Amazon’s very own Echo Buds may have uncovered a future fitness tracking feature

Amazon’s genuinely wireless Echo Buds earbuds are brilliant at their $130 cost, to the point that they were the obvious issue at hand when we inspected Apple’s new AirPods Pro. What’s more, they dealt with that reverberating accomplishment without one of their greatest supposed highlights — the capacity to serve as a fitness tracker and measure the calories you’ve consumed.

Be that as it may, don’t preclude fitness following at this time, on the grounds that CNBC and The Verge both recognized another “Fitness” tab in the Echo Buds segment of the Alexa application today. You can see a couple screen captures from our application below:

While we’re looking out for an Amazon spokeperson to affirm whether we ought to really be energized for greater usefulness — or if this only a minimal segment of a previous test — CNBC’s Todd Haselton says he figured out how to effectively begin a couple of exercises, ones where the Echo Buds gave off an impression of being following his means.

It’s not clear how well the Echo Buds would fill in as a wellness GPS beacon. They’re promoted as “exercise ready” with IPX4 water and sweat obstruction, yet numerous cutting edge fitness trackers and smartwatches use pulse monitors to improve their exactness past what basic accelerometers can appraise. The Echo Buds don’t seem to have a pulse monitors built in.