Here’s Canadian pricing for Google’s new Fitbit Edge tracker

Google took the wraps off its newest Fitbit tracker, the Fitbit Edge, on Oct. 12. The new tracker occupies a midpoint between the company’s Pixel Watch smartwatch and the recently released Fitbit Air screenless tracker. It seemed to me like a spiritual successor to Fitbit’s Charge line.

The Fitbit Edge sports a small, always-on AMOLED colour display powered by an Ambiq AP5 chip in a sleek 39.22 x 25.26 x 11.58mm body weighing in at a light 17.7g without a band.

The tracker has a 65mAh rechargeable battery that Google says can last up to two days with the always-on display, or up to seven days without. Further, Google says five minutes of charging will get you about a day of battery life.

Interestingly, Google says this is the first “repairable” Fitbit with a replaceable battery, but I’ll leave the judgement on that to the folks over at iFixit.

Google says the Fitbit Edge offers 40 per cent more accurate route tracking than the Fitbit Charge 6 thanks to built-in GPS and a new chipset. It also sports the Fitbit health tracking features you’ve come to expect, including an altimeter, ECG, skin temperature sensor, SpO2, and heart rate.

On the software side, the Fitbit Edge runs Fitbit OS and offers several fancy clock faces with customizable complications to show various health metrics. Plus, you can see helpful information right on your wrist, such as turn-by-turn directions from Google Maps, phone notifications, and more. You can control music from the Edge as well.

For the fitness geeks, Fitbit Edge offers the typical suite. There’s Google Health Coach, a Gemini-powered AI coach that can offer guidance and tips through the Google Health app. Edge can also share real-time guidance during workouts, like suggesting when to push harder or ease up.

Google Health Premium subscribers can also see patterns and changes in metrics like blood pressure and insulin resistance through Health Guardian. And there’s sleep and menstrual tracking as well.

Finally, that brings us to the price. The Fitbit Edge comes in at $229 in Canada, which is a bit more than the Fitbit Charge used to cost, but is still significantly less than the $550 starting price of the Pixel Watch 5. But of course, stay tuned for my full review of the Fitbit Edge to get an idea of whether it’s worth the cost.

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