Android Wear users might not have to be so jealous about the Apple Watch getting Pokemon Go. John Hanke, the CEO of Niantic Labs, appeared at TechCrunch Disrupt SF this week and answered questions about the insanely popular mobile game. When asked specifically if the game will make it onto Android Wear devices, he responded …
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Time stands still for some in the smartwatch market. With Apple set to release “Series 2” of its Watch and Samsung prepping its Gear S3 timepiece, many of the biggest players that have embraced Google’s Android Wear software have decided to hit pause on their own efforts. LG, Huawei and Lenovo’s Motorola unit will not release a smartwatch in the …
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Apple introduced the second-generation Apple Watch, known as the Series 2, alongside the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus this week. The new model keeps the same design as the original, but adds GPS, a brighter display and is now swim-proof. All of these features make the new Apple Watch an appealing buy, but there may be other watches out …
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The LG G Watch, powered by Google’s Android Wear operating system, isn’t a locked-down repository for personal data. Josh Miller/CNET Want to keep your private data private? Maybe you should postpone that smartwatch purchase. Researchers at the University of New Haven have shown that they can extract personal information from the LG G Watch and from the Samsung Gear 2 …
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BARCELONA — “Our mainstream for wearable devices is based on Android Wear.” The statement was repeated over and over by multiple executives at a Sunday press conference here, the highlight of which was the LG Watch Urbane LTE, a smartwatch that runs on an operating system that is definitely not Android Wear. The Urbane LTE instead runs on the LG …
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WebOS, the cult favorite smartphone operating system pioneered by Palm, is making a comeback in mobile thanks to LG and its latest smartwatch. LG on Thursday took the wraps off the LG Watch Urbane LTE , the first smartwatch able to connect to a high-speed 4G wireless network. The smartwatch doesn’t run on Google’s Android Wear software, but instead on …
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