Tag Heuer continues to slowly reveal more information about its upcoming smartwatch. In an interview with Wareable, Tag Heuer CEO Jean-Claude Biver revealed that the company’s first smartwatch will be known as the Tag Heuer Carrerra Wearable 01. Speaking about the differences between “Intel Inside” and “Swiss Made” labels, Biver said, “There is no other choice for Tag Heuer than to […]
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Xiaomi announces official June 1st Mi Store launch
After a short beta period, Xiaomi this week announced on Facebook that its online Mi Store will officially launch on June 1st in the U.S. on June 1st at 1900 PDT. It will then open its doors in France, Germany and the UK on June 2nd at 1300 CEST. Much like it did during the beta trial, the Xiaomi […]
Google I/O 2015: Upcoming features for Android Wear
Google kicked off its annual Google I/O developer conference with a keynote that gave us a look at what is coming next from the company, including Android M. One area that got less attention than we expected is Google’s Android Wear platform. The company chose to focus more on the recent Android Wear 5.1.1 release than on showing us what […]
Google I/O 2015: Google Android M coming later this year
As expected, Google kicked off Google I/O 2015 with the announcement that the next major version of Android is coming out later this year. Much as it did last year, it unveiled a developer preview version today. Known only as Android M for now, Google will announce the official version number and name later this year when it’s ready for […]
Pebble Time pre-orders to begin June 22nd
Pebble announced today that the first 10,000 Pebble Time smartwatches will begin to ship on schedule later this week. Shipments will continue through to mid-June by which time all Pebble Time backers can expect to have a shipment tracking number. Pebble’s Kickstarter campaign was the most successful one to date and raised over US$20 million. But for those who missed […]
Global smartphone growth to slow down in 2015
The latest International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report is out and it shows that global smartphone growth is expected to growth at a much slower rate in 2015 than last year. The overall market will still grow 11.3% this year but this is a marked drop from the 27.6% growth seen in 2014. 2015 will also be […]
Police Watches unveils Police Terminator Genisys watch
Companies partnering up with movie studios to promote a particular film is nothing new. We recently saw Bremont offer a Kingsman line of watches for the “Kingsman: The Secret Service” film. Police, an an Italian manufacturer of fashion accessories, this week announced a similar move. It revealed that a Police Terminator watch will launch along with the return to the big […]
Apple’s Jony Ive appointed Chief Design Officer
A bit of a shakeup is taking place on July 1st at Apple. Jony Ive, the company’s Senior Vice President of Design, will hand over his day-to-day managerial responsibilities for both the industrial and software design units to two new leaders. But Ive is not going anywhere. He has been named Chief Design Officer, a new role that will allow him to use his […]