If yesterday’s Pixel Watch 3 announcement made you crave… a sequel to the 2022-released Fitbit Sense 2, we’ve some unhealthy information for you in the present day. Simply as lots of you’ll have began to suspect round a 12 months in the past, Google is just not presently engaged on a Fitbit Sense 3, Versa 5, or the rest of that kind that might cannibalize the gross sales or dilute the model of the Pixel Watch household from the within.
Fitbit, in fact, was acquired by the search big earlier than the Sense 2 and Versa 4 have been unveiled, so for the primary Pixel Watch version, it nearly felt like Google stored these Fitbit-branded units round as a backup plan of kinds. However now a high govt in Mountain View is telling Engadget that “Pixel Watches are our subsequent iteration of smartwatch for Fitbit” and the “Pixel Watch is our smartwatch a part of the portfolio.”
That does not depart plenty of room for interpretation or doubt, and though the Fitbit Sense 2 and Versa 4 are nonetheless obtainable from each Google and different main retailers world wide, the 2 merchandise might effectively be discontinued earlier than lengthy. Extra importantly, no direct sequels are deliberate in the meanwhile, and whereas Huge G appears intent to take away the Fitbit title from the smartwatch marketplace for good, we would not go as far as to name this a everlasting retirement simply but.
In any case, it is a firm that experimented with in-house tablets again in 2018, paused all its efforts within the area for a number of years, after which returned with a brand new title and OS final 12 months. Moreover, the Fitbit model is clearly not going anyplace within the quick or future, which provides Google the flexibleness to vary its thoughts at virtually any time.
That is proper, the Fitbit app and Fitbit Premium companies stay very a lot alive and effectively, and the identical goes for Fitbit trackers just like the Encourage 3, Ace 3, Luxe, and Cost 6. Apparently, Google says the “Encourage line” is making the corporate particularly proud, which could possibly be taken as a touch that an Encourage 4 wearable is on the horizon.
It is unclear the place the kid-friendly Fitbit Ace LTE suits in Huge G’s imaginative and prescient proper now, however though that is technically a smartwatch, its very younger age suggests its producer won’t hand over on that individual machine anytime quickly.
