Fitbit Charge 5 Advanced Health & Fitness Tracker with Built-in GPS, Stress Management Tools, Sleep Tracking, 24/7 Heart Rate & More, Mineral Blue,…

9 reviews for Fitbit Charge 5 Advanced Health & Fitness Tracker with Built-in GPS, Stress Management Tools, Sleep Tracking, 24/7 Heart Rate & More, Mineral Blue,…

1. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Sandra Henderson – January 27, 2024

   I am really enjoying my Fitbit Charge. My last one I could not see anything when outside and this the light is great, nice and bright! Battery life works well. Well worth the purchase

2. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   Not an Expert – February 16, 2024

   Fitbit Charge 5 – reviewed after using six months.
   Pros, Cons, Features, Comments, Tips

   The Fitbit is well built, durable, comfortable, industry leader, with many pros and cons. It is mostly accurate and still reasonably private with personal data – which the app stores with the company. Limited benefit without using the app. See more following in pros, cons, features, comments, and tips. I have used this watch very little for workouts, but worn nearly full time. I think it is a good value and purchase.

   PROS: Large collection of features and physical data with surprising abilities. Using capillary measurements, gives very accurate heart rate with some exceptions. Overall, an excellent tool for heart condition monitoring and care. Can encourage and motivate by happily vibrating at key accomplishments like 5000 steps and other increments, minutes of exercise, daily or weekly scores for meditation, sleep scores, or goals in weight, calories, or other self care. Handy and functional timer, alarm, oxygen sensor, and heart monitor. EKG and GPS have some issues, so see Cons. Automatic detection of what exercise you are doing sometimes works (you can also tell it what you are doing). The watch can warn you if your heart is working too hard when you are sedentary or tell you to get off your duff if you have not taken 250 steps in the last hour (you set the vibration strength). The battery charge can last all week for me, but easily charged if removed for shower or other activity. (Can handle the water though and has a water sensitivity adjustment). Fairly good options for changing watch face, metric parameters, and various settings.
   The free app shows clever development over time so that it includes charts, interpretation of data, links to videos, and many more features. Optionally, you may pay an annual premium fee to unlock a larger set of features. Most settings are made in the app. The app collects data and syncs when near the watch. Other app features include battery charge, many alerts, observations, and allows entry and tracking of weight, food, mood, water, and more. I find the daily heart rate chart and sleep score charts quite valuable.

   CONS: The learning curve is steep and takes time to get used to. Although you can do much from the start, expect to be somewhat frustrated until you are used to features. Step counter can be fooled by certain manual activities (like playing lively rag time on the piano). GPS antennae seems to have issues and does not always work – according to tests. I have not studied this more. ECG / EKG seems accurate, but is very sensitive and often returns the result “inconclusive” instead of normal sinus rhythm or AFib. During many busy activities, the user may not notice the vibration, although timer and alarm are rather persistent (vibrator is adjustable in app). If your heart is beating very rapidly, the watch will congratulate you on your exercise even if you are seated with a heart out of control.
   The App does Not Work without internet connection !!! You guessed it, your data is in a Google cloud far away, so if you want to show your doctor or someone some information, you can’t without a connection. A feature that is supposed to make an ECG chart that is readable for your doctor (or you) does not work for many people (there are suggestions and tips online). Blood oxygen reads too low and does not match measurements at a clinic, often low by up to 6% points but appeared to be more accurate after 6 months. Waking up the watch screen by moving wrist or tapping seems to have variable sensitivity and can be frustrating (there’s a setting for hours you must tap the screen if you want to see it). There are many features and calculations that the watch is making that will require study to learn about or understand.

   FEATURES: Watch will turn off some features during hours you set, perhaps your sleeping hours. Good collection of faces to choose from. Very colorful. Tracking for weight, menstrual cycle, mood, and other information you may optionally enter, such as water and food intake. Determines levels of activity to fat burn and cardio workouts. Parameter defaults are for age, heart at rest rates, and sex, but can be set by user.

