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Jeremiah Lee
Fitbit Ionic — The smartwatch designed for health and fitness
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Fitbit Ionic is a smartwatch designed for health and fitness.

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Jeremiah Lee
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Quick overview: • All the standard Fitbit device features: track steps, calories, floors climbed, sleep stages, VO2 Max • 4+ day battery life on a single charge. 10 hours with GPS or playing music • Improved "PurePulse" heart rate technology with even greater accuracy during exercises like cycling, intervals and running; better measure calorie burn, see real-time heart rate zones to optimize intensity, and track resting heart rate 24/7. • New sensor technology: The introduction of a relative SpO2 sensor for estimating blood oxygen levels opens the potential for tracking important new indicators about your health, such as sleep apnea. • New swim exercise mode with lap counting. Water resistance up to 50 meters. • Personal trainer with Fitbit Coach: Access dynamic, on-device workouts that adapt based on feedback you provide on your wrist, or listen to expert-designed running and walking Audio Coaching sessions (available 2018) to increase endurance, speed and form on your schedule. • Automatically starts GPS tracking when you start running. New integrated antenna inside Ionic for a stronger connection to GPS and GLONASS satellites "delivering industry-leading GPS performance". You don't need your phone for tracking location with Ionic. • 2.5 GB of music storage via files or Pandora. Connects to any Bluetooth headphones. • Smart notifications you need most: With extended smartphone notifications, receive call, text and calendar alerts, as well as notifications from apps on your smartphone like Facebook, Gmail, Instagram, Slack, Snapchat and more. • Contactless payments using Fitbit Pay. Will work with American Express, Mastercard, Visa credit and debit cards from top issuing banks in over 10 markets across the globe, including ANZ, Banco Santander, Bank of America, Capital One, HSBC, KBC Bank Ireland, OCBC Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, UOB and US Bank with more countries and banks planned soon.
Jeremiah Lee
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Fitbit also launched third-party app development for Ionic. https://dev.fitbit.com/blog/2017...
Tom Bielecki
Did they really steal "3 activity rings" from apple watch?
Jeremiah Lee
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@tombielecki @zduboss Apple stole this from Fitbit, which used progress rings on the dashboard of its app prior to the Apple Watch.
Helen Crozier
A respectable upgrade from existing 'watches'. My fairly ancient surge still works and I have enjoyed the gps without smartphone feature. This might not be elegant but it's still an improvement in my eyes. Pandora has just been discontinued in Australia however so I hope spotify comes to the party as that was an option with the Pebble music player in the works before it was squashed by fitbit. Who has music files anymore? 😟 ~> a Fitbit user since dec 2011!
Julian Lehr
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Great: Swim mode, SpO2 tracking, battery life Not great: Design :(
Jeremiah Lee
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@lehrjulian What in particular? While subjective, I think the industrial design is quite nice in meatspace.
Alex Cahiz
You had me at 4+ day battery. If Apple can't compete with that with Series 3, they utterly fail. I will take compromised compatibility and experience over compromised battery any day. RIP Pebble.
Lyondhür Picciarelli
Still bombed about them buying Pebble and burying it..
Jeremiah Lee
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@lyondhur Fitbit only acquired Pebble's intellectual property and offered many of its staff positions. Fitbit did not acquire Pebble's products, but Fitbit graciously paid to keep Pebble's servers functioning for a year and paid Pebble's staff to update existing Pebble products to continue working once the Web services are shut down. It may not be the outcome Pebble fans wanted, but Fitbit did right by them. Everyone builds things better the second time around. Many of the Pebble's creators helped Fitbit create the evolution of both companies' products. The best ideas from Pebble are reflected in Fitbit Ionic's development platform.
Steven Diffey
Good to see Fitbit aiming for that lifestyle/fitness space that sits between iWatch and Garmin.
Corentin Macias
I am really excited about the app development/APIs. (https://dev.fitbit.com/blog/2017...) I hope Fitbit will be able to really "unlock" their devices thanks to this! What do you think? Thanks @jeremiahlee for hunting! - A Fitbit Blaze owner