{"id":652092,"date":"2026-05-06T18:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/652092\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T18:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:44:13","slug":"google-teases-fitbit-air-launch-on-thursday-may-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/652092\/","title":{"rendered":"Google teases Fitbit Air launch on Thursday, May 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Fitbit-Air-launch-teaser.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Google started teasing the Fitbit Air at <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/03\/31\/fitbit-screen-less-band\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the end of March<\/a>, and the screen-less wearable looks to be launching tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Fitbit on Instagram \u2014 which has removed all images from the account and tells users to go to @madebygoogle \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fitbit\/p\/DX9rcrIFJ8T\/?img_index=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted a teaser<\/a> yesterday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The caption is \u201cBuckle up. 5.7.26.\u201d and we see just that in a three-image spread. There\u2019s a shiny metal buckle and light blue strap that\u2019s reminiscent of the Pixel Watch Woven Band.<\/p>\n<p>We reported on the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/04\/19\/fitbit-air-google-health\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cFitbit Air\u201d brand name<\/a> last month along with the \u201cGoogle Health\u201d app and \u201cPremium\u201d subscription. It looks like \u201cFitbit\u201d will still be used for hardware, but \u201cGoogle Health\u201d is for all software going forward. There\u2019s a new <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2026\/04\/23\/google-health-logo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">heart-shaped icon<\/a> in the Google colors with a gradient effect.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>The timing of the Fitbit Air launch is interesting. It comes less than two weeks before Google I\/O, with the company wanting to give the device its own news cycle outside of the developer conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5google.com\" aria-label=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777325120_432_google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google started teasing the Fitbit Air at the end of March, and the screen-less wearable looks to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-652092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}