Garmin on Thursday launched its latest range of Vivomove smartwatches in India, featuring traditional watch faces along with a hidden display, for showing health and fitness tracking data, as well as notifications and reminders. The watches in the series include the Vivomove 3, Vivomove 3S, Vivomove Style, and Vivomove Luxe. Prices start at Rs. 24,490
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Samsung Electronics will temporarily shut down its flagship store in China amid growing fears of the spread of the Novel Coronavirus, company officials here said on Monday. Samsung will close its flagship store in downtown Shanghai until Sunday, the company said. The 800-square-metre store, the largest Samsung store in China, opened last October and sells
Athletic and casual footwear maker Puma has just launched its first smartwatch in India. Called the Puma Smartwatch, this product was launched internationally last year. The German multinational company has designed the watch along with Fossil Group which has been in the smartwatch game for a really long time. This is the first time Puma
Oppo has been rumoured to be working on a smartwatch for a while now, and the company VP Brian Shen has now shared an official photo, confirming the arrival. The photo shows a smartwatch inspired by the Apple Watch design, and even the watch face shows similarity to that of Apple. In any case, the
Fossil has launched the Hybrid HR smartwatch in India. The round-dial smartwatch comes in varied dial and strap options, and is touted to offer more than two weeks of battery life. Key features of the hybrid watch include an always-on display, heart rate monitoring, real-time weather, call and text previews, and activity and sleep tracking.
Huawei Band 4 is all set to go on sale on February 1. The fitness band was launched in India a few days ago, and while the price was unveiled, the exact availability date wasn’t mentioned then. The company has finally confirmed that the Huawei Band 4 will go on sale on Flipkart on Saturday.
Realme India CEO Madhav Sheth had confirmed in his latest #AskMadhav episode that the first Realme fitness band will be launched in India next month. With little time left for the launch, it’s only logical that the company will be testing out the product to see if there are any glitches that need to be
Apple will make its anticipated online store operational in India starting the third quarter of this year, according to a report. The Cupertino company was earlier speculated to start selling devices online in the country in the first quarter. Last year, the central government eased rules that had pushed foreign companies including Apple to source
The iPhone is back. But Apple is girding for more disruptions in virus-hit China. Apple on Tuesday reported sales and profits for the holiday shopping quarter above Wall Street expectations, thanks to rising iPhone sales for the first time in a year and soaring demand for add-ons like AirPods wireless headphones. The performance outweighed concerns
While Xiaomi is busy distinguishing Redmi, Mi, and Poco brands to not just retain its market leadership but expand its presence, a fitness-tracking band developed under the Redmi brand has surfaced online. Some design and key features of the Redmi fitness tracker are said to have spotted within the Mi Fit app. Separately, a purported
Researchers from Stanford University have developed a soft and stretchable battery for wearable electronics that relies on a special type of plastic to store power more safely than flammable material used in the conventional batteries today. The adoption of wearable electronics has so far been limited by their need to derive power from bulky, rigid
Oppo smartwatch is rumoured to be in development with a technology to measure electrocardiogram (ECG). The smartwatch is said to offer ECG monitoring similar to the Apple Watch. At its “Inno Day 2019” conference in Shenzhen last month, Oppo announced its plans to launch smartwatches, alongside smart wireless headphones, and 5G customer-provided equipment (CPE), in
The week past had its fair share of personal technology headlines, from WhatsApp finally gaining a dark mode (albeit in beta) to Samsung launching two of its ‘affordable’ premium smartphones in the country – the Galaxy Note 10 Lite and Galaxy S10 Lite. The Oppo F15 – a mid-ranger from the Chinese smartphone company –
Realme CEO Madhav Sheth’s latest AskMadhav episode reveals a few interesting details. For starters, Sheth confirms that the first fitness band from the company will be launched as soon as next month. The fitness band has been teased more than once now, and has also been in the rumour mill for a while. In an
On the occasion of the Chinese New Year 2020 on January 25 i.e., tomorrow, a host of local e-commerce sites will be offering deals and discounts on a wide range of gadgets during this time. Some of these sites also ship products to India for free, while some some ask for delivery charges. Sites like
