If you’re looking for a fitness tracker that is also a watch, the Fitbit Blaze is for you. It’s the company’s first successful attempt at making an everyday watch that also tracks activity, calories burned, distance, floors climbed, heart rate, sleep activity, and steps taken. It has a few smart features and can receive texts, show incoming calls, and display calendar reminders. You can also control music playback from your phone with a mini-remote on the screen.
The Fitbit Blaze has a 1.3-in LCD screen with 240 x 180-pixel resolution and Silicon Labs 32-Bit ARM Cortex-M3 MHz microcontroller. It is equipped with 8 Mbytes of serial flash storage, has a multi-touch capacitive touchscreen with three control buttons, and is Bluetooth 4.0-compatible.
Inside this splash-proof, sweat-proof, and weatherproof smartwatch is a three-axis MEMS accelerometer, three-axis compass, heart rate sensor, MEMS micro altimeter, and ambient light sensor. It has a 3.7-V, 167-mAh Li-Polymer battery that lasts up to five days with a two-hour recharge time.
The Fitbit Blaze syncs with Android, iOS, and Windows Phone, as well as Apple MacOS X 10.6 or later, and Microsoft Windows Vista or later. Available colors include black/gunmetal, black/silver, blue/silver, and plum/silver. All devices retail for $199.95, except the black/gunmetal, which is priced at $229.95.
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