The company is also introducing a new
Fitbit Pay platform based on its acquisition of all - in - one credit card maker Coin, allowing for payments over NFC using the Ionic, even without a phone.
Debuted on the Ionic,
the Fitbit Pay platform is available to use on the Versa, too, meaning you can use the watch to buy stuff without your phone or wallet, and it works with major credit card companies like AMEX, MasterCard and Visa.
On the connectivity front, Ionic includes an NFC chip and access to the company's new
Fitbit Pay platform.
Not exact matches
In terms of smartwatch functionality it very much mirrors the offering of the Ionic, connecting to the
Fitbit platform, serving you notifications from your smartphone and also offering
Fitbit Pay, allowing contactless payments from your watch.
In addition, it features
Fitbit Pay, the company's new mobile payments
platform.
Moreover, in a strange move,
Fitbit Pay — the company's mobile payments
platform, which launched in Canada with support for RBC credit cards and later added support for Capital One credit cards as well — is only available in North America on the more expensive special edition models.
Google just introduced Android
Pay compatibility on Android Wear devices earlier this year with AW 2.0, so it's actually quite impressive to see
Fitbit already introduce a similar feature with its own
platform.