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Google debuts Fitbit Air for $199 alongside Fitbit app rebrand to Google Health

Google has announced their latest fitness tracker overnight, with the Fitbit Air launching on the Google Store, as well as announcing a major change to their fitness tracking, rebranding the Fitbit app to Google Health. 

The Fitbit Air is a lightweight, screenless fitness tracker, similar to the line of Whoop bands that have become popular. Priced at $199, the Fitbit Air will last up to a week on a single charge, with a fast 5 minute charge offering up to one day use.

The Fitbit Air will  track a range of data including ‘24/7 heart rate, heart rhythm monitoring with Afib alerts, SpO2, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep stages and duration, and more’, sending the data back to the new Google Health app on your phone.

The new Google Health app will bring together all your health data including data from ‘wearable devices, Health Connect, Apple Health and your medical records into a single place’. 

The Fitbit Air will include both a free, and premium subscription plan in the new Google Health app – with the Google Health Premium service priced at .99/month after your three month free trial. The Google Health Premium Service includes their AI Coach that can guide you through better training to reach your goals. 

The Fitbit Air itself comes in a choice of four colour bands, Obsidian, Lavender, Berry and Fog, though Google will have a range of colour bands that you can use – simply swap the Fitbit Air ‘Pebble’ from the band and you’re ready to go.

The Fitbit Air is available to pre-order now for 9, with the band going on-sale on May 26th. Google says the Fitbit app will update to Google Health from May 19th. 

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