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Report: New Samsung Smartwatch Will Offer Mobile Payments

Kellen June 8, 2015 30

According to a report out of Electronic Times, Samsung's next smartwatch will have NFC so that the Korean manufacturer can extend its payment system from phone to wearable. The current target for release is "second half of the year," but I would imagine a new...

Monday Poll: Do You Own a Smartwatch?

Kellen January 19, 2015 227

We enter 2015 after a year in which Google decided to takeover the wearable market with Android Wear. Companies had tried before Android Wear to make smartwatches, but if we are being honest, have to admit that most were quite terrible. That's not to say that...

Samsung Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo, and Gear Fit Update Improves All Sorts of Fitness Issues

Kellen June 18, 2014 10

We weren't exactly kind to the Samsung Gear Fit in our review of it, because well, as a fitness tracker it completely failed in many of our tests over the simplest of things. But, that hasn't kept Samsung from doing its best to try and improve the Fit, along...

Samsung Galaxy Gear Tizen Update Leaks, Previewed in Video

Kyle May 14, 2014 27

Samsung maintained back in May that it would continue to support the Galaxy Gear, most notably with an update from an Android-based OS to a Tizen-based OS. If leaked firmware obtained by SamMobile is any indication, it seems like the company is nearly ready to...

Samsung Gear 2 Discounted to $269 Through eBay

Kellen May 12, 2014 11

Since Samsung has already taken full control over the smartphone market, they decided for 2014 that it was time to make the wearables market theirs as well. So even though they released the original Galaxy Gear at the end of 2013, they introduced three new...

Samsung Wants Gear Watches to Work With Other Android Devices

Tim April 16, 2014 60

In a recent article posted on Reuters, a Samsung executive covered many different subjects; including its Gear line of smartwatches, an upcoming Galaxy Note device, and also about how the Galaxy S5 will dominate the Galaxy S4 in regards to sales. What caught...

Samsung SIM-enabled Gear Smartwatch to be Called Gear Solo?

Tim April 7, 2014 23

According to a new report out of Korea, Samsung isn't quite done yet releasing products in the wearable field. The company recently unveiled three new wearable devices, the Gear 2, Gear Neo, and the Gear Fit, but in true Samsung fashion, there is more! The...

Samsung Gear 2 and Gear Fit Now Up for Pre-order From Amazon, Ship April 11

Kellen April 4, 2014 52

Samsung's new lineup of sporty wearables - Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo, and Gear Fit - is up for pre-order through Amazon already, all of which show a launch date of April 11. If that date sounds familiar, that's because the Galaxy S5 is launching globally on that day...