Personal Tech
Indian PC market sets all-time records as Q3 shipments top 2019 total
Wearables also soared, with Apple pushed out of the charts by local brands like Fire-Boltt
19 Nov 2021 08:04 |
Wearable
Articles tagged with Wearable
Science
Sweat-sipping wearable aims to charge electronics without couch potatoes lifting a finger
What's wrong with plugging it in?
14 Jul 2021 20:02 | 12
Review
Xiaomi my heart is still beating: Reg hack takes Chinese giant's new fitness band for a spin
Mi Smart Band 6 needs to be slicker, bigger, and brighter to really get you faster and fitter
02 Jul 2021 10:01 | 23
Personal Tech
Google and Samsung merge their wearable OSes, tease Fitbit baked into the combo
Who could possibly have predicted that developers would shun two small ecosystems?
19 May 2021 03:58 | 10
Science
The stench of progress: Sweat may power your personal tech in the not-so-distant future
Gross? Maybe, but at least your Fitbit is still working
12 Mar 2021 22:33 | 13
Personal Tech
Sweet! Your boss is going to get you a plush new headset, says Gartner as wearable spending to soar almost 20%
Analysts predict market to grow to $81.5bn from $68.9bn in 2021
12 Jan 2021 12:14 | 4
Personal Tech
Apple Watch Series 6 isn't a step back for repairability but in its own way that's a leap forward
Fitness fans get more battery capacity in thinner case, and replacing it is doable for the brave
22 Sep 2020 11:26 | 12
Personal Tech
That long-awaited, super-hyped Apple launch: Watches, iPads... and one more thing. Oh, actually that's it
OK, fine. Blood-oxygen level monitoring, hexa-core 5nm Arm processors, TV packages...
15 Sep 2020 20:12 | 95
Personal Tech
Bluetooth SIG strives to make wearables work as COVID-19 contact-trackers
Don’t rush out to buy hardware, this is months from deployment
19 Aug 2020 05:02 | 7
Science
Singapore to give all incoming travelers wearable tracking device
Bluetooth and GPS widget will be used to enforce home COVID quarantine
04 Aug 2020 03:57 | 15
Science
If you're on invite-only tech-testing scheme, take care with Amazon's Alexa-powered answer to Google's Glass
iFixit reveals repair won't be trivial
03 Aug 2020 17:00 | 24
Personal Tech
Folk sure like to stick electric toothbrush heads in their ears: True wireless stereo sales buck coronavirus trends
Shipments soared 86% in Q1, 200 million expected to be shifted this year
22 Jun 2020 10:00 | 42
Personal Tech
Smartwatches win the consumer tech sector for Q1 2020 as locked-down folk take up fight against corona-carbs
Shipments up 12%, says Canalys
18 Jun 2020 11:05 | 11
Personal Tech
Keep it clean you lot: Samsung's created a hand-washing app for its wearables
Complete with nagware and wash-tracking features
04 Jun 2020 05:27 | 6
Personal Tech
Smartphones, PCs, and now wearables... Coronavirus wrecks another corner of tech
17% growth pre-pandemic now a measly 5%
03 Jun 2020 18:32 | 2
Personal Tech
COVID-19 sparks new wearables to push the pandemic away
Don’t stand so close to me as-a-service, with added blockchain
21 May 2020 07:40 | 20
Comment
We really doing this again? Rumour has it that Apple is nearly finished developing augmented-reality glasses
iGiant would have to show it has learned from Google's failures
20 May 2020 14:30 | 33
Personal Tech
Fitbit unfurls last new wearable before it's gobbled by Google, right on time for global pandemic lockdown
Track your jogs around the block – while those are still allowed
02 Apr 2020 09:00 | 28
Security
Hong Kong makes wearable trackers mandatory for new arrivals, checks in with ‘surprise calls’ too
Government CIO promises they don’t record location, just change of location
19 Mar 2020 04:30 | 39
Hands on
Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 2 earbuds: They're good – though for close to £300, they really should be
Not headphones. Earbuds
13 Mar 2020 15:51 | 43
Personal Tech
Watch this space: Chinese mobe flinger OPPO flexes first shot at the wearables market
With eSIM tech for the Dick Tracy in your life
06 Mar 2020 17:29 | 10
Personal Tech
Best buds? Apple must be fuming: Samsung's wireless earphones boast 11 hours of listening on a single charge
That's enough time for all Nickelback's albums in one sitting!
13 Feb 2020 10:45 | 59
Personal Tech
Xiaomi what's inside: Wow, teardown nerds find debut smartwatch isn't actually a solder-and-resin nightmare
If you can open the damn thing, that is
06 Feb 2020 17:15 | 25
Personal Tech
Lobes carry the load, says IDC: 'Hearables' sector accounts for half of all tech clobber sold
Yep that's our old friend Earworn Wearables by another name
11 Dec 2019 11:45 | 5
Personal Tech
Samsung taking its sweet time delivering Galaxy watches from phone bundle bungle
Chaebol blames 'popularity' for 'slight delay' of 2.5 months
22 Nov 2019 14:00 | 10
Science
'Earworn Wearables' will save the day (wireless earbuds, but cool name for your D&D halfling)
The hero that drives 62% uptick in wearables to *squints* $52bn, according to Gartner
30 Oct 2019 09:15 | 50
Personal Tech
We asked for your Fitbit horror stories and, oh wow, did you deliver: Readers sync their teeth into 'junk' gizmos
'This is the last Fitbit I will buy'
17 Sep 2019 19:44 | 76
Personal Tech
Apple cracks, straps on free repair service for defective Watches
Got a Series 2 or 3 in aluminium with a borked screen? Things might be looking up for you
02 Sep 2019 12:15 | 10
Column
It's all in the wrist: Your fitness tracker could be as much about data warfare as your welfare
Tick, tick, boom?
