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Asus to Reportedly Kill Its ZenWatch Android Wear Lineup Due to Poor Sales

Asus to Reportedly Kill Its ZenWatch Android Wear Lineup Due to Poor Sales 685rf

By Sanket Vijayasarathy | Updated: 16 May 2017 18:04 IST

Highlights

Asus has shipped an average of 5,000-6,000 ZenWatches per month
Huawei and LG have also slowed down their smartwatch efforts
Asus’ last major Android Wear smartwatch was the ZenWatch 3

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Asus may just kill its ZenWatch lineup of Android Wear smartwatches soon, according to some reports that have recently surfaced. It seems that Asus is having a tough time selling its smartwatches and the low sales may just push the company to pull the plug on the smartwatch. 6s2c27

The Taiwanese company, according to a report from Digitimes, has been shipping an average of 5,000 to 6,000 ZenWatches per month, which is not a good sign when compared to the likes of Apple, Xiaomi and Fitbit who have shipped their respective smartwatches in millions in the past quarter.

also slowed down their production citing a lack of interest in the market.

Notably, companies like unveiled in February and brings a number of improvements over the first version including improved interface, customised watch faces, Google Assistant and Android Pay , among other things.

Asus' last major Android Wear smartwatch was the ZenWatch 3, which was launched in India back in December starting at Rs. 17,599. The smartwatch sports a 1.39-inch Amoled display with a 400x400 pixel resolution (287ppi pixel density). It is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100 SoC, coupled with 512MB of RAM and 4GB of inbuilt storage.

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