Total shipment volumes reached 19.7 million units for Q1 2016, which is quite the jump from Q1 2015’s 11.8 million units. The Wearable MarketĪccording to data gathered by the IDC, the demand for wearables has increased by more than 67 percent in the first quarter of 2016 compared to the previous year.
LG, Huawei and Motorola made it clear that they will be releasing Android Wear devices for the remainder of 2016. Both are running on the same processor, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 clocked at 1,200 MHz. One is the Huawei Watch and the other is the LTE-equipped LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition. Google wants to iron out bugs and encourages its developer community to keep spotting more.īear in mind that Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview is only available on a couple of devices. The OS version is not yet ready for prime time. "We’ve gotten tons of great feedback from the developer community about Android Wear 2.0––thank you! We’ve decided to continue the preview program into early 2017, at which point the first watches will receive Android Wear 2.0," says Google in a blog post. Google is extending the developer preview until early 2017, which is also the timeframe that the tech giant has set for the first smartwatches to receive the Android Wear 2.0 update. Note that only the developer preview version of Android Wear 2.0 is out at the moment.