19 Jun 2019 09:15 | 101
Security
European Commission orders mass recall of creepy, leaky child-tracking smartwatch
Hackers can talk to and locate the wearer, warns notice
04 Feb 2019 17:16 | 64
CES 2019
Low-power chips are secret sauce behind long-life wearables
Fancy that – dumb is the new smart
07 Jan 2019 14:58 | 34
Personal Tech
For wearable analysts, the glass is always half full
IDC looks at stagnant US market ... and sees only joy
05 Dec 2018 09:50 | 3
Personal Tech
Gartner to wearables biz: Through failure comes success!
Crystal-ball gazer claims market will treble in size in next three years
29 Nov 2018 16:00 | 24
Personal Tech
Apple replaces boot-loop watchOS edition with unconnected complications edition
QA? We've heard of it
06 Nov 2018 17:00 | 34
Personal Tech
5.1 update sends Apple's Watch 4 bling spinning into an Infinite Loop of reboot cycles
We'll just take this one away
01 Nov 2018 11:38 | 35
Personal Tech
Huawei's Watch GT snubs Google for homegrown OS
Behold, a new Chinese platform?
16 Oct 2018 21:07 | 39
Review
Watch Series 4: What price 'freedom'? About as much as you'd expect from an Apple product
A stellar improvement all round – except for Siri
08 Oct 2018 11:32 | 45
Personal Tech
Vodafone and EE ship Apple's Watch 4, but not without LTE teething issues
Which gets you the best deal? We did the arithmetic
24 Sep 2018 12:47 | 7
IFA
Qualcomm's tardy chip upgrade leaves the Great Wearables Reveal to jokers and clowns
The Android comeback must wait a little longer
04 Sep 2018 09:50 | 9
Roundup
Snap code snatched, Pentagon bans bands, pacemakers cracked, etc
New zero-day vendor opens up shop, and more in infosec this week
11 Aug 2018 08:27 | 15
Analysis
Wearable hybrids prove the bloated smartwatch is one of Silly Valley's biggest mistakes
When dumb is usually smart enough
18 Jul 2018 08:14 | 141
Software
Google-free Android kit tipped to sell buckets
China, you see, has its own chocolate factories
19 Jun 2018 11:36 | 58
Analysis
watchOS 5 hints at new Apple wearables and life beyond the Watch
The web on your wrist... and elsewhere
07 Jun 2018 08:38 | 22
Analysis
The great wearables myth busted: Apps never, ever mattered
Garmin grabs No.2 smartwatch spot
25 May 2018 14:57 | 69
OSes
Meet Asteroid, a drop-in Linux upgrade for your unloved smartwatch
Hickory dickory Docker, the containers ran on the clock... er
17 May 2018 08:40 | 27
Personal Tech
Fitness band-it Garmin adds mobe bank Starling to bonk-to-pay fold
Showing Google and Samsung how it's done
10 May 2018 15:40 | 7
Personal Tech
And lo, Qualcomm hath declared that a new chip for wearables is coming
Too little, too late?
09 May 2018 19:36 | 3
Black Hat Asia
Holy sweat! Wearables have THREE attack surfaces
The device, the app and the cloud, and your development lifecycle isn’t fit enough to catch up
22 Mar 2018 07:29 | 3
LogoWatch
One in three Android Wear owners also uses ... an iPhone
Which may be why Google’s changed the name to ‘Wear OS’
16 Mar 2018 01:45 | 23
Personal Tech
Look! Fitbit's made a watch that doesn't suck!
Less weird, less clunky, and a four day+ battery life
13 Mar 2018 17:49 | 32
On-Prem
Stock trader gets two years in prison for pumping up with Fitbit
Using wearable to get wrong kind of gains get Big House visit
12 Mar 2018 19:24 | 19
Analysis
Wearables are now a two-horse race and Google lost very badly
It's a massacre on the wrist
01 Mar 2018 12:25 | 109
Personal Tech
US Pentagon scrambles after Strava base leaks. Here's a summary of the new rules: 'Secure that s***, Hudson!'
What a Strava-palava
29 Jan 2018 22:33 | 34
Personal Tech
Look on the bright side, Pebble fans. At least your gizmo will work long enough for you to get beach body ready
Support plug will now be pulled in June
24 Jan 2018 22:56 | 45
On-Prem
Fitbit health alert: You appear to be bleeding
Sales fall, losses grow, but watch looks OK
02 Nov 2017 11:57 | 17
Edge + IoT
Welcome to the future: Bluetooth jackets you can only wash 10 times. Gee, thanks, Google
Phone-controlling Levi's soft-wear for, presumably, non-sweaty nerds
25 Sep 2017 22:56 | 63
Analysis
Falling apart at the seamless: Inside Apple's LTE Watch fiasco
Kludge takes shine off ever-improving Watch
21 Sep 2017 11:32 | 34
Personal Tech
Mobe reception grief turns LTE Apple Watch 3 into – er, a dull watch
Plus: You can't switch off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on iOS 11
20 Sep 2017 20:23 | 41
Personal Tech
Amazon wants to be king of the nerd goggles
Glasshole Bezos sees no shame
20 Sep 2017 17:01 | 12
IFA
Samsung keeps the smartwatch alive. Just
'Don't think of it as a watch'
31 Aug 2017 16:01 | 28
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