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Apple to Sell Apple Watch Ultra 2 & Series 9 Tomorrow without Blood Oxygen Feature

www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/01/tomorrow-without-feature.html

Well, obviously, buyers of new Apple Watch Series 9/Ultra 2 units don’t have blood oximetry data - a feature virtually every other wearable company has - be it Fitbit, Samsung, Google, Polar, Garmin, COROS, Suunto, etc… Everyone.

Week In Review–Oct 9th, 2017

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3) Major League Baseball fines coach for Apple Watch last weekend: This follows as the second known incident related to this, though the first one was actually cheating (and using a Fitbit instead).

Week in Review–September 17th, 2013

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7) iPhone 5s packs M7 motion-sensing chip, CoreMotion API for more accurate tracking: The new iPhone 5s (but not 5c) includes a motion-sensing chip that in low-power mode acts like a Fitbit and makes that data accessible to apps.

The Apple Watch Waterproofing Extravaganza: Swim, High Diving, Test Chamber

www.dcrainmaker.com/2015/05/apple-watch-waterproofing.html

I’d use the exact same automated test setup that I do for any other watches that I’ve tested (like the Fitbit Surge, the Garmin Fenix3, or the Garmin Vivoactive).

Week in Review–April 2nd, 2017

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6) Fitbit’s looking for a sports-focused PR person: Like I did a few months ago, sometimes I see sports-tech positions that may be of interest to folks here.

A quick look behind the scenes at Clever Training

www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/04/behind-clever-training.html

And then right down the row was New Balance activity monitors mixed with FitBit’s, and then next to it Barfly’s.

ISPO 2016 Sports Tech Roundup: FINIS Optical HR Swim Tracker, Kuai, Evalu, WatTeam and XMetrics

www.dcrainmaker.com/2016/01/ispo2016-finis-kuai.html

As I noted on Monday, you typically don’t see any sports tech announcements here from major companies like Garmin, Suunto, Polar, Fitbit, etc… Instead, we’ve got some of the smaller players showing off cool and new stuff.

Samsung Announces Galaxy Ring: Everything You Need to Know

www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/01/samsung-announces-everything.html

Likewise though, Oura hasn’t seemed to break out into becoming a household product/name (like a Fitbit did years ago).

The 2013 Swim/Bike/Run Gear I use List

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Weight Scale: Withings WiFi Scale and FitBit Aria Scale – I use both, it just depends which bathroom I’m in.

The 2015 Swim/Bike/Run Gear I Use List

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Weight Scale: Withings WiFi Scale and FitBit Aria Scale – I use both, it just depends which bathroom I’m in.

Week in Review–March 27th, 2017

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1) What happens if you lose your Fitbit…and someone finds it: Ok, I didn’t expect that, or more specifically – didn’t expect the sheer volume they deal with.

Behind the Scenes: How I choose which products to review

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Take for example some of the activity trackers like certain FitBit models or the Basis watch.

Zwift Increases Prices (App & Hardware): What you need to know!

www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/05/increases-prices-hardware.html

Even within the sports/fitness space, companies such as Garmin & Fitbit have kids account, as does Peloton (down to 13yo).

A London Weekend Runaround

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While I’ve also been using the Fitbit Charge as well as Withings Activite this past weekend too – they didn’t make the cut for the run.

Week in Review–June 6th, 2021

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5) Peloton acquires yet more tech companies: This time, Latitude 32, an engineering company that has assisted Fitbit, GoPro, and numerous other big names.

Week in Review–May 3rd, 2015

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3) The Presidential Choice: The Fitbit Surge: Lots of different media outlets spotting this last week adorning President Obama’s wrist.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/03/random-things-did-this-weekend-41.html

Sunday morning was the Paris Half-Marathon (technically the Fitbit Paris Semi-Marathon).

The Didn’t Get What You Wanted $500 Gadget Giveaway

www.dcrainmaker.com/2018/12/didnt-what-wanted-gadget-giveaway.html

If you win, you can use that credit for anything from the GoPro Hero7 Black to a Fitbit Versa smartwatch to a random pair of socks to the Favero Assioma power meter, or heck, even towards a new trainer.

Week in Review–June 26th, 2016

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2) Fitbit rolls out new sleep-focused functionality: The idea to give you more proactive guidance on getting better sleep based on your data, rather than the current industry trend of just telling you how you slept.

Handy Tools & Apps Page

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FitDataSync: This will synchronize the weight from FitBit scales over to Garmin Connect…

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