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Garmin Bounce LTE Kids Activity Tracker In-Depth Review

kids activity tracker that’s been given a huge screen, combined with both GPS & LTE capabilities for kid tracking, and even a mic & speaker for audio messaging. … Garmin is continuing both their kids activity tracking product line, as well as their LTE adventures, in a new device that combines both of those: The Garmin Bounce.

Polar M400 GPS & Activity Tracker Watch In-Depth Review

The battery life gets about 8-hours in GPS-on mode, like most watches in the category, and gets about three weeks in regular day to day watch time/activity tracker mode. … This running focused GPS watch also contains day to day activity tracking (i.e.

Fitbit Inspire HR Activity Tracker In-Depth Review

At the mid-range they announced the Fitbit Versa Lite variant, and for kids they announced their new ACE2 activity trackers. … This brings us to the lowest price point we’ve seen from any of the major brands for an activity tracker with optical HR in it.

Hands on with Samsung’s new waterproof S5, activity tracker and Gear watches–with built-in heart rate sensors

Next, looking at activity tracker – the Gear Fit. … The other three devices included two smart watches and one activity monitor – which easily shifted the activity monitor landscape in one fell swoop.

Mio Fuse Activity Tracker and Optical HR Sensor In-Depth Review

This is similar to other activity trackers on the market in that it keeps track of steps, distance and those metrics against a total goal screen that can be shown as well. … In the case of the Mio Fuse, they took their existing knowledge of the optical heart rate (HR) monitoring space using their Mio optical HR sensor and extended the device to add in daily activity tracking.

The Pinnacle of Fitness Failure: Samsung’s Gear Fit Activity Tracker

On Friday I unboxed and got all set Samsung’s Gear Fit activity tracker. … This is the company's first direct attempt at competing with activity monitors from the likes of traditional players like Nike and FitBit, as well as newer entrants such as Garmin and Polar.

Garmin Vivosmart 3 Activity Tracker In-Depth Review

To be clear – this unit does not have GPS in it (like the Vivosmart HR+ does), rather, it’s the next in succession of mid-range priced activity trackers, meant to compete with the Fitbit Alta HR and Fitbit Charge 2. … For those of you that are familiar with Garmin’s lineup of activity trackers, you’ll have a good baseline understanding of the basic functionality.

First Look at Withings Activité activity tracker & designer watch

Late last week Withings announced their latest device – the Withings Activité, which combined an activity tracker into a more normal looking high-end designer watch. … This would in effect be pulling in much of their existing Withings Pulse activity tracker unit and stuffing it into the insides of a Swiss made watch.

MWC 2014 Roundup Part 1: Fitbit Force tidbits, Sony Core activity tracker and new Sony waterproof ANT+ phones, update on Mio Link

While last night’s big news was Samsung’s introduction of multiple smart watches, a new activity tracker, and their flagship S5 mobile phone – there are 8+ massive halls full of other companies exhibiting at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain this week. … Obviously, 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.

Fitbit Charge 2 Activity Tracker In-Depth Review

Whereas virtually every other activity tracker on the market receives anything you’ve configured on your phone. … Still, it boggles my mind that somehow Fitbit continues to make non-waterproof activity trackers.

First Look At The Névo Activity Tracker Watch

What does that mean though? Well, it’s designed to look like a normal watch from a glance, but then behind the scenes it’ll act like an activity tracker. … Last week the folks behind the Névo Watch that recently launched on Indiegogo swung by the DCR Studio to give me a hands on demo of their minimalist smart watch that also functions as an activity and sport tracker.

Initial hands-on with Polar Loop activity tracker

The challenge with most activity trackers is how to bridge the gap between a device aimed to track day to day walking around the office/home, with that of something designed to track your exercises. … This marks a new area for Polar where they’re branching into the heath “activity monitor” segment, as opposed to the straight-up fitness markets they’ve traditionally played a large part in.

