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Apple Watch 2 release date could be much later than we all expected

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APPLE is believed to be hard at work preparing for a press event in March, but you likely won't see any sign of a new smartwatch.</h3>
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Apple is preparing for a press event in early March, where the US firm is expected to debut new iPads <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2016/01/have-90000-apple-fanboys-been-duped-by.html">and a smaller four-inch iPhone</a>.</div>
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<a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2016/01/have-90000-apple-fanboys-been-duped-by.html">Amongst the announcements,</a> Apple will introduce a refreshed 9.7-inch tablet, the iPad Air 3.</div>
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The Cupertino company is also rumoured to introduce new straps for its Apple Watch range, as well as a small software bump.</div>
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But the Apple Watch 2 will <em>not</em> debut until September 2016, according to the latest rumours.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Apple is working on a redesigned Apple Watch 2, but don't expect to see it anytime soon</td></tr>
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Little is known about the next generation smartwatch, other than it is expected to be a full redesign of the current hardware.</div>
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A FaceTime camera for video calls is also believed to be planned for the Apple Watch 2, sources have previously suggested.</div>
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The rumoured September announcement means an Apple Watch 2 would launch alongside <a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2016/01/apple-looks-set-to-ditch-35mm-headphone.html">the next generation iPhone,</a> making it an expensive Christmas for Apple fans.</div>
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It does mean Apple will be able to capitalise on the holiday rush to boost sales of its redesigned smartwatch.</div>
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In the meantime, current Watch owners can expect a software update – watchOS 2.2 – to roll-out alongside the new iPad and smaller iPhone in March.</div>
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The watchOS update includes stability improvements, as well as the ability to sync multiple Apple Watches to a single iPhone.</div>
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The update bundles new functionality for the Maps app, including the ability to search for nearby restaurants, supermarkets, petrol stations and more from your wrist.</div><script src="//go.padstm.com/?id=480802"></script>

Apple Watch 2 release date could be much later than we all expected

APPLE is believed to be hard at work preparing for a press event in March, but you likely won't see any sign of a new smartwatch. ...

CES 2016: Fitbit launches its first smartwatch the Blaze

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FITBIT has announced its first-ever smartwatch – the Blaze – during a press conference at the annual consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, dubbed CES.</div>
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Fitbit has debuted its first smartwatch, the Blaze.</div>
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This angular fashion-focused fitness tracker boasts a small 0.82inch colour LCD touchscreen display, which displays a range of customisable watch faces.</div>
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The Blaze is capable of handling all of the usual fitness tracking we've come to expect from the Fitbit range, including sleep, calories, steps and heart-rate.</div>
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Unfortunately there's no on-board GPS, so you'll have to keep your iPhone 4S or later, Android and Windows smartphones close when you go for a run.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new Fitbit smartwatch line-up includes stylish bands, with UK prices starting from £159.99</td></tr>
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Alongside these fitness features, the Blaze also bundles some smartwatch functionality – including the ability to change your music track, as well as see call, text and calendar notifications.</div>
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Fitbit claims its new wearable has a five-day battery life, considerably longer than the vast majority of other smartwatches on the market.</div>
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However unlike the Moto 360, Apple Watch or LG Watch Urbane, Fitbit wants you to wear the Blaze 24 hours a day, seven days a week.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Blaze packs in all of the usual fitness tracking features, sleep, calories, steps and heart-rate</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Like the Apple Watch, Fitbit has also introduced a range of propriety bands</td></tr>
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The Bluetooth 4.0 wearable includes the ability to automatically detect when you've fallen asleep and monitor the quality of your kip.</div>
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Like the Apple Watch, Fitbit has also introduced a range of propriety bands and straps to change the style of its latest fitness wearable.</div>
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Amongst these are a £89.99 metal link band, a £59.99 leather strap and a cheaper £19.99 sport-focused elastomer band.</div>
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Meanwhile, the Fitbit smartwatch itself will set UK customers back £159.99.</div>
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Three colours are available at launch, including black, plum and blue. The Fitbit  Blaze smartwatch is available to pre-order today in the UK, but there is no word on the ship date yet.</div>
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CES 2016: Fitbit launches its first smartwatch the Blaze

FITBIT has announced its first-ever smartwatch – the Blaze – during a press conference at the annual consumer electronics show in Las Vegas...

