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Recent coverage of Fitbit centers on the newly reviewed Fitbit Air and Google’s AI Health Coach, with praise for overall tracking quality but criticism over how the AI features behave and fit/usage expectations. There’s also attention on Google’s evolving Health roadmap and users reacting negatively to changes or rollout details.

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Key Takeaway The Fitbit Air’s health tracking looks strong, but the AI Health Coach experience and practical fit/usage details are generating real user pushback.
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The Fitbit Air’s health tracking looks strong, but the AI Health Coach experience and practical fit/usage details are generating real user pushback.

Recent coverage of Fitbit centers on the newly reviewed Fitbit Air and Google’s AI Health Coach, with praise for overall tracking quality but criticism over how the AI features behave and fit/usage expectations. There’s also attention on Google’s evolving Health roadmap and users reacting negatively to changes or rollout details.

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  • Track updates from Google Health roadmap coverage, especially any follow-ups addressing Fitbit users’ backlash. 9to5Google

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  • 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

Fitbit Air First Impressions: Google's New Fitness Tracker Has a Built-In Coach
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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