Wearable fitness tracker specialist Fitbit just announced its latest watch, the Blaze. A first for the brand, this new colour touchscreen wearable is being pitched as a smart fitness watch and offers a wide choice of interchangeable band and frame styles.
With Fitbit being a leader in fitness trackers, the Blaze is new territory for the brand and is a cheaper alternative to the likes of the Apple Watch and equivalent Android devices. That said, its feature list shows that the pre-existing Fitbit Surge is likely to remain a better choice for cyclists – more on which below.
So why is BikeRadar covering smartwatches? Well, cycling has no doubt hit the mainstream and these all-purpose fitness devices now offer features aimed specially at cyclists. Sure they may not be right for those seeking power outputs and VO2 numbers, but for everyone else they can offer a suitable replacement for a bike computer.
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Details in brief
The new Blaze is expected to be available in March, priced $199 /£160 / AU$330. It features integrated ‘PurePulse’ heart-rate monitoring from the wrist and a battery life of five days between charges.
Priced lower than the Surge, the Blaze doesn’t have its own GPS chip and so uses ‘synced’ GPS off your mobile phone in order to display important data such as distance and speed.
Like a smartwatch should, the Blaze will display incoming phone calls, texts, emails and allow control of your smartphone’s music – all via the colour touchscreen interface. The Blaze will work with Android, iOS and Windows devices.
Blaze vs Surge
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