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Withings Activité Pop coming soon in pink

Withings Activité Pop

Withings released the Activité Pop back at CES 2015. The cheaper alternative to the original Activité so far comes in three colours: Azure, Shark Gray, and Sand. The company promised additional colours and a couple of tweets (so far) today suggests the company is about to make good on its promise. pic.twitter.com/e3GodWDQrQ — Withings (@Withings) September 8, 2015 The tweet shows the […]

Tizen Developer Conference 2015 set for September 17-18 in Shenzhen, China

Tizen Developer Conference 2015

The latest Samsung smartwatch, the new Samsung Gear S2, is the latest to be powered by Samsung’s own Tizen operating system. With enhancements such as the new Rotary UX and SDK that uses the new smartwatch’s rotating bezel, Tizen is establishing itself as a worthy adversary for Google’s Android Wear and Apple’s WatchOS. Fresh off its Tizen Developer Summit in India in […]

Fossil smartwatch to launch as Fossil Q?

Fossil smartwatch at IDF 2015

Fossil gave us a short glimpse at its first smartwatch at this year’s Intel Developer Forum (IDF), one of three wearables it plans on launching later this year. Aside from confirming that it will be powered by a mobile Intel processor and Android Wear, the company revealed little else, not even its name. A USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) trademark filing […]

Concept Sunday: Cancelled “value-tier” Moto 360 concept

"Value tier" Moto 360 concept

Motorola this week unveiled its new Moto 360 Collection. Last year’s smartwatch has grown into a line consisting of three different models. Along with a new 46mm model, there is now a smaller 42mm model and a more rugged model, the Moto 360 Sport, geared at more active users. Under different circumstances, there might also have been a cheaper model geared […]

Samsung Gear S2 pricing revealed?

Samsung Gear S2 and S2 Classic

Samsung revealed its next smartwatch earlier this week. The round Samsung Gear S2 and Gear S2 classic look like they could be winners for Samsung, especially now that it has opened up compatibility to a wider range of Android smartphones. Missing from this week’s announcement was pricing but those are now starting to trickle out. A report by SammyHub indicates that Samsung […]

Runtastic Moment blends analogue watch and fitness tracker

Runtastic Moment smartwatches

Runtastic, which was recently acquired by Adidas, today unveiled the Runtastic Moment, a new fitness tracker that sports the looks of an analogue watch. The “smarter watch” works with a range of activities including “swimming, diving or even showering.” Steps taken, distance traveled, calories burned, active minutes and sleep cycles are all measured by the device with progress displayed on the […]

IFA 2015: Alcatel GO WATCH smartwatch unveiled as GO PLAY smartphone companion

Alcatel GO Watch

Alcatel OneTouch jumped into wearables earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show with the Alcatel OneTouch Watch. The company this week unveiled a second smartwatch at IFA 2015. Part of a new brand new GO family of devices, the GO WATCH is designed for “active users and always ready for action.” It is also designed as a companion device to […]

Samsung Gear S2 compatible with Android 4.4+ smartphones

Samsung Gear S2 classic

Samsung’s line of Gear smartwatches have to date been only compatible with Samsung products. That is changing with the new Samsung Gear S2 that was formally introduced just ahead of IFA 2015. The new information surfaced today as part of the release of new developer tools including the Samsung Gear SDK as well as development guidelines and assets for the new Rotary […]