U.K.-based research firm Strategy Analytics figures that Samsung took 71 percent of the smartwatch market in the first quarter of 2014, with an estimated 500,000 smartwatches sold. Android Beat noted the… Read more »
The wait for Google to enter the smartwatch race is over. This week, the company debuted Android Wear, a software platform built around Google Now’s card-based interface. LG and Motorola already… Read more »
Popular read-later service Pocket already has way to save information from an Android Wear smartwatch to your Pocket reading list. It’s just a prototype for now, but illustrates how glanceable information… Read more »
The Moto 360 with Android Wear may look like a mockup, but the product is real and does work based on a video interview with Motorola’s Jim Wicks. Here’s what we… Read more »
Even if you’re not a developer you might want to download and install the developer preview of Android Wear. Why? Because you can run an emulator to simulate an Android Wear… Read more »
All of a sudden the race to build an Android smartwatch is on thanks to Google’s Android Wear platform. LG appears to have a head-start as the G Watch will be… Read more »
I suggested a watch built around Google Now and other Google services last year. Here it comes. Or rather, here they come: On Tuesday, Google released Android Wear for its hardware… Read more »