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Simband isn’t dead—its technology could be coming to a device near you soon

Samsung unveiled the Simband, a reference wearable that manufacturers could experiment with, back in 2014. The unit was packed full of sensors that tracked blood pressure, skin temperature, sweat production, blood volume, heart rate and more, leading many to believe that it would be released once the Apple Watch, which was rumored to be a […]

By Josh L.
7 years ago

Samsung may be working on a Gear Fit Pro fitness tracker

Samsung already offers wearable fitness trackers like the Gear Fit 2 and also provides health and fitness tracking features in smartwatches like the Gear S2 and the Gear S3. The company has now filed a new trademark application for the Gear Fit Pro brand. On the face of it, this might be a new wearable […]

By Adnan Farooqui
8 years ago

Samsung opens up Simband health platform to developers

Back at its digital health event in May, Samsung introduced a new health platform for cloud-sourced health tracking. It showed off Simband, a reference wearable device which manufacturers could use to build their own products on top of without having to start from scratch. So today at the Samsung Developer Conference the company announced that […]

By Adnan Farooqui
10 years ago

SamMobile Recap: Lots of KitKat updates, Simband health platform, 7-inch phones

There’s a lot of stuff that happens in the mobile industry, something that is especially true when it comes to giants like Samsung. If you missed out on some (or all) of what happened in the last 24 hours or so, well, here’s a recap of all the big things that went down. Samsung launched […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
11 years ago

Samsung announces Simband wearable, new health platform for cloud-sourced health tracking

At its “Voice of the Body” event last night, Samsung introduced a new health platform that it hopes will take wearable sensors and devices to a higher level when it comes to tracking a user's health, by collecting data from various sources and uploading it to the cloud. To this end, Samsung showed off the […]

By Abhijeet Mishra
11 years ago

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