That according to new research from Canalys.
There are nearly 5 million smart watches and fitness trackers According to the company shipped in the third quarter of 2014 worldwide. That was 37 percent more than the previous quarter. The company shares the market in ‘smart bands “as Android Wear devices and the Pebble-smart watch and’ basic bands” as the fitness trackers from companies like Fitbit and Jawbone.
The growth of the wearable market seems to be completely come from the base category with bracelets. The smart watch market grew according to Canalys in the quarter not
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With the round Moto 360 Motorola has the most popular Android Wear smart watch, but Samsung is the largest on the entire smart watch market. In the first quarter of 2014 the company had 23.3 percent of the market in hands, and were both Sony and Pebble greater. In the third quarter, however, Samsung 52 percent of the market, followed by Motorola with 15 percent and Pebble by 12 percent.
It is unclear how many of the Samsung smart watches are separately purchased by consumers, and how much supplied with a Samsung smartphone as part of an action. The company often sells its smartphones and watches together and provides for new smartphones sometimes wearables away.
Samsung has one smart watch that runs on Android Wear. However, most smart watches the company use Tizen, a proprietary operating system that only works with phones from Samsung itself.
Read our review of the Moto 360 and also round G Watch R
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