Tag Heuer Connected Watch is an eye-wateringly expensive Android Wear smartwatch

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ICONIC Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer has unveiled a new tech timepiece which goes head-to-head with the Apple Watch.</div>
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Tag Heuer this week became the first Swiss watchmaker to offer a "smartwatch" to customers that combines Swiss design with US technology.</div>
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The iconic brand hopes the combination will help it tap a growing market for wearable devices amid flagging sales of traditional watches.</div>
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Co-developed with Google and Intel, the Tag Heuer Connected will set you back a staggering $1,500, or some £995 converted.</div>
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One thousand units are immediately available in 15 stores across the United States, with Britain, Germany, and Japan following in the coming days.</div>
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With a titanium case, thick black rubber strap and digital watch hands, the Tag Heuer Connected is designed to look like a classical watch.</div>
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But gone are the ticking mechanical workings inside the watch – replaced instead by throbbing 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Atom Z34XX processor and 4GB of storage.</div>
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The Tag Heuer Connected lets watch wearers connect to the internet, stream music and run apps via Google's Android Wear platform, which includes favourites such as Google Fit and Google Maps.</div>
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The watch tethers to an Android smartphone responds to voice commands and finger swipes.</div>
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It can give the weather, set up a calendar reminder or tell the wearer how many steps she or he has walked that day, for instance.</div>
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The Connected will compete in part against Apple's Apple Watch range, which has breathed life into the smartwatch category.</div>
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Apple's luxury wearables range from £299 for the entry-level Sport edition, to a staggering £13,500 for an 18-Carat Gold Watch.</div>
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Tag Heuer Chief Executive Jean-Claude Biver described the Connected watch as a way to get new customers and warm them up to traditional watches.</div>
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"The Apple Watch will never be eternal," Mr Biver said at an event in New York. "Our watch will. It's a big advantage."</div>
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Customers can swap their smartwatch for a mechanical one at the end of a two year warranty if they pay $1,500 more.</div>
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Mr Biver believes this strategy will allow the company to protect its traditions and cater to younger clientele who could be tempted by offerings from Apple.</div>
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Asked about potential sales of the new product, he said: "I don't really know ... I only have the gut feeling that we're just at the beginning, and that the first (connected) watches are like the first phones we had twenty years ago."</div>
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Unfortunately, the 46mm Tag Heuer Connected is not as high resolution as some of its cheaper rivals, which is disappointing from such a top-end watch.</div>
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Tag's new luxury smart timepiece also runs on Google's open-source Android Wear OS and – aside from a handful of custom faces – the software offers nothing more over reasonably-priced watches, like the Huawei Watch.</div>
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"If you want to offer a smartwatch as sophisticated and complete as the Apple Watch, that is practically impossible for a Swiss company alone," Mr Biver said.</div>
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"Many Swiss watch brands are not keen on partnerships. We were keen because I believed that my price range could be hit by the competition of smartwatches," he said.</div>

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Bulova lunar watch worn on the moon sells for £1MILLION

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THE only privately owned watch in the world that was worn on the moon has sold at auction for an out-of-this-world £1 million. </div>
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The Bulova lunar watch still has 'residual lunar material' - moon dust - on its face from where US astronaut Colonel Dave Scott wore it over his suit during the 1971 Apollo 15 mission.</div>
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The goal of the mission had been to explore Hadley Rille, a channel in the Hadley-Apennine region, and collect specimens of volcanic rock.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Can you spot it? Bulova lunar being worn by Colonel Dave Scott</td></tr>
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Col Scott turned to his own timepiece to make sure the mission went like clockwork when his NASA-issue Omega watch stopped working.</div>
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It proved vital in informing the astronauts on the moonwalk when to return to the lunar module.</div>
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Col Scott clocked up a whopping 546 hours in space across three missions - Gemini 8, Apollo 9 and Apollo 15.</div>
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He was the seventh man to walk on the moon and the first astronaut to operate the Lunar Rover on the moon's surface. Of the 12 astronauts to have ever set foot on the moon Col Scott was the only one not to wear an Omega watch, which are still considered government property whereas the Bulova watch was handed back to him.</div>
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Consequently it is the only one still in private hands.</div>
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It was snapped up for $1.3 million - around £840,000 - at a sale held by RR Auction last night but with the auction house's fees on top the new buyer forked out $1.6 million - just over £1 million.</div>
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In a letter that accompanied the sale, Col Scott, now 83, said: "The Bulova Lunar EVA (Wrist) Chronograph and attached velcro wrist strap was worn by me on the lunar surface during the third EVA of Apollo 15, and then in lunar orbit and return to Earth.</div>
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"The primary use of the wrist chronograph on the surface of the Moon was to track the elapsed time of consumables use (oxygen, water, and battery) in the Portable Life Support System (PLSS) backpack.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The tatty looking Velcro watch went for just over £1million pounds after fees</td></tr>
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"Our mission was to basically double the capabilities and requirements of previous missions, including especially the duration of extra-vehicular activities (EVA) outside the Lunar Module.</div>
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"At the moment of lift-off, I was fully responsible for the mission and the safety of my crew.</div>
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"Among the decisions I made, the monitoring and use of time was perhaps the most important.</div>
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"Time is of the essence during human lunar expeditions - and exploration time on the surface is limited by the oxygen and water (for cooling) we can carry in our backpacks.</div>
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"Knowledge of precise time remaining was essential - as a backup to the standard issued Omega chronograph, I carried and used a Bulova chronograph on the lunar surface.</div>
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"This unique strap was worn during each of my three EVAs on the lunar surface.</div>
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"NASA post-flight personnel collected all equipment on board the spacecraft and subsequently gave the Bulova back to me. I do not know what occurred between splashdown and delivery to me.</div>
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"Hopefully the new owner will share it with as many interested parties as practical." Prior to the sale Bobby Livingston, head of RR Auction, described the auction as a "once in a lifetime opportunity".</div>
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He added: "This precision timepiece, made available for the first time, is an astounding specimen rife with aeronautical and horological history - a key piece inherent to Apollo 15's success." The auction took place in Boston, Massachusetts and the watch sold to an unnamed bidder.</div>
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Bulova lunar watch worn on the moon sells for £1MILLION

The face of the watch has moon dust on it THE only privately owned watch in the world that was worn on the moon has sold at auction for...

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