Fitbit Air review: A solid minimalist fitness tracker undermined by Google's unnecessary AI Health Coach
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Ryan Whitwam
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Summary
The Fitbit Air is a $100 minimalist fitness tracker that strips away smartwatch features like screens and notifications to focus purely on health tracking. While it succeeds as a reliable, lightweight wearable, the article criticizes Google's AI Health Coach feature as unnecessary and intrusive, detracting from the device's core appeal of simplicity.
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The $100 Fitbit Air tracker ditches the screens that have become common on people's wrists, leaving behind a tiny puck of health sensors you can often forget.
Smartwatches can track your health stats, but they also do a lot of other things you might not always want or need.
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