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Google Rumored To Be Looking Into Purchasing Wearable Tech Companies
It seems clear that Google does not want to deal in smartphone manufacturing, as seen in the recent Motorola Mobility sale. Latest news report that Google is planning to use Nest as its gadget hardware team, but a new report says that Google may also be looking at purchasing wearable…
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More Smartwatches Are Rumored To Come This Year, This Time From ASUS
Asus looks like wants to join the wearable gadgets market. It is rumored that the Taiwanese computer maker wants to unveil a wearable device at Computex in June. After both Sony and Samsung launched smartwatches last year and Apple is widely expected to unveil its own entrant this year, Asus’…
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Pebble Seeds Engineering Schools With 4000 Free Smartwatches
Pebble are looking to spark the fires of innovation with their new project which is aimed at education. The company will be donating over 4000 of their Pebble smart-watches to higher ed schools including Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Stanford, Virginia Tech and more. Overall the will be donating around $600,000 worth…
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Nike To Release New Smartwatch Next Year
The Nike company isn’t afraid to dig deeper into the tech industry, introducing more and more gadgets for sport fans all over the world. Their partnership with Apple also helped them grow in this sphere and now word is that Nike is designing a new smartwatch to be released as…
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Pebble Smartwatches Available On The Amazon Store
Pebble smartwatches started shipping for $150, or even less, since Pebble is offering a $20 discount on its website, a sale that it decided to extend beyond Black Friday. Pebble is also available on Amazon, both in the US and the UK. Not all colors are available at the moment,…
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Qualcomm Has Opened Pre-Orders For Their Toq Smartwatch
It appears that Qualcomm has opened preorders for their Toq smartwatch. It comes in a black model for $350 and is estimated to start in 1 to 3 weeks. The Toq Smartwatch has first been revealed in September when Qualcomm presented it as a Galaxy Gear alternative, having pointed out…
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ZTE Will Release Its Own Brand of Smartwatches
ZTE has yet to enter the battle with its own smartwatch. However, according to Lu Qianhao, head of the Shenzhen-based company’s handset marketing strategy, ZTE might be working on some that are predicted to launch somewhere around Q2 2014. The same Lu Qianhao stated that their aim is not to…
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Galaxy Gear Gets Custom ROM With Third-Party App And Web Browsing Support
XDA Developers working on the Galaxy Gear cooked up a new custom ROM for the device, which unlocks quite a few nifty features. The smartwatch sold only about 50,000 units, a remarkably low number for the effort put into it, but given the recent change in restrictions (and thanks to…
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Better Notifications From Any App Featured In The Latest Galaxy Gear Manager App Update
An update to the Gear Manager app has enabled better and more detailed notifications from any application to be read right on the Galaxy Gear itself. The previous version only notified you of a notification and told you to check your phone for the details of that notification. Nothing fancy…
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Goophone Inc. To Release A New Addition To Their Gadgets, The Goophone Smartwatch 3G
Chinese phone maker Goophone released a new gadget, but not a smartphone apparently. They released a Smartwatch, entitled Goophone Smartwatch 3G. It comes with an interface similar to the Windows Phone UI and running on Android 4,0 Ice Crean Sandwitch it also grants you access to the Play Store. The…
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Galaxy Gear To Receive Full Content Notifications With AllTheNotifications Manager App
The Galaxy Gear is fairly limited to text and e-mail popping up with the full message, given the “smartwatch” title it bears and the multitude of tasks we thought of performing right on our wrist. However, this is more a limitation of Samsung’s notification service on the phone rather than…
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Galaxy Gear To Finally Support Galaxy S4, SIII, Note 2, and other Samsung devices
One of the Galaxy Gear’s most unfortunate drawbacks was the watch being incompatible with anything except the Galaxy Note 3. It seems that this is not the case from now on. Beginning this month, Gear will finally spread its horizons and play nicely with other Galaxy devices. Samsung announced Wednesday that Galaxy…
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Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatch Up For AT&T Pre-Order – $299
If you’re in the USA and the thought of getting Samsung’s latest smartwatch interests you then you’ll be pleased to know that AT&T are now accepting pre-orders on the Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch. AT&T made the official announcement on Twitter: “Receive texts on your wrist? Yes, please. @SamsungMobileUS #GalaxyGear pre-orders…
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