There is one setting I change every time I take a Garmin watch out of the box. Many of Garmin’s devices offer the choice of two different recording options: Smart Recording and Every Second Recording. I always make sure to use Every Second Recording. Smart Recording will only record data points when there are changes …
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Industry analysts and journalists have been been quick to make judgments on the wearable market. Some have called it a fad, while others have claimed it’s already dead. Not so fast. A new report issued Thursday by International Data Corporation (IDC) will hopefully put an end to those claims. The research firm found shipments of smartwatches and fitness trackers reached …
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Wearables and smartwatches aren’t all disappointments. While Fitbit is expected to announce a holiday sales letdown over the last quarter, rival Garmin’s fourth quarter earnings financial results saw an overall 10 percent revenue increase, and the success was due to the company’s fitness and outdoors products. Garmin’s outdoor, fitness, marine and aviation units, in particular, saw the greatest growth. The …
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Google’s Android Wear 2.0 watch platform is the company’s biggest shot yet at jumping into the fitness tracking world dominated by companies like Fitbit. Is it there yet? Not quite. The company’s revamped smartwatch operating system improves upon many of the problems that plagued Android Wear watches for the past two and a half years. I’ve had a chance to …
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If you’re shopping for a piece of wearable tech in 2017, you’re facing compromises. Smartwatches and fitness trackers aren’t really the must-have devices many companies hoped they would be. And no, you don’t really need one. But if you’re looking for a piece of tech for your wrist, here are the best choices right now, followed by a list of …
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The smartwatch race should be over. Apple should have won, but that hasn’t exactly been the case. While the Cupertino company remains the leading smartwatch maker, shipments of the Apple Watch have fallen and its market share is slowly diminishing due to increased competition from Samsung, Garmin and traditional watchmakers such as Fossil. Apple’s market share could be further disrupted …
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No, CES still hasn’t officially begun, but I don’t blame you for thinking so given the torrent of news we’ve seen so far. And today, or CES press day as it’s called, was even busier with a long schedule of press conferences from big name companies battling to one-up each other. It’s exciting and a bit confusing given the volume, …
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At CES 2017 in Las Vegas, you’ll see two types of wearable technology, shown in two very distinct areas of the show floor. The first type is the fitness-tracking device, designed to measure your steps, your strides, your strokes and your stamina. These wearables boast the latest sensor technology to measure everything from the impact your feet make on the …
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Augmented reality company Everysight has created a pair of smart sunglasses designed to give cyclists a safe and easy way to view their real-time performance stats. Called Raptor AR, the sunglasses use Everysight’s patented BEAM technology to display real-time information, such as turn-by-turn navigation, elapsed time, distance, speed, heart rate, cadence and power, which is projected out in front of …
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Most people won’t start thinking about fitness until the new year, but you can score some serious savings this weekend on a number of the hottest running watches and fitness trackers. These are the deals fitness fanatics need to check out: Note that a majority of these deals begin either on Thursday or Friday and run through to Monday. You …
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