FitbitsmartwatchLast featured Feb 2025
Fitbit Ionic
I'd skip itI'd give this a miss.
Overheated and burned users, and Fitbit was slow to recall it, ending in a $12.25 million fine.
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- Price when I covered it
- £100–400
- Featured in
- 2 videos · 2022–2025
- Category
- Wearables · Smartwatches
What I liked
- Nothing stood out.
What I didn't
- Overheating caused serious burns
- Slow recall
- Firmware update did not fix it
- Batteries overheated and burned wrists
- At least 78 burns reported
- 1.7 million units recalled
In my words
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“hot enough that it was burning people's skin off”
“they were getting hot enough to burn through the skins of people's wrists”
“that already pushes it into a six out of ten fail category”
Every time I covered it
Most recent first, so you can see if my view has changed.
16:2713 Tragic Tech Fails that need to DIEOverheated and burned users, and Fitbit was slow to recall it, ending in a $12.25 million fine.
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9:3818 DEADLY Tech Fails that need to be BANNED.Rated a 6 out of 10 fail because overheating batteries burned wearers' wrists and led to a 1.7 million unit recall.
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