Pebble Becomes a Better Fitness Tracker With New Misfit Watchapp ~ 101feeds

Your Pebble smartwatch will be able to do double-duty as a fitness tracker, thanks to a new partnership with Misfit. Misfit makes fitness and sleep monitor Shine, and worked with Pebble to create a watchapp that lets Pebble owners count steps and track activities without needing a smartphone.

The watchapp will also interact with an upcoming version of Misfit's iOS app to offer additional tracking metrics, such as calories burned and distance traveled

Misfit is the latest company Pebble is working with to extend the functionality of its smartwatch. There are already Pebble apps for RunKeeper, Puma and Strava, and many other third parties have written apps to take advantage of Pebble's accelerometer, or to pair with existing smartphone apps. Read more...

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