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Google and Levi’s ‘connected’ jacket that lets you answer calls, use maps and more is going on sale
Over a year after Google showed off its “connected” jean jacket designed for bike commuters at last year’s Google I/O developer conference, the company today is unveiling the final product, which goes on sale on Wednesday for $350. Designed in partnership with Levi’s, the new smart jacket takes advantage of technology from Google’s Advanced Technology and… Read More
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Don’t wait for the Apple Watch to dole out medical advice anytime soon
Could the Food and Drug Administration classify the Apple Watch as a medical device? It’s a question many have asked over the past couple of years, but the stakes are now higher for the Watch with its newfound ability to detect atrial fibrillation (AFIb), or an irregular heart rhythm. Of course, detection and diagnosis are two separate things. The Apple Watch has now been used to detect… Read More
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Apple is working on a fix for Watch Series 3 LTE issues
The new Apple Watch is mostly an iterative update over its predecessor, but for one major feature: LTE. The addition of cellular connectivity has been touted as everything from “nice” to “game changing,” but reviewers appear to have early issues in testing. Read More
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Amazon is working on smart glasses to house Alexa AI, says FT
Amazon is working on building a pair of smart glasses to house its Alexa voice assistant, and a home security camera that could be linked to its existing Echo connected devices to further expand their capabilities, according to a report in the FT citing people familiar with the company’s plans. Read More
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Fitbit still hasn’t cracked the smartwatch code
Struggling with a sputtering wearables market, plummeting stock pricing and increased competition on the low-end of the market, Fitbit threw a Hail Mary. It vacuumed up a trio of startups and got to work in earnest on one smartwatch to rule them all. Read More
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Apple’s LTE-enabled Watch could be a wearable watershed moment
Apple’s Series 3 smartwatch may look the same on the outside as the previous generation, but what they have inside might help kick the somewhat sleepy wearable category into high gear. To be clear, Apple isn’t the first to put cellular connectivity into a smartwatch — but it is the first to put it into a good smartwatch. Read More
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The Apple Watch Series 3 will transform a lot of workouts
Apple’s played it a bit cautiously for the last few Apple Watch upgrades — like many others, the company no doubt understands the limitation of the smartwatch form factors. They’re small, so it’s hard to push things too far. The company also doesn’t have much in the way of competition when it comes to market share — the Apple Watch is the rare bright spot in… Read More
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All the videos from Apple’s iPhone event
In case you happened to miss the presentation of Apple’s latest iGear, we’ve got your back. The company today announced Apple Watch Series 3, a new 4K Apple TV, the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, as well as the much-rumored iPhone X (pronounced “ten”). As Apple is wont to do, the company peppered videos into the presentation. Some were straight-up advertisements, others… Read More
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New Apple Watch available in ceramic gray; orders begin September 15
Apple Watch Series 3 was unveiled at the company’s annual event on Tuesday. The new version will have cellular and GPS capability, which means you can leave your phone at home and still receive calls and messages. It’s also available in new colors. After introducing the ceramic white watch material last year, this year Apple is introducing a ceramic gray. Read More
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The cellular-enabled Apple Watch has the SIM built in
Apple has hidden an interesting twist inside the new Apple Watch: a built-in SIM card that isn’t a SIM card. It’s an eSIM, or embedded subscriber identity module. They’ve been talked about for years, but this is the first use of one in a mass market consumer device. Read More
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Here’s the new Apple Watch software
In Apple’s big product show today in Cupertino at the new Steve Jobs Theater, Apple COO Jeff Williams unveiled watchOS 4, which is largely focused on health and fitness. The new OS features a redesigned workout app, high-intensity interval training, enhanced swim tracking smart activity coaching, GymKit to pair with machines at the gym, a revamped heart rate monitor and a new music… Read More
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Apple’s Watch 3 rolls out heart health and smart fitness features
Today, Apple announced the new Apple Watch 3 will be rolling out several health and fitness features included with OS4, like smart activity coaching, new features for swimmers, Gym Connect and an enhanced heart rate monitor. Read More
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Apple watchOS 4, with better heart rate monitoring, arrives September 19
The updated software powering the Apple Watch, watchOS 4, will be released on September 19, 2017, for all Watch customers, according to Apple COO Jeff Williams, speaking at Apple’s iPhone press conference today. The updated software, which includes features like new watchfaces, improved fitness coaching, a redesigned music experience and more, was previously announced this summer at WWDC. Read More
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The Apple Watch Series 3 comes with LTE connectivity
The new Apple Watch is now official, offering one big highlight upgrade over the previous version: Built-in cellular support. Wireless cellular LTE connectivity provided by a built-in chip means the new Apple Watch will be able to stay connected even when it’s not tethered to an iPhone, which is a huge step forward in terms of making it an independent mobile device. Read More
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Tons of features of iPhone 8, iPhone X detailed in leaked iOS 11 build
Another iPhone 8 leak ahead of Apple’s fall event next Tuesday when it’s official expected to unveil its new flagships: 9to5Mac has been digging through the Golden Master build of iOS 11, and pulled out a few new nuggets of intel about the incoming top of the range iPhone (code-named D22). Read More
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Fitbit is surging after it announced a big health partnership
Fitbit today came out with some additional news that might give Wall Street some signs of life as it looks to compete with an increasingly complicated fitness tracking environment — and the stock is surging this afternoon as a result. Read More
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The Red Sox used an Apple Watch to steal signs from the Yankees
Here’s another innovative use case Apple can mention when they announce the next Apple Watch: The device has reportedly played a key role in a baseball sign-stealing scheme run by the Boston Red Sox. Read More
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Garmin debuts three new wearables and a mobile payment solution
Garmin has three new wearable devices it’s debuting at IFA 2017, including the vivosport GPS-enabled activity tracker, the vivomove HR hybrid touchscreen smartwatch and the vivoactive 3, a smartwatch with Garmin Pay, which supports Visa and MasterCard credit and debit cards to enable mobile payments on the go. The Garmin vivoactive 3 includes GPS, a heart rate monitor, and battery life of… Read More
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Samsung’s fitness-focused Gear Sport smartwatch is a smaller alternative to the giant Gear S3
Samsung’s wearables family gets a little bigger today with the addition of the Gear Sport. The new fitness-focused smartwatch arrives a few days after Fitbit finally debuted its long-awaited Ionic device, the latest in a growing acceptance among hardware makers that activity tracking continues to be the prime driver in the wearables space, smartwatches, included. The new watch… Read More
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