   COMMENTS: Yes, Google bought them out, but had to fight with the European Union for approval – and had to make a privacy concession to get it. They promised to not make user data available outside the company for ten years, at which time that will be reviewed. It could be assumed that non-European customers will be treated similarly for convenience sake. See BBC clipping below.
   Other brands have released blood pressure models that are somewhat accurate or need calibration. As of January 2023, Fitbit is still working on blood pressure methods for their devices.
   Clever combinations of data make interesting and fairly accurate conclusions about sleep, health, mood, and exercise.

   TIPS: Not all replacement charger cords make good contact. I suggest purchasing a charger dock (like the CAVN brand). It is really handy, affordable, and easy to use. Wearing the watch as loosely as comfortable seems to give the best results, but tightening up for workouts is recommended. To use the EKG option, it is best to sit in a chair with an arm-rest, relax, and do not move your left arm or hand where the watch is worn. The screen/face is very scratch resistant, but a protector is helpful in some activities. Some protectors that attach by loops over the straps have weak reviews, but good “stick-on” covers are available at low cost.

   Google purchased Fitbit in November 2019 for $2.1 Billion. Fears of damage to competition caused the European Commission to elicit promises from Google. According to the BBC:

   Google has now promised:
   • not to use health, fitness and location data from Fitbit devices for advertising, for users in the European Economic Area
   • to store Fitbit data in a “silo”, kept separate from any other data used for advertising
   • to maintain third-party access to the Fitbit platform
   • not to degrade the user experience of third-party smartwatches when paired with an Android phone
   The commitments must be kept for 10 years. Amazon does not permit me to site the URL, sorry.

3. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Supertouf – February 20, 2024

   Lång batteritid, smidig meny och bra app till mobilen.

4. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   sneakapeekzeke – February 26, 2024

   This is my first time using a fitness tracker and I didn’t want to spend too much money. For what I want, this tracker works for me. My goal was to track my workouts and calories in and out, everything else is just a nice to have. For the watch, the only issue I have is sometimes not being able to get it to respond when I want to pause an exercise. For the app, there is way more than what I need. I like being able to log my food and being able to scan a barcode is so convenient. In my opinion, the only downside is the limited exercises available…there are only so many to choose from and you aren’t able to add more. Otherwise, I think this is a great fitness tracker for a first time user.

5. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Jesse – March 4, 2024

   Still getting 5 stars BUT a few cons in the operation of the device and the app. It’s an incredible product.

   CONS
   On the device you can’t disable some menu options and get them out of the way even though you don’t use them, like payments for example.
   On the app sometimes it just doesn’t connect- like changing device settings such as the watch face- not sure if just my phone or device.
   PROS
   I got the Charge 5 specifically because it doesn’t have all the smart watch features like text notifications for example. But still has a beautiful color screen and the ability to see in real time your heart rate, steps, calories burned, and zone minutes which I don’t understand. To review your sleep you must sync to your phone then you can see an overview from the device screen or in detail from the app.
   The app is very powerful- tons of ways to make sense of all the data points it collects
   I believe the sleep tracking is excellent. This was the main feature I wanted.
   The watch is easy to take on and off.
   It’s hard to interact with the display of your hands are wet.
   I have it on constantly and usually charge it every 5 days. It charges very quickly- like an hour or so.
   The heart rate tracking is very accurate
   There is a stress level test where you it measures electrical activity in your skin- I believe this test is useless because you have to squeeze the sides of the devise for 1-3 minutes or so- which is just not as accessible to do in the middle of the day or something.
   The alarm feature is great- it just silently vibrates your wrist
   For that reason alone I love it because I can get up and out of the house early without waking my family with a loud alarm.
   Random stuff
   You can buy third party wrist straps.
   Sometimes the device freezes and you have to plug it into the charger and use the reset button

6. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Kindle Customer – March 19, 2024

   This feels like half the weight of the Charge 4. Very light on the wrist such that you really do forget it’s there.

   The strap is very good; the fastening system not at all intrusive. Mine did detach a week after buying it whilst picking/carrying the toddler and being so light I didn’t notice it was no longer on my wrist. Thankfully some honest soul found it and handed it in. Note it detached where the strap meets the case, not at the fastener. No idea how it happened – I had never fiddled with the strap fixings.

