Displaying items by tag: fitness band

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".

Android Wear is to wearables like smartwatches, as Android is to smartphones – it underpins both form and functionality. Google has announced Android Wear 2.0, a version that makes the operating system competitive again.

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.

Fitness bands now dominate 85% of the wearables market – they do a great job tracking your fitness without pretending to be anything more.

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.

TomTom can tell us something that we probably don’t want to know – how much body fat and how much lean muscle we have. For some, it is not a pretty sight.

Research firm Gartner predicts 18.4% growth in the wearables market in 2016, and a further 17.5% in 2017.

The Internet of Things can refer to any device that connects to the internet or via Wi-Fi or Ethernet in a network. This is a general overview of smartwatches I have reviewed or things I think meet ‘pretty’ good specifications.