Study alleges Fitbit’s heart rate tech is wildly inaccurate, ambiguous and ‘all over the place’

It looks like activity tracker pioneer and wearable market leader Fitbit has much more important things to worry about than declining profits and prospectively stagnating sales, as a class action lawsuit filed a few months ago may end up greatly harming ...

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Fitbit dismisses allegations of wildly inaccurate heartrate sensor data

Wearables were built to gather tons of data, whether we’re talking about full-featured smartwatches or laser-focused fitness trackers. As we turn to apps to crunch those numbers into a more digestible format, giving us detailed information about everything from our sleeping patterns to our aerobic activity, should we be worried about just how accurate all this data is? A new class-action lawsuit throws some serious allegations at Fitbit, accusing the wearable manufacturer of selling trackers that ...

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Fitbit makes its activity trackers even better with weekly goals, SmartTrack, and PurePulse

Undisputed fitness band champion Fitbit may not fear the recent rise of the Apple Watch, seeing as how it apparently targets a different audience, but you have to assume Microsoft Band 2’s multitude of sensors, as well as Fossil’s Misfit acquisition, put ...

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Win a new Surge with The Triple Fitbit Giveaway

Ready to get serious about fitness? You could win a brand new Fitbit Surge when you enter The Triple Fitbit Giveaway at the Pocketnow Deals Store.The Surge is Fitbit’s newest and most premium fitness tracker. It features GPS tracking, a heart rate monitor, wireless syncing, and more. In fact, it’s such a cool device, three lucky people are going to win one.To enter, just go to The Triple Fitbit Giveaway contest page ...

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Fitbit launches three new wearables, including Surge smartwatch

A week back, we checked out a leak that suggested a new smartwatch was on the horizon: not a new Android Wear model, nor Apple wearable, and not the rumored Microsoft smartwatch, either. Instead, we were to see Fitbit move beyond more basic fitness trackers to offer a full-featured smartwatch to call its own, the Fitbit Surge. Sure enough, today the company goes official with the Surge, as well as two new fitness trackers, the Charge and Charge HR.Considering how these models build upon the ...

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