Other new fitness features include during-workout heart-rate zone alerts (to indicate how hard you’re working, based on your pulse rate) and an “Active Zone Minutes” measurement, which gives you “credit” for working hard and an additional metric to gauge how much exercise you get overall.įitbit also added a few software updates to the Charge 4, such as the ability to view limited sleep data on the display (you had to open the app before) a device sleep mode to dim the screen and mute notifications during the preset window you indicate you’re usually asleep a Spotify app to allow users to control music playing on the connected smartphone from the wrist, and Fitbit Pay. The upshot: With a Charge 4, users can now record location-based details of their outdoor workouts (and glimpse data, such as current pace or distance traveled while exercising) and not have to carry along a phone.
This is a marked change for Fitbit, which had been relying on what it calls “connected GPS” in most of its devices to map and measure a wearer’s runs, bike rides, walks, or other outdoor distance-related activities using the GPS chip in the device’s linked smartphone. It’s what Fitbit put inside the Charge 4 that’s new and arguably improved: that GPS chip, capable of geolocating the wearer’s location using either the GPS and GLONASS satellite networks. My Charge 3 normally sports a woven fabric band, available on special edition models and for sale a la carte, which is infinitely more comfortable. (The charge cables are interchangeable as well.) However, Fitbit also didn’t replace the stock inch-wide plastic strap, either-it’s stiff and cuff-like and gets sweaty during exercise, and is one of the only low points on the otherwise excellent Charge devices. I studied it side by side with my Fitbit Charge 3 and can’t see any visual differences at all, in the overall style, the display menus, or even the clock faces available for download. I can't see any visual difference between the Charge 4 (left) and the Charge 3 (right)-can you? (Aside from the fact that this Charge 3 has the "rose gold" finish.)įrom the outside, startlingly little.
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