The Fitbit Air is not a smartwatch replacement. It can't ping your phone, surface texts or let you tap to pay for your coffee, and it falls short for those in-the-moment workout insights. If those things are important to you, you may have to move on or double up. And the $100 price tag means you feasibly can without breaking the bank. I'd probably wear both if I didn't have a looming backlog of wearables to test on my wrist once my testing period of the Fitbit Air is over. Yet it's the most accessible entry point into screenless health tracking so far, and a logical companion for existing smar
Fitbit Air Review: Is It Really a Smartwatch Killer?The Fitbit Air covers the core health metrics you'd expect, including 24/7 heart rate monitoring, heart rate variability, SpO2 (blood oxygen level), temperature variation, sleep tracking and analysis, cardio load, training readiness, steps, distance and irregular heart rhythm notifications for atrial fibrillation detection. It also includes automatic activity tracking that you can confirm later in the app. The device is water-resistant up to 50 meters. One caveat: The Fitbit Air uses an older sensor setup than the current Pixel Watch 4, which includes a multipath optical heart rate sensor and
Fitbit Air First Impressions: Google's New Fitness Tracker Has a Built-In Coach… Google's Coach will be available 24/7, and you can ask it questions at any time based on your own data. Questions you can ask include whether you should adjust your training schedule for upcoming travel or to work around an injury. …
A game with more than two decades of virtual space combat, piracy and commerce is apparently fertile ground for training future AI models. Google DeepMind this week announced plans to use the popular roleplaying game Eve Online on Wednesday for training, Bloomberg reports . …
… This now includes Google's Health Coach, an always-on AI concierge that translates all that data into a game plan. The Fitbit Air works with both iOS and Android, is available for preorder on Thursday and hits stores on May 26. A Stephen Curry special edition is also available for $130. …
… Google's coaching superpowers Google Health Coach, and the long-term health insights, are the main reason you'd buy this band. The coach pulls together fitness, sleep, heart rate and menstrual cycle data to build training plans that adapt to real-time performance and schedule. …
… An overeager AI health coach The Health Coach is a Gemini-powered assistant that pulls from your fitness, sleep and heart rate data to build personalized training plans, suggest workouts with video demos and adapt recommendations based on your recovery. …
… I am a former personal trainer and still enjoy learning and brushing up on my training knowledge from time to time. …
… Across the industry, hardware is increasingly presented as a delivery mechanism for AI services rather than the main product itself. But before this AI-driven health future becomes reality, companies like Google will need to convince their customers that their most sensitive data is actually safe. …
… Gurman suggested that Apple, which avoids using raw customer data to train its AI, might now "allow Google to handle some of its security protections." Currently, Apple Intelligence -- the company's AI system -- generates AI responses using customer data, either on-device or via the company's Priva… …
… Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET's parent company, in 2025 filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems. …
… Optional features, such as AI training, can also be turned off or on, it says. According to Google, it won't use the health and wellness data in Google Health for Google Ads, the company's online advertising program. Data transmission between devices and servers is encrypted. …