The Fitbit Ace LTE smartwatch now lets kids buy stuff

It’s officially back-to-school season, truthful Fitbit’s updating its kids-focused Ace LTE smartwatch with immoderate adjuvant features for parents and children. Namely, it’s adding a Tap to Pay feature, launching 2 caller games, and aboriginal this year, volition let users to adhd siblings arsenic contacts successful the Fitbit Ace app.

Tap to Pay was mentioned arsenic “coming soon” erstwhile the Ace LTE launched back successful May. The thought was to springiness kids the state to bargain things connected their own, portion besides allowing parents oversight. To bash that, Google — which owns Fitbit — is partnering with Greenlight and GoHenry, which connection debit cards for children and teens. If you person accounts with those services, you’ll beryllium capable to adhd them to the Ace LTE, and kids volition beryllium capable to usage their smartwatch to bargain things wherever Google Pay is accepted. If not, Google says you’ll beryllium capable to motion up via the Fitbit Ace app for a discount.

The Ace LTE is unsocial among kids trackers successful that it isn’t conscionable a GPS tracker for parents. It besides includes respective wrist-based video games. With this update, Fitbit’s adding 2 much to its catalog: Sproutlings and Spirit Garden. The erstwhile is simply a tamagotchi-like crippled with virtual pets that you provender and locomotion astir with. The second has a much meditative conception with guided mindfulness and an constituent of unlocking onshore spirits and rebuilding shrines. Like the Apple Watch, the Ace LTE besides includes a schoolhouse clip mode to trim distractions — though parents tin programme a interruption for recess.

Later this year, Fitbit says that families volition beryllium capable to adhd older and younger siblings arsenic contacts. This includes siblings who person their ain phones, oregon those who besides person an Ace LTE. That said, determination wasn’t immoderate further accusation regarding however the diagnostic volition enactment oregon timelines.