Smartwatch Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Pebble receives $15 mil in funding, releases SDK and Sports API

by Mike Schramm (May 16th, 2013)

The company behind the Pebble smartwatch, which not only looks awesome but connects up to your iPhone, has picked up US$15 million in funding from venture capitalists, and has released yet another version of its SDK. The funding is obviously a solid chunk of change, and should help Pebble not ...

Hack brings all iPhone notifications to Pebble watch

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 14th, 2013)

Pebble watch owners have a good reason to jailbreak their iOS device. A new jailbreak app from developer Conrad Kramer lets the smartwatch accept all incoming notifications, not just the ones from native iOS apps, like messages and phone calls. This hack is available to most iPhone owners now ...

New York Times says Apple is developing a curved glass smart watch

by Mel Martin (Feb 10th, 2013)

In today's Bits column, New York Times writer Nick Bilton says Apple is developing a curved screen watch. Apple has declined to comment on any of this, as usual, but an Apple-branded smart watch been long rumored. There has been a good deal of interest in a smartphone-connected watch. There was ...

Starfish shows off prototype of smartwatch at Macworld/iWorld 2013

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Feb 2nd, 2013)

One of the more anticipated "products" at Macworld/iWorld 2013 was the Starfish smart watch: an iPhone and Android-compatible watch that eventually will be capable of receiving incoming calls, texts, email, stock market updates and more -- or so the vendor claims. Does that sound ...

Pebble Smartwatch app hits the App Store

by Michael Grothaus (Jan 24th, 2013)

Just hours after Pebble announced that it shipped out its first few hundred units of Pebble watches to early Kickstarter benefactors, Pebble Smartwatch, the companion app to the device, has hit the App Store. Users don't need the app to use most of the features of the watch, however the app is ...

MetaWatch offers iPhone compatibility in new developer kit

by Steven Sande (May 22nd, 2012)

So, you didn't get signed up to get one of the first Pebble watches on Kickstarter? Well, you have a fallback plan now. MetaWatch, a spinoff of watchmaker Fossil, has released a new version of its self-named watch in developer kit format that specifically uses Bluetooth 4.0 (found in the iPhone ...