

Integrated Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and a GPS antenna in the unibody frame create a much stronger connection with satellites in space and more accurate tracking. Built-In GPS Built-in GPS with GLONASS lets you see pace, distance and other key stats on display, while also recording elevation climbed, split times and a map of your route. PRODUCT FEATURES Dynamic Personal Workouts Start dynamic personal coaching right on your wrist, complete with on-screen guidance during every move and routines that adapt based on your feedback. The large watch face is on-trend with a bright display and sleek metallic accents that make this tracker infinitely wearable–all-day, every day. The Ionic functions as a traditional smart watch, too, delivering notifications (like texts calls, and calendar alerts) and access to apps, onboard music, and built-in payments.

Housed in a sleek-looking wearable is a smart hub that provides coaching, workouts, tracking, and more–all backed by built-in GPS, multi-sport modes, and SmartTrack automatic exercise recognition. There’s also a new, relative SpO2 sensor for estimating blood oxygen levels.The Fitbit Ionic is designed to give you your fitness big picture. Adidas All Day, Flipboard, Game Golf, Nest and Surfline are all confirmed to be coming soon.īack to what is on offer now though and the Fitbit Ionic stays true to its health and fitness roots with an all-new Fitbit Coach on board, complete with personal training, running companion (with GPS Run Detect mode), a swim exercise mode and enhanced heart rate tracking tech. It’s opening up the SDK in September and is hoping to tap into the huge Pebble developer community (Fitbit acquired Pebble last year) to bulk up the numbers of apps on offer to Ionic wearers. Sticking with music and wearers will also be able to load around 300 of their own MP3s using 2.5GB of storage space.Īndroid Wear and Apple Watch users may well guffaw at just four recognized apps being ready for the launch but Fitbit assures us that the App Gallery store will eventually offer up hundreds of apps.

The smartwatch will launch with four big third-party apps pre-installed for users: Strava, Starbucks, AccuWeather and Pandora for music streaming.

The Blaze lacked any sort of app experience for users, with limited smartwatch notifications, but the Ionic will be an app-rich device.
