Tag: SmartWatch
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Pebble Time Round Kickstarter Edition is Launched
Pebble Time has gotten even more stylish thanks to a new Kickstarter backers exclusive. The Pebble Time Round is based on the original Time – which itself is the fashionable sibling to the original Pebble smartwatch, however this one comes with a more traditionally shaped circular face and is available in both Polished Gold and…
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Cortana for Microsoft Band 2 is Now Supported on Android Phones
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Finally Android smartphone owners will be able to speak their mind to their Microsoft Band 2 thanks to a new update and Cortana support for the Google mobile OS. Microsoft’s voice assistant software Cortana is basically it’s version of Apple’s Siri and was previously only available to owners of the Microsoft Band if their synced…
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Pebble Time Smartwatch Price Drops to £79 on Amazon
Following last week’s cool announcement of a new Kickstarter and three new Pebble products that are in the works for release in January 2017, Amazon has dropped the price of the first generation Pebble Time to just £78.98! Previously the most fashionable member of the Pebble family would cost £149 at its full price but…
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Kickstarter Launched for Pebble 2, Pebble Time 2 and Pebble Core
After teasing us on Twitter at the start of the week Pebble has delivered the goods by returning to its Kickstarter roots and announcing new crowd-funding projects for three new wearable products – the Pebble 2, Pebble Time 2 and Pebble Core. Pebble 2 and Pebble Time 2: First up, the Pebble 2, which is…
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New Pebble Smartwatch to Be Announced Tomorrow?
The company behind Kickstarter phenomenon Pebble is teasing something on Twitter and has launched a website so that smartwatch fans can register to be first to find out what it’s all about tomorrow (Tuesday 24th May) at 10AM EDT (2PM GMT). The original Pebble was released around four years ago after obliterating its crowd-funding goal…
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Samsung Gear S2 Teased in Video Showing Off Circular Design
Samsung continues to tease its next piece of wearable tech – a fashionable reinvention of the Galaxy Gear smartwatch, called Gear S2 – which now appears in a new promo clip ahead of officially launching next month. The first thing you’ll notice about Samsung’s new smartwatch is that its round. You may think a circular…
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Apple Dominates SmartWatch Market
It’s no surprise that Apple have reportedly dominated the Smart Watch market. After all, most people have at least heard of the Apple Watch, but few could name the top tier rivals. According to a report undertaken by Strategy Analytics – the Cupertino, California based company dispatched an approximate 4,000,000 Smart Watches during the second…
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LG may have cracked the Key to Longer-Lasting Smartwatches
LG have been taking a long hard look at how to make smartwatches last longer, a common issue with most currently on the market struggling to even last a day. But you are asking a lot from a tiny device, there is a finite amount of space you can use before the watch gets too…
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More Tizen on the Horizon from Samsung – New Smart Devices in the Works
New smartphones and devices running the open-source Linux-based Tizen operating system are expected to be launched in the near future, proving Samsung hasn’t given up on the platform just yet. Samsung has been a pioneer of the Tizen mobile platform since the Tizen Association was first formed in 2011 with other founding members including renowned…
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Apple Says You Can’t Build a Charging Band for Your Watch
3rd party accessory makers have been offering to sell additions to your apple watch before the thing had even been released, with many clamouring to sell you a £50 thing to attach to your new smartwatch allowing it to do one thing or another (normally charge). Well Apple doesn’t want people blindly poking around with…
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Android Wear Update Introduces Wi-Fi Support and Wrist Gesture Scrolling
Google has announced an update for Android Wear which offers up a few new functionality features to the mobile OS for wearable tech. Touching down initially on the LG Urbane smart watch the new firmware for Android Wear will introduce three main additions. Firstly, a battery saving mode whereby the screen, despite being always on,…
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Apple Watch already sold out on some colours, Pre-order now
Apples most anticipated new product is now available for pre-order, but you should already know this, the amount the new Apple Watch has been hyped. When it struck midnight in California pre-orders went live, and that previously down Apple Store website is alive and ready for early adopters of the wearable. There are 38 different…