Fitbit announced Blaze, its latest smart fitness watch at the CES 2016. We are live at the event and got our hands on the watch, so let’s take a look at its hardware and specs.
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The Fitbit Blaze sports a color touchscreen and on-screen workouts. It comes with features like a variety of clock faces and automatic exercise recognition. The watch tracks steps, distance, calories and floors climbed, keeps tabs on your sleep, and can wirelessly sync with your phone or computer.
The smart fitness watch has two square navigational buttons on the right side.
While one square navigation button is present on the left side. Similar to the Fitbit Surge, Blaze also offers smartphone notifications and music controls once connected to a smartphone. It has a slim design, interchangeable bands and frames.
It supports personal training app FitStar that offers Connected GPS, PurePulse heart rate tracking, Multi-sport mode and SmartTrack automatic exercise recognition. It also automatically tracks activities like basketball, soccer, running, and tennis, so you will not need to manually start a workout. The watch offers 24/7 heart rate monitoring and the heart rate readings take place every five seconds, or every second during workouts. It promises battery life of up to 5 days on a single charge.
The Fitbit blaze comes in black, blue, and plum band options, is priced at $199.95.
The Classic high-performance elastomer bands available in black, blue and plum is priced at $29.95, Luxe genuine leather bands with stainless steel display frames in black, mist grey and camel are priced at $99.95 and the Luxe stainless steel link band with a stainless steel display frame in silver is priced at $129.95. Fitbit announced that it will be priced at Rs. 19,999 in India and arrive in March.
Sneha contributed to this post