Wearables

Mi Smart Band will help you see all your fitness details on your smartphone, when paired and connected properly. Xiaomi’s Mi Smart Band offers compatibility for both Android and iOS devices. Newer Mi Smart Band versions —Mi Smart Band 4, Mi Smart Band 5, and Mi Smart Band 6 — also feature an AMOLED touchscreen

Mi 11 Ultra, Mi 11 Pro, and Mi 11 Lite 5G smartphones in the Mi 11 series were launched by Xiaomi in China on Monday, March 29, along with the Mi Smart Band 6. The three new phones in the Mi 11 series add to the Mi 11 that debuted in China in December last

Mi Smart Band 6 is getting an update that brings a sleep breathing quality monitoring feature, which is rolling out to the Mi Fit app. The feature will monitor and rate the quality of your breathing at night while you sleep. The Mi Smart Band 6 was launched alongside the Mi 11 series in China

Casio G-Shock GSW-H1000 powered by Google’s Wear OS was launched on Thursday. The rugged smartwatch offers 200-metre water resistance and features a wide range of activity options including running, indoor workouts, road biking, swimming, as well as surfing and snowboarding. The G-Shock smartwatch also comes with an optical sensor to measure heart rate. It features

Microsoft has won a Pentagon contract for augmented reality headgear for soldiers worth $21.88 billion (Rs. 1,60,290 crores) over the next decade, the company and the US military announced Wednesday. The headsets, based on commercially available HoloLens, will make soldiers safer and more effective, according to Microsoft technical fellow Alex Kipman. The Department of Defense

Niantic CEO John Hanke has shared a teaser image for the company’s first AR glasses. The company, known for developing Pokemon Go, has been working extensively into the Augmented Reality spectrum. The reveal only showed a part of the Augmented Reality glasses but doesn’t specify how the glasses will work. Niantic is best known for developing

Apple Watch could get a new rugged variant aimed at athletes and extreme sports enthusiasts, says a new report citing people familiar with its development. Apple typically refreshes its Apple Watch lineup every year in September. In 2020, it launched a cheaper Apple Watch SE along with the Apple Watch Series 6. The report says

Mi Smart Band 6 will be unveiled on March 29, Xiaomi has announced through a tweet. The company will be hosting a product launch event where it will unveil the successor to the Mi Band 5 that was launched in June last year. Mi Band 5 was launched globally as Mi Smart Band 5 in

Amazfit T-Rex Pro smartwatch has been launched in India. The T-Rex Pro has a rugged look, a circular dial, and four physical buttons for navigation. It is touted to offer military-grade toughness, come with 10ATM water resistance, and support blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) monitoring. It has over 100 sports modes and a new ExerSense workout

Fall Detection is a crucial Apple Watch feature that has already saved many lives. It detects when you’ve had a hard fall, and if you are immobile for a minute after the fall, it’ll automatically contact emergency services. Fall Detection is not enabled by default though, so we’re going to show you how to make

OnePlus Watch made its debut on March 23 at a virtual launch event alongside the company’s latest flagship – OnePlus 9 series. Announced to be priced at Rs. 16,999, the company’s first smartwatch is currently listed at an introductory price of Rs. 14,999 on the official OnePlus India website ahead of its availability in April.

Amazfit T-Rex Pro smartwatch has been unveiled globally as an upgraded version of the Amazfit T-Rex that launched in June last year. The Pro variant comes with some improvements with water resistance and better health tracking. Amazfit T-Rex Pro also comes with four buttons — two on each side. It also supports GPS connectivity. It

OnePlus Watch price, specifications, and design have leaked ahead of its launch today, March 23 at 7.30pm IST. It will be the first smartwatch from OnePlus and will run on the company’s custom operating system and not Wear OS by Google. As per new leaks, the OnePlus Watch will feature a 1.39-inch HD AMOLED display,

OnePlus 9 series of phones has already received more than three million reservations in China a few days before the launch, according to a poster released by the company. OnePlus is officially launching its latest smartphone series globally on March 23, while China will see its launch on March 24, and the first sale on

OnePlus Watch availability is yet to be revealed, but the upcoming smartwatch has now gone on pre-orders in China. The latest development comes just days ahead of the OnePlus virtual event where the OnePlus Watch will debut alongside the OnePlus 9-series smartphones. Alongside the pre-orders, a render purportedly showing OnePlus Watch has surfaced on Twitter

