{"id":226729,"date":"2017-08-29T13:04:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T11:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=226729"},"modified":"2017-08-29T13:05:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T11:05:56","slug":"fitbit-ionic-smartwatch-south-african-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/226729-fitbit-ionic-smartwatch-south-african-pricing.html","title":{"rendered":"Fitbit Ionic smartwatch – South African pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fitbit Ionic smartwatch will be available in South Africa from the middle of October at a recommended retail price of R5,499, Core Group told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n

Fitbit’s first smartwatch<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is the company’s first device built on the Pebble software platform after its acquisition of Pebble\u2019s \u201ckey assets\u201d<\/strong><\/a> for around $40 million in 2016.<\/p>\n

The Ionic features a battery life of four days or more, automatic activity and sleep tracking, and cross-platform compatibility.<\/p>\n

It also has a new SpO2 sensor, which Fitbit said makes it possible to gain deeper health insights by tracking conditions like sleep apnea.<\/p>\n

The Ionic also supports contactless payments, GPS tracking, on-device dynamic workouts, improved heart rate tracking, and water resistance of up to 50m.<\/p>\n

Fitbit added that its app software development kit will open to developers from September 2017.<\/p>\n

\"Fitbit<\/a><\/p>\n

Now read: Pebble smartwatches \u2014 from rags, to riches, to rags<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Fitbit Ionic smartwatch will be available in South Africa from October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":226555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1579,25235,45623,10776],"class_list":["post-226729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-core-group","tag-fitbit","tag-fitbit-ionic","tag-pebble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226735,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226729\/revisions\/226735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}