Garmin makes a lot of fitness watches. The Vivoactive 3 is the company’s general all-around fitness smartwatch, and the newest version, the Vivoactive 3 Music, adds music storage much like Garmin’s more runner-focused (and expensive) Forerunner 645 that arrived earlier this year. The $300 watch is available now. The Vivoactive 3 Music has a pretty …
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It’s still unclear whether kids really need fitness trackers to stay active, but that’s not stopping Fitbit. The company’s first plunge into kid fitness trackers, Fitbit Ace, has arrived for the summer, and is now on sale. The band was announced earlier this year during Fitbit’s launch of the Versa smartwatch. The basic-looking band is, essentially, a repurposed Fitbit Alta, …
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We’re not as gung-ho on the basic wrist device as we have been, or on wearables in general, according to IDC’s latest report on wearables. But smarter devices are making a bigger stand in the market. The report, published Monday, is based on first-quarter year-over-year unit shipment growth — that’s the number of wearable devices available for sale in inventories, …
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Fitbit Versa is the company’s third attempt at a full-on smartwatch, and the company may have finally nailed a good design at a really good price. It’s fully compatible with all of the apps designed for its more expensive predecessor, the Fitbit Ionic, which debuted just five months ago. The Versa arrives in April for $200 (£200, AU$300) — that’s …
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Valentine’s Day is all above love, right? That means flowers, chocolates, a nice dinner out — and maybe a fitness band? Whoa, whoa, whoa. As gifts go, fitness bands rank right up there with self-help books and vacuum cleaners in saying, “I don’t love you just the way you are” and “I put absolutely no thought into this.” At least, …
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Like a lot of us here at CES this week, my diet of fried finger food and coffee leaves a lot to be desired. Doing laps on the convention center floor and chasing stories up and down the Las Vegas Strip certainly helps — but if I wanted to crank that exercise regimen up to the max, I might consider …
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Smartwatches have become the new iPod replacements, especially for runners. Most smartwatches like Apple Watch, Android Wear models and Samsung Gear can already store music, but in the fitness watch landscape, it’s new territory. Fitbit made its first music-storing watch last year with the Fitbit Ionic, and now Garmin’s first music watch is the Forerunner 645 Music. It’s a GPS running …
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iHeartRadio has gone to bot. The streaming music service unleashed a slew of product integrations announcements at CES Monday. Listeners will be able to access iHeartRadio through its first bot, a helper on Facebook Messenger; and Garmin’s GPS running watch Forerunner 645 Music. iHeartRadio, the digital arm of traditional radio giant iHeartMedia, has been extending itself deeper into technologies after …
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We’ve reached the point that nearly every new TV has Ultra HD “4K” resolution. Cheap media streamers output 4K, and more and more movies and games are in 4K too. With the exception of broadcast TV, 4K is basically mainstream today. But already there are prototypes and rumors of 8K televisions. The new HDMI 2.1 specification supports 10K. And while …
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