LG launched Urbane, all metal luxury Android Wear smartwatch last month. We came across the device at the ongoing MWC 2015 event so lets take a look at the specs and hardware of the smartwatch. Continue reading “LG Watch Urbane hands on”
Category: Smartwatches
Pebble Time Steel smartwatch and smartstraps introduced
Pebble has launched Pebble Time Steel, a premium version of Pebble Time on Kickstarter. This has the same design e-paper display and features, but it uses CNC-finished 316L stainless steel case and a larger battery that promises up to 10 days of battery life. Continue reading “Pebble Time Steel smartwatch and smartstraps introduced”
Huawei Watch IFA 2015 Hands On
Huawei took wraps of latest Android Wear smartwatch at its MWC 2015 press event in Barcelona. The wrist gear from Huawei is a direct competition to LG’s Urbane, but is more compact and has bigger, sharper screen. We had a chance to spend some time with the Huawei Watch and here’s our hands-on report.
Huawei is using cold-forged stainless steel to build its smartwatch. The device has a compact 42mm in diameter casing and is about 11.3mm thick. The wearable is quite light when compared to a regular watch. We are happy to report that there’s no gap between and wrist band and the body unlike the LG Watch Urbane. Huawei says that its watch can be worn on either hand. Continue reading “Huawei Watch IFA 2015 Hands On”
Huawei Watch powered by Android Wear, circular AMOLED display official
Huawei just announced Huawei Watch, the company’s first Android Wear smartwatch at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It has a 1.4-inch (400 x 400 pixels) circular AMOLED display with 10,000:1 high contrast ratio offering a fully circular 42mm diameter design, scratch-proof sapphire crystal lens and has cold-forged stainless steel frame. It has built-in heart rate monitor, 6-Axis motion sensors, heart rate monitor and has over 40 watch faces.
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Huawei’s Android Wear smartwatch surfaces ahead of MWC announcement
Huawei already confirmed that it will be introducing its first Android Wear smartwatch at the MWC this year. It has been teasing the smartwatch on its social channels, now the first images of the smartwatch have been spotted at the Barcelona Airport by TechHive and Android Central. It will be called Huawei Watch and looks exactly like an analog watch in its design.
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Apple Watch ‘Spring forward’ event set for March 9th, will be live streamed
Apple has started sending invites for its Spring forward event before the Apple Watch goes on sale in April. The event will take place at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. The Apple Watch was announced in September last year along with the new iPhones and will come in two different sizes, three different styles – the regular model, a Sport version aimed at active consumers, and an ultra-premium Apple Watch Edition which will be covered in 18-karat gold. Continue reading “Apple Watch ‘Spring forward’ event set for March 9th, will be live streamed”
LG Watch Urbane LTE with VoLTE calling and NFC payments announced
LG has announced LG Watch Urbane LTE, few days after it introduced its LG Watch Urbane Android Wear smartwatch with metal build. This has the same 1.3-inch (320 x 320 pixels) P-OLED Display and has metal build, but it runs on LG’s own wearable platform with new UX and not Android Wear. It comes with voLTE voice calling support since it has a speaker and a microphone and also comes with NFC support for easy payments. Continue reading “LG Watch Urbane LTE with VoLTE calling and NFC payments announced”
Pebble Time smartwatch with color e-ink display launched on Kickstarter for $159
After its successful Pebble smartwatch that was introduced back in 2012 that raised over $10 million Kickstarter, on Pebble has launched its Pebble Time smartwatch, again exclusively on Kickstarter. The new Pebble Smartwatch comes with a color e-ink display, a new slimmer design and a new software. It even has a microphone that lets you send voice replies for notification on Android apps including SMS, Hangouts, Gmail, Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp and hundreds more. For iOS users, voice replies currently work only for Gmail notifications, but it will be available for more apps in future. Continue reading “Pebble Time smartwatch with color e-ink display launched on Kickstarter for $159”
Pebble teases new thinner watch with color display
Following the report of launching new products and a software platform in 2015 earlier, Pebble is now teasing a new model for a smartwatch that will be announced next week on Tuesday as per a countdown on its official site.
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Android Wear 5.0.2 update starts rolling out
Google has started rolling out Android Wear 5.0.2 update for several smartwatches. The latest update is coming to Samsung Gear Live, LG G Watch, Moto 360 and the Sony Smartwatch 3.
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Pebble Smartwatch now officially supports Android Wear notifications
In December, Pebble for beta Android app version 2.3 added Android Wear notifications that lets users reply and act on notifications right from your watch. Today, Pebble app is officially shedding the beta tag.
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LG Watch Urbane all-metal luxury Android Wear smartwatch announced
LG has announced LG Watch Urbane, the company’s first luxury Android Wear smartwatch with metal build, ahead of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015. The LG Watch Urbane is more formal with a thinner profile and resembles a luxury timepiece, says LG. It has stainless steel body with stitched natural leather strap and the strap can be replaced with any 22mm wide band.
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Sony SmartWatch 3 stainless steel to go on sale this week
Sony has announced that SmartWatch 3 stainless steel will globally go on sale this week. The company had unveiled the stainless steel variant of the smartwatch last month.
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HTC smartwatch codenamed PETRA, to run on custom OS
HTC is touted to unveil a smartwatch at MWC next month along with the One M9. Now popular leakster Upleaks has revealed some specs about the HTC smartwatch.
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Pebble Smartwatch sales surpass 1 million mark
Pebble has sold more than 1 million smartwatches since its launch in 2013. The CEO of Pebble Eric Migicovsky announced in an interview with The Verge that the company has crossed the 1 million mark.
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