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Casio Adds Solar-Powered Pro Tek Activity Watch
Messe Basel, Switzerland — Casio America added to its Pro Tek line of activity watches with the debut of the PRW-3500. This is the...
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Apple Sets Watch Prices, Ship Dates
San Francisco – Apple’s first smart watch will be available April 24 in the U.S. at prices ranging from $349 to more than $10,000...
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Some Recent Smart Watches That Will Take On The Apple Watch
Barcelona — The smart watch market grew more crowded at the recent Mobile World Congress, where many of the new wearables were launched by...
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What Would Steve Jobs Think Of The Apple Watch?
New York — Apple began its work on the Apple Watch after founder/CEO Steve Jobs died, but over the past year several current and...
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History Of The Smart Watch
The smart watch is a concept that harkens back to the era when pagers were a top-selling mass-market consumer electronics product. Here’s a look...
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Analysts See Apple Watch Gaining Top Share Despite Premium Price
New York — Analysts are already saying the Apple Watch will top the market-share charts in 2015 despite less-than-a-day battery life and premium pricing....
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Apple Watch: 15 Things We Knew In Advance
Functionality: Apple Watch connects via Bluetooth 4.0 to iPhones running iOS 8, starting with the iPhone 5, to send and receive messages; answer calls...
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Burg’s Cellphone Watch Targeted To Kids, Seniors
Nyack, N.Y. – Burg, the maker of cellphone-equipped smart watches, is targeting its latest wearable to kids and seniors. The $129 Burg 31, which...
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Vector Readies 30-Day Smart Watch
London – Start-up Vector Watch, founded last year by former Timex Group president Joe Santana, plans to launch a smart watch that delivers 30-day...
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LG Readies LTE-Equipped Smart Watch
Seoul, South Korea — LG will go to next week’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) with what it said will be the industry’s first LTE-equipped...
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Broadcom Wants To Bolster Android Wear Watches
Irvine, Calif. – Semiconductor supplier Broadcom wants to bring longer battery life, built-in GPS, and other features to Android Wear smart watches. During the...
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Timex Cellular-Equipped Smart Watch Debuts
Middlebury, Conn. – Timex launched its first cellular-equipped smart watch, which is available through AT&T stores and AT&T’s website. The touchscreen-equipped Timex Iron Man...
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LG Readies Fashion-Oriented Smart Watch
Seoul – LG is expanding its selection of Android Wear-based smart watches with its first all-metal model, which resembles a luxury watch. The LG...
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Canalys: Battery Life Hampers Android Wear Sales
PALO ALTO – Android Wear smart watches accounted for only 720,000 of only 4.6 million smart wearable bands shipped globally in 2014, and it...
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Global Smart Watch Market To Grow 13-Fold In 5 Years
Dallas – The global smart-watch market will grow at a CAGR of 96.8 percent from 2014 through 2019 for a 13-fold gain from 2014...
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Alcatel OneTouch to Add Phones, First Smart Watches
Irvine, Calif. –Alcatel OneTouch, the TCL Communications brand, will go to International CES with its first smart watch selection, an expanded selection of LTE...
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LG Adds Kid-Tracking Wearable
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. – LG expanded its wearables selection with the GizmoPal, a GPS-tracking watch phone for pre- to middle-school kids. The device became...
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Asus Launches Zen Smart Watch
Fremont, Calif. — Asus rolled out its first smart watch for the U.S. market through the Google Play store and Best Buy.com, but the...
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Carriers Price Samsung Gear S Watch, Service Plans
New York – Carriers and retailers next week will roll out Samsung’s Gear S smart watch, which will be sold with wireless service plans...
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Microsoft Enters Wearables Market
Redmond, Wash. — Microsoft began offering its first smart band through its stores and website at $199, beating Apple to the market and further...
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Casio G-Shock Watch Gets Smarts
Dover, N.J. – Casio America is adding Bluetooth Smart to a G-Shock watch to control a smartphone’s song selection and volume, adjust music equalization,...
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Samsung Adds 2G/3G Smart Watch
Seoul − A new smart watch unveiled by Samsung incorporates 2G/3G cellular and Wi-Fi so users can get social-network updates and send and receive...
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LG To Expand Smart Watch Line
Seoul – LG will go to the Sept. 5-10 IFA show in Berlin with its second Android Wear smartwatch, this one promoted as the...
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New Age Bringing Meta Watch Smart Watches To Retail
Carson, Calif. — New Age Electronics has signed on to be the exclusive distributor of Meta Watch’s line of premium smart watches. Meta Watch’s...
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New Smart Watches Go In Different Directions
New York – New smart watches are emerging as either extensions of a smartphone or a replacement. Hong Kong-based Connected Devices see its latest...
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Timex Readies Cellular-Equipped Smart Watch
Middlebury, Conn. — Timex, which has diversified from watches into fitness watches and bands, is further expanding its lineup with the industry’s first cellular-equipped...
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Fashion Designer Takes On HP Smart Watch
Palo Alto, Calif. — HP may be looking to add a higher sense of fashion to its wearables product portfolio after teaming up with...
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Withings Debuts Swiss-Made Watch, Activity Tracker
New York — Connected health device supplier Withings today unveiled a new wrist-worn device, the Activité, a Swiss-made fashion-oriented timepiece that doubles as an...
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Qualcomm Adds Speech-To-Text To Smart Watch
San Diego – Qualcomm has added speech-to-text conversion to its Toq (pronounced “talk”) smart watch, enabling users to create or respond to text messages...
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