Garmin Connect leak hints at CIRQA Smart Band Pro with physical buttons and speaker

Garmin entered the screenless fitness tracker market relatively late, following competitors like Zepp Health. The current Garmin CIRQA retails for around $200 and offers a fairly stripped-back feature set—a trade-off inherent to its form factor. Lacking a display, the band relies entirely on recording basic health metrics such as heart rate, step count, and daily activities.

According to a report by Gadgets & Wearables, Garmin is now working on a higher-end sibling or direct successor. References to the CIRQA Smart Band Pro recently surfaced in builds 5.28.1 and 5.29 of the Garmin Connect app. While code leaks within Garmin's app have historically proven accurate, the company has yet to comment on the unannounced hardware, so these details should still be taken with a grain of salt. The app's underlying code includes text strings for managing alarms specifically on the CIRQA Smart Band Pro. Because the standard CIRQA Smart Band maintains a separate entry, this is unlikely to be a simple clerical error.

Furthermore, tutorial entries offer direct hints about the upcoming hardware. The app notes that alarms on the CIRQA Smart Band Pro can be snoozed—or dismissed entirely—using a second button. This strongly implies the new band will feature at least two physical buttons. Additional code references also point toward audio alerts, hinting that the CIRQA Smart Band Pro may come equipped with a built-in speaker.