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Samsung announced the new Galaxy Watch 3 at its online Unpacked event Wednesday alongside the new Galaxy Note 20 phones and its latest foldable phone, the Galaxy Z Fold 2. The newly unveiled Galaxy Watch 3 has the same sleek look and large, circular screen as the original Galaxy Watch, with all the fitness features of the 2019 Galaxy Watch …

Google has contracted with Samsung to design and manufacture a chip that’ll be used to track body movements, according to South Korean tech blog ETNews. The report comes as Google faces staunch opposition to its acquisition of fitness tracking pioneer FitBit in the EU.  Samsung is reportedly both designing and manufacturing the chip, as opposed to building a chip to spec based …

Lots of smartwatches try to look like the Apple Watch. But the Oppo Watch is so similar-looking from a casual distance, it’s uncanny. Oppo’s first smartwatch was unveiled earlier this year, but the addition of Google Wear OS is new, along with its eSIM support for LTE data. The Oppo Watch is available internationally starting today, but there’s no word …

The Wyze brand is making a name for itself, having produced some surprisingly affordable smart-home gear that’s also surprisingly good, like the $20 Wyze Cam. I’ve been equally impressed with products like the $20 Wyze Sense security kit, $20 Wyze Scale and $8 Wyze Bulb. (Order each via Amazon or Wyze.com, and you’ll pay about $4 to $10 extra for …

The Aipower Wearbuds is a flawed product, but it’s also a pretty cool one — and right now it’s available at a hefty discount. For a limited time, Cheapskate readers can score the Aipower Wearbuds for $113 with promo code CNET66. Regular price: $179. It’s available in your choice of four colors. If you want the black one, it’s the …

Fitbit might be the first thing you think of when it comes to ordinary fitness and sleep tracking, but ask a serious runner or cyclist what they wear, and you’ll get a very different answer. Polar is the brand that’s virtually synonymous with sports training and fitness wearables for people for whom training is a lifestyle. And this weekend, Polar …

VR experiences, for me, usually follow a certain pattern. Sometimes I feel like a futuristic pilot, or a wizard about to cast a teleportation spell. I grab the headset, slip it on, slide the controllers on my wrists. I check my space, cast a long arc to draw my magic circle. The world disappears. I’m in.  Going from my reality …

Apple packed a lot of great features in its Apple Watch Series 4: a faster processor, brighter, bigger screen, louder speaker and an FDA-cleared electrocardiogram feature (ECG or EKG) that can help screen for potentially life-threatening conditions. But for a lot of people, the best thing about the Series 4 is that it made the previous-generation Apple Watch that much more …

I’d love to say that when I first put on the Apple Watch, I’d never seen anything like it before. But of course, that’s not true. By late 2014 I’d been surrounded by smartwatches for a few years. So when Apple announced it was making its own watch, my thought (as so often with Apple) was: finally. The first smartwatch I …

Even though you’ve been working from home for a few weeks now, there’s a good chance you still don’t have all the gear you need. Or maybe you’ve been brushing up on your culinary chops during quarantine, but now your knives are dull and you’re tired of cooking rice on the stovetop, but you haven’t upgraded any of your kitchen tools …