Sentences with phrase «as a smartwatch»

Indeed, the company said sales of wearable devices such as smartwatches had doubled in 2017 to $ 300 million, or 14 % of total watch sales.

As smartwatches go, it's not bad; it has some good fitness features, like an accurate GPS and a heart rate monitor, and it has a long battery life.

With that said, we hope that we get to see something from them quite soon as the smartwatch market seems like it is dead already.

Both devices can handle things like notifications and music control, but they're not as intuitive or convenient to use as the smartwatches on our list.

Using the watch as a smartwatch, and utilizing all its capabilities means using the 320 × 300 resolution color screen.

Since this device can also act as a smartwatch, it can most definitely show notifications that arrive on your connected smartphone.

Hopefully as smartwatch platforms mature and get more stable, best practices will start to surface and smartwatch apps can shed some, if not most, of their weight in the process.

Despite the different appeal of these watches, none of them are bad smartwatches, at least as far as any smartwatch can be considered good.

As smartwatches become more sophisticated, they also become more enticing.

It's pricey, but it's not as expensive as smartwatches offered by other fashion brands.

It wasn't nearly as big as the smartwatches out there, yet it did many of the core smartwatch functions while also being a fully - featured fitness wearable.

The fitness tracker market is set to decline as smartwatches offer consumers more functionality.

There have been previously many rumors as the smartwatch too is expected to come along with the smartphone and tablet.

That's all well and good as a fitness tracker, but things start to fall apart as a smartwatch.

Does a smartwatch lacking support for proper and intuitive music playback really count as a smartwatch?

As the year starts to wind down, and the cold nights start to draw in, people will start to look into what makes a good gift as a smartwatch.

«Traditional watches have staying power as smartwatches [are] currently viewed by most consumers (77 % of responses) as complementary,» it said.

In the end, It all boils down to pricing as smartwatches are not yet a mainstream consumer product like smartphones or tablets.

There will be further declines in the traditional watch industry as smartwatch manufacturers release more high - end models.

Many educational toys will help them learn such as smartwatches.

As smartwatches go, it remains crisp and clear.

As the smartwatch market becomes increasingly saturated, one thing is becoming clear: manufacturers care about design now more than ever.

I wanted something not quite as big as a smartwatch but able to handle sweat and the occasional bump.

Instead what I would like to see is a better use of notifications, complications and glances that are unique to the smartwatch platform, as well as smartwatch data being utilized to enrich existing mobile and web experiences.

«It helps them become more well known as a smartwatch provider, and to develop more devices in the future with different features and prices,» Lawrence pointed out.

If you're sold on Android Wear as your smartwatch platform of choice and will actually use the Google Voice - based input then of the options out there - LG G Watch and Moto 360 the other two available now - we would pick the Samsung Gear Live.

All the Fitbits and Garmins have a stab at notifications, but the Ionic is the first such watch that is being marketed more as a smartwatch with fitness elements than a fitness band with smartwatch ones.

So long as the smartwatch and Android smartphone are connected to a network (the 2.4 GHz network for the Huawei Watch, and any network — Wi - Fi or otherwise — for the smartphone), the Huawei Watch will retain all its functionality.

Voice assistants will only take on more prominence as smartwatches come of age and as they integrate with other devices inside and outside of the home, and Samsung has a lot of catching up to do.

The Ionic scores on battery life if you consider it primarily as a smartwatch, with about 4 - 5 days on a single charge.

Following several reports over the past few days, both Pebble and Fitbit have officially announced this morning that Fitbit will acquire Pebble's software assets as the smartwatch maker is dissolved.

I see clear signs that Samsung is not going to invest much more into Tizen as a smartwatch operating system.

Apple has climbed to the top of the wearables market as smartwatches popularity has outpaced fitness tracker sales, much to everyone's surprise, and now Fitbit is looking to reclaim its crown.

The ZenWatch runs the same Android Wear software as smartwatches from LG, Samsung, Sony, and Motorola, and it has the same set of features and limitations.

However, Fitbit is still positioning it more as a smartwatch for customers who are primarily interested in health and fitness.

If you are looking for something that's as much fitness tracker as smartwatch, you might be better off just buying the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier, as this comes with a slightly more rugged design and a rubberized strap as standard.

The activity tracker may struggle to keep up its growth as smartwatches like the Apple Watch become more popular.

The announcement comes just as smartwatches are eclipsing Swiss watch sales for the first time ever.

But as smartwatches take off in 2015 and 2016, we expect these devices to skew male.

It's a marked improvement over last year's Galaxy Gear, with a better design and useful new features, but it doesn't radically change the premise of the Gear or make it that much more attractive as a smartwatch.

Built using Qualcomm's Snapdragon 2100 platform and Android Wear 2.0, the Connect Touch is as up to date as smartwatches get.

Like the company's previous Blaze and Surge watches, the Ionic is a fitness tracker masquerading as a smartwatch, and I'm not just talking about looks.

It's hard to overlook the ASUS ZenWatch 3 as a smartwatch option if you're in need of a smartwatch.

It's underbaked as a smartwatch, and when it comes to fitness activities beyond sleep and step tracking, it has all the usual Fitbit quirks.

The company already classes the original Blaze as a smartwatch, but it's very limited as one, for example many apps won't display notifications on it.

Fitbit's latest wearable device, the Versa, is positioned by the San Francisco - based health tech firm as a smartwatch, with a completely new, lighter design, more personalization options, and with a battery life of over four days.

Google Now will essentially serve as the smartwatch's own version of Siri.

It's not that Fitbit needs a long list of high - quality apps to excel as a smartwatch maker, but the overall look of third - party apps feels somewhat generic.

But these apps are missing the point of Android Wear as a smartwatch OS — it's supposed to assume many of your phone's low - level duties, not replicate your phone on your wrist.

More specifically, Fitbit will add tools to the Fitbit app as well as its smartwatch lineup to help women track their menstrual cycle and overall health.