Showing posts with label SmartWatch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SmartWatch. Show all posts

Friday, July 26, 2013

Apple, Samsung, Google plan to launch 'smart watches' this year

Tech giants Apple, Samsung and Google could launch their much-awaited smart watches later this year, it has been claimed. Avi Greengart, analyst on consumer devices at the research firm Current Analysis said 2013 may be the year for the smartwatch because "the components have gotten small enough and cheap enough" and a large number of consumers now have smartphones that can connect to a wearable device. According to the Australian, the idea of the connected watch has been around for at least a decade: Microsoft had one in 2003. Some devices are already on the market including from Sony, the crowd funded maker Pebble and Italian-based firm i'm.

Monday, September 3, 2012

Gadgets at IFA electronics fair 2012


The IFA consumer electronics fair, Europe's biggest electronics show, runs from 31 August to 5 September 2012 in Berlin.

A man looks at the Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone during a press preview day before the official start of the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, August 30, 2012.

    A man looks at the back of a Loewe flat screen TV at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, August 31, 2012.


      A man opens a Toshiba Satellite U920 tablet notebook at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, August 31, 2012.


      A man turns a Sony Xperia tablet computer at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, August 31, 2012.


    A man wears 3D glasses as he takes a picture of a 3D TV presentation in the LG pavilion at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, August 31, 2012.


A man wears 3D glasses during a 3D TV presentation in the LG pavilion at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, August 31, 2012.

     A model poses with the new Samsung Galaxy Note II tablet device during Samsung Mobile Unpacked 2012 event in Berlin's Tempodrom hall ahead of the start of the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin.


     A volunteer presents a Sharp 80" TFT-LCD screen during the opening day of the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, August 31, 2012.


      A volunteer puts back 3D glasses during the opening day of the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, August 31, 2012.


      A woman uses a Vestel augmented reality installation at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, August 31, 2012.


     People try out electronics products in the Sony pavilion at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, August 31, 2012.


      People watch a 3D TV presentation in the LG pavilion at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, August 31, 2012.


   People watch a presentation of the Samsung Galaxy Note II tablet computer at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, August 31, 2012.


A Samsung Galaxy Camera is seen at the screen of the same product at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, August 31, 2012

Sony's SmartWatch is on display during a press preview day before the official start of the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, August 30, 2012

A model poses with the new Samsung Galaxy Note II tablet device during Samsung Mobile Unpacked 2012 event in Berlin's Tempodrom hall ahead of the start of the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin

    Toshiba's AT270 tablet is on display during a press preview day before the official start of the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, August 30, 2012.


A man operates the touch screen of a Samsung tablet computer at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, August 31, 2012