SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Police will officially operate a smartwatch system that can find almost the exact location of the wearer in emergencies starting later this month to better respond to potential crimes, officials said Wednesday. The location tracking system using smartwatches will first be put into operation by police in the southeastern [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple Inc. on Friday released its new smartwatch — Apple Watch Series 7 — in South Korea in the latest move to further boost its presence in the growing smartwatch market. The release came as the pandemic-driven stay-at-home trend and rising health concerns have fueled the popularity of smartwatches [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple Inc.’s new smartwatch will be launched in South Korea next week, the U.S. tech titan said Tuesday, as it eyes to beef up its presence on the home turf of its archrival Samsung Electronics Co. Apple Watch Series 7 will be available here from Oct. 15, with preorders [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday unveiled its new smartwatch interface that will run on the upcoming unified wearable operating system (OS) with Google as the South Korean tech giant eyes to expand its presence in the wearable device market. Samsung introduced One UI Watch at its virtual session of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of Samsung Electronics Co.’s latest smartwatch and wireless earbuds have been robust, industry insiders said Tuesday, despite the resurgence of virus cases here. Samsung has sold 60,000 units of the Galaxy Watch 3 smartwatch since its launch on Aug. 6. The figure is triple of the sales of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday unveiled two new smartwatch models in South Korea in a move to expand its presence in the wearable device market. The Galaxy Watch Active2 Golf Edition and the Galaxy Watch Active2 LTE Aluminum models will be launched in South Korea on Friday, according to [...]
RICHARDSON, Texas, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Today, Fossil Group (NASDAQ:FOSL) announced its plan to sell to Google for $40 million intellectual property (IP) related to a smartwatch technology currently under development by Fossil Group. As part of the transaction, a portion of Fossil Group’s research and development (R&D) team currently supporting the transferring IP [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giants are expected to showcase new smartwatches within a few months, industry watchers said Thursday, as they seek to catch up with market leader Apple Inc. According to the sources, Samsung Electronics is expected to showcase the successor of the Gear S3 smartwatch around the upcoming [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc., which recently showcased the LG G7 ThinQ smartphone, plans to release a new smartwatch next month, seeking to accelerate efforts to revitalize its struggling mobile communication business, industry watchers said Wednesday. The new smartwatch would become the successor of the LG Watch Style released in March [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent report from the National Radio Research Agency has revealed that an LG smartwatch has the highest Specific Absorption Rate, as part of an EM wave absorption analysis for Apple, Samsung and LG smartwatches. The SAR measures the rate at which energy is absorbed by the human body [...]