Research: Wearables, including Apple Watch, are poor at tracking calories

In a paper published in January this year, researchers try to evaluate the usefulness of wrist-worn smart devices for tracking energy expenditure and heart rate. The Apple Watch Series 6, Polar Vantage V and the Fitbit Sense were used by 30 healthy male and female participants engaging in weight training, cycling, running walking and even sitting. As reference devices, the team used the Polar H10 chest strap and the MetaMax 3B. Now, we won't bore you with the details of the study or the methods used as they seem solid enough and instead, we will talk about the findings. The guys at...

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Weekly poll results: smartwatches are becoming more popular, especially the advanced ones

Smartwatches, the full-featured kind, are quite popular – nearly half of you have one, according to last week’s poll. The challenges for makers are laid out in the second poll, the most important feature of a smartwatch or band is long battery life. The watches running watchOS, Wear OS, Tizen or HarmonyOS tend to last between one and four days depending on usage. Improving on that will take a lot of work as the form factor limits battery capacity while advanced features require more power. For those wearing a smart device on their wrists, the basic smartwatch was the second most...

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Motorola Razr to feature two bigger screens

Motorola's upcoming Razr 3 foldable phone has been a subject of leaks in the last couple of months and aside from the new hardware, the handset is supposed to offer an overhauled design as well. The same clam shell form factor is expected, though. According to Ross Young, the device will have a big screen cover - around the 3.0" mark, which is a decent upgrade over the 2.7" screen found on the Razr 5G. Additionally, the primary, foldable display will grow to 6.7" from 6.2" and will be manufactured by China Star. Unlike its predecessor, the Razr 3 will be running more powerful...

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Sony Xperia 10 IV review

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Google Pixel Watch is reportedly using an Exynos chip from 2018

During its Google I/O conference this year, the company officially confirmed that it's working on a smartwatch and will be released within a couple of months. However, the tech giant wasn't very vocal about details, so we are left with a lot of questions. Luckily, 9to5Google's sources learned that the watch will be running on the Exynos 9110 SoC. For context, this is a 2018 chipset based on a 10nm manufacturing process with two Cortex-A53 cores. A more recent alternative would be the Exynos W920 platform powering the Galaxy Watch4 series. It makes use of a much more efficient 5nm node...

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Realme TechLife Watch SZ100 is launching on May 18

Realme will unveil the Narzo 50 5G and Narzo 50 Pro 5G on May 18 in India, and alongside those, the company will also introduce a new smartwatch, dubbed Realme TechLife Watch SZ100. Realme hasn't divulged the Watch SZ100's pricing yet, but the company revealed a few features of the smartwatch, including a 1.69" color display, skin and body temperature monitoring, and heart rate sensor. Realme is advertising the Watch SZ100 with 12-day battery life on a single charge, but it didn't reveal the wearable's battery size. Realme TechLife Watch SZ100's features Realme has...

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