Mobile World Congress (MWC) is a mobile phone tradeshow held annually in Barcelona. It involves over 2,000 companies and 100,000 attendees. While it may have started out with its emphasis firmly planted on mobile devices, its reach now extends to wearables, VR, and all manner of IoT. The event will...
Samsung's strategy of making its initial Tizen smartphones fall under the budget category seems to be working out quite well, as a recent report from market research agency Strategy Analytics claims that Samsung sold over 3 million Tizen smartphones in 2015! While the numbers may look huge, Samsung's very own...
It's needless to say that with a huge number of Raspberry Pi users worldwide, the community keeps growing by the minute and the list of ROMS available for this dirt cheap PC on a card is endless. With the hardware readily available everywhere, Samsung sees the Raspberry Pi (Pi 2...
Using a mere 1.2 inch touch screen to text might not be the smartest thing to do on a smartwatch, with smartphone screens getting bigger everyday texting on a much smaller screen isn't convenient either. But there certainly will be occasions when getting hold of your smartphone to send...
Just days after Samsung announced the global roll-out of the more premium variants of its Gear S2 classic smartwatch, Rose Gold and Platinum, the smartwatches made way into stores in USA and parts of Europe for pre-orders. The pre-orders for the Tizen based smartwatches are now up in United...
With the Gear S2 smartwatch being a great hit for Samsung, the South Korean consumer electronics giant had recently unveiled two new Rose Gold and Platinum edtions of the Gear S2 at CES 2016, Las Vegas. These new variants take a premium makeover while keeping the innards of the...
Consumers are frustrated with smart homes. Notably, they're not annoyed with the devices that wire up their living environments. It's the apps through which they schedule and manage each device, according to a new report from Argus Insights. Argus, notably, uses actual data drawn from devices and public sources like app-store reviews....
Samsung's popular smartwatch, the Gear S2 comes in two design Variants and are named the Gear S2 Sports and the Gear S2 Classic. While Samsung provides customization for both the watches with different straps, Samsung seems to have messed up a bit in how they're connected to the watches....
Yesterday, the Gear S2 was finally launched in India, with a starting price of Rs. 24300. With so many Tizen Indian developers, this was a market that needed the S2. What else does this market need? Well a popular Game developer company best known for their Cricket and Golf mobile...
The Gear S2 was launched just ahead of IFA 2015 and since then there are many apps that have been or are currently being developed for this Smartwatch. Now, one particular app i've been waiting for, the SmartThings app, is said to be coming soon. The app was launched...
Guest author Richard MacManus is the founder of ReadWrite. This article originally appeared in his Augment Intelligence newsletter. If you’re thinking that virtual reality (VR) is all about gaming, then think again. Are you a sports fan? The US Open Golf Tournament was livestreamed in VR last year. A music fan? Paul McCartney,...
I look at my Gear S2 in the mornings at about a quarter past 10am and pull down the notification window to see the word “standalone.” I breathe a sigh of relief. It’s nice to make phone calls and send texts from my wrist, but my desire for a...
Being a Samsung Gear S2 owner I can really appreciate the benefits of having a smartwatch with an innovative circular user interface, and also what value the Tizen Operating System brings to such a device. It is currently on-sale for $299 in the US, but you can now get it...
A little motivation from others can make people do brave things. Now with a community of over 15 million people all sharing one mutual determination of staying fit by working out, that becomes a motivation on a whole new level. Skimble is a platform with that sort of a...
Last week, Dr. Hong, the President of Samsung SDS and the Head of its solution business, delivered a keynote at CES 2016 that focused on the Internet of Things (IoT) and how this can impact on our lives today and in the future. Samsung has an ever expanding range...
In all honesty, this year at CES had a lot of things happening in wearable electronics but surprisingly Smartwatches weren't the reason for it (except for Huawei and Fitbit). One of the many reasons to why consumers aren't jumping onto the smartwatch bandwagon has to deal with the lack of...
CES 2016, the big technology event in Las Vegas this week, is a place where the best and brightest that the tech world can offer. It provided in a dazzling display of demonstrations, discussions and debates. For every huge hit that receives accolades and media coverage, there are those products...
SmartThings connects to BMW cars SmartThings, Samsung's platform to connect to smart devices in your smart home, has announced a brand new integration that will enable their platform to control and monitor your smart home from your BMW. You are also able to control certain functions of your car...
Gear Watch Designer The Gear Watch Designer has been released and it enables watch designers or developers, depending on what you want to be called, to design, produce and distribute Watch Faces without the complexity of code scripting! This tool is however aimed at Semi/Pro Designers, but talented beginners...
Tizen 2015 Year in Review This year has unquestionably been a great year for Tizen in terms of Product, Operating System and Software Development Kit (SDK) Releases. Now lets have a look at some of the highlights of the year, and fasten your seat belts as there have been quite a few....
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