Google’s Fitbit band continues hiding in plain sight [Gallery]

Google is engaged on a brand new Fitbit monitoring band in the identical vein as the favored Whoop band, and it’s been hiding in plain sight for a while now.

Final month, a report revealed Google’s plans to make a screen-less Fitbit band, and we famous on the time that Steph Curry, Google’s “Efficiency Advisor” for Fitbit, had been not-so-subtly teasing the gadget on social media.

That’s saved going.

As famous by Droid-Life, Curry has been sporting the brand new screen-less Fitbit band since January, with a gray/orange model of the band popping up in social media movies, press conferences, and different movies. These extra seems make it clear this gadget is fairly skinny, and the fabric seems acquainted to different Fitbit merchandise (and Pixel Watch bands).

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The general setup seems mainly such as you’re sporting Google’s Efficiency Band for Pixel Watch, simply with out the watch half.

Maybe much more attention-grabbing is a have a look at the Fitbit app expertise for this new band. There’s little context right here, however a “Reside knowledge” web page exhibits Cardio Load, coronary heart price knowledge, vitality burned (energy), and “Elasped time” in a exercise. The UI right here seems very very like it’s from the Fitbit app, however this display screen doesn’t exist as we speak.

That is proven on a Pixel cellphone – Steph really makes use of Messages bubbles! – in a behind-the-scenes vlog forward of NBA All-Star Weekend.

It stays unclear when this new Fitbit band will really be launching.

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