{"id":11243,"date":"2021-06-10T12:49:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T12:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/is-google-building-a-wearos-powered-fitbit-smartwatch\/"},"modified":"2021-06-10T12:49:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T12:49:12","slug":"is-google-building-a-wearos-powered-fitbit-smartwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/tech\/is-google-building-a-wearos-powered-fitbit-smartwatch\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Google building a WearOS-powered Fitbit smartwatch&quest;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home News Fitness (Image credit: Fitbit) Google has recently begun pumping new resources into improving its smartwatch operating system, WearOS, suggesting it may release a new device in the near future \u2013 which might be a Google-branded Fitbit.Google acquired Fitbit in early 2021, following over a year of negotiations and investigations into how users&#8217; privacy would be protected. Some of those reviews were still ongoing at the time (Australia&#8217;s competition watchdog the ACCC and the US Department of Justice had yet to complete their work), but the two companies announced that the deal was final in mid-January.We&#8217;ve tested and ranked the best fitness trackersOn a budget? Check out the best cheap fitness trackersIf you need GPS, take a look at the best running watchesIt&#8217;s still early days for the partnership, but new developments suggest that a lot might be happening behind the scenes, and a device that combines the two companies&#8217; smartwatch tech could be on the horizon.Why now?WearOS,&#8230; Click below to read the full story from TechRadar<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/is-google-building-a-wearos-powered-fitbit-smartwatch\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News Fitness (Image credit: Fitbit) Google has recently begun pumping new resources into improving its smartwatch operating system, WearOS, suggesting it may release a new device in the near future \u2013 which might be a Google-branded Fitbit.Google acquired Fitbit in early 2021, following over a year of negotiations and investigations into how users&#8217; privacy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":643,"featured_media":11244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is Google building a WearOS-powered Fitbit smartwatch&amp;quest; - The Daily Herald<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/is-google-building-a-wearos-powered-fitbit-smartwatch\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is Google building a WearOS-powered Fitbit smartwatch&amp;quest; - The Daily Herald\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Home News Fitness (Image credit: Fitbit) Google has recently begun pumping new resources into improving its smartwatch operating system, WearOS, suggesting it may release a new device in the near future \u2013 which might be a Google-branded Fitbit.Google acquired Fitbit in early 2021, following over a year of negotiations and investigations into how users&#039; privacy&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/is-google-building-a-wearos-powered-fitbit-smartwatch\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Daily Herald\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-10T12:49:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Rebecka Haslett\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/\",\"name\":\"The Daily Herald\",\"description\":\"Your Super Aggregated News, Blog &amp; Magazine\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/is-google-building-a-wearos-powered-fitbit-smartwatch\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/11243-is-google-building-a-wearos-powered-fitbit-smartwatch-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1440,\"caption\":\"Is Google building a WearOS-powered Fitbit smartwatch&quest;\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/is-google-building-a-wearos-powered-fitbit-smartwatch\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/is-google-building-a-wearos-powered-fitbit-smartwatch\/\",\"name\":\"Is Google building a WearOS-powered Fitbit smartwatch&quest; - The Daily Herald\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/is-google-building-a-wearos-powered-fitbit-smartwatch\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-10T12:49:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-06-10T12:49:12+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/d7f412173e4d2d7c204a5e84926374dd\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/is-google-building-a-wearos-powered-fitbit-smartwatch\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/d7f412173e4d2d7c204a5e84926374dd\",\"name\":\"Rebecka Haslett\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0d22369c4d028fe1409de9141486cdcf?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Rebecka Haslett\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","amp_validity":null,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}