New Fitbit Blaze Smart Watch - Now Accepting Pre Orders

[Curr946]

Hey guys,

Yet another new smartwatch / fitness tracker launching. Fitbit Blaze, with interchangeable housings. Fancy ones for work and then rubberised ones for hitting the gym. Seems ok.

http://www.fitbit.com/uk/blaze

[viridis]

Seems a bad move, just the fact they announced this made their shares drop 18%
Too many features for a health and fitness device, not enough to be a full smartwatch.

[Cleoriff]

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@viridis wrote:
Seems a bad move, just the fact they announced this made their shares drop 18%
Too many features for a health and fitness device, not enough to be a full smartwatch.

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Yes I mentioned the drop in shares on the existing CES 2016 thread

http://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Off-topic/CES-2016/m-p/939307/highlight/true#M67951

[viridis]

You did, I apologise for replicating it.

[Toby]

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@viridis wrote:
Seems a bad move, just the fact they announced this made their shares drop 18%
Too many features for a health and fitness device, not enough to be a full smartwatch.

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Is over-saturation the main cause @viridis do you think?

[viridis]

@Toby
No, the thing about watches is, there will always be a market for more. Better displays, better features, yada Yada....
This watch offers nothing new, no use of one of the three big os's (android, win. Tizen) and is really a glorified band.
It will soon be following the trend of the SmartBand talk and be sub £100 in a few months time.

[Toby]

We should start a 'Viridis' tech round-up and rating' series

[jonsie]

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@Toby wrote:

We should start a 'Viridis' tech round-up and rating' series

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He certainly knows far more than some of the so-called expert reviewers!