Review: Fitbit Ionic

 

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Fitbit is the leading wearable company in the world. It has outlasted the competition in the entry-level and mid-range with a succession of truly transformative fitness trackers backed by the industry's best analytics and most comprehensive apps.

The only area where Fitbit has seemeed lacking has been in the higher end. The Fitbit Blaze was sorely lacking many of the touchpoints that made smartwatches popular. While it had the tracking aspect nailed, it didn't offer much in terms of apps and other functionality. Now we have the Fitbit Ionic, which leapfrogs its predecessor in many ways.

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Fitbit Ionic now available worldwide

Fitbit Ionic is the first smartwatch from Fitbit and it offers the ultimate curation of advanced health and fitness features, personalized guidance, smart functionality and versatile style. Ionic has been available today for presale on Fitbit.com, with retail availability starting in October 2017. 

Fitbit Ionic brings a number of first to the pioneering and leading smart tracker space. It is the first smartwatch from the company. It is also water-resistant and can be used while swimming and for tracking water sports. It is the first device to use Fitbit Pay, which brings touchless mobile payments to the Fitbit  wearable space and it can be used to pay for items and services on most touch to pay terminals. The Ionic can also play back stored music and works in tandem with the Fitbit Flyer and other wireless headsets. Stay tuned for our full review of this very important wearable which can be used with iOS, Android and Windows 10 devices.

MasterCard brings contactless payment support to Fitbit Ionic

Fitbit just unveiled its newest smartwatch, the Fitbit Ionic, and brings with it a slew of new features. With that, MasterCard just announced that the new wearable will get contactless payment support, which it says is available at over 6.6 million merchants around the world. You just have to add your eligible cards to the fitness watch. The payment feature will first come to the US with participating issuer banks and will come to other markets soon after.

Fitbit releases Ionic smartwatch, Flyer headphones and new Aria scale

Fitbit is the leading fitness wearables maker and has toyed with the idea of creating a smartwatch. Today, the company, which bought Pebble earlier this year, comes through with the new Fitbit Ionic smartwatch which runs apps, offers various watchfaces, personalized guidance and also introduces Fitbit Pay as a mobile payments solution.

Fitbit has also launched the Fitbit Flyer, sweatproof and fitness-focused wireless headphones witha six hour playing time. A new version of their Aria smart scale and an updated premium guidance and coaching software.

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