says Apple Shipped 11.6M Watches Last Year, About Half of Analysts’ Guesses

February 29, 2016 By Dan Rosenbaum

iCharts Research firm IDC reported last week that Apple sold about 11.6 million watches in 2015, a figure that's about half of what stock analysts had been expecting. For the full year, the company was in third place in the consumer wearables market, following Fitbit and Xiaomi. As a whole, IDC said, the wearables market jumped 127 percent in the 4Q15, and 172 percent … [Read more...]

NPD Says Fitbit Dominates the Fitness Tracker Market

February 2, 2016 By Dan Rosenbaum

Fitbit sells 8 out of every 10 fitness trackers, the market research company NPD says. By the end of 2015, nearly 33 million trackers had been sold in the United States, compared to 13 million smartwatches -- a figure that might come as a disappointment to the industry analysts who had been predicting global Apple Watch sales of 21 million last year. However, consumers … [Read more...]

What’s Apple Doing With Healthcare, Anyway?

January 13, 2016 By Dan Rosenbaum

Buzzfeed has noticed that Apple's put out some job postings for people who know about biosensors and non-invasive measurements. Does that mean Apple is planning new products in the healthcare market? Yes. No. Maybe. (Pick one.) CEO Tim Cook told the Telegraph late last year that he doesn't want the Apple Watch to get so sophisticated that it draws the attention of the FDA … [Read more...]

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