Fitbit’s smartwatch occasion tomorrow will deliver again buttons

Fitbit teased a brand new wearable that it’ll reveal tomorrow throughout a particular product occasion. The firm posted a shadowy close-up of what appears like a brand new Fitbit Sense or Versa system on Twitter, and lo and behold: there’s a bodily button once more.

Back in May, a photograph of a smartwatch made the rounds on-line that was purportedly a leaked Fitbit Versa 4. Verge resident wearables tech reviewer Victoria Song laid out why so many athletes and athleisure-wearing exercise cosplayers imagine it was a mistake on Fitbit’s half to take away the bodily buttons on the Sense, Versa 3, Charge 5, and Inspire 2 in favor of complicated touch-sensitive ones. Deputy editor Thomas Ricker had the next opinion of the Garmin Epix 2’s touchscreen strategy, however that smartwatch additionally contains 5 buttons.

This teaser reveals that Fitbit could also be able to ditch the all-touch designs and get again to bodily buttons that athletes have to get probably the most out of their smartwatches and health trackers. Companies like Garmin have all the time saved easy-to-locate buttons for sweaty actions, and Apple is rumored to be engaged on a brand new rugged look ahead to that particular goal.