Fitbit
Fitbit has just announced its first fashion-focused, bracelet-style tracker – Fitbit Luxe. True to its luxurious name, Luxe stainless steel will come in a special $ 200 edition, with Gorjana jewelry as a band (coming in June), but the $ 150 silicone version is available for pre-order now.
Both will come with a six-month Fitbit Premium subscription (usually $ 10 per month or $ 80 per year), which offers users guided fitness programs, over 200 workout videos, deeper sleep analysis, about 60 nutritional articles and recipes and other resources to learn and improve health and well-being. Of course, for people’s health has always been the name of the game for Fitbit, so with Luxe, the company is trying to find a better balance between style, price and pursuit of casual activity.
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Fitbit Luxe is a fitness tracker inspired by the company’s jewelry.
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Special editions come with a gorjana jewelry bracelet instead of a silicone band.
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You can also get a wire mesh tape.
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Or a double, twisted leather band.
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Luxe can follow over 20 specific workouts.
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It can also guide you through meditations and breathing exercises.
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And, of course, the pursuit of sleep.
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Just like following the menstrual cycle in the Fitbit app.
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Luxe can also receive notifications from your smartphone.
With an OLED color touch screen, Luxe is the company’s first fitness band, not a smartwatch, to add that flair and functionality. You can go through the latest activity values, phone notifications (you can receive text messages, calls, emails, etc., but you can’t answer them on tape), stress statistics, menstrual cycle information, or Guided breathing and start tracking a workout.
Luxe tracks sleep, offers more than 20 different exercises (some automatically) and has a 5ATM waterproof resistance for use while swimming. If you want GPS tracking, you’ll need to bring your phone, though, because Luxe doesn’t have built-in GPS. Otherwise, your heart rate monitor, blood oxygen sensor (“coming soon” functionality), gyroscope and accelerometer will do the rest for your fitness-tracking needs. Skin temperature sensors also help you measure your stress level, along with data on your breathing rate and heart rate variability.
All of this is used to give you the fitness context, whether it’s measuring activity minutes for the week, seeing if you reach your recommended goals, or announcing your stress level, and giving you guided meditations from Deepak Chopra. , among others, to have an impact. Luxe introduces more in-depth information in this regard with seven-day trends, which were previously reserved for Fitbit Premium members, and subscribers will continue to receive 30-day trend reports. Manually recording other health values, such as blood sugar, in the Fitbit app is an option, and those values will then be included in your reports.
Like almost any Fitbit, the Luxe has a battery life of several days, up to five days. This should facilitate his effort to be worn normally and not to think on a daily basis. With its light fitness character (probably described more precisely as “wellness”), Luxe aims to take care of the basics and do it in style. It’s not the track you want to train for a half marathon, but tracking activity at the standard level, combined with Fitbit’s well-organized app and its wellness prospects should be enough to satisfy those looking for a “set-it “And forget it” (and then check and learn from it from time to time) approach wellness tracking.
If it’s right on your driveway, all you have to do is forget that it looks like a medical bracelet (a very stylish one, especially with optional metal gorjana style bands and leather bracelet) and place a pre-order on the Fitbit website . Orders start to be delivered “this spring” for Luxe and in June for Luxe Special Edition.