Introducing a genius timepiece like you’ve never seen before – the new CZ Smart Hybrid has all the style of iconic Citizen design combined with the best-tech functions of a smartwatch. The impressive 15-day battery keeps up with your busy… Read More ›
Smartwatches
Withings ScanWatch review
While it has the good looks of a classic watch, it has the ability to serve as a clinically validated electrocardiogram, capture blood oxygen measurements, measure breathing frequency while sleeping, track your heart rate, and more, all while lasting about… Read More ›
Impressions of the pine64 PineTime smartwatch
An open source smartwatch. For $27. A basic Casio is $13.50 – can you really buy a smartwatch for the price of two of them? tl;dr: yes. And bloomin’ impressive it is too… More here. Hard to argue with the… Read More ›
You haven’t done this! Why have you not done this? Hello! Answer me! Do it now!!! (Apple Watch)
I put my Garmin fenix on charge yesterday, for only the 2nd time in 4 weeks as it happens, and put my Apple Watch on. Oh my word. Within seconds I was greeted with a reminder that I had not… Read More ›
A Facebook watch? No thanks. Any Facebook hardware product? No thanks
The smart watch has a design that’s not too far off from the Apple Watch, but it is wider and rounder with more curved edges. There is a camera at the bottom of the display, along with a control button… Read More ›
Smartwatch wars: Apple Watch beating Garmin
I’ve gone totally the other way. Despite some bad experiences with their “support” department and numerous watches going wrong I used to use Garmin all the time and got the AW to see what it was like. I tend to… Read More ›
Smartwatch Wars: The fenix 6 Pro finally beat the Apple Watch
I wrote three articles (part one, two and three) about the Apple Watch and its competitors and at the time I found myself sticking with the Apple Watch for a variety of reasons. It became clear to me that the… Read More ›
Is This Why the Apple Watch Series 7 Was Delayed?
Excellent teardown as ever from iFixIt. The similarities between the 6 and 7 are obvious right from the start and I remain as convinced as ever that this was not the device Apple wanted to release this year. More from… Read More ›
Customising a Garmin fenix 6 Pro bezel
The fenix 6 Pro is a decent looking fitness watch and one that does have presence on the wrist. However, if you want the pro features without spending a fortune you are left with a single colour black watch. With… Read More ›
An iterative release could put even more people off
In the wake of Series 7 leak disappointment, we already knew that this release was always going to be about a few minor improvements here and there. The question was whether those improvements, in the aggregate, would be enough to… Read More ›