Fitbit Pay works well Great fitness features Solid battery life

Controversial design Little bit slow Limited music offering

The first ever smartwatch from Fitbit is a fitness watch at its heart. If you’re looking for some wristwear to use while exercising the Fitbit Ionic may suit you, just don’t expect a similar experience to other smartwatches out there.

Fitbit's app remains excellent ; Good wrist cardio tracking ; Good battery life for a smartwatch

Lacks smartwatch features ; It still feels like a step-counter with knobs on rather than a truly useful running/gym companion ; It really is not a sexy thing

The Fitbit Ionic brings a great solid, lightweight design with a beautiful screen, along with interchangeable straps for achieving a different look.

Bold design ; Excellent sleep tracking ; GPS and heart-rate tracking work well ; Strong battery life

Virtually no third party apps yet ; Fitbit Coach not available till later in 2017 ; Fitbit Pay not ready in the UK yet ; Expensive for what it can currently do

Fitbit’s best all-round fitness tracker, just don’t call it a smartwatch yet

Gorgeous display ; Sleek and light design ; Solid fitness features

As pricey as an Apple Watch ; Limited 3rd party support ; Fitbit Pay not yet active in UK

The Fitbit Ionic offers strong fitness features, as well as a clean and simple interface that will appeal to pretty much any users. With its potentially great Fitbit Pay feature, water resistant design and vibrant screen, it’s certainly one of the more...

The Fitbit Ionic offers a comfortable design, with 50-meter water resistance for swimming, GPS and mobile payments. You only need to recharge it once or twice a week.

While the Ionic supports future apps and watch faces, few are available yet. Included apps feel slow and don’t launch from the watch face. There's not much on-watch coaching and music storage and playback is often more trouble than it’s worth.

The Fitbit Ionic has all the features we’ve been wanting in a Fitbit for years, but it ultimately feels less than the sum of its parts.

A bigger dissapointment is when the Fitbit Ionic resets during a workout or exercise routine when notifications come in. This seriously breaks the flow of motion on a treadmill or elliptical machine because you lose minutes while the smartwatch...