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CES Roundup Part 1: Sony, Geonaute, Contour, VOXX, Jaybird, Kreyos, Aftershokz, Reebok, Magellan, Moxy

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Jaybird introduced their first activity tracker – the Jaybird Reign. … They envision being able to track numerous different activity types.

Withings shows off new lower priced Withings Activité Pop

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Here at CES Withings showed off their latest activity tracker, the Activité Pop. … The Pop is a daily activity and sleep tracker but in a non-obvious form factor.

Polar (Sorta) Launches Whoop-like Competitor: The Polar 360

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Up till Whoop came along, virtually all activity trackers had displays of some sort, even if it was a fancy analog watch face. … As I alluded to above, this is literally a Whoop-like activity tracking band, which is a short-cut way of saying that it’s a full sleep/workout/activity tracking band, but doesn’t have a display.

Apple Watch Ultra In-Depth Review: It’s a Start!

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Every other fitness platform on the planet (and my 4-year-old daughter with her activity tracker) can tell you that if you walked more steps this week than last week, your trend is upwards. … So things like usability of the touchscreen, buttons, and then all the fitness/health bits around activity tracking, sleep, and more.

CES Roundup Part 2: Garmin, ANT+, 4iiii, BKOOL, Withings, O-Synce, Outside Interactive, LG, Pebble, Casio, Opryx, Glucovation

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LG has joined the fray on the activity tracker scene as well. … Accelerometer: All three pods have an accelerometer within them that can be leveraged for a variety of future opportunities (think footpods, activity monitors, etc…).

Hands on with the new Adidas Fit Smart

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This approach largely makes sense given for most people the phone is their hub, however it may limit sales to people with older phones that aren’t compatible (many activity tracker companies ship a USB stick to allow sync with computers). … However, it’s really important to point out that the device is not an activity tracker.

First Look at the new $129 Withings Move ECG

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Here at CES 2019 they announced a small pile of devices, including two new activity trackers and one blood pressure monitor. … But, for this post I’m going to just focus on the new $129 Move ECG activity tracker that sports, as the name implies, ECG functionality.

An Update on the Mio SLICE: How to get your slice of PAI

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A balanced activity profile will include strength training, cardio, and some amount of stretching/yoga, and an activity tracker counting steps is only likely to capture part of that story. … You may remember that Randy covered the announcement of the SLICE last year at CES as well as the beginning of their pivot away from a 10,000 step goal for activity tracking.

Whoop 4.0 Band & Platform In-Depth Review

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It’s not a daily step counter, nor a smartwatch with a display, nor an activity tracker. … However, doing an activity by itself doesn’t contribute to strain.

Polar Ignite GPS In-Depth Review

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– Tracks general activity metrics (e.g.

Garmin Lily 2 In-Depth Review

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But, if you’re looking at something with more sports functionality than most activity tracker bands, you’re probably in luck. … The Lily series essentially tries to find that middle ground between the basic sports features of an activity tracker, and some ‘good enough’ features of a sports watch.

Fitbit Charge 6 In-Depth Review

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Of course, this is all in addition to the slate of existing features that most people are familiar with - including daily step/activity tracking, sleep tracking, smartphone notifications, and more. … Since the communication layer of a tracker/wearable is more complex than a standard HR monitor, we had to significantly improve connection reliability and user control of their data by encrypting the HR being sent.

Hands-on with the new Garmin Vivomove watch

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That watch was merely an activity tracker that connected via Bluetooth Smart to your phone. … The Vivomove has precisely three things it can display: Time, progress towards your daily step goal, and an inactivity bar.

Investor Call Tech Tidbits: Fitbit Q2 2017

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As part of that they did note that the smartwatch will have a lower gross margin than the activity trackers, citing it being a more complex device to build and being their first attempt at it (which isn’t really true per se, as they’ve built similar devices before in both the Blaze and Surge). … In contrast to Garmin’s investor call some 5 hours earlier, Fitbit hardly sees the death of the activity tracker market, or at least the wearables market.

First look at the new Magellan Echo Fit

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Right now they’re just sorting out with some of those companies the best way to present/send that data to them (an item that every activity tracker company that comes into the market has to solve). … The Echo fit builds upon the original Magellan Echo (which was released about this time last year) and adds in both daily activity tracking as well as sleep tracking – and even a phone-less running mode.

Apple Watch Series 8 In-Depth Review

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Every other fitness platform on the planet (and my 4-year-old daughter with her activity tracker) can tell you that if you walked more steps this week than last week, your trend is upwards. … Instead, I want to focus on activity tracking and related.

Fitbit Charge 4 with GPS In-Depth Review

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Overall, the Fitbit Charge 4 may actually be the best activity tracker they’ve made in a long while. … Ok, with that we’ve wrapped up all the day to day activity tracking portions, so let’s dive a bit further into the sports tracking, especially with the GPS pieces.

Suunto 3 Fitness In-Depth Review

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These are basic things, especially when you’re looking at a $200 watch (since most activity trackers at $100+ show these metrics over time). … However, if you scroll down you get more of the activity tracking and training/recovery sections.

Samsung to add ANT+ to full range of mobile devices, plus a look at the S Health app

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Diving into the app a bit, the app is segmented into a few core areas: Exercise Mate (pairing to sensors/devices), Food Tracker (food log), Walking Mate (accelerometer based activity tracker), Comfort Level (uhh…happy counter?), and Weight (weight tracking). … Which is more about not having to worry about the phone in day to day sports activity (cycling in the rain), than actually using it while snorkeling or swimming.

Polar rolls out connection for developers, Apple Health & Google Fit integration

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It also enables companies (typically a different set of companies) to access activity tracker and health information from Polar services. … While Polar isn’t quite ready to publicly share the list of upcoming partners – I suspect most folks will be pleased with the planned options seen there once announced on both the workout side, and the activity tracker side.

Suunto 5: Everything You Need to Know & First Runs

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Once you’re done with the workout you can pause it, and then end the activity to view your summary stats. … Note that this is sync’d to Suunto’s Sports Tracker platform, and not to Movescount.

Garmin Forerunner 955 (with Solar) In-Depth Review

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Things like the overall usability and the new touchscreen, but more importantly all of the core daily fitness features like activity tracking, sleep, health tracking, and so on. … At least there I have a chance of getting the Pizza Tracker or Beer Pong apps, which would be exciting.

A fitting Misfit update

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As you’ll recall, the Shine is yet another activity tracker, and trust me…everyone has activity trackers now, this seemed to be the prevailing theme at this year’s conference. … Granted, activity trackers appeal to athletes, but they also appeal to everyone else, hence their explosive popularity.

Hands-on: The New Suunto 9 Multisport GPS Watch

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That does mean you won’t get some of the additional activity tracking and sleep data as cleanly presented in the mobile app, but it does mean you get a halfway decent backend platform. … The second though is the rebranded Sports Tracker platform, which is what the new ‘Suunto’ mobile app connects to.

First Look: COROS’s new Pace GPS Multisport Watch

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Up till now that’s mostly only seen on higher-end watches, or more inexpensive activity trackers (for stair counting) that aren’t multisport (making it an odd grey area). … Nor do they have multisport mode, which allows you to string together swim/bike/run into a single activity (such as during a race).

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