Wearables
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August 11, 2017
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This week: Xiaomi leads the wearables market and a new Android Wear-powered smartwatch raises $2.5M on Kickstarter.
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TechCrunch
Canalys’s numbers put Xiaomi in first place at 3.5 million shipments, just edging Fitbit’s 3.3 million. What’s more notable than the photo finish however, is Fitbit’s on-going struggles, which find the company dropping a full 34-percent year over year. It’s an almost complete reversal of last year’s 36-percent year over year growth. Apple’s number also dropped in the report, with company’s smartwatch moving to third place at 2.7 million shipments.
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Android Headlines
A new Samsung wearable has just hit the FCC bearing a model designation that should be familiar to anybody who has followed recent news of a rumored smartwatch wearable from the company – the SM-R600.
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Manchester 1824
The rapid development of wearable technology has received another boost from a new development using graphene for printed electronic devices. New research from The University of Manchester has demonstrated flexible battery-like devices printed directly on to textiles using a simple screen-printing technique.
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Kickstarter
Powered by Android Wear and compatible with iOS, the Ticwatch Sport and Ticwatch Express watches use Google Assistant and all of the apps available in Google Play in an effort to help make your life easier. Record all your best ideas simply by asking Google to take a note and stay on top of your fitness goals with smart workout tracking that’s compatible with the Tic Fit App, Google Fit, or another third party fitness app of your choice. Besides tracking your physical performance, both Ticwatch models make it easy to use the built-in GPS and music playing capabilities hands free.
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