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September 2017
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The editors liked
Great design with beautiful colour display
Continuous heart-rate monitoring
Added waterproofing
Built-in GPS
Multi-sport tracking
Comfortable
Decent battery life
Bright
Clear screen
Long battery life
Sleek design
Slick
Beautifully designed
Dynamic fitness features
Fitbit Pay works well
Great fitness features
Solid battery life
The Fitbit Ionic offers a comfortable design
With 50-meter water resistance for swimming
GPS and mobile payments. You only need to recharge it once or twice a week
Bold design
Excellent sleep tracking
GPS and heart-rate tracking work well
Strong battery life
Waterproof
GPS
Excellent platform
Automatic exercise recognition
Four day battery life
Solid sports tracking
Guided workouts
Fitbit Pay works
Better strap
Still a good sport watch
Fitbit's app remains excellent
Good wrist cardio tracking
Good battery life for a smartwatch
Incredible battery life
Automatic workout tracking is a nice addition
Waterproof up to 50 meters
Great interchangeable bands
Stores up to 300 songs
The watch has workouts loaded on to it
Not only does it give you a plan of what exercises to do and how long for
You can watch a video of how to perform the exercise and it'll vibrate when it's time to start the next one
Builtin GPS means you can see e
The editors didn't like
Touchscreen could be more responsive
Pricey
Rating
Not many apps
Patchy synchronisation
Poor notification handling
High price
Limited third-party apps
Controversial design
Little bit slow
Limited music offering
While the Ionic supports future apps and watch faces
Few are available yet. Included apps feel slow and don't launch from the watch face. There's not much on-watch coaching and music storage and playback is often more trouble than it's worth
Virtually no third party apps yet
Fitbit Coach not available till later in 2017
Fitbit Pay not ready in the UK yet
Expensive for what it can currently do
Touchscreen not responsive enough
Expensive
It's not that smart as smartwatches go
Buggy software
Too many TBC features
Design will divide
Inconsistent heart rate
Some problems with smart features syncing (in our Android testing)
It's not that smart as smartwatches go (but good as a fitness tracker)
More expensive in the US
Poor value if paying more
Underwhelming Adidas input
Lacks smartwatch features
It still feels like a step-counter with knobs on rather than a truly useful running/gym companion
It really is not a sexy thing
App offerings leave a bit to be desired
Lacks the ability to respond to text messages/emails
Not as full-featured as other smartwatches on the market
Lacks a voice assistant like the Apple Watch and Android wear devices have
You can't reply to messages or calls directly from the watch
Published: 2017-10-20, Author: Lee , review by: pocket-lint.com
Great design with beautiful colour display, waterproof, built-in GPS, excellent platform, continuous heart-rate monitoring, automatic exercise recognition, multi-sport tracking, comfortable, decent battery life
Touchscreen not responsive enough, expensive, some problems with smart features syncing (in our Android testing), it's not that smart as smartwatches go (but good as a fitness tracker)
The Fitbit Ionic not only brings a solid, lightweight design with a beautiful screen, it also adds built-in GPS and dedicated swim functionality that the earlier Blaze was lacking.With a new and improved heart-rate monitor, smart notifications, future pay...
Published: 2017-10-16, Author: Lee , review by: Theinquirer.net
Great design with beautiful colour display, continuous heart-rate monitoring, added waterproofing, built-in GPS, multi-sport tracking, comfortable, decent battery life
Touchscreen could be more responsive, pricey, Rating:
If you're looking for a wearable to track your health though, the Ionic is a great addition to any workout. Saying that, the Apple Watch starts at only £329, so for £30 more you're going to get a much slicker bit of kit. That's if you're an iPhone owner...
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Published: 2017-10-14, Author: James , review by: techradar.com
Fitbit Pay works well, Great fitness features, Solid battery life
Controversial design, Little bit slow, Limited music offering
The Fitbit Ionic is a good wearable, but it's not the great smartwatch some had expected it to be.There are lots of positives, including strong battery life, Fitbit Pay and built-in GPS, but there's also a lot missing, and that leaves this device feeling...
Published: 2017-10-13, Author: Scott , review by: CNET.co.uk
The Fitbit Ionic offers a comfortable design, with 50-meter water resistance for swimming, GPS and mobile payments. You only need to recharge it once or twice a week
While the Ionic supports future apps and watch faces, few are available yet. Included apps feel slow and don't launch from the watch face. There's not much on-watch coaching and music storage and playback is often more trouble than it's worth
The Fitbit Ionic has all the features we've been wanting in a Fitbit for years, but it ultimately feels less than the sum of its parts...
The Ionic is Fitbit's strongest smartwatch yet, despite a few annoyances such as the inability to view past workouts on the watch itself and it's rather basic handling of notifications. Whether it can sway potential customers away from the latest Apple Wa...
Incredible battery life, Automatic workout tracking is a nice addition, Waterproof up to 50 meters, Great interchangeable bands, Stores up to 300 songs
App offerings leave a bit to be desired, Lacks the ability to respond to text messages/emails, Not as full-featured as other smartwatches on the market
Fitness fanatics should absolutely buy Fitbit's Ionic. Featuring an impressive suite of fitness tracking capabilities — such as auto-tracking of runs, swim tracking via its waterproof design, custom workouts, and multi-sport compatibility — there's no bet...
We're really pleased to see a smartwatch made by Fitbit. While it's expensive for a fitness tracker, it does pack in a lot of high-end features that will appeal to a wide range of people, from hardcore fitness fanatics to the more casual gym-goers.While t...
Four day battery life, Solid sports tracking, Guided workouts, Fitbit Pay works
Buggy software, Too many TBC features, Design will divide, Inconsistent heart rate
There's a lot that we really like about Fitbit's first smartwatch, but ultimately the software niggles make it difficult to put it in the same bracket as the Apple Watch, the best that Android Wear has to offer and Samsung's Gear smartwatches right now. W...
We're really pleased to see a proper smartwatch made by Fitbit. We're a bit surprised by the price tag when you consider its rivals, but it does pack in a lot of features that will appeal to a wide range of people, from hardcore fitness fanatics to the mo...
