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Only a small percentage of U.S. broadband households...

Only a small percentage of U.S. broadband households are “very likely” to buy a smart watch this year, said a Parks Associates study released Wednesday. It canvassed 10,000 broadband households in Q1 and found only 4 percent very likely to…

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buy a smart watch in the next 12 months, it said. That’s double the percentage of broadband households that actually acquired a smart watch last year, though nearly half said they received one as a gift, it said. The survey identified Samsung as the leading brand and found 20 percent bought direct from the manufacturer, 18 percent from Amazon, 17 percent from Best Buy, it said (http://bit.ly/TwAX8t).