Fitbit, acknowledged brilliant of fettle trackers, has absitively to footfall out of its abundance zone. For the aboriginal time, the US architect wants to attempt with the Apple Watch and Android Abrasion smartwatches. The Fitbit Ionic is the aboriginal smartwatch from the company able to booty advantage of apps developed by third parties. After several weeks of testing, actuality are my impressions.
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Made official at IFA 2017, the Fitbit Ionic is accessible for $299. Fitbit's affiliated smartwatch comes in three colors: Blue Gray/Silver Gray, Slate Blue/Burnt Orange and Charcoal/Smoke Gray.
As far as I can tell, the Fitbit Ionic is not the best attractive smartwatch on the market. The Ionic follows the attitude of the Blaze with its aboveboard dial. In accustomed life, it goes rather unnoticed, so it should be accomplished for a avant-garde ambit of people. However, those anxious with fashion will opt for accession model, aback the Ionic is missing a bit of sex address due to its rather blubbery borders about the dial. The watch is comfortable to abrasion and is calmly abandoned admitting its weight of 46 grams.
On the abstruse side, the Ionic's case is fabricated of Alternation 6000 aluminum, an admixture of magnesium and silicon identical to the iPhone 6, which showed signs of weakness anon afterwards its launch. Apple has autonomous for aluminum 7000 alternation for its iPhone 6s and iPhone 7 because it contains zinc, which guarantees added strength. I remain, for example, absolutely bleak about the Fitbit Ionic attrition to scratching. Regarding the body affection and finish, however, aggregate looks and feels right.
The strap supplied in the box is fabricated of silicone. For sports, it's very practical. Its bandage arrangement (a catch and an adapter button) is invaluable to abstain any accident of loss. It is sometimes a little difficult to wrap around the wrist, the bend actuality so bound that the allotment of elastomer on the armlet has adversity fastening. Fortunately, silicone seems to be able to bear the analysis of time (and perspiration). Of course, the bandage is proprietary so you'll accept to go through the Fitbit abundance to get new ones (including leather). The alteration the bandage is, fortunately, actual easy.
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In the middle, of course, is the 1.4-inch awning of the Fitbit Ionic. There are three buttons on the abandon (two on the appropriate edge, one on the larboard edge). The one on the larboard is a aback button, while the buttons on the appropriate are for navigation. The top button displays the stats of your day, and the additional is committed to blame off exercise sessions. On the back, there is an optical affection amount sensor. I will acknowledgment to the affair of its capability later. The watch is waterproof, so pond with it is absolutely possible.
The Fitbit Ionic appearance a 1.42-inch LCD blow screen, with a resolution of 348 x 250 pixels and a pixel body of 302 pixels per inch. Just like the Gear Fit2 Pro we activated recently, the watch is covered with Gorilla Glass 3 for added durability.
Compared to Samsung's acute fettle band, the affectation of the Ionic does not action as abundant contrast, but the watch's affectation is still actual good. The Fitbit Ionic appearance ablaze colors and aerial accuracy (1000 nits like the Apple Watch 2). The readability is actual good, and the Fitbit Ionic is a absolute accompaniment for any blazon of antic activity. I was abundantly afraid by its account underwater, abnormally in agreement of readability.
As for responsiveness, it's not bad. However, the awning is sometimes a bit apathetic to acknowledge and you accept to accomplish an accomplishment to move your wrist abundant to deathwatch the screen. This is annoying from time to time back you are accomplishing an action and appetite to apperceive advice quickly.
In accession to its smartwatch capabilities, the Fitbit Ionic is of advance a absolute apparatus for tracking your sports activities. All the fettle appearance we apperceive and adulation from added Fitbit articles can be begin here:
Although I still had some antecedent alarm during my underwater sessions, the Fitbit Ionic has been able to bear swimming. Sometimes the after-effects can be adulterated back counting ambit for laps in the pool.
If Fitbit presents its smartwatch as a fettle apprenticeship watch. Through videos shown on the watch, you'll be guided through workouts. For the moment, alone three videos are available. More chargeless videos should access later. The abstraction seems good, but sometimes it's difficult to chase the video on your wrist and move at the aforementioned time. Maybe a speaker would accept helped here.
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Fitbit additionally offers added custom contest in the Fitbit Drillmaster app. This is absolutely a new adaptation of the Fitstar app, from a aggregation bought by Fitbit. Custom contest will be appropriate to you, but there's a $39 anniversary cable fee. These custom workouts will appearance you absolutely what to do. Each exercise, you can leave comments to bigger acclimatize your workouts. The ambition actuality is to advice you advance and animate you to try altered types of exercises.
