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Wearable-Related Patent World Dominated By Samsung

ANDROID HEADLINES - Nov 12 - In the most recent polls, Samsung was shown to have a whopping 600 patents, placing them firmly at the top of the heap. The runner-up by a pretty wide margin is Philips, with 500 patents (representing 20% of their portfolio). The next biggest wearable patent holders are LG and Canon, with 450, a step-down of 10% from Phillips. South Korea is responsible for 9.4% of global wearable patents, Japan 27.6%, United States with 22.5% and China with 22.4%.

by Daniel Fuller
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Samsung Fitness Tracker To Challenge $15 Mi Band

TECHNO BUFFALO - Nov 9 - The new device with the model number SM-R150 and the codename Triathlon is expected to take on competing products like Xiaomi's Mi Band. It’s also likely Samsung's fitness tracker will work with most Android devices, and not just its own Galaxy smartphones.

by Jacob Kleinman
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Samsung Develops Chip For Wearables

UBERGIZMO - Nov 6 - Known as the "Bio Processor", it happens to be a system-in-package design in the same vein of the Apple Watch chip, where you will be able to find goodies such as an embedded electrocardiogram reader, an application processor, and Bluetooth modules.

by Edwin Kee
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Samsung Sold 180K Gear S2 In China In Under 8 Hours

ANDROID AUTHORITY - Nov 4 - In China, the Gear S2 is being sold for 2,198 Yuan (approx $350) while the Gear S2 Classic retails for 2,398 Yuan (approx $390). Both are competitively priced and if Samsung is able to make enough units to meet overall global demand, the Gear S2 range could prove to be the closest challenger to the Apple Watch, which currently dominates the wearables market.

by Nirave Gondhia
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Apple Watch Surpasses All Other Wearables

DIGITAL TRENDS - Oct 29 - Reports from South Korea suggest Samsung has sold 600K wearable units in the 3rd quarter, but that sales figure pales in comparison to the 4.5M reported Apple Watch sales during the same 3-month period. Strategy Analytics noted 6.1M wearable sales during the July-September period. Apple took the lion’s share with 72.8%, while Samsung slumped into second with 9.8%.

by David Curry
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Samsung, LG Tap Battery Biz For Wearables

GLOBAL POST - Oct 20 - Samsung SDI unveiled two types of flexible the ultra-slim, 0.3mm-thin stripe battery is a next-generation battery made with fiber which enables far greater flexibility than existing bendable cells, and the band-type battery is designed to be used in smartwatches and is proven to resist over 50,000 bendings and enhance a gadget's capacity by up to 50%.

LG Chem also put on display a wristband-type battery called "wire battery" that can be folded into half. The company developed a wire-type battery in 2013 for the first time in the world, before it came up with the world's first hexagonal-shape battery in June.

by Kim Seung-yeon
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Consumer Gear VR To Ship This November For $99

IFREE PRESS - Oct 11 - The redesign makes the Gear VR 22% lighter and there is a new touchpad in order to make the device easier to use. The headset is compatible with the Samsung phones latest devices, the Galaxy Note 5 as well as the S6 Edge+, S6 as well as S6 Edge.

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Samsung Gear S2 Will Cost Less Than Apple Watch

MASHABLE - Sep 30 - Samsung has two price tiers for the Gear S2: $299.99 for the standard, 42 mm Gear S2 and $349.99 for the slightly smaller (39.9 mm) Classic, which, with its gun metal finish and knurled ceramic bevel has a more traditional timepiece look. Availability date for the U.S., October 2.

by Lance Ulanoff
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Samsung Unveils $99 Consumer Version Gear VR

READ WRITE - Sep 24 - The new version will hit the market in November - in time for the holiday shopping season. The device boasts various improvements, including a better touchpad and a more comfortable design that weighs 22% less.

by Adriana Lee
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Samsung Gear S2 Price Revealed

GEEK SNACK - Sep 17 - The Gear S2 has a rumored release date set on October 2nd, with the Gear S2 price is set at $350, while the Gear S2 Classic price and 3G Gear S2 price are set at $400 each.

by Charlotte Banks
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Samsung Pushing Fashion With Latest Wearables

