Amazfit to bring ECG and blood pressure monitoring on future devices in the US

Amazfit to bring ECG and blood pressure monitoring on future devices in the US

Zepp Health (formerly known as Huami) is looking to further expand its portfolio of wearables to the US and Zepp Health COO Mike Yeung shared some interesting insights with Wareable in a recent interview.

A big focus for the company is bringing smartwatches with onboard ECG and blood pressure monitoring with proprietary algorithms. Yeung shared Zepp Health is teaming up with medical device maker AliveCor to bring ECG on its smartwatches and is in the process of getting FDA certification.

We are currently engaging with the US FDA and on areas such as ECG and blood pressure…

IDC: shipments of wearables grows in the middle of a pandemic, hearables is the largest category

IDC: shipments of wearables grows in the middle of a pandemic, hearables is the largest category

IDC reports that shipments of wearables grew to 153.5 million in the final quarter of 2020, up 27.2% compared to the same period last year. The full year growth is about the same and shipments totaled 444.7 million.

Last year the analysts started tracking a new category, hearables. They define it as an ear-worn audio device that does more than music: they access a digital assistant or provide health and fitness tracking. However, even an “audio experience enhancement” is enough for a headset to be classified as a hearable.

Anyway, hearables are by far the largest category, making up…

Samsung Galaxy Watch4’s battery may have just been certified by the 3C

Samsung Galaxy Watch4’s battery may have just been certified by the 3C

The Samsung Galaxy Watch4 and Watch Active4 are expected to be announced in the second quarter of this year (April-June). They may mark an important shift in strategy for Samsung as the company is expected to replace Tizen with Android.

It appears that the 3C has certified a 240 mAh battery for use in the SM-R880, which is presumably the 41mm version of the Galaxy Watch4. For comparison, the 41mm Watch3 has a 247 mAh battery, the 45mm one steps up to 350 mAh.

3C certification for the EB-BR880ABY battery for the upcoming Galaxy Watch4

This certification also suggests that the new…

iFixit gives Xiaomi Mi 11 an average repairability score

iFixit gives Xiaomi Mi 11 an average repairability score

The iFixit team has disassembled a Xiaomi Mi 11 and published its findings. The phone received a repairability score of 4/10, matching the vanilla Galaxy S21 (and a point ahead of the S21 Ultra), but behind the 6/10 that the four iPhone 12 models received.

The team suspects that Mi 11’s lack of an IP rating allowed Xiaomi to use less glue, which made removing the back panel and the display (which came out without cracking). The battery had easy to remove pull tabs as well. The screen and battery can be replaced separately, which simplifies those repairs.

All the bits that make the…

New Honor V40 phone appears with a familiar design

New Honor V40 phone appears with a familiar design

Honor has officially separated from Huawei, but at that point a lot of products were inevitably too far along in the pipeline to change. A new device called “Honor V40 Light Luxury Edition” has appeared online, and it looks just like the Huawei nova 8 series from the back – an oval island with one huge lens, three smaller cameras and a single LED flash.

Honor V40 Lite

The phone is expected to arrive as Honor V40 Lite, and it looks spectacular in the hands-on photos. The blue-green color with mirror finish bends the light in a magnificent way, while the white option appears to…

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