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Garmin appears to have accidentally teased its upcoming \u201csmart band\u201d Garmin Cirqa<\/a> wearable, which is expected to be announced before too long. <\/p>\n A reference to the wearable appeared on Garmin\u2019s<\/a> own website this week, before being removed fairly swiftly after.<\/p>\n To be specific, it was on a support page from Garmin\u2019s Romanian website, in a list of models. There are loads of these lists all over the Garmin website, seen virtually wherever the company needs to explain which features or changes relate to which models. <\/p>\n Garmin is never short of features, or watch models. <\/p>\n This is not dissimilar to the way I first learnt about the Garmin Cirqa, when it appeared on a Garmin website but as a partially populated product page. <\/p>\n That much earlier leak<\/a> appeared to suggest the Garmin Cirqa could arrive some time in July, but this new one suggests the wearable will have support Health Status feature instead. <\/p>\n It\u2019s more interesting than that may sound, as Health Status collates heart rate, heart rate variability, SpO2 (Pulse Ox), breathing rate and skin temperature stats. <\/p>\n What Is The Garmin Cirqa?<\/p>\n While the Garmin Cirqa is expected to be a screen-free wearable, this suggests Garmin has not gone down the route of making it a particularly low-tech one too. <\/p>\n Its capabilities appear to be similar to those of a Garmin Index Sleep<\/a>, which was introduced as a \u201csleep monitor\u201d wearable in June 2025. <\/p>\n While Garmin is yet to officially acknowledge the Cirqa smart band, the Index Sleep\u2019s launch has already mapped out a possible launch plan for what is likely to be a bigger seller \u2014 as a more mainstream proposition. <\/p>\n The Index Sleep does not require an ongoing subscription, but when paired with a Connect+ membership \u2014 at $6.99 a month \u2014 the user gets more insights, some of which are AI-derived. <\/p>\n Screen-free wearables are a hot category at present. While they have been around for years in their current guise thanks to Whoop<\/a>, which released its first band a decade ago in 2016, the scene recently became far busier thanks to devices like the Google Fitbit Air<\/a>. <\/p>\n While that band pushes a Google Health Premium subscription fairly strongly, it can be used without one. You simply end up with a much more stripped back, less conversational version of the wearable app feed on your phone \u2014 and some may actually prefer that. <\/p>\n The Fitbit Air costs $99.99, and I would be surprised if Garmin gets anywhere close to that low a price, given the cost of its other devices. A Garmin Index Sleep costs $169.99, offering a much better guide as to the likely cost of the Garmin Cirqa smart band. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garmin appears to have accidentally teased its upcoming \u201csmart band\u201d Garmin Cirqa wearable, which is expected to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4258,6131,59,231272,231271,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-695599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-garmin","tag-garmin-watch","tag-gb","tag-screen-free-garmin","tag-screenless-garmin","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}