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Fitbit Charge 5 Fitness Band With Always-On Display And ECG App Launched: India Price Announced.

With a sleeker design and a brighter display than its predecessor, Fitbit Charge 5 has been unveiled worldwide. According to Fitbit, the Fitbit Charge 5 is 10 percent thinner than the Fitbit Charge 4, but it still has 7-day battery life. The band’s heart rate, sleep, and activity calculates your daily “readiness” for a workout and suggests what you should be doing on a given day. Depending on the score, it may suggest light yoga, high-intensity workouts, or even rest. An ECG app and an EDA sensor for stress tracking are also included in the Fitbit Charge 5.

Fitbit Charge 5: Specifications And Features

A combination of aluminum, glass, and resin make up the Fitbit Charge 5’s housing, and it comes with a silicone band. Stainless steel rails on the sides serve as ECG app and EDA sensor sensors. An AMOLED touchscreen display with 450 nits of peak brightness, and Always-On mode, and no buttons are included in the wearable. It’s claimed that the Fitbit Charge 5 is 10 percent thinner than the Charge 4 and boasts a 2x brighter screen.
NFC, GPS, SpO2, skin temperature sensor, and optical heart rate monitor are among the fitness tracker features that come with 20 different watch faces. The Fitbit Charge 5 is water-resistant up to 50 meters, making it ideal for swimming. Compatible with Apple iOS 12.2 or higher and Android 8.0 or higher. Fitbit claims that the Charge 5’s battery can last up to seven days and that it takes about two hours to fully charge the Charge 5’s batteries.
There’s also a Do Not Disturb mode, a Smart Wake alarm that goes off 30 minutes before its set time, and Fitbit Pay contactless payments. For Android users only, the Fitbit Charge 5 can relay email and call notifications, as well as quick replies (in select markets). With Google Fast Pair for Android, it connects to a smartphone via Bluetooth.
There is a Daily Readiness Score that is only available to Fitbit Premium users. It tells you whether or not you should focus on recovery or do a hard workout on any given day. Based on the level of activity, last three days of sleep, and heart rate variability, the score is calculated. Aside from 20 goal-setting exercise modes, the new Fitbit tracker also has a real-time active zone minutes tracker, automatic exercise recognition, and sleep monitoring. Fitness tracker Fitbit says the Daily Readiness Score feature will not be available at launch but will be available via an update for Charge 5, Sense, Sense 3, Versa 2, Luxe, and Inspire 2.
Also, the Fitbit Sense ECG app will not be included with the Charge 5 at launch, but the company says it will be soon. After each assessment, the ECG app will generate a PDF report that users can share with their doctors to check for atrial fibrillation. Aside from that, Charge 5 will also send notifications to the wearer’s wrist when the heart rate is above or below the desired threshold. In addition, it provides information on breathing rate, heart rate variability, skin temperature, menstrual cycle, and blood oxygen saturation, among other parameters (SpO2).
Fitness enthusiasts can access video workouts from brands such as Daily Burn, Aaptiv, Popsugar, and more with the Fitbit Premium subscription that comes with the device. Over 300 mindfulness sessions by Deepak Chopra, Croix, Breethe, and others are also available. Additionally, Fitbit and Calm have teamed up to offer Fitbit users 30 pieces of new content.

Price And Availability

India’s Fitbit Charge 5 price is 14,999 rupees (approx. There is a price of $179.95 (roughly Rs. 13,300) in the US, EUR 179.95 (around Rs. 15,600) in Europe, and AUD 269.95 (around Rs. 14,500) in Australia, with the latter being more expensive. In addition to Graphite and Black, the Fitbit Charge 5 is also available in Platinum and Steel Blue, as well as Soft Gold and Lunar White color options On Wednesday, August 25th, the fitness band, will be available for pre-order in some markets, but it won’t be available until this fall in India. Fitbit Premium membership for six months is included in the purchase at no additional cost.

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SUCCESS STORY OF FITBIT, LIVE YOUR LIFE IN A HEALTHIER WAY

Leave a Comment / Product, Story, Tech Story / By Annasha

When maintaining a proper diet or leading healthier lifestyle bumps into our way, we often tend to master the postponing game. Do you know why? Somewhere we are not encouraged enough to wake up every morning and have a good workout and wait till it turns into a serious health issue.

There is a minor part of the population who consciously tracks their fitness metrics and follows a healthy lifestyle. Honestly, many of us think that it’s an extravagant lifestyle to keep track of your health records and especially the Indians show minimal efforts henceforth. So, to keep your health records in track in an interesting way and give some push to yourself, Eric Friedman and James Park launched Fitbit in 2007, a company that produces smart wearable devices to track your health. It is interesting how Fitbit rose from just an idea twelve years ago given that it almost hit dead end several times and now competes with business tycoons like Apple and Xiaomi.

