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LExprise on 16/01/2020 - 18:08 thegoodguys.com.au (1037 clicks)
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Fitbit Charge 3 is Fitbit's most advanced health and fitness tracker ever. With the 4288355, get a deeper understanding of your body, your health and your progress. This water resistant advanced health and fitness tracker does more than count steps - it tracks 24/7 heart rate, calorie burn, 15-plus exercises, goal progress, sleep and more. Every day, you'll find valuable insights about your health that will empower you to take action, improve yourself and reach your goals. Fitbit Charge 3 is swimproof and water resistant to 50 metres so you can track swims, wear in the shower and more. Plus, its battery lasts up to 7 days for continuous access to insights and inspiration (battery life varies with use and other factors). Get call, text and smartphone app notifications on your wrist. Plus, send quick replies (Android only). This fitness tracker watch allows you to connect to your smartphone GPS for real-time pace and distance.

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  • Kanjus on 16/01/2020 - 19:45
    +2

    Same price JB. Good if you have vouchers lying around

  • squeeze on 16/01/2020 - 20:22
    +5

    I recently got one of these - personal opinion these things are a gimmick and in particular I'm not impressed with the software. Doesn't auto-recognise workouts / activity, doesn't remind you to stop if you stop the timer when you finish doing activity so it can throw your data completely off. Sometimes doesn't even recognise your heart rate. Also as soon as you buy it and get the app fitbit throw the "premium content" in your face every time you use it. Not great after you've just spent all that money. Thats my two cents sure some people get good use out of them.

    • Diji1 on 16/01/2020 - 21:32
      -2

      The device category is a scam.

      Radiation, tulips, lead … now it's computers. People suspend their bullshit meters because magic.

    • BargainHeart on 16/01/2020 - 22:07
      +3

      It always auto-recognises workouts when I'm active. When I'm mowing the lawn for more than ten minutes, it logs it as an "Outdoor bike" I guess because of the orientation of my wrist pushing the mower. When I go to the beach it logs it as "Sport". Often when I go for a long walk, after about ten minutes it buzzes and asks me "Do you want to log this walk?". Even if didn't log a specific activity, it's monitoring your heart rate continuously throughout the day, and works out your calories burned from that.

      A few times I've forgotten to stop it when I finish exercising, and without fail it's buzzed and let me know my heart rate has returned to normal levels.

      It does try to push the premium content subscription service, which afaik used to be free, so that's shite, but I'm not having any of the other issues you are. Works well for me.

    • tomlut on 16/01/2020 - 22:44
      +1

      I bought one last time this was posted. I've had no issue with sleep tracking, heart rate, step count or NFC payments. These were my main reasons for purchasing so I'm happy with it.

      The number of clock faces available is a bit poor and there is no way to design your own that I can find.

      And I agree about the aggressive premium advertising and the interface definitely needs work. The only way I've reliably found to turn off an alarm (rather than snoozing) is to disable the alarm.

    • Swanny3214 on 16/01/2020 - 23:01

      I bought one last month and have nothing but praise. If i have to run for the bus, it'll recognize the run successfully and it helps track my calories burned/time at the gym pretty well! For the price, it's about as good as it can get!

    • sepa on 18/01/2020 - 13:53
      +1

      I've got a Charge 2 and it's ability to recognise activity is one of its smartest features. Not perfect but it logs all my bike rides and most walks correctly. My beef is with the app, which uses a lot of juice and struggles to sync with my phone after the last major update. Also it requires the internet to sync - no internet and you can't even change the time, a real hassle when country/time zone hopping. No sure I'll bother upgrading to the 3.

  • ectogammat on 16/01/2020 - 20:48

    I am bit of a noob when it comes to fitness trackers, but reading the post description it sounds like many of the features of Fitbit charge 3 are similar to those of the Mi Band 4, which I understand is the budget option in the world of fitness trackers. It sounds like the battery life of the Fitbit is inferior compared to the Mi Band.

    Does anyone own these two and can share their thoughts comparing both?

  • Lighter Fluid on 16/01/2020 - 20:55
    -2

    A fitbit is honestly just a gimmick, I much prefer a full smartwatch since I can actually wear it places, looks like a traditional watch and the functionality is honestly what I'm after. I've owned a few fitbits in the past and unless I'm training day in day out and find the motivation I find that I didn't feel the draw of the product on a daily basis.

