First Look: Fitbit Charge 3 Activity Tracker with SpO2 Sensor & Sleep Disturbance Tracking
www.dcrainmaker.com/2018/08/activity-disturbance-tracking.htmlNo matter how you slice it, the Fitbit Charge series is Fitbit’s leading line to date.
Giveaway Extravaganza: Fitbit Ionic GPS + Fitbit WiFI Scale
www.dcrainmaker.com/2018/09/giveaway-extravaganza-fitbit.htmlBut in this second twofer of the day you’ll get exactly that: A new GPS watch to remind you that you haven’t walked enough yet today, and a WiFi connected Fitbit scale to remind you that you ate too many of those M&M’s from that four-pound bag I linked to earlier in the day.
Google Acquires Fitbit: What it actually means to wearables and the industry
www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/11/acquires-actually-wearables.htmlGoogle has just announced the acquisition of Fitbit for a cool $2.1 billion (USD).
Fitbit’s New Charge 5 Details: Starts To Go After Whoop
www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/08/fitbits-charge-details.htmlAt Fitbit’s annual end of summer announcement event, the company did not announce a Wear OS device (of any type).
Fitbit Daily Readiness Score Review: Here’s How it Works
www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/11/fitbit-readiness-review.htmlToday Fitbit announced that they are rolling out their new Daily Readiness Score to Fitbit Premium users.
A few quick thoughts on Fitbit’s new activity trackers, GPS watch (with optical heart rate!)
www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/10/thoughts-activity-trackers.html(Update February 26th: I've published my Fitbit Surge GPS In-Depth Review here and my Fitbit Charge and Charge HR In-Depth Review here.
Fitbit Ace LTE Kids Activity Tracker Announced: Initial Thoughts
www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/05/fitbit-ace-lte-kids-activity-tracker-announced-initial-thoughts.htmlGoogle/Fitbit has just announced the new Fitbit Ace LTE kids activity tracker.
Investor Call Tech Tidbits: Fitbit Q2 2017
www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/08/investor-tidbits-fitbit.htmlAs with the Garmin call earlier today, the Fitbit call was packed full of tidbits.
Fitbit Announces New Charge 6: What’s New and Different?
www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/09/fitbit-announces-different.htmlFitbit has just announced an update to their most popular fitness tracker series, with the new Fitbit Charge 6 (obviously, replacing the existing Fitbit Charge 5, from September 2021).
Fitbit Makes Some Premium Subscription Features Free
www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/03/premium-subscription-features.htmlFitbit has announced that they’ll be making a set of their Fitbit Premium subscription features free to all Fitbit users – including for Pixel Watch users which leverage the Fitbit features.
Fitbit’s Bad Day: How it ended up with multiple optical HR lawsuits, and a 20% stock drop
www.dcrainmaker.com/2016/01/fitbits-multiple-lawsuits.htmlFor the San Francisco based firm Fitbit, yesterday was likely the mother of all bad roller-coasters.
Garmin enables migration from Fitbit: Here’s how it works
www.dcrainmaker.com/2016/11/garmin-enables-migration.htmlWhereas the rest of this post is all about the Fitbit to Garmin migration piece.
Strava news of note: Fitbit integration & Local Routes
www.dcrainmaker.com/2015/05/strava-integration-routes.htmlOver the last week, Strava has rolled out two new integrations – one mostly driven by Fitbit, and the other solely by Strava.
Samsung and Fitbit Announce Next Watches To Be Wear OS
www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/05/samsung-announce-watches.htmlGoogle just turned up the heat on their own wearables platform, by announcing that both Samsung and Fitbit will shift to Google Wear OS going forward.
Fitbit rolls out slew of apps to Ionic…and…umm…virtual cats
www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/12/fitbit-rolls-ionicandummvirtual.htmlIt’s been just over three months since Fitbit announced their Ionic GPS smartwatch, and about two months since they started shipping it out into the wild.
Google Pixel Watch In-Depth Review: A Promising Start
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/10/google-review-promising.htmlThey’ve got lots of future ideas, both hardware and software, but this first Pixel Watch is essentially aimed at being both the best Fitbit ever, as well as a very strong Wear OS demonstrator.
How to Get Fitbit Non-GPS Activities to Strava
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/09/fitbit-activities-strava.htmlIn any case, one challenge I’ve always had reviewing Fitbit devices over the (many) years I’ve been reviewing them is that there’s actually no way to export a Fitbit indoor workout.
Sports Tech Tidbits: Fitbit Charge 4, Strava adds Weather, Zwift Clubs, Suunto’s TrainingPeaks Metrics, COROS New Features and more!
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/04/suuntos-trainingpeaks-features.htmlFitbit announced their latest wearable yesterday, the new Charge 4.
MWC 2014 Roundup Part 1: Fitbit Force tidbits, Sony Core activity tracker and new Sony waterproof ANT+ phones, update on Mio Link
www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/02/roundup-activity-waterproof.htmlObviously, talking with Fitbit was a high priority target for Monday given their announcement on Friday that they’re recalling the Fitbit Force activity tracker wrist band.
ZEO, Fitbit and other tidbits
www.dcrainmaker.com/2010/12/zeo-fitbit-and-other-tidbits.htmlFitbit Speaking of health related items – I’ve been using Fitbit pretty consistently while travelling the last few weeks.
Fitbit Charge 5 vs Garmin Vivosmart 5: A Ridiculously Detailed Comparison
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/05/vivosmart-ridiculously-comparison.htmlI’ve just published the full Fitbit Charge 5 vs Garmin Vivosmart 5 comparison video up on YouTube.
Google Pixel Watch Announced: Everything You Need To Know
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/05/google-complete-details.htmlInstead, they’ve had numerous acquisitions, including Fitbit (which previously bought Pebble) as well as acquiring various other companies, patents, and smartwatch technologies over the last decade.
A Quick Review: A $17 Weight Scale that Syncs to Zwift (1byone Smart Scale)
www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/02/review-weight-1byone.htmlHowever, most notable is that earlier this week, Zwift implemented a fix for Fitbit WiFi & Smart Scales, which allows those scales to update your Zwift weight again.
Garmin Vivosmart 5 In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/04/garmin-vivosmart-review.htmlThat’s notable, as is a specific dig at Fitbit and their premium subscription service.
Google’s Pixel Watch Hands-On: Here’s What You Need to Know
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/10/googles-pixel-watch.htmlThe Pixel Watch is a Wear OS device (as expected) that also runs a tightly integrated Fitbit experience, logical, given Google’s purchase of Fitbit a few years back.
