Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100 announced, with advanced battery savings for new smartwatches
Overnight Qualcomm has announced the next generation of its wearable technology platform, Snapdragon Wear 3100. At its heart, the system is built on an advanced power-saving core, designed to deliver in three main areas: rich interactivity, personalised experiences, and...
Qualcomm says new watches with its new SoC expected by the end of the...
There's movement in wearables today, with Qualcomm expected to announce a new Snapdragon Wear platform today. That release has been long awaited by many, with new power saving features expected - but the big question is when can we...
Fossil Q Explorist HR (4th Generation) – Brief Review
For years in smart wearables we've worn devices created by technology companies first, and the somewhat wonky design was something we just had to accept. Then smartwatch makers got smart, and started coming out with some great designs …...
Huawei still interested in making smartwatches – looking for better battery life before continuing
Despite being around for a number of years, smartwatches are still a relatively new and developing product. A stale System-on-Chip (SoC) eco-system has led to stagnation in areas like battery life, and it's this that's keeping Huawei from developing...
Diesel update their smartwatch announcing the Full Guard 2.5 at IFA 2018
When Google first introduced Android Wear as it was then known, to the world they were keen to get the traditional watchmakers of the world onboard, rather than just tech companies. Diesel is one company that has taken on...
Mobvoi Ticwatch Pro — Australian Review
After messing around at the lower end of the wearables market, Mobvoi has seemingly come out of nowhere in the last 12 months to deliver a raft of exciting, and sought after devices including the Google Assistant powered TicHome...
Google outs its own ‘Pixel Stand’ – wireless charging dock for Pixel 3, with...
It seems there's little left to reveal with Google's upcoming Pixel 3 come October, with the design fairly comprehensively gone over some months ago. However, there were rumours of wireless charging, and it now seems that Google itself has...
Dual wireless charger to charge Samsung Galaxy Note 9 and Samsung Galaxy Watch
The other piece of news overnight indirectly gives us a bit of information about makes the launch of the Galaxy Watch. If this leaked box image is to be believed, the Samsung fast wireless charger we saw through the...
Armani announces new Wear OS watch with everything, coming soon
Though we're expecting a lot of movement in the smartwatch space in 2018, much of it will come on the back of the aging Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100 processor, which is getting rather old (in technology terms). Until the...
Samsung Galaxy Watch rumours – to launch at IFA 2018
It feels like Samsung's Gear S3 was launched not that long ago, and the Gear Sport - which I'm still wearing today - has been tiding us over. However, the Gear S3 was launched back in 2016 - I...
Samsung’s next ‘Galaxy Watch’ could feature Wear OS
Rumours are swirling that Samsung will be announcing a new smartwatch soon, and the most interesting rumour we've seen is that it might mark a return to Google's Wear OS instead of Samsung's own Tizen.
I'm fairly comfortable in saying...
LG has another Wear OS watch which just skated through the FCC
It was only last month we saw the LG LM-W315 watch running Wear OS clear the US Federal Communications Commission, but it looks like another LG Wear OS watch has cleared the FCC with the model #LM-W319.
First spotted by...
Fitbit Versa: The Pebble that is now a Fitbit
Fitbit were the first big name in wearable fitness trackers and were so influential that their brand became synonymous with fitness trackers. At a certain point people started wanting more from their fitness trackers, and in response, Fitbit attempted...
LG’s newest Smartwatch clears the FCC
In Android Wear's short life, it's not only changed names to Wear OS, but feels like it has lacked a bit of direction from Google. With no new silicon to run smart wearables in recent years (we're still stuck...
LG Watch Timepiece, a hybrid smartwatch, is coming with all details apparently confirmed
Not pictured above is LG's rumoured new Watch Timepiece, a hybrid smartwatch which has - apparently - had all its details confirmed overnight by Android Headlines. Cutting through the waffle, it seems there's actually not a lot of detail...