Every update to the wearable roadmaps

The ring built to get around Oura's patents is at Best Buy and Amazon. It costs $79 more than an Oura Ring 5 up front and needs no subscription.

Google Health 5.11 brings Health Guardian to the Fitbit Air, but only with a Health Premium subscription, while Pixel Watch owners get it free. Workouts of 15 minutes now log themselves.

If you pay for Apple TV, iOS 27.2 puts up to four live games on one iPhone screen. It works on a regular iPhone 18 Pro, not only the bigger iPhone Duo.

Ten prices fell and five went up between Oct 22 and Oct 29. Nothing Headphone (a) fell 35% to $129, and the Pixel 10 Pro XL is $999 at Amazon, $401 under last week.

Rokid's color display glasses are 14g lighter than Meta's and run on touch, voice, a ring or your eyes. They're China-only for now, with a global launch expected at CES 2027.

On its earnings call, Samsung said each Galaxy S27 model will be tailored to a different buyer, and that work on another TriFold continues despite losses in its phone business.

Samsung launched the Galaxy W27 in China, a two-tone, gold-accented take on the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra for business and luxury buyers. It starts at CNY 18,999 (about $2,850) with 512GB, and adds emergency calls and texts over the Tiantong satellite network.

An analyst forecast puts Apple second in foldables next year, behind Samsung. It says nothing about how the Duo holds up, which is the question for anyone buying one now.

Uninstalling Garmin Messenger doesn't unlink your number, and a phone that passes the text code gets your chats back. If you're changing numbers, delete the Messenger account first.

XREAL's Aura went on sale today in the US, Canada and South Korea at $1,099 and $1,299 through December, down from $1,279 and $1,499. Japan follows on November 2, and shipping starts in mid-November.

Fine M-Tec, which makes the iPhone Duo's hinge, denies it is to blame for the cracks, per SamMobile citing AppleInsider.

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A JerryRigEverything teardown, per Gizmochina, points to a hinge part pressing into the inner screen as the likely cause of the cracks.

Next year's wide Fold may come with a second choice beside it: bigger or cheaper, but not both. Neither would show up before mid-2027.

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If you log laps with Track Running, the Ultra 2 won't give you a VO2 Max reading for now. Outdoor runs still get one, and Samsung hasn't said when the fix arrives.

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SamMobile spotted in Samsung's own videos that each Galaxy Buds On earbud works in either ear and senses which side it's on.

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Google told Android Police it dropped tap-to-pay from the Fitbit Edge because NFC was one of the least used features on the Charge 6.

It was on preorder.

If you bought a Duo to write on, you can now, but only with the USB-C Pencil, and the update's security fixes make it worth installing either way.

If your watch looks an hour fast only when the screen is dimmed, restart it or switch watch faces. US clocks go back on November 1.

If you own AirPods Pro 2 or Pro 3 in one of the five provinces, you get a hearing test and a free hearing aid once iOS 27.2 is out. Ontario is still waiting on a law change.

The Even G2's new Knowledge Base syncs your Conversate recordings and uploaded files to a Google Cloud server in the EU, per 9to5Google.