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Victoria Song

Victoria Song

Senior Reviewer, Wearable Tech

Victoria Song reviews all things wearables and fitness tech for The Verge.

Before coming to The Verge, she'd been yammering on about this space—and other consumer tech—for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. When not nerding out over gadgets, she can be found on the couch binging the latest K-dramas.

The best fitness trackers to buy right now

From simple fitness bands and rugged sports watches to rings, these are the best trackers you can get.

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The Galaxy Ring keeps you in Samsung’s orbit

It’s not so much a standalone health tracker or a smartwatch alternative as an accessory for your Galaxy Watch.

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Go ahead, take that nap.

Fitbit published a study in Nature Medicine using 6.5 million nights of sleep data from users that shows that sleep quality impacts long term health. In a nutshell, the worse your sleep quality, the more likely you are to have conditions like sleep apnea, obesity, migraines, high blood pressure, etc. You get it.

I won’t blame you for thinking “Duh” but this stuff can be helpful for researchers as it gives hard data to what we already know.


The watchOS 11 beta slowed me down, in a good way

Fitness tracking on the Apple Watch is finally moving away from the blanket approach of ‘always do more.’