Whether the upcoming summer is going to be more about the fitness journey or the social scene for you, the Fitbit Sense 2 would make a fine wrist adornment. Its $300 retail price puts it beyond a lot of people’s smartwatch budget, but it’s a different prospect today. A $100 price drop on Amazon has taken the wearable back to its all-time low price for the first time in months. Fitbit Sense 2 for $199.95 ($100 off ..read more

Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Google is replacing Fitbit Pay with Google Wallet. Users will be able to continue using existing cards stored in Fitbit Pay until July 29. New cards can no longer be added to the app. Contactless payments with Fitbit are about to change. Google plans to shut down Fitbit Pay and replace it with Google Wallet in the coming months. The Fitbit team has sent out emails (h/t Droid Life) to users notifying them that it is updating its contactless payments feature. After July 29, Fitbit Pay will be replaced by Wallet, which the company says “will increas ..read more

Having done this for a long time, an Amazon deal occasionally jumps off the page as being possibly too good to be true. A crazy 48% price drop on the Fitbit Versa 4 caught us by surprise for the right reasons today, with the fitness tracker plummeting by $95 on the site right now. Fitbit Versa 4 for 104.96 ($95 off ..read more

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google is rolling out a new version of Google Play Services, bringing new features to Google Wallet. On Fitbit devices, Google Wallet now supports American Express cards. On phones, you can now choose to authenticate debit/credit card payments for your public transit journeys. Google Wallet is a mobile payment app from Google that lets you store your card information securely on your phone and use it to make payments. If you’ve stayed loyal to the app all these years as it went through its rebrandings, Google has released new features that make ..read more

Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Fitbit has redesigned its app to provide even better sleep-tracking features and insights. The updated app makes it easier to see your sleep duration, sleep score, and detailed timeline of your sleep stages. Users can now track sleep patterns over weeks, months, or even a year to see how their sleep is changing. Fitbit is one of the top names in the fitness tracker space, and it’s just announced a refresh of the sleep-tracking experience within its app. This update to Fitbit’s already class-leading Sleep experience simplifies navigation while off ..read more

Google Pixel Watch 2 Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Opinion post by Rita El Khoury Every time a new Wear OS watch is announced, I am intrigued. I have been using the platform for almost a decade now, and I like to try new watches to see what they offer in terms of features, comfort, battery life, and more. The OnePlus Watch 2, for example, really caught my eye with its excellent dual OS and dual-processor-enabled battery life. But there’s one thing that holds me back from switching to OnePlus’s latest or Samsung’s excellent Galaxy Watch 6 series, and that’s Fitbit. See, I’v ..read more

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Google has announced it will remove third-party apps and watch faces from the Fitbit app gallery in the EU. EU users will be able to continue downloading and installing third-party apps until June 2024. Users outside of the EU will be unaffected. Update: March 22, 2024 (12:36 PM ET): A Google spokesperson has reached out to Android Authority to confirm that EU owners will still have access to the third-party apps and clock faces they’ve downloaded. This means you won’t be able to download new third-party apps or watch faces after June 2024, but you ..read more

Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Fitbit is getting a new AI-powered chatbot that analyzes your health data and answers your questions in natural language. The bot will be made available later this year to Fitbit Premium users enrolled in the Fitbit Labs program. Fitbit users can expect a much smarter health and wellness experience later in 2024 with the introduction of a new AI-powered health chatbot. This feature was revealed at Google’s annual Check Up event and is part of a broader push by Google to integrate AI tools into healthcare. The Fitbit chatbot, launching later this ..read more

Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Google is retiring the “Fitbit by Google” branding in favor of “Google Fitbit.” The dotted Fitbit logo is also no longer appended with the brand name. Google is wholly taking over the Fitbit branding three years after completing the acquisition of the wearables brand. The company is killing off the “Fitbit by Google” branding that first appeared in 2022 and has since been used across Fitbit’s website, videos, and product packaging. Instead of it, you can now expect to see the new “Google Fitbit” name take over everything Fitbit ..read more

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google One is giving customers in the UK two new perks today. Fitbit Premium and Nest Aware have been included with some Google One subscriptions. Subscribers will reportedly get the base Nest Aware plan with the ability to get Nest Aware Plus as an add-on. Update: March 6, 2024 (2:16 PM ET): A Google spokesperson has reached out to Android Authority with the following statement confirming Fitbit Premium and Nest Aware as benefits for subscribers in the UK: Google One Premium plans already offer amazing value, with 2TB of cloud storage, family ..read more