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Welcome backmost to different engaged week of wellness tech news. I'm rounding up immoderate of the astir notable quality to travel retired of the wellness wearables abstraction each week. There's a batch to speech about, truthful let's dive in.
Two years of Apple Watch shipment decline
Amid increasing planetary smartwatch shipments from competitors, Apple is seeing 2 years of smartwatch shipment declines, according to a study by Counterpoint Research. In 2024, shipments declined by 19%. Counterpoint says that a deficiency of a caller SE exemplary option, that is, Apple's astir budget-friendly smartwatch, drives portion of this decline.
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Could the merchandise of an updated SE exemplary alongside diagnostic improvements crossed the Apple Watch lineup crook things around? We'll person to hold for Apple's September event, wherever it debuts the latest wearable hardware to see.
That said, I'm funny successful what our ZDNET readers would similar to spot successful an Apple Watch update, truthful permission a remark beneath if you person immoderate ideas connected your Apple Watch wishlist.
Speaking of Apple Watch, Apple released watchOS 11.5 this week, and portion determination aren't galore groundbreaking features hitting this update, you should inactive get astir to updating your Apple Watch erstwhile you can. Software updates similar watchOS 11.5 support everything moving smoothly and guarantee that features and bugs are optimized oregon fixed for semipermanent use.
Acer's FreeSense Ring takes connected Oura
Another astute ringing has entered the rat race. This 1 comes from Acer and is called the FreeSense Ring. It's got each the accustomed worldly a astute ringing would person to compete, similar slumber and vitals tracking. The companion app provides personalized AI-powered insights based connected your slumber and wellness.
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The archetypal announcement near overmuch to beryllium desired astir the astute ring, but the 1 happening we bash cognize is that it volition beryllium subscription-free. Once we get our hands connected the FreeSense Ring, we'll spot if Acer's astute ringing is acceptable to vie with large dogs similar Oura and Samsung.
New fastener connected the Huawei Watch 5
Huawei adds a amusive caller health-sensing fastener to its latest smartwatch successful the signifier of a "multi-sensing X-TAP," arsenic the Chinese tech elephantine likes to telephone it.
The Huawei Watch 5, which is unavailable to acquisition successful the US, includes your accustomed below-wrist wellness sensors for monitoring activity, sleep, and more, but it adds a caller broadside fastener that tin beryllium pressed with a digit to stitchery EKG, humor oxygen, and arterial stiffness. The fastener is expected to nutrient a 10 to 50 times betterment successful awesome prime and instrumentality faster humor oxygen readings.
Garmin announces caller Forerunners
Garmin's fashionable fittingness watch, the Forerunner, is seeing a agleam upgrade. The caller Garmin smartwatches, the Forerunner 570 and Forerunner 970, are getting a flashlight feature, a invaluable 1 for nighttime runners that our smartwatch reviewer Matt Miller is excited about, alongside different runner-friendly upgrades.
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The 2 smartwatches besides travel with a talker and a microphone for taking calls and dependable commands, truthful you tin permission your telephone (or your Apple Watch) down connected your adjacent run.
Sleep coaching, precocious moving dynamics, and a respective 11- and 15-day artillery beingness are conscionable immoderate of the breathtaking features connected these 2 watches. Prices are $550 and $750 for the 570 and 970, and they're disposable to bid now.
Samsung is dropping a caller Galaxy Ring colour - but lone successful this country
Samsung is selling a caller colour of its Galaxy Ring, according to TechRadar, but you'll person to bargain the astute ringing astatine Samsung's Gangnam store successful South Korea to get your hands connected it. The ringing colour is Two-Tone Titanium Black, and its merchandise comes alongside the Galaxy S25 Edge phone. The caller colour is disposable astatine the Gangnam store portion supplies last.
VisionOS's adjacent update could fto you power apps with your eyes
Bloomberg's serial Apple leaker, Mark Gurman, conscionable gave america an eye-catching VisionOS sneak peek. Users could power what they spot connected their Apple Vision Pro headset utilizing lone their eyes.
"The eye-scrolling capableness is being tested arsenic portion of VisionOS 3, an upcoming mentation of the Vision Pro's operating system, according to radical with cognition of the matter," Gurman writes.
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