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hey guys before ended with the verge yesterday safe it announced its newest wearable the Fitbit blaze at CES and a lot of you have had questions about what it looks like up post and how it works so let's get a closer look it's the first Fitbit with a color LCD touchscreen so when I do this it brings me to you the home screen you can also use the home button to get to the home screen so when you swipe down here you'll see that you have the option to turn notifications off Iran basically put it into it do not disturb mode and when it is connected to a phone it's not connected right now but when it is you can control your music you swipe back up you get to the home screen you see your steps there swipe up once more you would see notifications if I happen to have any notifications right now so go back to the home screen and when you swipe to the right that's when you start to get any more of the features you can look at a glimpse of your daily activity see your current heart rate as well as your resting heart rate go back home I think I'm going to tap that to do that keep swiping again it's the exercise tile the fitstar tile which is an app that Fitbit acquired and has customized workouts or thing as part of the watch a timer and pretty self-explanatory alarms and settings that's where you can do things like adjust the brightness if you want to let's go back to exercise since that's kind of the main event of this watch and tap on exercise you can see that you have I think seven different options here on the watch itself but Fitbit tracks take over a dozen different exercises and you can go into the Fitbit app and you can customize it so that different things will show up here then one of the things that this watch doesn't have that something like the Fitbit surge has is GPS built into the watch itself but it uses connected GPS which basically means that when you go running or you go cycling with your phone you will still get GPS tracking but it's happening through the following so in order to do that you would go to the Run tile or you'd go to a cycling tile if it was on here you tap this Settings button and you would tap use phone GPS and it would connect to the phone and that's how that works you can also set a secondary staff that you want to appear on the interface so let's say you've cared a lot about heart rate and you wanted to see that it would show you your time or your distance and swipe and you see your secondary staff another thing you'll notice about the Fitbit blaze is that it's not a solid unibody design it's actually a pop-out tracker which kind of goes back to fitbit's earlier designs where you could pop a little pot out of the band and then you can put it into a leather band if it's coming out with a rose gold frame the idea behind this corset you would be able to dress it up a little bit if you wanted to assuming that you liked the way it looked but I'm downside I don't know kind of makes it feel a little bit janky the blaze has the same optical heart rate sensors that Fitbit introduced last year with the surge and the charge HR the idea is that it tracks your heart rate continuously throughout the day also during workouts they also gives you your resting heart rate so let's say you wear this to bed to track your sleep you wake up you get a reading on your resting heart rate so the jury is still out on how accurate risk based optical heart rate sensors are some people will probably still prefer to use a chest strap for working out if it says that this is it's the same cure pulse technology that's and the other devices that this will actually record your heart rate more frequently did on the other devices so the sampling rate is higher it launches this March it costs $199 a lot of people have been preparing this with a SmartWatch it does do smart notifications from your smartphone which means that if you're getting a text message if you're getting a phone call if you're getting a calendar appointment it will show up on this but it's not a SmartWatch in the sense that it doesn't support third-party apps the way something like the Apple watch does or Android wear does it really only runs fitbit's own apps it also has a five day battery life which a lot of smartwatches can't really claim that's our first look at the new Fitbit blaze for more information check out the story on the verge comm and also don't forget to subscribe to our youtube page at