Chipmaker Broadcom said on Thursday it has entered into two multi-year agreements with Apple for the supply of wireless components used in its products. The agreements, “2020 SOWs”, are in addition to the existing ones for supplying radio frequency components and modules to the iPhone maker and together could generate as much as $15 billion
Huawei Band 4 has finally made its way to the Indian market. Following its unveiling in China back in October last year, the Huawei Band 4 has now been launched in India. The Huawei Band 4 features a 0.96-inch colour display and shares design similarities with the Honor Band 5i. Key highlights of the Huawei
Technology has made our lives easier, but one school of thought has always argued that technology has also made us lazier. The rapid rise in automation has led to people doing a lot less physical work. But technology companies have a solution to this rising problem as well – fitness bands. What’s the deal with
When Samsung launched the Galaxy Watch Active last year, it was targeted at people who want to track their active lifestyles. The watch did a fairly good job of tracking our workouts, sleep, and steps when we put it to the test. Samsung has now launched a successor to the smartwatch, aptly called the Galaxy
Calling Augmented Reality (AR) the next big thing in technology, Apple CEO Tim Cook has reiterated his commitment towards building more preventive healthcare tools in devices like Apple Watch. In a conversation with IDA Ireland CEO Martin Shanahan here on Monday, Cook said the company is investigating technology that could help identify health risks at
Everyone knows that the global corporate tax system needs to be overhauled, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said on Monday, backing changes to global rules that are currently under consideration. The growth of Internet giants such as Apple has pushed international tax rules to the limit, prompting the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Smartwatches have evolved over the last few years in ways that have made them almost a necessity. A powerful wearable on your wrist can be as useful as a mobile phone in your pocket. While HONOR is popular amongst young Indian smartphone buyers, the company also makes some interesting wearables in the form of fitness
The Fitbit on your wrist not only counts your steps and minutes of sleep, it can also help tell if you’re coming down with the flu – and warn health authorities to get ready to help. A study in the US has found that heart rate and sleep data from wearable fitness tracker watches can
It has been five and a half years since Xiaomi entered the India market back in July 2014. The Chinese company started its journey with the Mi 3, but with the passage of time, it shifted significantly to the Redmi brand. Till date, Xiaomi launched over 40 smartphones in the country under the Mi, Redmi,
Samsung Galaxy S20 is yet to be unveiled officially. But ahead of the formal announcement next month, a purported hands-on video has surfaced online. The new Samsung flagship phone is rumoured to have a 120Hz display with 20:9 aspect ratio, while retaining the ultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensor that we saw on the Galaxy S10 models
Honor 9X, Honor Magic Watch 2, and Honor Band 5i were launched in India on Tuesday. The Honor 9X launched in India is the phone’s global variant and has a different set of specifications compared to the Honor 9X phone that went official in China back in July last year. It is very similar to
Honor has today launched a trio of new products in India – the Honor 9X phone, the Honor Magic Watch 2 smartwatch, and the Honor Band 5i fitness band. The Honor 9X launched in India is the phone’s global variant and has a different set of specifications compared to the Honor 9X phone that went
Xiaomi on Tuesday announced that it sold over 1 million devices in a single day in the offline market on January 10, 2020 which coincides with the anniversary of the beginning of the company’s offline expansion, which started in Q1 2017. Sold devices include smartphones, Mi TVs, Mi ecosystem and accessory products, of which smartphones
Honor 9X is set to launch in India today. Huawei sub-brand Honor is hosting the launch event at 12:30pm (noon) IST in New Delhi. Alongside the Honor 9X, the brand is launching the Honor Magic Watch 2 and Honor Band 5i at the venue. The Honor 9X was launched in China alongside the Honor 9X
Watchmaker Skagen has launched a successor to its Skagen Falster 2 wearable called the Skagen Falster 3. Just like the previous smartwatch, this too runs Wear OS by Google. Skagen is a subsidiary of Fossil which also makes Wear OS smartwatches. The Skagen Faster gets the newer, more powerful Snapdragon 3100 SoC and has a