Wearables

Oppo Find X2 series is set to launch today. While Oppo originally planned to host an event at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona to launch its new flagship phone, the company ultimately had to postpone the plan due to the coronavirus outbreak. The Find X2 launch, which is expected to bring the Find

Realme Band with real-time heart rate monitoring and a colour display has debuted in India. Designed as a competitor to the Mi Band 4, the Realme Band comes with features such as USB Direct Charge and smart notifications. The fitness band also includes five personalised dial faces. Further, there are three strap colour options to

Realme 6 series is set to launch in India today. The new smartphone series, which will include the Realme 6 and Realme 6 Pro, will come with a hole-punch design and include a 90Hz display. The Realme 6 and Realme 6 Pro will also offer multiple rear cameras. While the Realme 6 is rumoured to

Apple supplier Foxconn warned revenue would drop 15 percent in businesses including consumer electronics and enterprise products in the first quarter, but that it would recover thereafter as production returns to normal in virus-hit China. Foxconn is among manufacturers worldwide who are grappling with virus-related curbs that have upended supply chains and hurt demand. Apple,

Honor is slowly expanding its portfolio beyond smartphones, and recently launched its second generation smartwatch, the Honor Magic Watch 2, in India. Honor’s latest wearable device is priced aggressively and boasts of some notable features such as the ability to make and receive calls, 14-day battery life, support for a tonne of workouts, music playback

Oppo has posted a teaser for its upcoming smartwatch simply called the Oppo Watch on its Weibo account. The company shared three images showing off some of the specifications of the Oppo Watch. It will have a 1.91-inch screen, 326ppi, and 100 percent coverage of the DCI-P3 colour gamut. The watch will have a curved

Days after Oppo confirmed the release of its new smartphone, the Find X2, the company has now announced the launch of its smartwatch, Oppo Watch alongside. The announcement was confirmed by the Chinese tech company on Weibo, where photos of the watch were unveiled. The launch will take place on March 6 at an event

Tens of thousands of ethnic Uighurs were moved to work in conditions suggestive of “forced labour” in factories across China supplying 83 global brands, an Australian think tank said in a report released on Sunday. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) report, which cited government documents and local media reports, identified a network of at least

Huawei sub-brand Honor has announced that its recently launched fitness band, the Honor Band 5i, has started receiving the much-awaited SpO2 feature update in India. SpO2, which stands for peripheral capillary oxygen saturation, is an estimate that helps in tracking oxygen saturation levels in the bloodstream. The SpO2 feature has started rolling out via a

Realme 6 Pro and Realme 6 launch date reveal and Samsung Galaxy M31 announcement dominated the conversation in a rather busy week in terms of tech news development. Although MWC Barcelona 2020 was officially cancelled, the likes of Realme, Sony, LG, and Huawei unveiled new smartphones this week, including Realme X50 Pro, Huawei Mate Xs,

The first ever Realme fitness band is all set to be launched in India on March 5, alongside the Realme 6-series smartphones. The company has been revealing key features of the fitness band at sporadic intervals, and it has now updated its teaser page to reveal more features ahead of the launch. The new features

Vivo Watch, the company’s first ever smartwatch, has been spotted on trademark sites in India and Europe. Details on the probable upcoming smartwatch from the company are scarce at the moment, but these trademark filings suggest that the initial work has begun. These trademark filings do not necessarily mean that the launch is near, but

Realme Band will be available for purchase through a “Hate-to-wait” sale following its official launch in India on March 5, Realme India CEO Madhav Sheth revealed through a tweet posted on Friday. The smart fitness band will be a part of the Chinese brand’s artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) ecosystem that would also include a

Timex, the veteran American watchmaker company, is back with its latest smart wearable – the Ironman R300 GPS smartwatch. The smartwatch that is listed on its American website is available at $120 (roughly Rs. 8,660) and comes in three colour variants – black, grey, and silver. The company also claims that Ironman R300’s battery will

Realme has launched only two 5G smartphones so far – the Realme X50 and the Realme X50 Pro. However, the company has made it clear that more 5G phones are in the pipeline. Realme has announced that it will launch more than five 5G smartphones in 2020 that will be spread across different price brackets. The

