Fitbit Exec Disses Smartwatches As the market is flooded with more smartwatches promising to do a myriad of tasks, is there still a place for the plain old fitness band? Woody Scal, Fitbit’s chief revenue officer, says definitely “yes.” In an interview with Bloomberg Business, Scal made a case for why the smartwatch won’t be making the fitness band obsolete anytime in the n...
There have been previously been leaked tidbits on Fitbit’s upcoming Surge smartwatch, but none as blatant as the page that briefly appeared on the site of online retailer Brookstone this weekend. The pre-order page has since been removed but not before some sneaky fanciers of smartwatches had the chance to snap a screen shot of the Fitbit Surge.