Google has been advertising a fitness tracker with a screen that it doesn't sell. A device that could be that tracker reached the FCC on September 10.
The filing sits under FCC ID SZGG8BL6, model G8BL6. The FCC is the US regulator that has to approve anything with a radio before it goes on sale. Marko Maslakovic of Gadgets & Wearables found it. The applicant is Weifang Goertek Electronics, a contract manufacturer that builds hardware for several brands, and the paperwork describes the product only as a "Wireless Device". It never mentions Google. There's no product name either.
The test reports say a lot more. Engineers tried it with different straps and under a zero-distance extremity condition, which is how you test something worn against the wrist. It has a charging base. Its regulatory label opens on the device itself, under Settings, then System, then Regulatory Information, which is the same path the Pixel Watch uses. The Fitbit Charge 6 keeps that label under Settings, Device Info, Regulatory Info instead.
The radios describe something simpler than a watch. G8BL6 has Bluetooth LE, the low-power Bluetooth that fitness bands use to talk to a phone, and GNSS, satellite positioning of the kind GPS provides, so it can find its own location rather than borrowing the phone's. The authorization lists Bluetooth LE in the 2.4 GHz band and nothing else. No Wi-Fi, no cellular. During testing, engineers used ADB version 1.0.39, part of Android's developer toolkit, to put it into engineering modes. That's a Google-shaped detail, but it's nowhere near proof the device runs Wear OS, Google's smartwatch software.
The strongest link is the grantee code, the prefix the FCC assigns to each applicant. Google's own regulatory documentation lists the Fitbit Air as model GW9C8 with FCC ID SZGGW9C8. Same SZG prefix, same Goertek entity. Goertek makes hardware for other companies too, so the shared code alone doesn't make G8BL6 a Fitbit.
Last month Google's Pixel 11 ads showed a fitness tracker that matched nothing the company sells. It had an oblong display and sat beside the Pixel Watch 5 and Pixel Buds. The Fitbit Air has no screen at all. A wrist-worn band with a display, its own positioning and the Fitbit Air's manufacturer is the best candidate for that device anyone has found so far.
We still can't say the FCC device and the tracker in the ads are the same product. Charge 7 is the name people keep attaching to it, and it's a guess: neither Fitbit nor Charge appears anywhere in the documents. The manual and device photos stay confidential until March 9, 2027, so there's a good chance it goes on sale before then.