   The functionality with the premium membership on the App is fantastic – mine came with 6 months free. £80/year after that seems excessive though. Most of the premium stuff seems like nonsense that can be got for free elsewhere eg all the mindfulness stuff can be got on YouTube. But the app is great and you can get lost in all the data.

   Sleep tracking is very interesting but it really only confirms what you already know; eg wake up and think you’ve had a bad nights sleep? Well, the app will tell you that. Wake up and feel you’ve had a greats nights sleep? The app will concur. So, after the first 2 weeks the detailed sleep tracking seems less exciting. You know (without needing an app) if you’ve slept well or not.

   It has ECG, pulse oximetry (which isn’t an on demand measurement – it just seems to do it when you’re sleeping as part of sleep monitoring), stress tests. It will monitor you for AF (heart irregularity) which is useful for older folks more at risk and notify you.

   I like that plain text messages (iMessages only, sadly – not WhatsApp etc) will show up on the screen meaning I don’t need to get the phone out of my pocket. I like the timer and countdown features.

   Not much else to say other than it’s clearly well made, worth the ‘brand’ and does everything excellently. The paid app experience isn’t worth it beyond the free 6 month trial, in my opinion.

   Would recommend!

7. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Supertouf – March 22, 2024

   Ho acquistato questo Charge 5 dopo una diagnosi di fibrillazione atriale. Volevo tenere sotto controllo i battiti e la frequenza cardiaca e, dopo i primi giorni di disorientamento nell’app sul cellulare, ora ho preso confidenza e lo ritengo un ottimo acquisto.
   La funzione ECG mi è sembrata efficiente e ho già fatto vedere al medico i PDF che vengono prodotti.
   Mi ha già avvertito diverse volte in cui ha rilevato battiti irregolari o fibrillazione. Non uso molto le altre funzioni a parte il contapassi.

   L’app Fitbit potrebbe essere migliorata, ad esempio i PDF degli ECG contengono nel titolo l’ora in cui vengono salvati, non quella della della rilevazione che compare nell’intestazione, così devo sempre rinominarli. Inoltre le funzioni importanti “Notifiche ritmo irregolare” e “Valutazione ritmo cardiaco” non si trovano nella schermata principale ma in quella con i video degli esercizi ginnici, sfide, avventure, e altre cose molto secondarie.

   Ho letto in altre recensioni che l’aggiornamento all’ultimo firmware provoca danni, ma non è vero, l’ho fatto senza problemi; oppure che per avere le funzioni importanti è necessario l’abbonamento a pagamento, ma anche questo non è vero, l’abbonamento aggiunge cose per me trascurabili; o anche che il contapassi va avanti se si è in auto, ma anche questo non l’ho notato.
   Cinturtino, bello, comodo e di materiale piacevole al tatto, ottima batteria, che dura più di 5 giorni.

8. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Luis Uriel Angulo – April 1, 2024

   Le gps ne fonctionne pas, c’est dommage mais bon vu le prix et les autres features qu’elle propose, on ne va pas se plaindre.
   Etant un sportif soutenu (5 séances de musculation par semaine + 1 footing), je me suis dit qu’il serait intéressant de disposer d’un outils permettant de suivre les activités + d’avoir un bon suivi de sommeil.
   Pour celui cherchant un outil relativement précis, cette montre est parfaite.
   Gros point positif pour l’application

   Attention toutefois au bracelet qui m’a causé des petites brulures (cf photo)

9. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Jesse – April 6, 2024

   Realmente este tipo de relojes o los odias o los amas. En mi caso me parece un formato más práctico que otros relojes y después de varios meses de uso estoy satisfecho con la compra. Viene con una prueba de 6 meses de fitbit premium, pero la versión gratuita te da buena información sobre tu salud. Me ha ayudado a llevar un control de mis días de ejercicio y a volverme más consciente de las semanas en las que cumplo o no con mis metas de ejercicio. También me compré otras dos correas para tener un look más casual o elegante según lo necesite y se ve muy bien. Es cierto que los clips pueden ser muy frágiles, pero me parece que puedes unirlo de manera permanente con uno de los clips metálicos para correas.