Garmin has launched the CIRQA Smart Band, its first screen-free smart band that tracks advanced fitness and wellness features without the need for a subscription.
Designed to help users make improvements toward a healthier lifestyle without commanding all their attention, the smart band gets up to 10 days of battery life and provides around-the-clock health and fitness monitoring with data that can instantly be accessed through the Garmin Connect app.
“We purposefully created CIRQA Smart Band for those who are passionate about staying healthy and active. With its discreet design and trusted health and fitness tracking tools Garmin is known for, this smart band complements our lineup of popular smartwatches and wellness monitors, allowing users to transition smoothly between their Garmin devices throughout the day. Plus, with no subscription required, CIRQA Smart Band helps you stay on top of your health and fitness goals—and makes a thoughtful gift for others who want to do the same,” said Susan Lyman, Garmin vice president of consumer sales and marketing.
The device automatically detects and records a variety of activities without a screen. The activities can be viewed and edited afterwards in Garmin Connect and, as users confirm or edit their activities, the smart band will adapt to more accurately classify them in the future.
The fabric band is available in citron gray, mauve, French gray, dark olive, captain blue, French blue and black. It can be worn around the wrist or as an arm band based on activity or sleeping preferences.
When worn day and night, CIRQA Smart Band helps provide a more complete picture of overall health. Users can track metrics like wrist-based heart rate, Body Battery energy monitoring, pulse, stress, skin temperature and more and immediately see their data in Garmin Connect. Women can also track their menstrual cycle and pregnancy, get better period predictions and past ovulation estimates by tracking skin temperature while sleeping and sync their data with the FDA-cleared Natural Cycles birth control app (Natural Cycles subscription required).
CIRQA Smart Band can help users log a better night’s sleep and understand how well they’ve recovered. The smart band provides sleep data, including a detailed breakdown of sleep stages, a sleep score, guidance on optimal sleep duration, heart rate variability, respiration and nap detection through the Garmin Connect app.
In addition to tracking daily steps, calories burned and more, CIRQA Smart Band includes fitness features to help users make the most of their workouts.
These include manual activity tracking with more than 80 different activities including running, walking, yoga and more. It also features advanced training metrics. Users can dial in performance features like training readiness to know whether it’s a good day to go hard or take it easy and track progress with HRV status, VO2 max and training status to get insights into training effectiveness.
The band also allows for a better understanding of how each workout affects the body and how much time is needed to recover. It can connect to a compatible iPhone or Android phone’s GPS to accurately track outdoor walks, rides and runs, and its LiveTrack location sharing lets friends and family follow along in real-time when using a smartphone and the Garmin Connect app.
Available now, CIRQA Smart Band has a suggested retail price of $199.99.
