health
Fitbit Premium is now free for 90 days, including thousands of workouts
With gyms around the world closing their doors and exercise classes disbanding, Fitbit has decided to give away its premium workout app free for 90 →
How your Apple, WearOS, and Fitbit smartwatch can help track your coronavirus symptoms
As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, your smartwatch can help you get a perspective on your health. The Apple Watch can’t take your temperature. Neither →
The Apple Watch 6 could be capable of detecting blood oxygen levels
The Apple Watch may soon be able to measure blood oxygen levels. Based on snippets of code inside iOS 14 acquired exclusively by 9to5Mac, Apple →
So you’re stuck working from home… How to handle quarantine
Offices are closing, schools are canceling classes, and a whole lot of people used to the 9-5 are finding themselves working from home as the →
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[In-depth Comparison] Lenovo Legion Y540 vs Acer Predator Helios 300 15 (2019, PH315-52) – the latter wins because of its better build and longer battery life
It’s time to have a look at some affordable gaming laptops. The low-to mid-end devices are often preferred over the top-end laptops because people are →
watchOS 7 to bring interesting new watch faces to the Apple Watch
The Apple Watch is arguably the most popular smartwatch in the market but that has mostly been due to its health features. Support from third-party →
Apple Watch to get key feature missing since day one – report
The Apple Watch could finally get a native sleep tracking feature in watchOS 7, due out later this year, according to code spied in purportedly →
Wear OS by Google might finally have a health-focused update
While they may have more variety, smartwatches powered by Wear OS, formerly known as Android Wear, severely lag behind the Apple Watch in both sales →
Google’s Wear OS survey points to a bigger emphasis on health
Despite mass abandonment of Wear OS from the likes of Samsung and Huawei, it looks like Google hasn’t given up on its wearable operating system →
Best clip-on and non-wrist fitness trackers
We pick the wearables that won’t put your monitoring on show Wearing a fitness tracker doesn’t mean having to advertise the fact you’re watching your health, nor →
OPPO Watch curved screen claimed to be a game-changer
Smartwatches have suddenly become hot items in no small part thanks to the Apple Watch’s life-saving health features. As far as smartwatches themselves are concerned, →
Winners and Losers: Samsung hits a home run while MWC folds
Depending on where you’re sat, the second week of February was either an outstanding week for mobile phones or an absolute disaster. Anytime one of →
Garmin Connect Badges: We list the toughest and how to earn them
Everything you need to know about levelling up your health and fitness Garmin Connect Badges are a fun way of keeping track of your big →
Best Fitbit Versa watch faces: 14 top Fitbit Clock Faces you can download
The go-to faces to show off on your Fitbit Versa 2, Versa or Versa Lite With a growing stable of smartwatches, Fitbit is quickly becoming →
Xiaomi Mi 10 is coming: what you need to know
MWC 2020 will be an interesting one this year and not exactly in the usual sense. Quite a number of high-profile companies have withdrawn from →
Amazfit GTS Titanium Version review: it would be better to give more “hints” to life
Whether in the past, in the present, or in the future, “health” will be the first essence of our life, whether in the past, at →
Fast Charge: It’s over for the smartphone – we just don’t know it yet
Feature stagnation, unjustifiable stratospheric pricing and rising issues with privacy, addiction and mental health spell doom for the smartphone. We’re entering an era of smartphone →
Best sleep trackers: We compare Fitbit, wearable and bedside devices
Take control of your sleep with our pick of the elite slumber supervisors Wellness isn’t just about doing cat yoga and drinking alt-milks, sometimes you →
Amazfit Bip S first look: Huami’s budget Apple Watch imitator gets pool-ready
The inexpensive smartwatch gets a spec bump for 2020 Huami has found great success with its line of budget Amazfit wearables – 100 million sold →
Amazfit T-Rex and Bip S smartwatches land at CES 2020 – with a big health focus
Big specs and low price – is it time to take Amazfit’s health creds seriously? Amazfit looked set to have a massive CES – and →
Withings ScanWatch first look: A smartwatch that can detect sleep apnea
CES 2020: Withings’ latest wearable makes major medical promises It’s been a dramatic few years for Withings. Having been acquired by Nokia, spat out, then →
Withings ScanWatch detects irregular heart rate and sleep apnea
The Apple Watch’s atrial fibrillation or AFib detection definitely struck a chord in the wearables market, even if it is now the center of a →
Top 6 Reasons to BUY or NOT buy the Acer Predator Triton 300 (PT315-51)
Last week we tested the Acer Predator Triton 300 (PT315-51) and we came to the conclusion that this a nice gaming machine. Now we are →
Honor Magic Watch 2 VS Amazfit Stratos 3: Which Smart Running Watch is Better?
The Honor as a sub-brand of HUAWEI, which brought us the newest Honor Magic Watch 2 on November 26th. The Honor Magic Watch 2 has →
Huawei Honor Band 5i Hands On Review: 6 Reasons to Tell you Why it’s Worth Buying!
Except the popular Honor Band 5, there also have a Honor Band 5i available. As a hot sports fitness tracker, Honor Band 5i with its →
Garmin Vivoactive 4 review: A top notch sporty smartwatch where fitness comes first
Our Vivoactive 4 review was first published as a “first look” on 5 September 2019. It’s now been updated after full testing of heart rate, →
Fitbit OS 4.1 update brings improved health features – and uncertainty of its future
Fitbit was one of the remaining bastions of the independent wearable market. Emphasis on “was” after it was acquired by Google (pending regulatory approval) which →
Here’s why Google’s Fitbit purchase is worth every penny—even if we never get a Pixel Watch
It’s not the devices, it’s the data. The smartwatch wars just got a whole lot more interesting. Google has announced that it will be purchasing →
Buying Fitbit won’t save Google from the big bad Apple Watch – but it’s a genius move
Google’s rumoured attempt to buy Fitbit won’t break the Apple Watch’s stranglehold on the wearable market anytime soon, but it could still be a clever move, →
Fitbit and SpO2: Two years on, we’re still waiting for the health sensor to be turned on
The health sensor that stills lie dormant in Fitbit wearables In 2017, Fitbit made its foray into the smartwatch world with the Ionic. A fitness-focused watch that →