{"id":315282,"date":"2019-05-08T13:30:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T11:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=315282"},"modified":"2019-05-31T09:07:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T07:07:58","slug":"these-are-the-most-popular-smartwatches-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/315282\/these-are-the-most-popular-smartwatches-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the most popular smartwatches right now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Global smartwatch shipments grew a healthy 48% year-on-year (YoY) in Q1 2019 driven by Apple, Samsung, Fitbit, and Huawei, according to the latest research from Counterpoint\u2019s Global Smartwatch Tracker.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the major shift in the market, Counterpoint research analyst, Satyajit Sinha, said that the increase has been driven by the health-related features like ECG and fall detection in the Apple Watch Series 4<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“The heart rate sensor for health monitoring, GPS and pedometer sensors for fitness, and NFC embedded for payment are some of the key integrated technologies,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Related use-cases and in addition to notifications with cellular capability are driving the smartwatch adoption. However, limited battery life remains a pain point for consumer\u2019s decision-making process, irrespective of region and price band.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Commenting on other vendors\u2019 performance, senior analyst, Sujeong Lim said that Samsung grew exponentially at 127% YoY as the Korean brand\u2019s market share jumped to 11% in Q1 2019.<\/p>\n

“Its success was due to the latest Galaxy watch series<\/strong> which came with better battery life as well as a very traditional round clockface design,” Lim said.<\/p>\n

“Further, it provides cellular LTE connectivity which gives it an edge over others targeting Android-based smartphone users. It is a great alternative to the Apple Watch for Android and Samsung\u2019s huge installed base of users.\u201d<\/p>\n

Huawei\u2019s market share jumped to 3% in Q1 2019 due to good traction for its latest Huawei Watch GT<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“The striking design, affordability, leveraging the growing \u2018Huawei\u2019 brand mindshare, and the smartphone user base is driving demand,” Lim said.<\/p>\n

“Further, Huawei has shifted focus to sell more Huawei branded smartwatches whereas the smart bands are selling well under its Honor brand.”<\/p>\n

\n

Read: Why Huawei is beating Apple as the second biggest smartphone brand in the world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Global smartwatch shipments grew a healthy 48% year-on-year (YoY) in Q1 2019 driven by Apple, Samsung, Fitbit, and Huawei, according to the latest research from Counterpoint\u2019s Global Smartwatch Tracker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":296684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[51,14006,26,1635,52],"class_list":["post-315282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-apple","tag-counterpoiint","tag-headline","tag-huawei","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315282"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320583,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315282\/revisions\/320583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}