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Fitbit Updates Sleep Tracking In Wearable

Fitbit’s big smartwatch announcement is, it seems, still a ways off. But the company’s got a pair of announcements this week, including an update to its popular Alta tracker and changes to the way it gathers sleep tracking. The Alta HR is an update to last year’s Alta, a well designed piece of hardware that has since grown into the second-best fitness tracker (behind the company’s higher-end Charge 2), according to numbers from NPD. The biggest addition is, as you’ve no doubt gathered from the name, heart rate monitoring, which the company has manage to add while maintaining the wearable’s slim form factor.

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