Fitbit charge 3 launched in 2018 is an upgrade to the existing Charge 2 model that was launched in 2016. These are fitness trackers that can be worn all day every day to better gauge your health.
Charge 2 Features
- Heart Rate Monitor- The device measures your heart rate at all times when you are wearing it, be it normally, walking, intense workout or any other time. Modes like normal, calorie burning, fat burning etc can be set
- Sleep Monitor- It monitors sleep and recognises the various sleep stages giving you a better look into how well you sleep
- Sleep Stages- The device recognises 4 sleep stages including awake, REM, light and deep sleep
- Reminders- There are reminders to sleep, move around, alarms
- Breathing Sessions- The device goes through with guided breathing exercises to relax you whenever you are agitated
- Steps taken- It can track the number of steps that you have taken throughout the day and resets at midnight. The daily goal is set at 10000 steps and can be changed
- Calories burned- Since pretty much everything is being tracked, the calories burned in walking, exercises etc can also be tracked
- Distance covered- The device is connected with GPS via phone and can tell how much distance you have travelled
- Floors climbed- It can detect when you climb stairs and tell you how many floors you?ve moved
- Exercise tracker- The device recognises several forms of exercises and the time duration they?re done for thus. Making the calorie counter more effective
- Notifications- Once calibrated with phone, all your notifications can appear on the device itself
What?s New in Charge 3
- Waterproofing- The new model is waterproof and recognises swimming as an exercise
- Bigger Display- A bigger display makes for a better experience when it comes to analysing tracker data
- Brighter Display- Brightness has also increased the analysing experience
- Flexible Band- The band is better suited to be worn on the wrist as compared to the previous design making it more comfortable to users
- Lighter- The device is overall lighter in appearance and weight
What?s Missing
- Colour- The band are still monochrome and could have better variants
- GPS- There is still no inbuilt GPS in the device which would help tremendously
- Charger- Only the proprietary charger can be used to charge the device
If you already have the Charge 2, and really want to swim and track it in your exercise routine, the Charge 3 is suggested. Moreover, the better screen display is sure to help you read data more clearly without much difficulty as the bigger screen has seen to the problem of letter huddling together in previous versions making them nearly incomprehensible.
