Exponential growth: The Samsung Gear S2. Worldwide smartwatch shipments shot up to five million in the second quarter of this year from one million in the same period last year.
BERLIN: Samsung Electronics said it would make its next smartwatch technology available to its competitors who also use Google Inc's mobile platform Android, hoping to increase its share of the market, which is now dominated by Apple Inc.
The watch will be available as of October, it said at an event in Berlin tied to the IFA, Europe's largest consumer electronics trade show.
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