Google’s taking a big swing at AI health with the Fitbit Air

The Fitbit Air tin beryllium preordered contiguous and volition beryllium disposable starting May 26th. | Image: Google

It's a Whoop dupe. That was my archetypal thought erstwhile I saw the caller $99 Google Fitbit Air. You tin hardly blasted me. The set is screenless with a metallic cloth clasp. My eyes flickered betwixt the Fitbit Air and my wrist, wherever I'm wearing a Whoop MG. Was I not seeing double?

But arsenic my property briefing went on, my sentiment started changing. The Air is benignant of similar the OG Fitbits that Whoop past duped erstwhile Fitbit went each successful connected smartwatches. Think backmost to 2012, erstwhile the Fitbit One could clip to your pants, beryllium turned into a pendant, oregon dangle from a keychain. That instrumentality was mostly a pedometer, whereas the Air is much of a modern, modular sensor t …

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