Now playing: Watch this: First look: Jawbone’s new Up2 and Up3 fitness bands are… 2:32 The long-delayed Jawbone Up3 fitness tracker is finally about to hit stores. But it’s not alone: Jawbone is bringing two other fitness bands to market this year: the Up2 and Up4. The former replaces 2013’s Up24 , while the latter …
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Sarah Tew/CNET The Apple Watch is a mystery device: that’s because it’s still not on sale, and few people have worn it yet. I’ve been wearing Apple’s upcoming watch for a week and a half, and even after writing a whole review , I’m still discovering surprises. The Apple Watch, being something extremely new, has quite a few little tricks …
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Now playing: Watch this: Apple Watch vs iPod Nano watch: Comparing Apple’s two… 1:30 Does the Apple Watch feel familiar? It should. Apple had a product that fit on your wrist. It was called an iPod. 2011 feels like yesterday to me, but it was four years ago. Lots of things were the same: Marvel movies were still popular in …
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Sarah Tew/CNET What is a smartwatch, and what can it do? The Apple Watch arrives in a landscape filled with things for your wrist. How does it stack up? Great in some ways, and not so wonderfully in others. Let’s look at the closest competition and see. Pebble Watch My personal favorite, the Pebble, is lean, mean and cheap. A …
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Enlarge ImageAround 100 apps will be available at launch with many more on the way. CNET The Apple Watch won’t be available to the public until April 24 (preorders start Friday, April 10), but there are are already a good handful of apps for it. During my review period, I’ve accumulated 50 apps on my Apple Watch: some pre-loaded, others …
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Pop, crack. Scott Stein/CNET Editor’s note: Withings has responded, and I learned why the watches were breaking. Withings says new batches of the Pop won’t suffer this problem. I woke up knowing I needed to address the Withings Activite Pop, a product that seemed great at first but customers are reporting has a shatter-prone glass crystal. I opened my bedside …
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Sarah Tew / CNET The Withings Activite Pop , formerly one of my favorite fitness watches when I reviewed it back in January, is finally coming to the US this Sunday. My enthusiasm for the $150 watch — which includes a built-in pedometer and sleep tracker — was tempered, recently, by a broken glass dome. And it wasn’t just me: …
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James Martin/CNET Sometimes it seems like smartphones can’t bring any new or notable innovations to the table. For the iPhone, a big design change and lots of improvements hit last fall, and — if Apple stays true to form — we’ll see an “S” update this year that means a more sedate list of internal changes and a nearly unchanged …
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How the Pebble’s smart straps would connect. Pebble Pebble’s new smartwatch is coming in a few months, but innovative smart straps could be what makes the Pebble Time stand out from the competition. Pebble’s CEO Eric Migicovsky explained earlier this month that the Pebble Time and Time Steel watches will work with sensor-enhanced straps that connect with an underside connector …
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Neptune How wildly ambitious can a single smartwatch be? There may be a new winner: the Neptune Suite, an Indiegogo campaign that launched today, wants to be everything. Absolutely everything. The Neptune Suite started as Neptune Duo , a project unveiled just a month ago: an Android smartwatch and phone that would power a “dumb screen” in your pocket, reversing …
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