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Google has made some plays in the wearable space. Now it is moving beyond the software side of things in a big way, announcing a new deal with Fitbit that will see it acquire the fitness tracking company for US$2.1 billion.

Amazon Alexa and an OLED screen are the big upgrades for the 2nd-generation Versa, a year and a half after the original appeared.

Fitbit refreshed and revamped its line-up of smartwatches and fitness trackers today, adding four new products and retiring another four. Heading the new arrivals is the Fitbit Versa Lite Edition, a cheaper and more basic version of the Fitbit Versa launched last year.

The Charge 3 is Fitbit's newest fitness tracker, picking up where the Charge 2 left off back in 2016. It brings with it a refined design, extra swim-tracking capabilities, sleep monitoring, and a larger display with full touchscreen capabilities – here's everything you need to know.

After the basic Blaze and the angular Ionic, Fitbit has finally got the smartwatch formula right. The new Fitbit Versa works well, looks good, and is comfortable to wear for extended periods of time, though it's not without its problems. Here's our hands-on experience of using the wearable.

Following up on the Ionic smartwatch we saw last August, we now have the Fitbit Versa, a cheaper, sleeker wearable that Fitbit says is "a smartwatch for all"—and yes it does look a lot like a watch made by Pebble, the company Fitbit acquired in 2016.

A fitness tracker is the perfect gift for the holiday season, for treating someone else or treating yourself – what better way to start tackling your New Year resolutions? These are the best fitness trackers we've seen launched this year, as wearables get smarter, smaller, and more diverse.

Launched late last month, Fitbit's Ionic is the company's attempt at claiming some territory from smartwatch heavyweights like Apple and Garmin. Now the feature-packed wearable is set to gain a handy new piece of functionality, with the ability to display glucose levels on the user's wrist.

Fitbit is having another crack at taking on the likes of Apple, Garmin, and LG with its newly unveiled Ionic smartwatch. The wearable packs in a bunch of tracking sensors, plus some useful extras like mobile payments, to make it the most advanced device yet to appear from the Fitbit stable.

A new study from Stanford into the accuracy of seven popular wrist-based fitness trackers offers both good and bad news for wearers, showing heart rate data to be relatively accurate, but energy expenditure estimates to be way off.

The eponymous fitness tracker company Fitbit has added a heart rate sensor and improved sleep tracking to the popular Alta model it first released last year. The new Fitbit Alta HR offers fully-featured fitness tracking in a more streamlined form factor than its smartwatch-like counterparts.

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