Fitbit Charge 6 Fitness Tracker with Google apps, Heart Rate on Exercise Equipment, 6-Months Premium Membership Included, GPS, Health Tools and More, Porcelain/Silver, One Size (S & L Bands Included)

Excellent Fitness Tracker!
I love everything about this fitness tracker! I am a 5′ 6″, 140lb woman with a small wrist and the watch fits great, with room to go smaller and bigger. The overall face size is large enough and easy to read, but not too bulky compared to my wrist size. It’s very comfortable to wear 24/7. It stays charged 5-7 days and the app interface is easy and useful. My favorite feature is the sleep tracking and all of the vitals it measures during sleep; O2 saturation, breathing rate, heart rate, heart rate variability and body temperature. Most useful on the app is the ability to look at your historical stats on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis. The sleep tracking also shows baseline for your age. Additionally, I’m able to connect my tracker with other apps I participate with to earn points and rewards. Lastly, it notifies me when I have a call, a reminder and I can read texts on it. This tracker is a vital part of my wellness program

Good improvements over the Charge 5 but broken app
I upgraded from the Charge 5What I like about the Charge 6:- Great price- Sensors to track body activity are more accurate (I don’t have a way to test this but other people in YouTube have and these sensors are really good for a device at this price point with no chest strap)- Same great battery life. I get 6-7 days (I use normal brightness, do not use GPS, have sleep mode programmed, and keep the screen off unless I need to see it).- The home button to return to the time screen is great.- Triple tapping to zoom in is nice- When it works the Google Maps app is really nice. When you launch the phone app it kicks in automatically (need to set it up this way in your Fitbit app) otherwise you have to start the walk on the phone app and then manually connect to the app from your Charge 6. It tells you where to turn and it is nicer/safer than staring at your phone. The connectivity to the Phone app however is unreliable. Lots of retries and fiddling with the bluetooth settings to get it to work. Feels like a beta. I hope this is improved with a future upgrade. I have my Charge device set to 12 hr time format but this app shows 24 hr format at the top which to me is confusing and it may be a bug. I hope this is addressed in a future update.- More exercise modes and more settings/mode- The double tapping for water locking the device seems to work a little better to me than the Charge 5.- The unit’s vibration when alarm goes off seems to be more noticeable than in the Charge 5. Less likely to miss it.- Bluetooth integration with gym cardio workout machines is nice however I don’t have any equipment to test this. I read that there is an issue with the encryption that Google uses. Just be aware that unless you are at a gym that has bought very recent equipment, the machines aren’t likely to support bluetooth. Most hotels I workout in don’t have this either. I don’t really need this but some people may find it useful.What I don’t like:- If you are on iOS you still can’t reply to texts (I know there is an iOS security constraint that doesn’t allow this but come on Google…time to find a workaround)- Like the Charge 5 the GPS is terrible. It drains the battery and it is very inaccurate. I use my iPhone’s GPS tracking synced to my Charge 6 instead and it works great. If you don’t have your phone with you then you are out of luck.- The biggest disappointment is the YouTube Music app. Like the Google Maps it is a remote control for the phone app. I’m a YouTube Music subscriber so I was really looking forward to this but the connectivity to the phone app is very unreliable (like the Google Maps app). You can’t really see your music library, find an artist, and select Shuffle Play. All you can do is use the playback controls. (which I already have in Siri and on my Powerbeats pro earbuds), see a list of your recently played songs, and a couple of Google created playlists that I don’t care to use. I really hope that they improve it in future software upgrades.- Some exercise modes have an Auto Detect and Auto Stop feature. Basically this feature auto starts an exercise mode if the device detects that you are exercising. It sound good but in reality I found it to be more of a nuisance. The device can’t tell if I’m just in a hurry or warming up for a workout. If I’m in the middle of a workout and I slow down to catch my breath, the Charge 6 will ask me if I want to stop which means I’m forced to interact with the device when I don’t really want to. Luckily you can turn this feature off per mode.- When you reach a new target zone the Charge 6 displays the new target zone and the number like the Charge 5 however Google has changed the number/graphic and made it impossibly small to read without stopping and staring or triple tapping which are tedious while you are moving during your routine. I hope Google improves this in a future software update.- When the device is on exercise mode the screens shows the time at the very top. The Charge 5 I believe showed the total calories burned which is far more useful, Not sure why Google messed with this. If I need t know the time I can scroll to it during my workout or I can ask Siri.- I use the timer a lot…it is still limited to 1 hour.The phone app was cool until Google did a complete redesign which a lot of users are unhappy about.I use the app and the web portal to log my food consumption and my weight. IMHO any fitness tracker is worthless if you don’t track both. The app calories data is also broken. The calories left for the day count is incorrect compared to the web portal (there is a difference of hundreds of calories). This to me is unacceptable and It has been broken for months. Not sure what Google is waiting on to fix it. As a workaround if I need to see how many calories I can consume…I just look at the portal on a browser on my mac, iPad or iPhone..In spite of my dislikes overall I do like the Charge 6 and it is a nice upgrade specially for $100. The more accurate sensors are worth the upgrade. That said if you plan to upgrade because of the GPS or the YouTube Music app you may want to hold off.

Je suis actuellement dans un processus de perte de poids avec le soutien de mon médecin. J’avais par le passé des montres de moindre qualité qui ne calculaient pas très bien les pas. J’étais un peu septique concernant la précision du calcul des pas. Il s’avère que cette montre est beaucoup plus précise que n’importe quoi d’autre que j’ai utilisé.Ce que j’aime bien de cette montre, c’est que lorsque je marche et que j’oublie d’activer la fonction ”marche”, la montre le détecte par elle-même, de sorte que je n’ai pas besoin de me soucier du fait que mon activité physique est enregistrée ou non. J’ai essayé l’activité de bicyclette avec la montre et le kilométrage sur mon odomètre correspondait à celui enregistré par la montre.L’application qui vient avec la montre, je trouve fantastique. Il est facile de suivre le nombre de calories brulées, le nombres de calories consommées sans oubli que la base d’aliments est très bien élaborés. Mon médecin et moi avons évalué qu’une consommation entre 1500 et 2000 calories était ce qui était le mieux pour moi dans mon processus de perte de poids. L’application fait en sorte que je puisse facilement faire un suivi.Le seul bémol que je constate avec l’application est que parfois la mise à jour des informations entre les différents ”onglets” ne sont pas appliqués automatiquement. Par exemple, sur la vue d’ensemble, on voit toutes les informations, mais lorsque l’on veut plus de détails, en cliquant sur la section que l’on veut voir, ça peut prendre quelques instants (5 minutes à 30 minutes) avant que les informations reflètent ce qu’il y a sur le ”dashboard”.Cette montre est devenue un outil indispensable dans mon processus de perte de poids, avant celle-ci, j’avais réussi à perdre environ 9lbs en 1 mois et demi. Avec la montre et l’application (donc un meilleur suivi), j’ai perdu 8.6lbs en 9 jours.Je la conseille à tous qui veulent un meilleur suivi dans leur perte de poids.

Good price although it’s end of life item

The Fitbit Charge 6 is a fantastic upgrade that packs a lot of features into a sleek and comfortable design. The bright display is a huge improvement, and the new haptic side button makes navigation so much easier. I’m especially impressed with the built-in GPS and the Google integrations for Wallet and Maps, which make it feel much more like a premium device. The health tracking is accurate and gives great insights, especially for sleep and heart rate. It’s the perfect balance of a fitness tracker and a smartwatch.