Week In Wearables: Samsung Leaks Galaxy Watch, Fitbit Versa Wristbands, Apple Watch Sales Strong

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This week in wearable news: the Samsung Galaxy Watch suddenly became public, it seems, Fitbit announced new wristbands and Apple Watch sales (and Fitbit and Garmin) are very strong. Samsung Accidentally Leaks Galaxy WatchThe announcement next month of the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is almost certainly going to be accompanied by a smartwatch. Apple Watch sales, and the wearables market in general, are going greatNew analysis from Canalys shows big growth for wearables and the Apple Watch. The 3.5 million Apple Watch sales figure is for the latest quarter (Q2 2018), and is a 30% increase over the same period last year. And finally…Apple Insider reported that future Apple Watch extras could help prevent sunburn as revealed, it seems by a patent.

Samsung Just Accidentally Leaked Its New Galaxy Watch - And What It Means

Samsung Galaxy Watch is all but confirmed as the name of the company's latest smartwatch to take on the Apple Watch, Fitbit Ionic and others. Samsung's commitment to smartwatches has been steady and solid from its initial Samsung Galaxy Gear in 2013 through several iterations with long, rectangular watch faces to the most recent models with circular displays. But the Samsung Galaxy Watch is different. There have been rumors that a Wear OS watch was coming. Since Wear OS works with circular faces, it supports the idea that this will be a Wear OS watch.

Samsung Galaxy Watch preview: Everything we know so far

As it stated in Samsung has another smartwatch up its sleeve. This is the first to be called the Samsung Galaxy Watch – in other words, it'll be part of the same 'Galaxy' stable as the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy Note 8 smartphones that have been so successful. This suggests Samsung is cooking up something special, elevating the device to something more than a mere successor to the Gear S3. We've scoured the web for rumours, leaks, hearsay, conjecture and everything in-between. We think it's safe to say you won't be disappointed.

Samsung is rumored to be working on a Galaxy Watch this year

Samsung is rumored to be working on a Galaxy Watch this yearSamsung's smartwatch line has gone under the Gear brand since 2014, but this year, rumors suggest that Samsung might swap that out for something better known: the Galaxy name. The strongest sign of the name change comes from a trademark filing in Korea, spotted by SamMobile, on a logo for "Samsung Galaxy Watch" — a product that does not yet exist. The Galaxy branding could suggest that Samsung is going back to Google's camp with the newly named Wear OS. The same Twitter user who initially mentioned the Galaxy Watch name, who goes by Ice Universe, also said the watch would run Wear OS. Previously, VentureBeat's Evan Blass said that Google had seeded Wear OS versions of Gear watches to Samsung employees to try out.