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Retail Asia21/06/2021

It became clear how uncertain the future of current smartwatches is with the new Wear OS by Google and Samsung. We initially thought that the wearables we have now are not equipped with the horsepower to support the update. In a recent report from Qualcomm, however, we found out that is not the case. The chipset manufacturer confirmed the […]

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Retail Asia09/11/2020

Today is a happy day for Apple fans, as the Cupertino-based company is rolling out new software updates for three of its popular products: iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. If you’re rocking one of the first two, you should be able to download iOS 14.2 today. On the other hand, Apple Watch owners can download watchOS 7.1, a rather important update […]

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Retail Asia04/10/2020

Regulating body temperature is a problem that humankind has been contending with for millennia. Our physiology adapted to cope with quite a small part of the world, where the climate is a certain way. Once we spread out across the globe, we had to cope with the entire range of weather systems – from hot […]

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Retail Asia19/05/2020

HTC is gearing up to join the insanely competitive wireless earbuds market. The company’s debut wireless hearables, the HTC U Ear have been spotted on FCC, implying that they could be here anytime. In addition to revealing the name of the wireless earphones, the listing also contains images that give us a good look at them. Design-wise, they bear a lot […]

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Retail Asia11/09/2019

Alongside the Versa 2 smartwatch, Fitbit announced a subscription-based fitness and health service that it calls Fitbit Premium. The service uses unique data from each subscriber to deliver a personalized experience “with actionable guidance and coaching.” The premium service is meant to help users achieve their health and fitness goals and costs $9.99 per month. At launch, Fitbit […]

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Retail Asia29/05/2019

Global shipments of connected wearables are forecast to grow from 116.8 million units in 2018 to reach 238.5 million units in 2023, representing a CAGR of 15.4%, according to research firm Berg Insights. Bluetooth will remain the primary connectivity option in the coming years. A total of 67.7 million of the wearables sold in 2023 […]

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Retail Asia21/05/2019

From a totally redesigned UI and battery life improvements to faster Google Pay and bug fixes, no matter how big or small the update there’s no denying Wear OS by Google, as it’s now called, has come a long way since it was first introduced back in 2014 under the Android Wear branding. Today, to help improve […]

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Retail Asia21/05/2019

Back in March, we told you that the Xiaomi Mi Band 3 fitness tracker is selling so briskly, Xiaomi was in no rush to release the sequel. One reason for the heavy demand is the wearable’s low price. Sold for $30 on Amazon, the device measures a user’s heart rate, counts the number of steps he or she has […]

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Retail Asia19/04/2019

Fitbit may have joined the “true” smartwatch game a bit late compared to Samsung or Apple, but after a somewhat slow start in this potential-brimming market, the Versa seems to have put the company on the right track. The world’s second-largest smartwatch vendor took quite a risk by developing its wearable software from scratch rather than adopting Google’s Wear OS, […]

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Retail Asia28/03/2019

A few days ago, we told you that Xiaomi will release the Mi Band 4 fitness tracker sometime this year. An executive from Huami, the company that is the source of Xiaomi’s wearables, said that the Mi Band 3 is still selling in big numbers and that there is no reason for Xiaomi to launch […]

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Retail Asia25/03/2019

While it’s certainly not unusual to see older gadgets discounted shortly after new models are released, the recently unveiled Fitbit Versa Lite Edition is not actually an upgraded version of last year’s regular Versa. As such, deals on the original model weren’t exactly guaranteed, especially given Fitbit’s newfound success in a fast-growing global wearables market, owed in part to this specific low-cost […]

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Retail Asia17/08/2017

Wearable technology becomes more useable with a new development using graphene for printed electronic devices. The University of Manchester has demonstrated flexible battery-like devices printed directly on to textiles using a simple screen-printing technique answering the major problem of wearable tech being limited due to the problem of powering devices without cumbersome battery packs. Devices […]

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Retail Asia10/03/2017

Global shipment for wearables reached an all-time high of 33.9 million units in the fourth quarter of 2016, up 16.9 % from the same quarter a year earlier. Total shipments for the entire year reached 102.4 million devices, growing 25% compared to 2015. IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker, which published the figures, noted that […]

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Retail Asia13/02/2017

As mobile payments continue their race into the mainstream, land grab expansion seems to have become the name of the game. Summed up in a single word, the theme of the week in mobile was “more” for many of the major mobile movers — more territory, more devices and more merchants. Samsung’s global march added […]

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Retail Asia24/01/2017

Singapore’s EZ-Link, the market’s largest issuer of CEPAS-compliant cards, announced the launch of EZ-Link Wearables. Launched in collaboration with Watchdata Technologies and Garmin, the ez-link CEPAS purse will be enabled on the Batman v Superman Fitness Tracker X EZ-Link and the Garmin vívosmart HR with EZ-Link smartwatch. The devices will support contactless payments on public […]

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Retail Asia10/01/2017

Worldwide combined shipments of PCs, tablets, ultramobiles and mobile phones are projected to remain flat in 2017 with 2.3 billion units, according to Gartner. There were nearly 7 billion phones, tablets and PCs in use in the world by the end of 2016. However, Gartner does not expect any growth in shipments of traditional devices […]

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Retail Asia15/12/2016

Basic wearables, primarily comprised of fitness bands, accounted for 85% of the wearables market in the third quarter of 2016, IDC estimates. The total market grew 3.1% year-over-year during the quarter, with wearables shipments reaching 23 million. IDC said much of the increase in shipments for fitness trackers was attributed to the launch of newer […]

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Retail Asia21/04/2016

Gemalto has launched a secure element based applet for smart wearables developed by China UnionPay (CUP). CUP had launched smart wearables with embedded secure elements based payment applications last year. The payment applet runs on the secure element, to provide online and offline payment capabilities on wearables. This is expected to eliminate the need for […]

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Retail Asia08/04/2016

Eight brands from the Fossil Group – Chaps, Diesel, Emporio Armani, Fossil, Kate Spade New York, Michael Kors, Misfit, and Skagen – will each launch wearables this year. The company said more than 100 wearables products, including display and non-display watches, will be introduced in 40 countries and more than 20 languages before the holiday […]

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Retail Asia28/03/2016

Fossil wearables has teamed with major fashion brands Chaps, Diesel, Emporio Armani, Fossil, Kate Spade New York, Michael Kors, Misfit and Skagen to launch in 40 countries in 2016. Fossil Group says it plans more than 100 wearables products – which include display- and non-display watches and trackers – will be available in 40 countries […]

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