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I've been checking out some of the new stuff coming out of CES this year, and the Pebble Steel is probably the first smartwatch that offers reasonable functionality while still maintaining marginally decent looks and great battery life. Certainly, it's the first that I'd consider wearing (unless you count the Fitbit Flex, which I do wear).
The Pebble Steel in matte black.
The Verge has a brief write-up, but check out the video on the Pebble Steel site as well.
Earlier this week, Samsung announced that they'd shipped 800,000 of their new Galaxy Gear smartwatch. This seemed to many people to be strange, given that the thing was universally panned by the tech press, and even in the event that someone would have liked to buy one, it only worked with the Galaxy Note 3. Kind of a downer, if you'd just bought the Galaxy S3 or S4.
As it turns out, the reality of their sales figures are slightly less... outstanding.
"Also on September 25, Samsung Electronics released the Galaxy Gear in time for the wearable computing generation. Yet this product has cumulative sales under 50,000, with daily sales of only 800-900 units. These low sales values for the Galaxy Gear are far below the initial expectations of the industry."
Not exactly numbers that are setting the world on fire.
