Yeah, maybe I misread the article I saw. I just tried to find it again but now there are so many articles on google that I can’t find it. lol. If you need to carry around a phone to see the data, I’m not as excited. They seem to be marketing the Ionic as something you could take and leave your phone behind (music on the watch itself, payments from the watch, etc.), so hopefully that will hold true for the Dexcom. But you probably do need a phone to set everything up, I would guess. The Dexcom for me is just a nice add-on, though. I was planning on getting the Ionic just for fitness tracking even before I saw the Dexcom stuff. If I end up getting a t:slim pump, assuming it comes to Canada next year, that would hopefully have Dexcom on it and so I’d upgrade at that time if the Ionic requires carrying around a phone.
On my Charge HR I could feel the vibration alarm easily. The Ionic has no speakers just as the other Fitbit models don’t have speakers, so it will be limited to vibration alerts. I’ve heard people complain about the vibrations on the currently available Fitbits, so whether or not you like them probably depends on personal preference.
If I get the G5 the receiver is optional here in Canada, and since I’m paying for it out of pocket, I wouldn’t get one. The only reason I would upgrade to the G5 would be to get data on either the t:slim or the Ionic, so I wouldn’t be spending hundreds of dollars on something I would only use as a backup.