James Park

After passing out from University School at Cleveland, Ohio, Park went to Harvard for studying Computer Science but eventually dropped out. He joined Morgan Stanley as a Peon in 1998 and continued for a year. In October 1999, Park co-founded Epesi Technologies, a B2B integration software followed by co-founding Wind-Up Labs in 2002. Park’s life story is something that catches the attention of today’s generation, isn’t it? Dropping out of college and creating such a massive empire for himself.
Park along with Friedman thought of doing something incredible with the small sensors and hence came up with the idea of Fitbit to digitalize even the fitness and health of normal people.

Eric Friedman

Friedman is a Computer Science engineer who completed both his Bachelor’s and Masters from Yale University. After passing out in 2000, Friedman joined Epesi Technologies as a Software Engineer and then co-founded Wind-Up Labs with Park in August 2002. Friedman also worked for Microsoft in his early career and before co-founding Fitbit he worked at CNET Networks and Engineer Manager. Currently, he is serving as the CTO of Fitbit.

The beginning and the Turmoil

Already after founding Wind-Up Labs, both Park and Friedman didn’t have any intention to stop. They wanted to do something unique with small sensors and discovered a huge potential in the sphere of health. If small devices can be made out to track personal fitness data, they thought they might have a really good audience. At first, they created just a small circuit board within a wooden box as a prototype which helped them raise $400,000 and eventually more once they started furnishing their experimental gadgets.

In 9th September 2008, both of them attended the TechCrunch 50 Conference and received 2,000 pre-orders for their product in a single day. They accepted the order and realized later that it was a not-so-good move as they didn’t have a manufacturing unit at all. After a few months of the constant search for an appropriate supplier, the product started showing some flaws. The fate of Fitbit turned upside down and the co-founders thought of giving up. But after the topsy-turvy, they were finally able to launch the fitness tracker in 2009. They shipped around 5,000 units of this tracker and received another 2,000 pre-booking. Since there was no third party in the business, Fitbit made a robust profit out of it.

The Success

In 2011, Fitbit introduced another new tracker much better than the previous one as this one came with an altimeter and many other modifications. At the end of 2014, the company’s annual revenue summed up to $745.4 million and in the next year the company filed for its first IPO and the amount was $358 million. This year turned out to be one of the best for the company as more than 18 million fitness trackers were sold given that no new products were launched in this year.

The company also has a pretty impressive list of acquisitions starting from March 2015. Fitbit acquired Firstar in 5th March 2015 for $17.8 million followed by acquiring Coin, a credit card company in 2016. In 2017, the company acquired a smartwatch based start-up, Vector Watch SRL and in the next year a software company called Twine Health.

The company currently manufactures fitness trackers mainly for heart rate, sleep quality and number of steps. Though the company has faced a few shady plots for revealing too much information about Fitbit’s users to each other through its feature, still the company has managed to stay on the top in terms of wearable technology.

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Annasha Dey is an NIT student, who apart from studying engineering is also a content writer. She has a great interest in photography, writing, reading novels, and travelling as well. She is a foodie who loves socializing and hanging out with her friends. She is also a trained Kathak dancer and a big fashion enthusiast. Dey also loves watching TV series, which includes F.R.I.E.N.D.S. and Big Bang Theory. To be a better writer she prefers to read more

Fitbit Announces New Trackers for its B2B Venture

News, Tech News / By Yashica Vashishtha

Fitbit is known for its wearable fitness trackers, and now it has come with new gadgets with improved new features, but there is a twist too. The wearables are Fitbit’s first B2B venture, which is specially designed for company employees.

The company has launched those wearables named Fitbit Inspire and Inspire HR, that are capable of tracking sleep, activities, heart rate, calories burnt, etc. The wearables are available as the wristband as well as with a clip.

However, The price of the wearable is yet to be revealed; reportedly, those new Fitbit wearables are the cheapest of all the Fitbit gadgets. Even though the price may be affordable, but those will only be available through the Fitbit Health Solutions partners like health plan providers, employers, and other wellness.

The device will be provided as a subsidy, that an employer can provide its employees to track their health and activities.

The Fitbit inspire is the basic version of the tracker and only provide the features like tracking the activity and deliver phone alerts. Whereas the Inspire Hr can do much more than the Fitbit Inspire, as it is designed to monitor the heart rate, deeper analytics on sleep and GPS, too.

Although many insurers are already subsidizing their employees the Apple Smartwatches, as we see there is a huge price difference, so it can be a good sign for the cheaper Fitbit Inspire and Inspire HR.

Yashica Vashishtha

Yashica is a Software Engineer turned Content Writer, who loves to write on social causes and expertise in writing technical stuff. She loves to watch movies and explore new places. She believes that you need to live once before you die. So experimenting with her life and career choices, she is trying to live her life to the fullest.

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