The Garmin Cirqa was unveiled this week. It is yet another fitness tracker from a company that has made a huge number of them.

This one is a little different, though. It’s Garmin’s first screen-free wearable in the style of a Whoop band or the Google Fitbit Air .

It doesn’t take much to get your head around the appeal of a fitness tracker that will not demand your attention throughout the day. But the Garmin Cirqa is more expensive than most at $199.99, and has a few ideas of its own.

I touched on some of these in my recent Garmin Cirqa explainer . But I also got to hear Garmin product manager Chrissy Wheeler address a few key questions about this new wearable at the device’s launch. Here’s what she said.

1. Should you wear the Garmin Cirqa with a Garmin watch?

There’s no real benefit to wearing those together at the same time. If you started working out on your watch — within Garmin you can prioritize your primary wearable — it will take that as the primary activity.

So, if I start on [the watch] and I let [Cirqa] auto activity detect, it will probably show this up as an “auto” activity, but I can then choose whether I want to save it or not. If I started an activity on [the watch] and I started an activity on [Cirqa], it would prioritize and only send through the one activity.

2. Does the Garmin Cirqa have the latest heart rate reader hardware?

I don’t think it’s the very, very latest, but we’ve added skin temp into it. And, really, the reason we didn’t go for the very latest one is the size of the module. The size of the [latest] heart rate monitor is actually bigger, which would have made the device quite a lot bigger.

3. Why does the Garmin Cirqa have a button when the competitor devices do not?

They don’t, and it comes down to Garmin’s DNA. Like why would you wear a heart rate strap when you’ve got wrist heart rate? It’s about that giving the customer the ability to choose.

If they really want to make sure that they’re catching every single second of that activity, they’ve got the option to start and stop the activity on the watch. If they're not so worried and less bothered by that, they can just let the auto activity detect capture it.

4. Does the Garmin Cirqa have a vibrate motor?

There is a vibration motor. [Cirqa] has got a smart alarm, and it also if you start an activity, it buzzes every hour just in case you’ve forgotten to turn [tracking] off.

5. How does the Connected GPS work? Does an activity have to be started from within the app?

It works with any activities, including auto-recognized ones. I literally came out of the station, walked in here, and I’ve got a map as you would expect from any other activity.

6. Why did you decide not to rely heavily on a paid subscription?

We’re a device company. Yes, we have some subscription services available for different features, but it's always a premium thing. It's always something that you would, as a customer, be willing to pay.

We’re never going charge for customers’ [access to] data. Generally, they’re things that we just wouldn't be able to do without kind of revenue associated to them, so that's not Garmin. But we are a device company, so we’re about devices.

7. Does Garmin Cirqa’s heart rate broadcasting only work with Garmin devices?

It’s Bluetooth, so anyone that accepts Bluetooth [HR signals], it will broadcast to.

The Garmin Cirqa is available to order now, for $199.99, although its availability shows as “3–5 weeks” at the time of writing.