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The newly announced Apple Watch isn’t waterproof. It is water-resistant, which means it will work in the rain, though it can’t be exposed to a ton of water, so even the heavy rain could damage it. Yeah, just like you, we’re wondering why Cook & Co. haven’t found a way to solve this, but I…
Samsung just can’t stop doing it; it must launch a new watch every few months. Just when we thought they’re done for the moment with the Gear S, we’re hearing that another device is in the pipeline. The reason is obvious – the Apple Watch can be used for mobile payments and that’s not possible…
Xiaomi’s venture arm, Xiaomi Ventures, has invested $25 million in the maker of mHealth gadgets, iHealth Lab. As part of the deal, Xiaomi will get a seat at iHealth’s board of directors. Launched in the US in 2010 as a subsidiary of medical device manufacturing company Andon Health, iHealth has launched the industry’s first mobile…
Chinese tech analyst Pan Jiutang claims that Vivo will be the first vendor to launch a smartphone powered by Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 810 chip. According to him, the Chinese company will use Qualcomm’s 64-bit beast SoC in its next flagship device, the Vivo Xplay 5. He went on to add that other Chinese vendors to…
Two different Samsung Galaxy Note Edge variants have been cleared by the FCC, and unfortunately none of these is destined to North America. Rather, the SCL24 and SC-01G are heading for Japan, where they will end up in portfolios of KDDI and NTT DoCoMo, respectively. As you probably already know, the Galaxy Note Edge was…
There’s one thing that makes iPhone better than any other smartphone out there – the accessories you can buy for it. A physical keyboard case was always on top of my wishlist, though it was never available for the phone I’ve got. iPhone users on the other hand were able to choose between few different…
Some find the newly announced Apple Watch looking better than many Android Wear devices. If you’re in that group, and also want to add some iTouch to your existing smart watch, you may want to install the Apple Watch face to your Android Wear gear. The new PEAR watchface is made to change the look…
The BlackBerry Torch won’t be the last QWERTY slider made by the Canadian company. If we can take BlackBerry’s recent patent filing for anything, they are working on another such device as we speak. However, unlike the original Torch, this one has a different kind of keyboard, one that looks like Passport’s keyboard. We’re talking…
Motorola is currently offering the Moto 360 in silver and black colors, but that could change with another option coming in the (near) future. What you can see above are few variants of Moto’s smart watch, including the one that rocks a body made out of gold. It hasn’t been officially announced, and we get…
The other day we’ve told you that Samsung is working on the entire Alpha series of devices of which the Galaxy Alpha was just a first member. One of these devices, marked as SM-A500, has been leaked and brought to our attention by the good folks of SamMobile. This is a mid-range product, one that’s…