First Look: Fitbit announces new Fitbit Alta activity tracker

Today Fitbit announced their latest activity tracker – the Fitbit Alta. … Its new inactivity/move alerts match what the rest of the competition has had for years, namely Garmin & Polar first, and more recently competitors like Apple, Microsoft and Under Armour.

MWC 2014 Roundup Part 2: 4iiii’s updates, ANT+ updates, the Huawei TalkBand Activity Tracker, LG Lifeband, and the SanDisk ring camera

Next up is Huawei’s new activity tracker and Bluetooth headset band, the TalkBand B1. … This activity tracker is primarily targeted at Asia and Europe, with no specific plans to introduce sales of it in the US.

Polar Announces A300 Activity Tracker Watch, also MyFitnessPal automatic sync support

This weekend ahead of CES here in Las Vegas, Polar has announced their latest activity tracking watch, the A300.

First Look: Fitbit Charge 3 Activity Tracker with SpO2 Sensor & Sleep Disturbance Tracking

And while it’s still an activity tracker at its core, you’re seeing the gradual transition of not just Fitbit but other companies as well, into eventually making FDA approved medical devices. … Usually priced between $125 and $150 ($149 in the case of the Charge 3), it tends to be a step above a basic activity tracker – including things like workout tracking, while not quite having the advanced features of a full ‘watch’, such as the higher end Versa ($199) or Ionic smartwatches ($249).

A Quick Look at the Withings Go Activity Tracker

One of those experienced players is Withings, today releasing a new minimalist activity tracker. … As you’ll recall Withings has an established footprint in the world of sports gadgets with their Activité line of watches, their WiFi scale, their Aura sleep system, and their Pulse activity and heart-rate device.

First look at Garmin’s new Vivosmart activity tracker

Today at IFA, the giant consumer-electronics focused show in Berlin, Garmin announced their latest activity monitor, the Vivosmart.

The new Polar Loop 2 and also new $19 Misfit Flash Link Activity Tracker

You’ll remember then when the original Loop was first announced, it was essentially the first activity tracker to connect to a heart rate strap. … However, over those two years other companies have added features such as smartphone notifications, inactivity alerts, and vibration functionality (for wake-up alarms and alerts).

A look at AmpStrip–the really cool heart rate sticker & activity tracker

Garmin Forerunner 15 GPS Watch & Daily Activity Monitor In-Depth Review

In non-GPS mode it'll get up to 5 weeks for activity tracker/standby/watch mode. … In keeping with the popular trend of adding activity monitoring to devices, back in April Garmin announced their latest running watch – the Forerunner 15 (FR15).

Full details on Garmin’s new FR15 combined GPS watch + activity monitor

This new watch builds on the previous edition by incorporating many of the day to day activity monitoring features of the Vivofit activity tracker that was released earlier this year. … I’ll cover both the ANT+ sensor piece as well as well as the activity monitor portion in a second.

Hands on with the new Garmin Vivofit & Vivoki Activity Monitors

Like most activity trackers, the Garmin Vivofit falls into the wrist-based camp. … Today, Garmin announced their latest fitness product, and first entrants into the activity monitor world: The Vivofit and Vivoki.

A few quick thoughts on Fitbit’s new activity trackers, GPS watch (with optical heart rate!)

This morning Fitbit announced a bundle of new activity trackers, as well as forging into the GPS smartwatch market with their first sport-focused GPS product that will undoubtedly on spec at least challenge both fitness incumbents like Garmin at the entry level running watch end, as well as smart watch hopefuls like Apple and their upcoming Apple Watch. … In an age were virtually all other activity trackers on the market are getting full text alerts from any app you choose, this does seem to be a bit of a surprise to be limited to just phone calls.

Hands-on with Epson’s new Pulsesense optical heart rate activity trackers

During the day you’ll be able to track data like most other activity trackers, including steps, sleep, distance, calories as well as time of day. … This unit (seen above) includes a small screen that shows your activity over the course of the day, as well as a bunch of metrics during a workout as part of a separate mode.