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Nearly 1 Million US Apple Watch Pre-Orders on First Day
According to digital commerce data company Slice Intelligence, almost 1 million US consumers have pre-ordered the Apple Watch. The report, released by Slice on Sunday, estimates that 957,000 people pre-ordered Apple’s smartwatch on Friday, based on e-receipt data collected directly from consumers. Each order was for 1.3 watches, spending $503.83…
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Apple Watch Reviewed
Reviewers have gotten their hands on the new Apple Watch – the company’s first unique hardware in five years, launching this coming Friday – and the consensus is a firm thumbs up. The Apple Watch is entering an already competitive market, populated by a family of Android Wear devices, such…
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Here Are the First 24 Apps Available for Apple Watch
With just two weeks until the Apple Watch is officially released, the excitement is mounting. Feeding that excitement now is the recent appearance of apps for the Watch in the App Store. Here is the list of the 24 apps first available in the App Store courtesy of 9to5Mac, with…
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Vector Smartwatch Says it Can Offer a 30-Day Battery Life
The Vector Smartwatch has been revealed at the annual luxury watch fair in Switzerland. The company stated that it will release the watch in two variants, a Luna round face and Meridian rectangular face. However, the most interesting thing about it is not its appearance, but its battery endurance. Vector…
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Google Teams with Intel and Tag Heuer to Make Luxury Smartwatch
Google has announced a partnership with Swiss timepiece maker Tag Heuer and computer component creator Intel to build a luxury Android Wear smartwatch. Tag Heuer is one of the biggest watchmakers in the World, famous for sponsoring Formula 1 racing and making analogue chronographs. Though, since the watch will no…
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Huawei Accidentally Leaks its Own Smartwatch in an Ad
Chinese manufacturer Huawei has just accidentally leaked its smartwatch, one due to be revealed at Mobile World Congress. Leaks happen all the time, with products from Samsung and HTC leaking just this past week. Often, these leaks can be caused by an individual’s sneaky efforts to make things public. Well in…
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Pebble Time Smartwatch Smashes Kickstarter Goal in Minutes
Smartwatch maker Pebble decided to return to its old stalking ground, Kickstarter, to raise funding for its new wearable device, the Pebble Time, and the $500,000 goal was decimated in a matter of minutes. First time around, Pebble raised $10.3 million on Kickstarter, a new record. The Pebble Time is…
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Android Wear Hacked to Work with iPhone
Android Wear, Google’s Android OS for smart watches, has been hacked to work with an iPhone. Currently, Android Wear only supports Android itself and no other OS. Well, developer Mohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh managed to work around that, and has actually got the two opposites talking to each other. iOS contains a…
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Smart Wearables Being Banned in Schools
With the ever-growing popularity of smart wearables, comes ever-growing uses for them. One latest trend is cheating during exams. Something that was once innocent has schools thinking twice about what a watch can do. As reported by BuzzFeed, universities are simplifying this by banning all watches during exams. One London…
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First Apple Watch Apps Demoed
With the Apple Watch rapidly approaching, we’re beginning to see a number of Apple Watch apps being demoed by various developers. While many of the major developers are keeping many of their plans under a shroud of secrecy, one developer, Todoist, makers of the popular to-do app of the same…
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Tim Cook – Apple Watch to be Released in April
One tiny note nestled in with Apple’s Q1 earnings announcement on Tuesday, was the news that the Apple Watch will now ship in April. While many of the rumours suggested a March launch, Cook said that it will indeed be coming in April. Was this the plan all along, or has…
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Rumours of HTC Smartwatch Reveal Alongside One M9 Launch
Invites have been sent out for an HTC press conference in Barcelona on 1st March (above), at which it is rumoured that not only will we get our first glimpse at the new HTC One M9 flagship smartphone, but also a smartwatch, according to Bloomberg. Bloomberg’s sources reveal that the…
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Start Your Hyundai With Your Android Wear Watch
Remember that scene in the James Bond film ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’ where Q shows Bond how to control his car with his phone? Well Hyundai is promising something similar except with your watch. I say similar, but while the watch app can do a lot of what Bond’s phone could…
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Apple Watch Now Available… From 1995
Apple’s new watch isn’t meant to be on sale until “early 2015”, but as MacRumors points out, you can get your hands on one right now. One from 1995. Yes, Apple has made watches before (even called “Apple Watch”) but this was no way to keep in touch or pay…
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iOS 8.2 Beta 2 Now Available
iOS 8.2 Beta 2 has been released to beta testers. The update, which should be available to testers now, arrived just a day after the release of iOS 8.1.2 to the public. That just brought some bug fixes, but it’s believed iOS 8.2 will bring a whole lot more. Rumours…
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