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Suunto makes smart sports watches, dive computers and precision instruments, and it has made its first foray into Australian motorsport with its stellar sports watches added to Penrite's high performance program.

Powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear 3100 processor, the Suunto bills its Suunto 7 as "a state-of-the-art smartwatch with adventure-proof GPS sport watch" with a "no-compromise approach to wearable technology", now at $599 at JB Hi-Fi and Suunto's online store.

Smart watches have come of age, with the latest being a sub-$200 model called the MOVETIME Family Watch, letting parents stay in touch with 4G calls, video calls, photo sharing, messaging and GPS tracking.

Technology company MGM Wireless has inked a retail sales deal for office products and services provider Officeworks to sell its SPACETALK all-in-one smartphone, watch and GPS device across its national store network.

From the two new Note 10 super-smartphone sizes, through to Samsung's Tab S6, Active Watch 2, Galaxy Book S and heavily promoted new Microsoft partnership, Samsung has presented its most integrated ecosystem of smart products yet.

With the help of multi-Gold Medal winning Olympian Sally Pearson, Huawei has launched two new models in its existing Watch GT range in Australia, one for the active user at the larger 46mm size, while an elegant new 42mm model for smaller wrists has also arrived.

Myths about smartphone sales being saturated seem overrated as Telsyte tells of Australian smartphone sales having experienced "strong growth in 2017 driven by an Android replacement cycle".

Fighting fit and fighting Fitbit, Apple and others is a new competitor: the Striiv Apex HR, promising to help you reach your summer fitness goals and keep on top of your busy lifestyle. 

Fitbit, the world’s largest fitness wearable company, has acquired luxury brand smartwatch start-up Vector. This comes shortly after its acquisition of Pebble smartwatches.

ANALYSIS Do smartwatches and fitness bands have a commercial, health or other use? The short answer is not so much at present, but it is heading that way.

Comic strip detective Dick Tracy first showed his two-way wristwatch communicator in 1946, and although there have been numerous attempts to emulate that, the technology has not been up to the task. Now it is. The GS3 will make and take calls without a smartphone.

Promising to not just tell the time but to "give you more time", the 2nd-gen Moto 360 boasts "more style, more features and more battery", only its local launch is "untimely".

Samsung has had many iterations of its Gear range of smartwatches and fitness bands, improving on design and usability each time. The Gear Fit2 fitness band and its accompanying S Health app are very good with few compromises.

After a bug last week that halted the launch of watchOS 2.0 for the Apple Watch, the new update is finally available to download.

Apple CEO Tim Cook is convinced the Apple Watch will be ‘one of the top gifts of the holiday season’, so Australian retail availability is expanding!

Wearable devices could be very helpful to field staff, business software vendor IFS believes, and the company is ready to support smart watches as soon as its customers are ready.

I’m waiting for the Apple Watch, but the Crapple Watch is available now at a tenth of the price, a hundredth of the features and free shipping - but is it any good?

Luxury goods maker Montblanc, famous for its pens, also sells luxury watches and has a smart watch band coming soon.

Do you have a beloved mechanical watch that you wish you could turn into a smartwatch, or want to buy a mechanical watch that’s a smartwatch, too?

LG’s new completely round-faced Android Wear watch has officially launched in Australia at last, fighting against squared-faced watches, Motorola’s 360 watch, fitness wearables, the Gear S and the upcoming Apple Watch.