Fitbit Ionic

The device brings most of the features and data from the excellent Fitbit app and brings them to your wrist in living colour. And like the Fitbit trackers, Ionic can count your steps, tell you how many calories you've burnt and also tell you how well you slept.

Fitbit is probably the most well-known company in the fitness tracker world, but smartwatches are new territory. The closest they've come to making a smartwatch was 2015's Fitbit Blaze , but even that wasn't all that smart.

Fitbit has introduced a new member to its tracker family the Fitbit Ionic. This first-ever smartwatch is replacing the Surge, which has been on the market for t

F itness has become a huge seller in recent years. A quick glimpse at your Instagram feed and every third person out there is trying to make a living posting their latest regimes, workouts, guides, and numerous other videos, as well as an inordinate number of selfies.

Fitbit's first true smart watch is a a success and generally lays the ground work for plenty of improvements to come - both in firmware and future models.

Fitbit Ionic review: Buy the Versa instead, unless you really need GPS

Fitbit’s fitness smartwatch has gotten better with an infusion of watch faces and apps, but some of its extra-smart features still aren't as polished as the competition. The Fitbit Ionic ($199 at Amazon) was announced in August 2017 and released in October of that year to less than rave reviews. The design wasn't great, the software felt unfinished and its price ($300, £300 or AU$450) was hard to swallow. Even worse, it arrived after the 2017 refresh of the Apple Watch ($169 at Best Buy) line, which introduced the Apple Watch Series 1 and Apple Watch Series 3.

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Fitbit’s fitness smartwatch has gotten better with an infusion of watch faces and apps, but some of its extra-smart features still aren't as polished as the competition.

Fitbit Ionic review

The touchscreen Fitbit Ionic has GPS, a four-day battery life, on-board workouts & third party apps.

There's a lot of hype behind (and hope riding atop) Fitbit's first true smartwatch. The Fitbit Ionic isn't just the company's first fully-featured effort in the smartwatch space, it's the centerpiece of their pivot into the broader tech space.

Fitbit Ionic

If the Apple Watch is a smartwatch first and a fitness tracker second, the Fitbit Ionic feels like the inverse. Depending on what you're looking for in a wearable, that could be a very good thing. The Ionic's $300 price tag places it firmly in Apple Watch territory.