As one of the smart products closest to the user, smart watches often have higher requirements in terms of heat and safety, and the event of battery overheating is still relatively rare. But recently, Fitbit recalled more than a million Ionic smartwatches because of the problem of overheating the battery.
Before announcing the recall, there were many reports that there were many cases of battery overheating in Ionic smart watches, some of which were even cases of users being burned, and from this situation, this battery overheating phenomenon does have certain hazards. But Fitbit said the number of injury reports its company received was "very limited," and the total number of recalled smartwatches had yet to reach 0.01 percent of total sales.
In addition, Fitbit also said in a statement that such incidents are very rare, and this voluntary recall does not affect Fitbit's other series of smartwatches or other wearables. But the Consumer Safety Council said Fitbit received at least 115 burn reports in the U.S. and 59 from overseas, some of which were grade III and grade II burns.
As for the protagonist of this recall, Ionic smart watch, it is fitbit's first real smart watch, released in 2017, it can support third-party applications, the price even reached 299.95 US dollars at the time of release, and there is a customized version jointly created with Adidas, which attracted the attention of many Android users at the beginning of the release.
Of course, this watch was officially discontinued as early as 2020, so friends who started FitBit products in the near future really don't have to worry about buying this one, and I hope that this battery design defect will be less and less in the future.