Apple’s rumoured mixed reality headset will come with advanced eye tracking system, a report suggests. According to a report citing analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the mixed reality headset could also support iris recognition. The eye tracking system is said to feature a transmitter and receiver that can analyse eye movements. Previous reports about the rumoured mixed

Facebook said on Thursday it is developing a wristband that would be able to control its augmented reality (AR) glasses that are expected to be launched this year. Wearers of the band would be able to interact with the virtual world with their finger movements, the company said in a blog post. The AR-supporting wearable

OnePlus Watch won’t come with Google’s Wear OS and will run on a custom operating system, OnePlus Co-Founder and CEO Pete Lau confirmed on the company’s forum. The anticipated smartwatch was initially speculated to run Wear OS. The company, however, appears to have preferred its custom solution for better power efficiency. The OnePlus Watch is

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip and Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 successors do not have a release date yet, but several leaks and tips offer an idea of what to expect from the upcoming foldable phones. In a fresh leak, the colour options for the two phones have surfaced online. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 2 (not

OnePlus Watch specifications have been leaked by a tipster. The smart wearable is said to come with IP68 dust and water resistance as well as Warp Charge fast charging support. The tipster also suggests that the smartwatch will offer various workout features including a swimming mode, sleep tracking, as well as heart rate and SpO2

Wearable device shipments across the globe increased by 28.4 percent in 2020 compared to the previous year, as per new data by International Data Corporation (IDC). The shipments increased by 27.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared to Q4 2019. The data shows that Apple led the pack, shipping 36.2 percent of the

Apple recently submitted a patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) titled “self-mixing interferometry-based gesture input system including a wearable or handheld device.” Essentially, the patent describes the use of ring-shaped smart devices worn by a user to control other apple devices. The ring may be used alone or in pairs and

OnePlus Watch will launch on March 23 alongside the OnePlus 9 range, the company has confirmed. OnePlus earlier announced that the next-gen flagship range will launch globally on March 23, and now through a tweet via the OnePlus India account, it has confirmed that the OnePlus Watch will also launch alongside. The OnePlus Watch will

Fitbit Ace 3 has been launched, aimed at kids aged six and up. The fitness band is the first product to be launched after Google closed its $2.1-billion (roughly Rs. 15,320 crore) acquisition deal of Fitbit in January this year. The Fitbit Ace 3 comes with a touchscreen PMOLED display and offers up to eight

TicWatch Pro S has been launched in select regions as a relatively more affordable alternative to TicWatch Pro 3. Mobvoi, the company behind the TicWatch family of smartwatches, is positioning TicWatch Pro S as an upgraded TicWatch Pro from last year. The new smartwatch is offered in a single colour option and a single dial

Boat Flash Watch smartwatch has launched in India adding to the company’s growing portfolio of smart wearables. The Boat Flash Watch has a single button on the right side and is offered in three colour options. It comes with heart rate and blood oxygen level monitoring, as well as 10 sports modes. The Boat Flash

Apple has released iOS 14.4.1, iPadOS 14.4.1, macOS Big Sur 11.2.3, and watchOS 7.3.2 as important security updates for its devices. The new updates, that come a little more than a month after iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4 release, address a memory corruption issue within the WebKit browsing engine that could have allowed bad actors

Apple may release its rumoured mixed reality headset, augmented reality (AR) glasses, and augmented reality contact lenses by 2022, 2025, and 2030, respectively. Apple’s plans for a mixed reality headset and augmented reality glasses have been in the news for quite some time now, but the augmented reality contact lenses seem to be new. The

Oppo F19 Pro+ and Oppo F19 Pro were launched in India on Monday. The new Oppo F19 Pro- series phones come with quad rear cameras and feature Super AMOLED displays. Both models also have Android 11 out-of-the-box. In the series, the Oppo F19 Pro+ also supports 5G connectivity and is powered by MediaTek Dimensity 800U.

Garmin Lily has launched in India on the occasion of Women’s Day. The Lily is a new fashion smartwatch for women, and is said to have been designed by women. It features a 14mm slender strap for smaller wrists. It includes women-centric features like pregnancy tracking, menstrual cycle tracking, and offers workout modes like pilates.