– Music storage built-on (supports your own music + Pandora & Deezer offline, Spotify is still phone control only) – Includes GPS built-in (12 hours active GPS time) Plus, things that were on recent Fitbit units are also here as well: – Includes 6-month free trial of Fitbit Premium – Changed accessory bands to have better quick release system ![]() – Display is Corning Gorilla Glass 3, and bezel is polished stainless steel – New AMOLED display with integrated ambient light sensor – Added ability to take calls from wrist using mic/speaker (planned Winter 2020-21) – Added Google Assistant (previously had Amazon Alexa, still does have that) – Added new PurePulse 2.0 optical HR sensor (completely revamped) – Added Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Tracking – Added EDA Scan app for tracking electrodermal activity – Added Breathing Rate (per minute), while you sleep – Added High/Low Heart Rate Notifications – Added Skin Temperature Sensors (on wrist) Here’s the quick run-down of what’s new compared to previous Fitbit smartwatches (this technically would be above the Ionic, but it’s probably more akin to a super-high-end Versa series): Almost every new feature the company added this year is about sensing data or some metric, and ideally making sense of that data (which, in some cases will require a Fitbit Premium subscription). The Fitbit Sense is literally the most correctly named wearable ever. For this post though, I’m going to focus on the Fitbit Sense. Stay tuned for full in-depth reviews intertwined into the crazy fall wearables season. Now, I’ve got units slated to arrive likely next week – so till then this is a bit of a placeholder on what’s new. Only the new Inspire 2 stays the course, keeping the same $99 price point the previous Inspire HR was launched at. This clocks in at $329USD – the most pricey Fitbit ever made.Įven the also-announced Versa 3 seems to rise in price, up to $229 – albeit, by including more baseline features. However, the new Fitbit Sense smartwatch isn’t your father’s Fitbit, at least in terms of pricing. ![]() As such, rather than major changes we would have expected like going to Google’s Wear OS for their premier watch, they’ve stayed the course with Fitbit OS. While Google announced their intent to acquire Fitbit a little under a year ago, that hasn’t happened yet – with the two companies still pending regulatory approval (and it doesn’t look like that’s going to finish anytime soon). Which is notably different than trying to keep you fit. Almost every feature is focused on health and metrics that could be used to keep you healthy. In a virtual presentation and interactive site to/for media that’s worthy of its own post, Fitbit announced three new products with a dizzying array of new features. Which is essentially the gist of today’s sweeping pile of new feature and hardware announcements. When the winds of change bring you a pandemic, you respond with the most health and almost-but-not-medical focused Fitbit you’ve ever seen.
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