The Fitbit Ionic runs on the manufacturer's own OS, Fitbit OS. Despite the business promises of the brand, I accept to actuality aghast with the possibilities offered by the watch. If the acquirement of Pebble for $40 million foreshadowed acceptable things, its affiliation still leaves commodity to be desired. For the aboriginal time in its history, Fitbit offers a development kit (SDK) for third affair developers to actualize their own apps for the watch. For the moment, though, the Fitbit App Gallery archive is almost empty. Apart from a few accomplice apps that are actual strong (Strava, Starbucks and Pandora to name a few), there's not abounding added acceptable options. Fans of Spotify will, for example, accept to transfer their songs to the 2.5 GB centralized memory of the watch. It doesn't charge to be so complicated.
Fitbit OS allows you to accept notifications on your Ionic (calls, messages, amusing networking). The botheration is that you don't have the befalling to respond, which creates a abundant faculty of frustration. It is alone accessible to bright the notifications, one by one or all at once. Why, Fitbit? The watch doesn't accept a microphone or advance replies.
As always, the Fitbit app is one of the best features. It's consistently so automatic and fun to use. The app displays the capital advice on the home folio as blocks which you can adapt as you wish. You can calmly acquisition all activities completed and you can claiming your friends. It is accordant with a ample cardinal of third-party casework (Alexa, IFTT, MyFitness Pal and more).
There's annihilation to say about the synchronization amid the smartwatch and the app. It's quick and painless. The alone botheration I encountered was during the initial configuration, aback it took added than two hours to download and install the binding amend to use the device.
As far as tech specs go, the Fitbit Ionic has 2.5 GB of centralized storage, which can be acclimated to abundance your music for example. There's an NFC dent for payments, a GPS, an optical affection amount sensor, a gyroscope, a barometer and an accelerometer to admeasurement all of your concrete activities.
In general, the achievement is acceptable and the ability administration seems to be under control. However, as explained above, I've accomplished some delays, though I'm not abiding whether it's because of the processor or the arrangement itself.
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The GPS performed able-bodied and the distances accepted to be authentic and constant with what my smartphone recorded. Regarding the optical affection amount sensor, I begin the after-effects hardly college than reality, alike admitting Fitbit explained that its new algorithms fabricated the altitude added accurate. While the after-effects are added stable, the recordings still seems a little high. If your wrists are heavily complex in your antic activities, the affection amount after-effects are basically useless. Of course, as for added fettle trackers, we charge abide alert about the advice accustomed aback these are consistently estimates. Once again, I animate you to apprehend the commodity accounting by my colleague Stefan on the topic:
If you're attractive for a continued lasting smartwatch, the Fitbit Ionic will contentment you, as array action is one of the areas in which the watch excels. As promised by the manufacturer, the Ionic is able to authority out for about 4 canicule afore assuming astringent signs of fatigue and requiring recharging. Rest assured, there is no charge to attenuate the cardio sensor or absolute the accuracy to accomplish such a result. It's a altered adventure if you use the GPS a lot, as the ambit is abundantly reduced. But there is annihilation hasty about that.
It is difficult to aggressive smartwatches that are accomplishing bigger in this area. The alone abrogating point is the adjustment of charging itself. As always, Fitbit offers a proprietary cable, so you'll appetite to booty affliction not to lose it as it's a affliction to replace. Fitbit offers alone the charging cable and not the charger in its box. Given the amount of the watch, we were advantaged to at atomic that.
Final adjudication
Was Fitbit's bet on the apprenticeship watch successful? Not really, in my opinion. As a smartwatch, it's a little too limited. The arrangement isn't actual complete (it's not accessible to acknowledgment to notifications!), and it lacks apps. The architecture is a bit too simple to absolutely win me over.
Nevertheless, the Fitbit Ionic isn't a bad product. The watch is an ideal accompaniment for action tracking and it allowances from the brand's acquaintance in this field. As ever, the Fitbit app is a abundant strength. You can use the accessory for abounding activities (running, swimming, bodybuilding) and its array action is fantastic. But in the end, the amount seems a bit too aerial for an action tracker, and it's not avant-garde abundant for a smartwatch back you analyze it to the antagonism (Samsung Gear S3, Apple Watch and others).
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