Fitbit announced Alta HR as the world’s slimmest wrist-based continuous heart rate tracking device last month. Now the company has launched it in India, as it had promised. The upgraded version of Fitbit Alta has PurePulse heart rate technology, offers automatic exercise recognition, sleep tracking and promises up to 7 days battery life. Continue reading “Fitbit Alta HR with continuous heart rate tracking launched in India for Rs. 14999”
Fastrack, the popular watch maker has made its foray into fitness tracker market with Reflex. The first fitness and activity tracker from Fastrack is priced at Rs. 1,995. We have got our hands on the Reflex, let’s see if this could be your go-to fitness tracker in the review.
Fastrack has forayed into the fitness tracker market with Reflex. The first activity tracker from the popular watchmaker sports an OLED display, which enables users to be notified of incoming calls, texts and shows physical activities and calories consumed.
Fitbit just announced Alta HR, which it claims to be the world’s slimmest wrist-based, continuous heart rate tracking device. It has PurePulse heart rate technology, offers automatic exercise recognition, sleep tracking and promises up to 7 days battery life. Continue reading “Fitbit Alta HR with continuous heart rate tracking announced for Rs. 14999”
Zebronics entered into wearables segment with its ZEB –Fit100 smart fitness band with OLED display back in October last year. Today it has launched ZEB-Fit500, an upgraded version with heart rate monitor that supports both Automatic and manual mode. It also has a touch sensitive button with display for notifications. Continue reading “Zebronics ZEB-Fit500 fitness band with OLED display, heart rate sensor launched for Rs. 3999”
Fitbit has announced preliminary results for Q4 2016. The company is slashing 6 percent of its global workforce which is 110 of its employees as a result of disappointing fourth quarter financials.
Continue reading “Fitbit to slash 6% of workforce, 6.4 million devices sold in Q4 2016”
GOQii, the homegrown wearable maker has introduced GOQii 2.0, its third fitness tracker that comes with heart rate sensor and heart care service. This has OLED display, doctor consultation, diagnostics, auto sleep detection, integrated charger and NFC contactless payments, similar to the second generation smart band that was introduced back in August last year. Continue reading “GOQii 2.0 with heart rate sensor, heart care service launched, subscription starts at Rs. 2999 for 6 months”
Samsung launched the Gear Fit2 with Curved Super AMOLED screen last year in India. This fitness tracker has a standalone music player that lets you transfer music between the tracker and your smartphone with the Samsung Gear application. Also, it can automatically tracks 15 different fitness activities such as walking, squatting, yoga, treadmill and more. So, does it fill the right boxes? Let’s take an in-depth look at the device in this review. Continue reading “Samsung Gear Fit 2 Review”
Fitbit has dropped a year old patent complaint against Jawbone. The fitness tracker and smartwatch maker had filed a complaint it the U.S. International Trade Commission, in which it had accused Jawbone of violating its patents. The case also sought a ban on the import of Jawbone’s fitness tracker into the US. Continue reading “Fitbit withdraws patent case against Jawbone”
Portronics, popular for its mobile accessories has launched Yogg X, its first fitness watch, a year after launching YOGG fitness tracker. It has an OLED touch screen that shows time & date and battery status on the OLED touch screen that awakened anytime, allowing you to shift between modes, by simply touching at the designated spot. Continue reading “Portronics Yogg X smart fitness watch with OLED touch screen launched for Rs. 2499”
After last week’s report from FT, another report says that Fitbit is reportedly planning to purchase the software assets of Pebble at under $40 million including Pebble’s software engineers, the watch OS, watch apps, and cloud services. Continue reading “Fitbit acquisition could kill Pebble Time 2 and Core”
Bingo Technologies has launched M2 Smart Band, which look similar features as the Xiaomi Mi Band 2 such as 0.42 inch OLED display, heart rate sensor and IP67 ratings for dust and water resistance. It is made of Plastic ABS and TPS elastomer and has protection from UV radiation and its resistant to abrasion and sweat. Continue reading “Bingo M2 Smart Band with OLED display, heart rate sensor launched for Rs. 999”
Basic wearables, primarily comprised of fitness bands, accounted for 85% of the market and experienced double-digit growth in Q3, 2016, according to latest report from the International Data Corporation, (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker.
Continue reading “Wearable market soars 3.1%, Fitbit maintains lead in Q3 2016: IDC”
Vivo launched its latest selfie-focused smartphone in the ‘V series’ in India dubbed Vivo V5. It is world’s first smartphone to come with a 20-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Weekly Roundup: Vivo V5 20MP selfie smartphone, OnePlus 3T, World’s thinnest Acer laptop and more”
TomTom today launched its Touch fitness tracker, Spark 3 series of fitness watches and Adventurer GPS outdoor watch in India. All these have 24/7 activity tracking, Multisport mode, Goal settings, automatic sleep tracking, wireless syncing and are splash resistant (IPX7). Both the watches have GPS tracking and rote or trail exploration, which can be shared with friends after a run – challenging all to explore more. Continue reading “TomTom Touch fitness tracker, Spark 3 fitness watch, Adventurer GPS outdoor watch launched in India starting at Rs. 13999”
