Category: Smartwatches
Apple Watch store in Selfridges, London to open on April 10th
Apple today has given more details about the launch of its dedicated Apple Watch shops which are sited in three high end department store including our very own Selfridges on Oxford Street London. The stores will open on Friday April 10th at 9am where prospective buyers will be taken through the gadget and shows how…
Newspapers on your wrist – does The Guardian Apple Watch app show us the future?
There's nothing media companies love more than a new technology platform. Mobile phones were going to save the whole newspaper industry, and then when the iPad launched it spawned thousands of tablet editions of magazines. Are you still reading them? Probably not. So right now there is a huge buzz about the impending launch of…
Apple Watch apps land in the Apple Store
The Apple Watch doesn’t arrive until later in April, but if you want a sneek peek of what it is capable of you should head off the Apple store. For Apple has just plonked a load of apps for the watch there for you to try out on your iPhone. A lot of big media…
Apple is training its sales nerds to talk fashion
Selling Apple hardware used to be so easy for a nerd. You know what all of the devices are capable of, you know the specs and the upsides and downsides to everything - but the Apple Watch looks set to be a whole different ball game. According to 9to5Mac, Apple is undertaking a training programme…
The UK’s cheapest smart watch? That’ll be the £29.99 Hannspree Sports Watch
Fancy a smart watch? Well you could invest £13,500 in a top of the range Apple watch, or if you don't quite have that wonga then there’s a new model from Hannspree which is a tad more affordable. The Hannspree Sports Watch receives notifications from Android or iPhones via a Bluetooth connection, can monitor your…
Now you can control a Tesla car with an Android Wear watch
Check out the above video from developers ELEK Software, which has developed an Android Wear app for controlling the elite electric car. Apparently it took only four weeks to get from a prototype to the demo video above. What the app enables you to do is see how much range your car has left, as…
The iPhone is getting an official fitness app from Apple
When an Apple Watch is paired with an iPhone, a brand new app appears. "Activity" is the app that will let you access all of your fitness activity through your phone. So the Fitness app does exist on 8.2, it's just hidden until you connect an Apple Watch pic.twitter.com/R1BgnKYRHe— Hamza Sood (@hamzasood) March 12, 2015…
7 alternative smart watches to the Apple Watch that you can buy RIGHT NOW!
[nextpage title="Next"] The Apple Watch isn't due to hit stores until April so what are you supposed to do if you want something smart on your wrist in the meantime? As luck would have it, Apple isn't first on this - there are already plenty of smartwatches out there. Here's our pick of some of…
Apple Watch apps only designed for “10 seconds” of use
A good spot by The Guardian, citing a Bloomberg report. Apparently, in Apple's lab where apps for the forthcoming smartwatch are being built, guidelines dictate that apps are being designed to be used for a maximum of ten seconds. This perhaps shouldn't be surprising - Apple is clearly wondering why anyone would stare at their…
Samsung slowing production of smartwatches
Surprising news out of Samsung today as one of the company's executives has apparently said that the company won't be releasing fifty billion new smartwatches, each ever-so-slightly different, like you might expect. According to Trusted Reviews, Young-hee Lee, Executive VP for marketing at Samsung Mobile, said "We’ve been introducing more devices than anybody else. It’s…