PAYMENTS SOURCE - Sep 8 - Samsung's new full line of wearables—branded as "The Humanfit"—includes "On Bag," which is described as an IT-infused purse with a built-in battery, Samsung’s Smart Suit 4.0 with an NFC tag embedded in the sleeve button, and a line of bio-smart shirts is called Body Compass and include "ECG and EMG sensors that track the user’s heart rate and respiration and suggest customized exercises in consideration of the user’s health status," Samsung said.

by Evan Schuman
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Gear S2 Smartwatch To Work On iOS

PCMAG - Sep 5 - According to a Samsung spokesperson, as reported by Digital Spy, the company might soon start trying to get its smartwatches working with Apple's devices. "We are looking at possibilities to open it up to iOS," the spokesperson told Digital Spy, later noting that the reasoning for doing: "Because we opened it up to Android, we are looking at this."

by David Murphy
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Samsung SleepSense Tracker And SmartThings Hub

CNET - Sep 3 - SleepSense is a disk sensor that consumers can place under their mattresses to track their sleep through a companion app. The updated SmartThings Hub comes with a more powerful processor that enables video monitoring, a battery backup that lasts up to 10 hours in case of a power outage, and a local app that lets the system operate without an Internet connection. The $99 second-generation smart home tracker is now available online in the US and Canada and will hit US retail stores next month.

by Shara Tibken
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Samsung Releases Revamped Gear S2 Smartwatch

BLOOMBERG - Aug 31 - Samsung introduced two versions of the new round-faced device to be run on the company’s Tizen operating system. The new watch will allow for mobile payments, smart car keys and remote control of home devices and features a 1.2-inch circular screen with a thickness of 11.4 millimeters. It will include "at-a-glance" notifications for calendars, e-mail and news and enables users to send text messages from their wrists.

by Spencer Sopen
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New Samsung Gear VR Headset Release Date

FRANCHISE HERALD - Aug 22 - Conspicuously missing from last week's event is news about the third-gen Samsung Gear VR headset's release date which is compatible with the latest Galaxy Note 5 and S6 Edge+ devices. Unfortunately for virtual reality enthusiasts hoping to snatch up those devices, those may not work with the current Innovator Edition Gear VR. Speculations suggest that the updated Samsung Gear VR headset's release date may be at next month's IFA 2015 in Berlin.

by Jason Fonbuena
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Samsung Debuts Apple Watch Competitor, Gear S2

NEWS FACTOR - Aug 19 - The official launch date for the Gear S2 is still two weeks away, but Samsung is providing a sneak preview of its answer to the Apple Watch via a new video posted on its YouTube channel. The video shows a silver-tone digital timepiece with a round face, and teases at a number of features ranging from voice calls and messaging to fitness and scheduling.

by Shirley Siluk
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Samsung Bets Big Time On Tizen OS

FINANCIAL EXPRESS - Aug 8 - At Tizen Developer Summit, Samsung announced two new SDKs—version 2.3.1 and 2.4 Beta. With SDK 2.3.1 for wearables, developers will be able to write native apps apart from the existing web-apps. The new SDK will also bring support for smartwatches with circular display.

by Karthekayan Iyer
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Apple Watch Owns 75% Of Smartwatch Market

MAC WORLD - Jul 22 - According to a report by Strategy Analytics, in just three months, the Apple Watch has managed to capture 75.5% of the global smartwatch market share, shipping an estimated 4 million units to vendors all over the world.The report also found that during that same period Samsung’s smartwatch market share plummeted from 73.6% marketshare down to 7.5%. Other smartwatch makers have also seen a decline in market share because of the Apple Watch—going from 26.4% to 17%.

by Oscar Raymundo
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New Samsung Gear A Smartwatch

MASHABLE - Jul 16 - It will have a Samsung-made Exynos processor, 4GB of storage space, 768mb of RAM, and will run a customized version of Tizen, according to reports. The watch will include a barometer, heart rate sensor, a Wi-Fi chip and GPS that can accurately track location without using a phone.

by Ronald Chavez
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Samsung Smart Headset With 3D-cam, 2x Displays, And AR/holography

SLASH GEAR - Jul 9 - The device has a "light guide element" in two parts, one part dents out a "virtual image", while a second element sends out a light from "outside the wearable display device to a predetermined position." Two additional elements are used to reflect light to their correct positions. It has dual cameras to create a 3D photo and video capture setup that results in images and video closer to our everyday two-eyed human visual system than any camera system has been able to implement before.

by Chris Burns
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