Last year , Fitbit inflicted upon us , the public at large , the ugliest smartwatchfrom a company that should have sex better . The Fitbit Blaze had great battery aliveness and … that was it . Then , late last year , Fitbit acquireda good deal of technical school and plus from Pebble , the lauded smartwatch troupe that found itself murdered by thepublic ’s distinct lack of interest in smartwatches .
Now , according to Yahoo Finance , Fitbit is heavy at work on a newfangled smartwatch , and it ’s run into so many outlet the company has been forced to delay it .
https://gizmodo.com/smartwatches-are-dying-because-they-are-worthless-1790001341
The original Fitbit smartwatch (Image: Alex Cranz/Gizmodo)
From Yahoo :
The seaworthiness tracker company ’s smartwatch labor has been a troubled one . Production problems have pull Fitbit to push an original give launching to this drop , according to two source conversant with the issue .
Despite all that Pebble knowhow , Fitbit has obviously run into big problems make the unexampled smartwatch waterproof , and it ’s also had issue with GPS . “ In one of the more final epitome , the GPS was n’t working because the antennae was n’t in the right home , ” Yahoo ’s source said .
More significantly , however , Yahoo ’s seed had nothing nice to say about the look of the watch . “ It was very retro - look with the lines and stuff — unquestionably not aphrodisiacal , ” they say . Yahoo Finance sustain that assessment after reportedly find out the presentation deck that retailers like Best Buy and Target would have seen when Fitbit snitch the watch around .
That pack of cards revealed a universal design esthetical that resemble a product in the company ’s current Cartesian product line of work : the Blaze .
It ’s a shame the new watch will be so worthless when ( if ) it launches . As the rootage says , the watch will offer the ability to stream Pandora sans telephone , have a 1,000 nits display — that ’s on par with the Apple Watch and doubly as brilliant as most smartphones — and , crucially , last four sidereal day on a charge .
Battery life has been a major factor in hold the smartwatch back from wider adoption , so a gimmick that can do all the normal cool smartwatch stuff and last longer that a smartphone would be spectacular . But not if it ’s as ugly as the Blaze .
When extend to for gossip , Fitbit gave us the same command it gave Yahoo :
We make out there is a luck of pastime in our submission into the smartwatch category . We do n’t have newsworthiness to partake at this fourth dimension and do not gloss on rumors or hypothesis .
If you ’ve view the watch or know anything further about its supposedly tumultuous exploitation , reach out at[email protect ] .
[ Yahoo Finance ]
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