Sentences with phrase «blaze as a smartwatch»

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While Fitbit refers to Ionic as its first smartwatch, the company has released two other smartwatches in the past — Blaze and Surge.

Fitbit, which makes products such as the Flex 2 fitness tracker and Blaze smartwatch, is looking for new ways to keep pace with chief rival Apple in the competitive wearables market.

As a fitness smartwatch, the Fitbit Ionic is a solid choice — even more so than the Blaze, which didn't have built - in GPS.

Fitbit's future plans clearly extend well beyond simple fitness tracking, as evidenced by products like the Blaze, which leans much more heavily into smartwatch territory than before.

It looks like Fitbit is trying to market this new smartwatch as its own thing, ditching the previous lines of Blaze and Ionic.

Billed as a «smart fitness watch» rather than a full - fledged smartwatch or basic activity tracker, the Fitbit Blaze rolled on the Las Vegas stage for a glitzy CES introduction back in January, being available for pre-orders ever since.

Wareable obtained multiple images of Fitbit's upcoming smartwatch, and while we don't have an exact name for it just yet, it's possible it'll be marketed as either the Fitbit Blaze 2 or something else entirely.

We've tried the new Fitbit Versa, which comes with a slimmer design than the Blaze and Ionic as well as a lower price tag than Fitbit's only other smartwatch.

Although the Blaze has really fitness tracking capabilities, you can't use it as a smartwatch.

Although it's technically billed as a smartwatch, the Fitbit Blaze is really just a well made fitness tracker in disguise.

Our Fitbit Ionic review reveals a wearable that blends the impressive fitness tracking ecosystem of its two - year - old Blaze with a host of modern smartwatch capabilities such as a dedicated app store and NFC tap - to - pay transactions, along with Bluetooth and WiFi compatibility.

According to Wearable, which was the first publication to share details on the upcoming device, Fitbit sees Versa as a mass market replacement for its Blaze smartwatch.

Unlike the Fitbit Blaze, the Ionic packs in premium smartwatch features such as GPS, water resistance for swim tracking and, most importantly, an app store with third - party apps.

However, if these new leaked images of the still unrevealed smartwatch — which were obtained by Wareable — are accurate, then Fitbit's new device is set to be almost as unattractive as the Fitbit Blaze.

The smartwatch is also supposed to have a software interface that matches the UI on the Blaze, although Fitbit has run into its fair share of software troubles along with its hardware problems, as previously reported by The Verge.

Now, as you're probably already aware, the Apple Watch Series 2, Moto 360, Samsung Gear S3 and Pebble Time 2 are all squarely in the smartwatch category, while the Fitbit Blaze and Garmin vívoactive HR are fitness trackers.

But that's about all the Fitbit Blaze can do as a smartwatch.

The Fitbit Ionic will be the company's first smartwatch with built - in GPS tracking as unlike Blaze and Charge 2, it does not need to depend on a smartphone for GPS data.

Made from aerospace grade 6000 aluminium, the Ionic smartwatch features a square design that has been nano - moulded to offer a seamless unibody construction with no gap between the screen and the strap as found on the Blaze.

Since the launch of the Blaze however, Fitbit bought smartwatch companies Pebble and Vector, as well as mobile payment company Coin and now the company has released the long - rumoured GPS smartwatch in the form of the Fitbit Ionic.

The Fitbit Blaze, which was announce at CES last year, came close to being a smartwatch in terms of its design, but was marketed as a smart fitness watch and didn't support third party apps.

This year's Fitbit Blaze, for example, aimed to blend smartwatch features with fitness - tracking capabilities, but the combination didn't come together quite as nicely as we hoped.