New Blaze Clock Faces!

[AndrewFitbit]

Hey everyone,

We're excited to announce that with Blaze's newest firmware update comes five new clock faces: Moment, Circuit, Ace, Nautical, and Argyle! In addition to more options, a second-hand has finally made its appearance on each of the new analog clock faces. Once you've updated, navigate to your Blaze's device settings and check them out!

Moment:

Time is at the top, date in the middle, and your stats at the bottom. Heart rate will always be shown on the left, while on the right you can cycle through steps, distance, calories, or floors by tapping the screen.

Circuit:

Current day is on the left, and a progress dial for a stat of your choice is on the lower right. The dial will fill up based on your progress toward your daily goal for whichever stat icon is showing (will always be a full circle for heart rate).  The white dots represent each hour. You can choose from steps, heart rate, distance, calories, floors, and even your hourly activity.

Ace:

Date is at the top, and your stats are on the bottom. The white ticks represent the hours. Tapping the screen will cycle between steps, heart rate, distance, calories, or floors.

Nautical:

Featuring the date on the right and a 3-6-9-12 analog layout, this clock face will remain static (meaning you cannot interact with it by tapping), and does not display a daily stat.

Argyle:

Date is at the top, time is in the middle, and your stats will appear at the bottom. Only one daily stat can be displayed at a time (steps, heart rate, distance, calories, or floors), and can be cycled through with a tap. 

You can also still choose from the four default clock faces (Zone, Pop, Original, Flare).

 Feel free to post any feedback or questions about the new clock faces. Hope you enjoy! 

[SanFit]

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oBoy wrote:
...They smart.), it made me wonder why Fitbit chose to have the faces in the cloud....

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Last Sunday I saw Moto 360 SmartWatch on retail shop. It can directly display built-in 20 clock faces directly from the device. If Moto can do it easily, why fitBIT not?

[oBoy]

Well, in all fairness, the obvious practical reason is that they want all of the storage for something else.

What else? The Blaze is primarily a fitness tracker. It is advertised as being able to store up to like seven days of stats without a sync if it needs to. And when it hasn't synced, it needs to put it somewhere...

Seven days of stats is a lot. It's not just the grand total of steps and hours slept and everything, Fitbit records the data timeline-style, so everything is displayed in order at the time it was recorded by the device.

Every piece of data must be recorded with a time stamp. Bam. Storage needs doubled.

I was wondering if they could turn it into a fun feature.

What happens when you add 0.dreamdreamdream repeating with Fitbit's health-centered agenda?

Divide by zero error.

And we weren't even dividing. 😈

Not that the health centered agenda is bad or anything, it's just that they want to invest their resources into what they deem their main focus.

And they do have like a bajillion other trackers all with different formats... they can't bend over backwards and design seasonal faces just for Blaze users...

Dream dream dream dreamedy dream dream...

Ok, I'm done. Not only with this comment, but also with typing on a freaking slab of glowing glass.

[Rich_Laue]

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@SanFit wrote:

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@oBoy wrote:
...They smart.), it made me wonder why Fitbit chose to have the faces in the cloud....

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Last Sunday I saw Moto 360 SmartWatch on retail shop. It can directly display built-in 20 clock faces directly from the device. If Moto can do it easily, why fitBIT not?

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So out of the twenty faces, how many would you use? Do we really want unused faces taking up valuable memory? 

FYI all Fitbits store 7 days of detail data and another 23 days of daily summery. 

[oBoy]

Yeah. What he said.

[dorketh]

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@SanFit wrote:

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@oBoy wrote:
...They smart.), it made me wonder why Fitbit chose to have the faces in the cloud....

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Last Sunday I saw Moto 360 SmartWatch on retail shop. It can directly display built-in 20 clock faces directly from the device. If Moto can do it easily, why fitBIT not?

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Totally different devices.

The Moto 360 can last a day on a charge.  The Blaze can last 5 days.  The Blaze offers 24 hours a day heart rate monitoring.  The 360 does not.

Android wear is fun, but it is not as good as the fitbit devices for health tracking.

[SanFit]

It is true that it requires more memory to record our daily activities.

Anyway, todays memory storage technology is very advantage.

We could easily find small USB flash drive with hundreds gigabytes of memory.

For the clock faces, I don't think that it takes so much memory as the size of clock screen is very small.

The clock face is not a recorded video of moving clock. I don't think the pixels resolution for displaying the clock elements takes so much memory. Could anybody tell me, one blaze clock face takes how many megabytes of storage?

I just found it. One clock face takes space around 50kb or larger (it mights depend on the complexity of the clock, color tone, fonts and functionality).

It would be nice if Blaze opens the clock face design to thirt-party developers. A bunch of clock faces for well-known smartwatches could be download from

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[Rich_Laue]

@SanFit I'll let you do the search, you'll find a feature request for a clock face designer. 

As for how much memory a face uses, that would be a question for the developers, not Fitbit users. 

[Haidj1981]

Never are the new clock?

[hiimtye]

I can't wait for the release! Moment is almost exactly what I was looking for in a clock face: heart rate always showing, date displayed (don't have to check my phone), other info readily available. the other faces look slick, too!

I hope that in the future you add customization to the faces. perhaps the ability to select what info you can toggle between for toggling faces, and perhaps some colourization. also, I hope that you add 'hourly activity' to more faces!

[estesbubba]

I have the new clock faces available now. 

[CoachJohnny]

They're back

[Lightbringer1]

I noticed that too 🙂 I am so glad i can finally test them too 🙂

[CoachJohnny]

Moment again!!! Yay!!! Finally haha

[1DinaB]

Does argyle change colors or is it just grey all the time?

Sent from my iPhone

[dorketh]

This is good news, gives reason to think the updated firmware may start rolling to the rest of us.

[Fitnesslarry]

I love the new watch faces. They work great and love that several of them have second dial. Great work fitbit.

[hiimtye]

I'm peanut butter and jelly.

[oBoy]

Nice to meet you. I will say, you don't look all that much like peanut butter and jelly.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[mcrmama]

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@1DinaB wrote:
Does argyle change colors or is it just grey all the time?

Sent from my iPhone

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It is always grey, kind of a blue/grey type colour.   

[SunsetRunner]

i would like to see more faces that display multiple stats without tapping.