Fitbit, the world’s largest wearables manufacturer, yesterday unveiled the Fitbit Blaze smart fitness watch, billing it as its “smartest, most stylish, most motivating fitness tracker yet.” While the Fitbit Surge HR blurred the lines between fitness tracker bracelet and smartwatch, there is no question that the Fitbit Blaze with its high-resolution, colour touchscreen is indeed a smartwatch. “One of the first things we learned […]
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More advanced sensors coming to future Fitbit products
FitBit may currently the largest wearables manufacturer but it knows that its competition is working hard to dethrone it from the top spot. The company is well aware that it will continue to have develop innovative wearables to stay where it currently is. CEO James Park recently told Time that the company is looking to do so with more advanced sensors in future […]
Fitbit Surge and Charge HR now support automatic exercise detection
A new firmware for the Fitbit Surge and Fitbit Charge HR fitness trackers will make it easier to track workouts. The update gives the Fitbit trackers the ability to automatically detect when you begin and finish a workout or exercise. Called SmartTrack, it eliminates the need to have to explicitly begin and end tracking by pressing a button or selecting a menu option. SmartTrack can […]
Fitbit Surge firmware update offers new features and better battery life
The next firmware update for the Fitbit Surge will deliver both new features and significantly better battery life to the company’s “Fitness Super Watch.” Among these will be timer and stopwatch features but two other additions are likely to be more useful. The next update will add “Run Cues” which will offer automatic notifications for predetermined milestones such as time elapsed or distance […]
Concept Sunday: Fitbit Redesigned
IDC’s report that Apple took second place in global wearables shipments in Q2 2015 was not welcome news for Fitbit and others. While it remained the top wearables manufacturer this past quarter, it may not do so for much longer. While consumers are not likely to abandon fitness trackers any time soon, Fitbit may have a harder time convincing them to […]
Fitbit sells 4.5 million fitness trackers in Q2 FY2015
Fitbit yesterday announced its Q2 FY2015 financial results. The first to be announced since the company went public in June saw sales of its connected health and fitness devices hit 4.5 million units, netting the company revenues of just over US$400 million. “Our second quarter results included our highest quarterly revenue in the eight-year history of Fitbit,” said James Park, Fitbit […]
Former HTC Industrial Design VP Jonah Becker lands at Fitbit
We learned just over a week ago that HTC Industrial Design VP Jonah Becker had left the company after being in his latest role for less than a year. We found out today that he is headed to Fitbit where he take on the newly created position of vice president of industrial design and will report directly to CEO James Park. Becker, […]
Fitbit Surge enhanced with outdoor bike tracking
Fitbit yesterday announced that it has added outdoor bike tracking to its Fitbit Surge. Using GPS and other sensors to track everything from distance, duration, average speed, heart rate, calories burned and the time. The data is also synced back to the Fitbit app dashoard where routes, speed and elevation details can also be looked at. “Our users are passionate […]