‘- okay, maybe at the charge 4, specifically, but a finish tracker made by fitbit with built in gps, a device like that hasn’t existed since the fitbit surge was discontinued in 2017.. For the past few years. You could only get built in gps if you went all in on one of fitbit’s smart watches, but the wait is over now and the introduction of the charge 4 should make many fitness enthusiasts very happy, it’s a solid update to the charge 3. That adds more features than it removes and keeps the budget friendly 150 price. Essentially fitbit did the same thing here, as it did with the versa 2 updated the original device with features that many had been asking for without increasing the starting price. Anyone pining for a fitness band, not a smart watch with built in gps at an affordable price, finally got their wish. Music let’s go over the basics, the fitbit charge 4 tracks daily activity and sleep as well as indoor and outdoor workouts. The latter is made better by the addition of built in gps, which the charge 3 did not have. Now you can go out for a run or a bike ride and map the route without dragging your smartphone with you. Afterwards, you’ll see your route in the fitbit mobile, app, along with new heat maps, showing how your heart rate and pace varied throughout the workout gps in the charge 4 works just as well as it does in fitbit’s ionic smartwatch.
I appreciate that you can start running before the gps actually pinpoints your location. It’Ll. Keep working in the background to lock on all of my route maps were accurate and the heat maps gave me a better understanding of when i was working the hardest during my workout. Another new feature is active zone minutes. The charge 4 keeps track of how much time you spend in each elevated heart rate zone, and it will alert you when you’ve moved into a new one while working out the number of buzzes you feel from the wristband will tell you which zone you’re currently in One buzz for fat burn two for cardio and three for peak. This can get annoying if your heart rate fluctuates a lot during exercise, but it actually motivated me a lot when i ran knowing. I was pushing myself into higher heart rate zones made me want to move faster for as long as i could fit also brought fitbit pay and a spotify app to the charge 4.. You don’t have to pay extra for nfc payments anymore, it’s, a standard feature on the charge 4 and that’s great to see. However, the combination of gps and fitbit pay had me yearning for onboard music storage as well, not including that feature makes the charge 4 feel a bit incomplete, but it’s also unrealistic to expect that combination of features in a 150 device. The spotify app lets premium. Subscribers control playback from the band’s display, which comes in handy when you’re out for a bike, ride and don’t want to risk pulling out your smartphone.
However, music controls only work for spotify if you’re listening to literally anything else, you’ll have to reach for your smartphone you’ll. Also notice a couple of new sleep features on the charge: 4.. A simple one is sleep mode which turns off notifications and disables the screen so you’re not accidentally woken up by a rogue text in the middle of the night it’s a simple scheduling feature but it’s one that you’ll use daily. Once you set it up. The new estimated oxygen variation chart lives in each night’s sleep data page in the fitbit app showing how much your blood oxygen saturation vary during the night through a line graph. Most people won’t see huge fluctuations here, but just refreshing to see evidence of the charge. 4’S. Sp02 monitor in action select fitbit devices have had these sensors for years, but they haven’t been active until recently. The rest of the charge 4 feels similar because it’s very similar to the charge 3.. In fact, they’re nearly identical twins with the same oled, touchscreen, inductive, side, button and interchangeable bands. The battery life remains solid, fitbit estimates you’ll get up to seven days with regular use or up to five hours while using the gps. My charge four was down to twenty percent after three days of all day and all night wear, which included two one hour: long, gps, workouts and one hour of exercise sans gps. An unfortunate thing that remains is fitbit’s incompatibility with apple health and google fit.
But thanks to google’s acquisition of fitbit that’s in process, we’ll likely see support for fit at some point down the road when it comes to competitors. The garmin vivo sport is the closest thing to the charge 4 available now at 170 dollars. It has built in gps. A better battery life with a gps enabled on board controls for general audio playback and compatibility with garmin’s live track feature the charge 4 has a few advantages, though, namely fitbit pay and a price tag. That’S 20 cheaper. But what’s common between these two fitness bands is their limited. Smart watch capabilities both only have a handful of onboard apps and they’re generally, not as intuitive to use as the ones you get on a full smart watch, but fitness bands are designed to first and foremost track fitness. Anything else is icing on the cake. The fitbit surge came to my mind immediately when the charge 4 was announced in its prime. It was the most capable fitness band the company had ever made, despite its ugly clunky exterior now. The charge 4 is here to fill the hole left behind by the surge and give users a way to get built in gps without spending 200 on a smartwatch it’s good. In all the ways the charge 3 was, and the new features only add to the final experience and at 150 it’s one of the most affordable gps wearables available today. Thank you for watching our fitbit charge 4 review.
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