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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...]

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...]

Garmin Updates Vivofit and Vivoactive Fitness Trackers

February 29, 2016 By Pugi Kohl

Garmin Updates Vivofit and Vivoactive Fitness Trackers

Garmin is a major player in the fitness wearables marketplace, mostly at the higher end. Last week at Mobile World Congress, the company showed upgrades to Vivofit and Vivoactive, two of its less pricey smartwatch fitness products. The Vivoactive HR has all the features of the original Vivoactive, including tracking runs, steps, and sleep, and has sports apps. The new HR … [Read more...]

Survey Says Runners Want Great GPS and Heart Monitors

February 2, 2016 By Dan Rosenbaum

A survey of runners at the online community Athlete IQ found that peer and expert recommendations were the most important factors in deciding which wearable tech to get -- and that functionality far outtrumped price. The site asked 732 marathoners, triathletes, and steeplechasers about what tech they used and why. About 84 percent said functionality was the most important … [Read more...]

Garmin Goes Tactical With New Tactix Bravo: CES Day -1

January 5, 2016 By Dan Rosenbaum

Garmin Goes Tactical With New Tactix Bravo: CES Day -1

Garmin has done a great job segmenting the fitness band market from the most casual user to the most ambitious. At CES, it's debuting a device for the most hard-core audience  yet: the tactix Bravo, a rugged device with a scratch proof screen and a display optimized for night-vision goggles. The tactix Bravo comes with "specialized software optimized for both aerial and land … [Read more...]

Samsung Drops Out of Top Five Fitness Tracker List, says IDC

December 4, 2015 By Dan Rosenbaum

IDC's 3Q15 wearables figures are out, and Fitbit is the big winner while Samsung the big loser. The market research firm says Fitbit sold 4.7 million devices in the third quarter, twice as many as it sold in the same period last year. It accounts for 22.2 percent of the global market. Apple, IDC said, sold 3.9 million Apple Watches, for 18.6 percent of the market. It was … [Read more...]

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