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Gizmodo
2 days ago
- Gizmodo
CMF's New Pro Smartwatch Gets Beefier, Healthier, and Less Customizable
The world of cheap Android smartwatches is pretty crowded, but there's still room for one more if Nothing's subbrand CMF has anything to say about it. CMF unveiled the Watch 3 Pro today, which gets a little bit of a size increase and some additional health-tracking features compared to its predecessor. Specifically, the Watch 3 Pro adds a more advanced heart rate sensor into the mix. According to CMF, an optical sensor will be able to glean 'finer variations in blood flow,' which should equate to more accurate heart rate tracking. CMF says that, thanks to the new sensor, the readings are up to 7% more accurate while exercising and up to 3.6% more accurate while resting compared to previous generations. Health features this go-around include blood oxygen tracking, stress tracking, reminders to drink that important thing called water, and even guided breathing sessions to help you chill out for once. Train. Learn. Go again. Watch 3 Pro is here to help you move smart. — CMF by Nothing (@cmfbynothing) July 22, 2025 In addition to a better heart rate sensor, CMF's Watch 3 Pro will also get a bigger screen—a 10% size increase over the previous generation. Specifically, the Watch 3 Pro has a 1.43-inch display over the previous generation's 1.32-inch display. That's great for anyone who doesn't fancy squinting at notifications on their watch all day. An AMOLED display should also help make the watch's display contrast-y and clear. CMF says the Watch 3 Pro's display will top out at 670 nits of peak brightness. That's not anywhere near the level of an Apple Watch, but you should expect certain compromises when buying a cheaper Android alternative. One thing that the Watch 3 Pro won't have, however, is a customizable bezel. The Watch Pro 2 has bezels that can be changed in and out at will, depending on how you want your smartwatch to look. Not the biggest deal, but also kind of a bummer to see that same freedom hasn't been extended to its newest model. Battery life-wise, CMF says its Watch 3 Pro performs a little better than previous iterations. According to the company, the Watch 3 Pro will get a max of 13 days of battery life compared to the previous generation's 11 days, though that will obviously depend on usage and whether you have the heads-up display activated. Heads-up displays have a pesky habit of killing battery life, since screens are the number one way devices typically eat up juice. The good news is that the CMF Watch 3 Pro hits an affordable note. While the retail price is listed as $99, the smartwatch is currently marked down to $79. Whether a watch like this is your style is a personal choice, but it's nice to know you can get in the smartwatch game for not a ton of money nowadays.
Gizmodo
3 days ago
- Health
- Gizmodo
Garmin Is Going Nuts with the Vivoactive 5, Now at a New All-Time Low on Amazon for No Reason
Not everyone needs the new Garmin Fenix 8 at more than $1,000 to track its sporting progress. In fact, for 99% of us, the Garmin Vivoactive 5 is more than adequate. The watch is the perfect middle ground and delivers an excellent balance of performance, features and cost. No surprise, it's also a best-seller for those looking for a great fitness companion. Right now, you can purchase the Garmin Vivoactive 5 on Amazon for just $189, a staggering 37% off of its regular $299 price. This is the lowest price ever offered on this model, beating even past holiday discounts. If you're looking to upgrade or buy your very first fitness smartwatch, there's never been a better time to do so. See at Amazon The Vivoactive 5 brings together advanced health tracking and smart features in a lightweight and very elegant design. At the heart of the watch is its vibrant AMOLED display which delivers bright colors and sharp contrasts even under direct sunlight. With a battery life of up to 11 days in smartwatch mode, you'll spend less time charging and more time focused on training, recovery and day-to-day activities. What's more, the great Body Battery energy tracking offers you is a definite idea of how ready your body is by measuring the extent to which you are loaded or depleted. It takes into account your nap time, sleep quality, stress level and previous activity to customize information during your day. It's a powerful way to find out how your daily decisions are affecting your body and how to optimize your training or rest accordingly. If you want in-depth sleep tracking, the Vivoactive 5 includes advanced sleep analysis, and provides a sleep score and offering highly personalized sleep guidance. You'll get realistic, actionable guidance for improving your rest based on real facts, like your heart rate variability status. That is to say that your future health decisions are made with more than conjecture. Garmin creates watches that promote movement and the Vivoactive 5 is no different with over 30 integrated indoor and GPS sport apps. From running and cycling to HIIT, swimming, and even golf, there's a mode for all forms of movement. Wheelchair users were not left behind: a specific wheelchair mode monitors pushes rather than steps and includes special workouts and challenges. Automatic nap detection tracks naps and indicates how power naps influence your total energy, providing more information to assist in refining your routine. Health and wellness tracking extends far beyond the fundamentals as well. The Vivoactive 5 monitors your heart rate through your wrist, offers a daily morning report, estimates your fitness age and does menstrual and pregnancy tracking as well as stress tracking and meditation routines. If you're interested in pushing your fitness limits, the watch has high-end training features. The workout benefit feature tells you how each muscle-burning session will impact your body, and the recovery time guidance tells you how long you'll have to rest before you head out for your next session. You have the option to select preloaded workouts that vary from cardio, yoga, strength, HIIT, and Pilates, create your own using the Garmin Connect smartphone app. This deal is hard to pass up, so look for getting yours at this all-time low price. See at Amazon
