The Ionic Watch will sell for $300 starting in October. Mobile payments are supported as well, Visa, Mastercard and American Express cards from the top banks “in over 10 markets” can be used. You can sync with the Pandora app, but you need a subscription (Plus or Premium) and is US only. Speaking of, there’s 2.5GB of available storage for 300+ songs to listen to offline (over Bluetooth). The watch can run apps as well, Strava, Pandora and AccuWeather are already working on theirs. You can’t use Android Wear apps, but you still get rich notifications from Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and others. The watch will gain Audio Coaching next year. It will show real-time heart rate zones during training but also track your resting heart rate 24/7. It also has a built-in optical heart rate tracker. The Ionic smartwatch is water resistant up to 50m and has a swimming mode. Speaking of exercise, the usual training modes are available as well as swimming. And if your exercise routine requires a lot of GPS tracking (GLONASS too), the watch is good for up to 10 hours of operation. That has its advantages – like multi-day battery life, more than four days on a charge. No, the Fitbit Ionic watch runs the Ionic OS. To do so, it developed its own custom OS – so this isn’t Android Wear, Tizen or anything you know so far. If you're planning to buy a smartwatch from Fitbit check these out as they're all cheaper, offer a slimmer design and many of the same features as the Ionic.Fitbit is known for its fitness trackers, but now the company has decided to dive into the smartwatch deal.
Since the launch of Ionic, we've also seen Fitbit introduce three new smaller and more affordable smartwatches called the Fitbit Versa, Fitbit Versa Lite and Fitbit Versa 2. However, there's now the additional competition of the Apple Watch 5, which adds LTE and its best fitness tracking yet, not to mention the incursion of Garmin into the fitness smartwatch space with products like Forerunner 645. Offering similar features to expensive alternatives such as the Apple Watch range and Wear OS watches, the Fitbit Ionic is a serious contender to be the smartwatch you choose to wear when you’re out running or hitting the gym. The Ionic combines its fitness know-how with the smarts of a variety of companies it’s bought – such as Pebble, which Fitbit acquired in 2016 – and brought it all together to add an impressive new wearable to its range.
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