Even as the global smartphone market sees slow growth and stagnating shipment numbers, wearable gadgets are bucking the trends. Whether it’s ear-worn products with some smart capabilities, wristbands, or smartwatches, the segment has been defying typical global trends in the gadgets and consumer electronics space. The wearables segment is growing at record pace in India,

Apple’s success in the smartwatch segment is something everyone is familiar with. The Apple Watch, however, has not only been a success in the smartwatch segment, but also the health tech sector, with the ECG feature on its Series 4 and Series 5 watches, that has claimed to have saved several by detecting atrial fibrillation

The first smartwatch from Oppo has leaked online, revealing key design details and possible upcoming features. The Oppo Watch is expected to launch alongside the Oppo Find X2 smartphone on March 6. The smartwatch’s teasers suggest an Apple Watch inspired design, curved screen with 3D glass protection, and an analog watch-like watchface. The new leaked

Skagen on Tuesday launched the Falster 3 smartwatch in India. Along with the watch. The swimproof smartwatch is powered by Wear OS by Google, and will be sold in India at Rs. 21,995. Features on the smartwatch include a speaker for calls, an ‘extended battery mode’, a Tiles feature to glance through important information, Google

In December last year, Oppo said it would be investing a lot of money into R&D and also expanding its wearables portfolio, to include smartwatches in 2020. We’ve been hearing rumours since then about Oppo’s upcoming smartwatch and we even have an official render of what it could look like, courtesy Oppo VP Brian Shen.

Alphabet-owned Google’s $2.1 billion (roughly Rs. 15,000 crores) bid for fitness trackers company Fitbit could pose privacy risks, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) warned on Thursday, adding its voice to other critics of the deal. Google announced the deal in November last year, as it seeks to compete with Apple and Samsung in the

Fitbit, the American fitness wearables company that was recently acquired by Google, faces a serious challenge from Chinese competitors in India. While Fitbit has been around for a lot longer than its rivals, that does not guarantee success in the market. Companies such as Amazfit have launched several products over the last year, most of

Oppo Watch, which is in development with a design inspired by the Apple Watch, has been teased with a curved screen and 3D glass protection. Oppo VP Brian Shen has taken to Twitter to release the teaser image of the new smartwatch. Late last month, Shen shared an official image of the Oppo Watch that

Apple will reopen some stores in Beijing from February 14 with reduced opening hours, it said on its website, while many of its other stores in mainland China will remain shut as the country continues to battle a coronavirus outbreak. The iPhone manufacturer said on February 8 it was extending its retail store closures in China, even

Huawei has been in the wearables space for quite some time now, and has been steadily pushing out new smartwatch models in India. The company launched the Watch GT early last year for Rs. 15,990, and there’s now a successor aptly called the Watch GT 2. Surprisingly, this watch packs in more features but is

Huawei’s sub-brand Honor has announced that the 42mm model of its latest smartwatchMagic Watch 2 is finally available in India starting today. It will join the 46mm model of the same smartwatch that has been selling in the country since last month. Additionally, the company has noted that the 46mm model of Honor Magic Watch

Samsung is hosting its Galaxy Unpacked 2020 in San Francisco, California, on February 11. The event will be the place where the South Korean company will unveil its flagship phones that are rumoured to be the Galaxy S20-series models, namely the Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20+, and Galaxy S20 Ultra. In addition to the Galaxy S20

Honor has slashed the price of two wearable devices in India – the first-gen Honor Magic Watch smartwatch and the Honor Band 5 fitness band. The price cut on Honor’s smartwatch and fitness band is now live in India, and the two devices are now available at the reduced price from Flipkart. The price cut

Apple is extending its retail store closures in China due to the coronavirus outbreak, even as it worked towards opening its corporate offices and contact centres, the iPhone maker said on Friday. The company earlier this month said it would shut all of its official stores and corporate offices in mainland China until Feb.9 due

HMD Global is expected to be unveiling new Nokia smartphones at MWC 2020 but more importantly, there are talks of the company showcasing the first Nokia smartwatch that will run on Google’s Wear OS. A rumour indicates that the upcoming Nokia smartphone will include support for eSIM, allowing it to connect to the Internet without