Phone Arena
3 days ago
- Business
- Phone Arena
At $116 off, the Garmin Forerunner 255 Music is a must-have for shoppers with an active lifestyle
Finding a feature-packed Garmin multisport watch at a reasonable price isn't always easy. After all, Garmin's smartwatches are known for being loaded with features, and that often comes with hefty price tags. Fortunately, retailers like Amazon do offer discounts on Garmin's wearables from time to time, allowing bargain hunters to upgrade their wrist game at a lower price. One of the smartwatches that enjoys Amazon's love in terms of generous markdowns is the Forerunner 255 Music, which—surprise, surprise—is selling for 29% off right now. $116 off (29%) Amazon is currently selling the 46mm Garmin Forerunner 255 Music in Black for just under $285, thanks to a generous $116 discount. The watch is packed with features and offers an impressive battery life of up to 14 days. Save while the offer lasts! Buy at Amazon Thanks to this discount, you can grab a unit for just under $285, which is a pretty decent deal considering the timepiece's usual price is about $400. That means you'll save around $116 if you don't hesitate and take advantage of the offer while it's still up for the offer comes from a third-party seller who's also taking care of the shipping. However, you'll still have 30 days to ask for a refund if needed, so there is nothing to worry about. The Garmin Forerunner 255 Music packs a lot of value at its current price on Amazon. Designed for runners, it's loaded with health-tracking features, including monitoring your body's energy reserves, Garmin Coach for tailored workouts, and Garmin Sleep Coach, which tracks your sleep and offers advice on how to improve it. This is the Music edition, which means it lets you download up to 500 songs from Spotify and Amazon Music, so you can listen to your favorite tunes wherever your run takes you. Although it doesn't have a touchscreen, which can make navigating menus a bit trickier, it makes up for that with an impressive battery life of up to 14 days in smartwatch mode on a single charge. This leaves fancy watches like the Galaxy Watch 7 and Apple Watch Series 10 in the dust—at least in this regard. So, yeah! The Garmin Forerunner 255 Music is definitely a great pick, whether you're into running or just need a feature-rich smartwatch with excellent battery life. So, don't waste any more time and get one for less now!
Android Authority
6 days ago
- Android Authority
Garmin's Morning and Evening Reports are so good that Fitbit should steal them
Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority I've always believed that more is better when it comes to health-tracking metrics. If I'm wearing a GPS watch all day and all night, I want to know what it's picking up and how I can best use that to my advantage. And when I always have a Garmin on my wrist, I know exactly how much data I have to look forward to. I know that I can tap into a Morning and an Evening Report on my Forerunner 970, and I've noticed that it's made a few of my colleagues jealous. They have to watch as I check in on my steps, recovery, and upcoming workouts while they try to find their Morning Briefs that may or may not have populated. Since I know they're not about to go out and buy Garmin watches themselves, I guess it's time for Google to play copycat, and here's why. Garmin's strength is in its consistency Ryan Haines / Android Authority I know my colleagues love their Fitbits and their Pixel Watches — I like the Pixel Watch an awful lot, too. If I could get Garmin-level battery life out of its smooth, pebble-like design, I'd probably strap it on as my day-to-day wearable whenever I'm not running. However, I've also listened to them lament the same few issues over and over, usually surrounding the Morning Brief. Whether it's a lack of data or a brief that's flat-out missing in action, it always seems like something's not quite right. With Garmin, though, I know that my Morning and Evening reports are coming, whether I've been wearing my watch or not. Yes, they're much more detailed if I've been wearing my Forerunner 970, adding a breakdown of my sleep and my recovery from a previous workout, but I still get a look at the weather, my upcoming workouts, and any calendar appointments I have to be on top of. If I've been wearing my watch, it'll offer a much more detailed look at my HRV from the night before, a better recap of my training readiness, and might modify my recommended workout to account for residual fatigue. My dual Garmin reports wake me up and send me to bed with a better idea of my day. Then, when it's almost time for bed, it's a case of same, same but different in the evening report. Instead of forecasting your day, it summarizes your activities and an estimate of just how much sleep you might need to get your Body Battery back on schedule. The evening report can also give you workout suggestions for the next day, including runs and bike rides, but if you're in the middle of a Connect Plus-powered training plan (like I am), it will default to what's on your schedule instead. Perhaps what I like best about Garmin's pair