Asus likely to discontinue ZenWatch - Sells just 6K units a month

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/15/2017 05:10 PM | source: | 14 comment(s)

It is said that Asus might discontinue the development of its ZenWatch product line as sales of its smartwatch devices have been lower than expected, according to sources of Taiwan's supply chain.

Asustek launched its first-generation ZenWatch products in 2014 and released the ZenWatch 3 in November 2016. The ZenWatch 3 features a 1.39-inch circular AMOLED display and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 2100 CPU along with 512MB of RAM and 4GB of onboard storage, reports digitimes.

Shipments of the ZenWatch family products from the supply chain total 5,000-6,000 units a month on average currently, revealed the sources, noting that Asustek outsources the production of the ZenWatch 3 to Pegatron.

In related news, Apple shipped about 3.5 million units of Apple Watch in the first quarter of 2017, according to IDC. Combined shipments of Apple Watch devices reached seven million units in 2016, according to an industry estimate.

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DLD
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#5432054 Posted on: 05/15/2017 07:57 PM

Pitty - they should've considered the possibility of selling them in a bundle with the Zen Ryzen CPUs... :-)

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#5432078 Posted on: 05/15/2017 09:17 PM

Did they even have a smart watch??? It just shows if you don't do enough marketing...

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#5432082 Posted on: 05/15/2017 09:27 PM

Personally for me smartwatch is a useless product.

However I guess there is a market for them after all...

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#5432088 Posted on: 05/15/2017 09:34 PM

Did they even have a smart watch??? It just shows if you don't do enough marketing...

I think Zenwatch is a pretty popular brand - the problem is that so many early adopter Android Wear owners got burnt and now they are done with the entire platform.

Both the original Moto 360 and LG G Watch got abandoned after like a year. Both run like complete garbage in terms of performance. The moto 360v2 is essentially abandoned - they said AW2.0 is coming for it, but it's been months with basically no news other then google's androidwear twitter saying it's rolling out even though not a single report of anyone getting it. Even if it did come the update is pretty much useless for solving the platforms problems.

Huawei had a chance of reviving it with HW2 but they blew it by switching the design to a sports one - which no one really wanted, there are already a dozen brands doing that for a fraction of the cost.

The entire AW platform garbage and having owned by a Moto v1 and v2 and following the rest of the watches/updates closely, I'd never recommend any of them to anyone. Honestly in general, Google's products are going that way - ever since the Alphabet restructure they've been super slow at launching new stuff and they send mixed messaging about everything including messaging (they have 5 messaging clients on android now).

Google Home is useless as an assistant - still can't do reminders and super far behind Alexa. They basically screwed over all the onhub buyers - plagued with issues and basically next to zero updates for it - then they released an entirely new mesh router system. Android wear is garbage. Android Auto is decent but the assistants across all their platforms answer/work differently - I ask to play a song/album on home and it works, but on Auto it sometimes doesn't, or it plays only a few select tracks of the artist before repeating them, or any number of issues with it.

Idk, I can keep going on but I'm basically rambling at this point. I just think the failure of Zenwatch is less about marketing and more about the platform being bad and everyone knowing it. There is next to zero enthusiasm for any of the new smart-watch releases.

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#5432120 Posted on: 05/15/2017 11:28 PM

Whole idea is a complete garbage. These "watches" are so useless that it hurts! As useless a product is rarely seen in the contemporary industrial production.
Nowadays, when no one goes to toilet without a mobile in their pockets, I can hardly imagine the piece of electronic device more useless than these watches.
And if anyone wants to show-off, there are variety of "real" watches out there...

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