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Recent coverage of Fitbit centers on Fitbit Air, with reviewers praising its minimalist fitness-tracker approach while criticizing its AI Health Coach. At the same time, Google’s Fitbit-related updates are framed as bug-fix and improvement efforts amid backlash from existing Fitbit users.

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Key Takeaway Fitbit Air is being praised for minimalism, but the AI Health Coach and ongoing user backlash are driving continued roadmap changes.
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Fitbit Air is being praised for minimalism, but the AI Health Coach and ongoing user backlash are driving continued roadmap changes.

Recent coverage of Fitbit centers on Fitbit Air, with reviewers praising its minimalist fitness-tracker approach while criticizing its AI Health Coach. At the same time, Google’s Fitbit-related updates are framed as bug-fix and improvement efforts amid backlash from existing Fitbit users.

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review angle Near-perfect fitness tracker, but imperfect AI Health Coach
Google roadmap focus Bug fixes and improvements
user sentiment context Backlash from Fitbit users

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  • Follow 9to5Google for continued updates on Google Health/Fitbit roadmap bug-fix progress. 9to5Google
  • Track ongoing reviews comparing Fitbit Air’s AI Health Coach performance to competing fitness trackers. 9to5Google

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  • Google’s Fitbit Air makes a strong case for minimalism and ditching your smartwatch Android Authority
  • Review: Fitbit Air is a near-perfect fitness tracker with an imperfect AI Health Coach 9to5Google
  • Google Health roadmap details bug fixes and improvements amid backlash from Fitbit users 9to5Google
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What does it track?

The Fitbit Air covers the core health metrics you'd expect, including 24/7 heart rate monitoring, heart rate variability, SpO2 (blood oxygen level), temperature variation, sleep tracking and analysis, cardio load, training readiness, steps, distance and irregular heart rhythm notifications for atrial fibrillation detection. It also includes automatic activity tracking that you can confirm later in the app. The device is water-resistant up to 50 meters. One caveat: The Fitbit Air uses an older sensor setup than the current Pixel Watch 4, which includes a multipath optical heart rate sensor and

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Why does it stand out?

Both projects are exactly similar, except they use different sources to fetch your health data. The Fitbit version has a script that fetches your health data once you enter your Fitbit account's credentials, while the version for Garmin smartwatches uses Garmin Connect. Once the data is fetched from those servers, it is stored locally in an InfluxDB database. This data is then fed to Grafana for visualization. The idea is to set up a localized solution that can be self-hosted and is completely open source, unlike the official apps from these brands. If you're wondering, the visualization suppo

If you use a Fitbit or Garmin smartwatch, you need to set up this Grafana dashboard
What’s all this Premium fitness going to cost you?

As you’d expect, Premium means “paid,” and just like Fitbit Premium before it, Google Health Premium requires an ongoing subscription. In order to access the personalized training and extended feature set, users will have to pay $9.99 a month, or $99 annually. That’s up from the $79.99 Fitbit Premium has been charging, so a lot of eyes will be on Google to see whether or not all this new functionality is worth the value. On the plus side, Google Health Premium will be a free perk to users on Google AI Pro and Ultra plans.

Fitbit is now Google Health — and it's not just a simple rebrand
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