I found a hidden way to use the Fitbit Air that Google didn’t tell you about

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I’ve had the new Google Fitbit Air for about 10 days now, and from the moment I unboxed it, I’ve been wondering what it brings to my use case that my daily-worn Pixel Watch 4 doesn’t already provide. There’s the longer battery life and the quasi-certainty of knowing that, even if I forget to charge my watch on a busy day, I can still track my sleep or activity. There’s also the added freedom of sleeping with a lighter, less intrusive tracker on my wrist. But I wanted something more out of it.

This is when I started thinking about the early days of Fitbit and how some people used to wear the One, Zip, or Flex around their ankles to count steps while exercising. And that made me realize I could solve one of my biggest Pixel Watch 4 problems with the Air. So, I started testing.