Samsung Gear S2 Smart Watch: Official Promo Shows Circular Dial [VIDEO]

A new official promo video of the Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch has been released. Pictured above: An image of Samsung Gear 2 smartwatch. Nick Deel/IBT

A new promo of Samsung's upcoming Gear S2 smart has been released online, showing a circular dial. The device was showcased during the recent Unpacked event, alongside the high-end Galaxy series of handsets.

Tim Cook: Apple Watch had a better launch quarter than the iPhone and iPad did

Tim Cook: Apple Watch had a better launch quarter than the iPhone and iPad did

While Apple reported results for its fiscal third quarter this afternoon, it did not break out sales for the Apple Watch. The quarter that started in April and ended in June was the first to include results from Apple's timepiece. The tech titan put revenue from the Watch into a category called "other products" which reported quarterly revenue of $2.64 billion. This was a year-over-year gain of 49%. Apple said that it hid results for the watch so that competitors couldn't gain any "insights" into how the product is selling. 

Earlier this month we passed along data from a research firm called Slice. The numbers showed that daily sales in the U.S. of the Apple Watch had declined by 90% since the timepiece launched in April. Overall, there is a general sense that the Apple Watch is not selling like Apple thought it would.

Still, Apple CEO Tim Cook said after the earnings announcement that sales of the Apple Watch had exceeded his expectations. He added that supply could not keep up with demand by the end of June, when the quarter ended. The executive believes that Apple Watch will be one of the top gifts for the holiday season and plans on expanding sales channels as a result. He also noted that the watch outperformed the Apple iPhone and Apple iPad in their first quarters after being launched.

"Sales of the Watch did exceed my expectations, despite supply trailing demand at the end of the quarter...beyond the very good news on sales, we're more excited on how the product is positioned for the long term, because we're starting a new category"-Tim Cook, CEO, Apple

Without specific numbers from Apple, Wall Street analysts tried to compute how the Apple Watch did for the quarter. Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster originally figured that 1.2 million units were sold at an average price of $550. But after hearing Cook's optimistic comments, Munster raised his forecast to 2.5 million watches sold.

"We believe the number may fuel investor concerns about the near and long-term wearable opportunity. It's too early to write the Watch off."-Gene Munster, analyst, Piper Jaffray

Apple CFO Luca Maestri actually gave us a decent idea of how much revenue the Apple Watch produced in the quarter. Noting that the "other products" category (which included the Apple Watch) rose $956 million on a sequential basis, Maestri said that the watch accounted for more than 100% of the category's growth in the period. That suggests that the Apple Watch did over $1 billion in sales for the fiscal third quarter.

source: CNET

Asus ZenWatch to launch first in Taiwan in extremely limited numbers

The Asus ZenWatch is about to hit stores in Taiwan this November, just as the company promised, however, news site VR Zone reports that the initial run will consist of only 300 units. The reason for the limited availability is unknown, but it is a sign that Asus may not be in a hurry to bring the device to western markets.

The ZenWatch was announced at this year's IFA in germany and impresses with a sleek, elegant, slightly curved design. Its hardware

LG G Watch R to cost more than its square brother, sales start soon

According to ETNews and ZDNet Korea, LG is planning to launch the G Watch R in South Korea on October 14. However, a local online retailer is rumored to have stroke a deal with LG and offer the watch exclusively for a week, starting tomorrow.

Apple Watch delayed for February in limited quantity

At its announcement event back in September, Apple announced that the Watch will be available early 2015, but Rosenblatt Securities analyst Brian Blair believes the company is having production issues. As a result, the Apple Watch won't go into mass production until January, 2015 at the earliest.

 

LG G Watch gets $50 off deal after Apple Watch announcement

In the deluge of Apple news yesterday, anyone interested in Android Wear may have missed a good deal that hit just after Apple's announcement. It's hard to not draw a connection here, but right after Apple announced the Apple Watch, the LG G Watch saw a $50 off deal begin in various stores.

The LG G Watch has a regular price of $229. This is a price many have considered a bit high given that the Samsung Gear Live costs $199 and features almost identical specs and also includes a heart rate monitor, which the G Watch doesn't have. Now, the LG G

Motorola Moto 360 sold out in just a few hours

Motorola Moto 360, the iconic smartwatch, was launched shortly after the official Motorola event on September 5. The conference was held in Chicago and Motorola announced the second generation Moto X and Moto G, plus the launch of the long-awaited Moto 360 for $250.

As it turns out the Moto 360 stock was depleted in the next few hours after the launch. Both

Google releases Android Wear roadmap for the rest of the year

On Thursday, we passed along some speculation about an October 15th update that will take Android Wear to version 2.0. Today, on Friday, Google posted a roadmap revealing its plans for updating the Android Wear platform for the remainder of the year. Google has said that it would be updating Android Wear often.

First on the roadmap is an update that will bring offline music playback and a GPS sensor to the watches. The update will allow music stored on an Android Wear powered watch, to be heard over

LG G Watch R hands-on

Last week, LG revealed its round Android Wear contender to the popular Moto 360 – the LG G Watch R, which is the first smartwatch from a major manufacturer to sport a perfectly-round display (the Moto 360 has some “wasted” space at the bottom). But is this enough to rule out that the G Watch R is the best smartwatch up until now? Well, we can't tell if this will be the case indeed unless we gave the G Watch R right at our

Best Buy takes $50 off the price of the LG G Watch

With the LG G Watch R bringing a round face to the manufacturer's Android Wear powered smartwatch lineup, Best Buy has decided to cut the price of the original LG G Watch. The big box retailer has sliced $50 off the price of the original LG timepiece. That brings the price of the rectangular wearable, available in black or white,

Sony SmartWatch 3 and SmartBand Talk renders appear, as clear as the Hudson River

Sony is expected to introduce the Sony Xperia Z3, Sony Xperia Z3 Compact and the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact this coming week at IFA in Berlin. In addition, it appears that Sony will be introducing a pair of new wearable devices at the same time. Fuzzy looking renders of both the Sony SmartWatch 3 and the Sony