of reports is what I've hinted at already — like death, taxes, and the mailman, the reports always come in. As far as I've noticed, the Morning Report is ready a little bit before your scheduled wake-up time (in my case, around 7:00 AM), and it sticks around for about two hours after you've rolled out of bed. You can miss it if you're not careful, but it's much easier to check than I've heard about Fitbit's Morning Brief. Ryan Haines / Android Authority The Evening Report gives you a similar window, popping up on your wrist about 90 minutes before your scheduled bedtime. Typically, that means I'm getting a reminder around 9:30 PM, which is also a pretty good reminder to wind down from my phone (or TV) for the night — even if I don't actually listen. I'd be slightly curious to see whether Garmin's Evening Report would change if it knew I was spending the night out with friends or staying up late watching a movie, but that's usually reflected in the next day's morning report anyway. I know Google could do this, but, weirdly, it hasn't Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Yes, I know that Google has its Fitbit-powered Morning Brief. I've heard about it plenty from my colleagues, and they've said over and over again how much they'd like to use it, but that it's just not consistent enough. That's the part of this whole thing that I don't understand. I trust my set of Nest Hubs and speakers to manage routines like the lights and temperature of my apartment, I trust my Pixel 9 Pro to know when I get home, and I trust my Pixel Buds Pro to connect to the correct device, why can't I trust my watch to give me a morning report at a consistent time? Timing aside, I'm just as surprised by the information that Google's Morning Brief doesn't include. As Kaitlyn pointed out, it doesn't include calendar appointments or a detailed weather forecast, which are odd considering I trust Google Calendar with my life (basically) and Pixel Weather with my well-being (keeping me dry when I set off for a run). It feels like Google could add — or rather expand — both metrics within its Morning Brief without too much work and offer a much more complete look at my day. Google has my data, now if only it would give some back to me in an easily digestible way. Maybe it's just me, and perhaps I'm too data-happy regarding Google, but I can't say the current Morning Brief makes much sense. It's being outdone by a Morning Report from a fitness company in terms of both regularity and detail, and Garmin's Evening Report is just the icing on top. Unfortunately, it's currently limited to just the Forerunner 570 and Forerunner 970, but I can easily see Garmin expanding its access shortly since neither wearable has any special hardware to support the brief. Right now, my money is on Garmin rolling its Evening Report out to its entire lineup before Google bulks up its Brief, but that's just my guess. For my colleagues' sake, I hope I'm wrong.
Forbes
15-07-2025
- Health
- Forbes
Smart Ring Maker's Blood Test Service Tracks 100+ Health Stats
Ultrahuman Blood Vision Ultrahuman has launched its blood test-based health tracking service for people in the U.S., following an India launch more than a year ago. It's called Blood Vision, and includes two blood tests, spread out over time in order to capture the trajectory of your biomarkers, rather than just a snapshot. The real selling point of the service, though, is what Ultrahuman calls UltraTrace. All the stats from your bloodwork report end up in Ultrahuman's app, and are then linked to metrics collected by one of Ultrahuman's smart rings. The concept is not too hard to grasp. By linking your biomarkers to stats that relate to your daily behaviours, the whole blood testing process can come across more useful, more actionable. 'Tracking lifestyle biomarkers between two tests allows us establish the relationship between the biomarkers and lifestyle changes. Most people lose track of what to change between two tests, Blood Vision bridges this gap,' says Ultrahuman CEO Mohit Kumar. Like an ever-increasing number of health and fitness platforms, Ultrahuman also uses AI-generated summaries to translate some of these insights into more digestible nuggets of info. 'By combining these markers with Ultrahuman Ring data—tracking sleep, HRV, and movement—athletes gain real-time insights into how lifestyle choices impact their performance,' reads Ultrahuman's blog on Blood Vision. What is Ultrahuman Blood Vision? Absolutely loads of biomarkers are included in the blood test info. They include data points related to kidney and liver function, Thyroid profile, Stress & Ageing Markers and no fewer than 15 stats that relate to heart health. You can check out the lot before you sign up for Blood Vision. More than 100 biomarkers are in the initial test — the exact number varies by gender a little. And the second test features fewer of them, in the ballpark of 60. The price might sting as much as the blood test jab for some, though. Annual prices for the program start at $499, although blood tests booked alone are not cheap to start with. Those in New York will also have to pay significantly more, $799. Blood Vision's required blood tests can either be done at home, then sending the vial off to a phlebotomist for analysis. Or the test can be done at a Quest or Bioreference location. Perhaps surprising, at-home tests come at a slight subscription premium. Ultrahuman suggests the second blood test is performed 3-6 months after the first. And, judging by how Ultrahuman describes this as an annual plan, the idea is you may decide to carry on for multiple years. Ultrahuman is best known for its smart rings, the latest of which is the Ring Air, which costs $349.
