<P> As of 4 September 2013, three new smartwatches have been launched: the Samsung Galaxy Gear, Sony SmartWatch 2, and the Qualcomm Toq . PHTL, a company based in Dallas, Texas, completed is crowd - funding process on Kickstarter for its HOT Watch smartwatch in September 2013 . This device enables users to leave their handsets in their pockets, since it has a speaker for phone calls in both quiet and noisy environments . In a September 2013 interview, Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky stated that his company was not interested in any acquisition offers, but revealed in a November 2013 interview, that his company has sold 190,000 smartwatches, the majority of which were sold after its Kickstarter campaign closed . </P> <P> Motorola Mobility CEO Dennis Woodside confirmed that his company is working on a smartwatch during a December 2013 interview . Woodside showed an awareness of the difficulties that other companies have experienced with wrist - wearable technologies and explained: </P> <P> At the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show, a large number of new smartwatches were released from various companies such as Razer Inc, Archos, and several other companies, as well as a few startups . Some had begun to call the 2014 CES, a "wrist revolution" because of the number of smartwatches released and the huge amount of publicity they began to receive at the start of 2014 . At Google I / O on 25 June 2014, the Android Wear platform was introduced and the LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live were released . The Wear - based Moto 360 was announced by Motorola in 2014 . At the end of July, Swatch's CEO Nick Hayek announced that they will launch a Swatch Touch with smartwatch technologies in 2015 . In the UK, the Wearable Technology Show had its début in London and was host to several smartwatch companies exhibiting their newest models . </P> <P> The launch of Samsung's Gear S smartwatch was covered by the media in late August 2014 . The model features a curved Super AMOLED display and a built - in 3G modem, with technology writer Darrell Etherington stating on the TechCrunch website, "we're finally starting to see displays that wrap around the contours of the wrist, rather than sticking out as a traditional flat surface ." The corporation commenced selling the Gear S smartwatch in October 2014, alongside the Gear Circle headset accessory . At IFA 2014 Sony Mobile announced the third generation of its smartwatch series, the Sony Smartwatch 3 powered by Android Wear . Also, the Fashion Entertainments' e-paper watch was announced . </P>

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