The Fitbit Charge HR is an activity-and-sleep tracker that has a built-in heart-rate sensor and a feature commonly found on smartwatches: It alerts you when you’re getting an incoming phone call. The device also has a stopwatch feature for timing runs and other workouts, and sells for about $150 on the Fitbit website, or on Amazon. That’s about the same price as other fitness trackers that also do continuous heart-rate monitoring, such as the $150 Mio Fuse and the $130 Adidas miCoach Fit Smart. I recently wore the Charge HR for a week, to see how it compared to the competition. Here’s what I found:
Overall rating: 7.5/10
The Fitbit Charge HR is a comfortable tracker that’s easy to use and is accompanied by a well-designed and motivational app. The main pros of the device are that it is smaller than many other trackers that have heart-rate monitoring, has a helpful alarm feature that lets you set multiple alerts (some trackers lack any alarm at all) and is easy to sync with its app. But the cons include that the tracker’s display is hard to read outside, and the heart-rate sensor isn’t as accurate as sensors worn around the chest.
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