    For $99 it's undoubtedly provides for people an option to track their health in the most basic of ways but what I find with my galaxy active 2 and my partner's apple watch is that they are so much smarter and at this kind of form factor the less stuff you have to manually toggle be it buttons or in the software the better.

    For me I love to see accurate and detailed sleep cycle activity, the always on watch faces as well as the ability to take calls and text. I don't use the paywave functionality as much as I should but maybe that'll change going forward.

    I'll admit the rest of the 'smart' functions like day planners and stuff like that is slightly useless, I can view that on a far larger and intuitive screen by taking my phone out of my pocket but the fact that they look good, + all the functionality of a health tracker and much more just makes something like this look alot less appealing.

    For wearables unless it's appealing enough of a product that you find the motivation to charge it and wear it day in day out it quickly becomes a waste of money. Fitbits are really only for those that are actually training, I would imagine it to be hard to find someone using it regularly for any other reason.

    Edit: on the matter of the budget options I own a mi band 3 which was something like $30? and it does everything a fitbit does so again I reiterate the fallacy of such a product unless you actually like the aesthetic. Not to mention the vers 4 which is apparently even better at a similar price point.

    • Ulysses31 on 16/01/2020 - 21:06
      +1

      Our household has both mi band 3 and fit bit 3. If they think they have the same features, you need to read-up.

    • Diji1 on 16/01/2020 - 21:38
      -5

      I love to see accurate and detailed sleep cycle activity

      Hahahaha.

      I thought you had worked it out when I read it's "just a gimmick" but you clearly are being completely fooled by the scam devices. They do not track sleep. Tracking sleep requires reading your brains electrical activity.

      The word is SCAM not "gimmick" LMAO.

      Where it's actually measuring something, rather than claiming to be measuring electrical activity in your brain when it isn't, it's wildly inaccurate. For example HRM is + or - 30% which is unuseable.

      It's a device category for fools.

    • tomlut on 16/01/2020 - 22:51
      +1

      The reasons I went for this over a more advanced smart watch:

      Price.
      Size.
      Battery life.
      It does everything I need (time/date, heart, steps, sleep tracking, NFC payment, message alerts).

  • sauce2k on 16/01/2020 - 21:33
    +2

    This is actually a piece of junk..sorry for the rant but I returned this after 3 days.

    Go to their forum especially android users out there.. I've never really seen a recent technology having so much problems such as syncing and sleeping data.

    I would stay away from this..

  • neonlight on 16/01/2020 - 21:49
    +1

    Fitbit sold to Google now clearing stock.

    If you ain't too worry about your health etc stats to Google that's fine I guess

    I'm guessing Google bought them to enter the fitness technology and harvesting millions for their fitness habit etc data for more marketing purposes

    Just beware that one day medical insurance companies might start to get the data and increase your premiums based on your activity, medical conditions, exercise patterns, wellness etc by getting this data off Google some how without your consent

    • BugsBunnyAUS on 16/01/2020 - 22:45
      +3

      I've found the heart rate to be remarkably accurate, though it does lose the heart rate sometimes however that is not restricted to just this, rather a consequence of reading HR in the way it (and other similar devices) do

      • tomlut on 16/01/2020 - 22:48
        +2

        I've found mine to be within one or two bpm every time I've checked my pulse manually.

    • Exprise on 19/01/2020 - 05:59

      I bought this before going to hospital and it was within 1 bpm of what the machine was reading.

  • neddy on 16/01/2020 - 23:01

    A good price no doubt, but still a pretty average product. I picked up two about 8 months ago. Girlfriend's one does not turn on at all, and the display on mine is so dim it's unreadable, just contacted support and they said all they could do was add me to a list of other users who are having the same problem.

    Some sleep data is also locked behind an expensive $100+/year pay wall…

    Heart rate monitor not accurate either when working out.

    Would not buy this watch again, not a great product, and really bad support.

  • N21212 on 16/01/2020 - 23:17

    Xiaomi band 4 is better value and is half the price

    • Exprise on 19/01/2020 - 13:58

      but it doesn't have the ability to monitor oxygen

      • N21212 on 20/01/2020 - 08:14

        Can't justify paying extra 50 for that feature.

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