Why is this band not waterproof? Seems like plenty of other companies have solved this problem.īut here’s a little secret: A Fitbit product manager revealed to me that he always wears his Charge 2 in the shower. It’s splash-proof-fine for rain or washing hands-but you’re not supposed to swim or shower with it. The biggest heartbreaker is that the Charge 2 is not waterproof. It’s a great design, but too bad for people who’d bought a couple of charging cables for the older model.Ī plastic clamp charges up the Fitbit for six days. The Charge uses a new style of charging cable-a spring-loaded clamp that clicks solidly into place. (That’s one reason I can’t wear an Apple Watch or another smartwatch: If I have to charge it every night, it can’t be on my wrist tracking my sleep.) Somehow, Fitbit has managed to cram all of this new stuff into the Charge 2 without diminishing its battery life: six days on a charge, in my experience. In two minutes, I found that my heart rate had dropped 20 beats per minute, and I truly felt more relaxed, more centered. It all sounded a little too earthy-crunchy to me-until I tried it. (That last one uses vibration cues and on-screen messages to coach you through start/stop exercises.) You choose the sport and tell the tracker when you’re starting and stopping it shows all kinds of relevant data, in real time, during the exercise.Ī lot of recent research illustrates that deep breathing lowers anxiety, blood pressure, and even the risk of heart disease the new Apple Watch incorporates the same exercise (although Apple’s doesn’t personalize the guidance to your current breathing and heart rate, as the Fitbit does). The Charge 2 has special modes for tracking running, weights, treadmill, biking, elliptical or any kind of interval training. To keep the Charge simple and focused (and maintain its six-day battery life), the company intends to keep smartwatch clutter away. Fitbit’s response: “This is not a smartwatch.” If that’s what you want, you should look into something like the Fitbit Blaze or the Apple ( AAPL) Watch. And there’s no way to reply or re-read texts. And you have to wake the watch within 30 seconds of the message buzzing or that text is gone for good. And you see only the first 40 characters (why!?). Unfortunately, the screen is always vertical, so text messages have to scroll across an uncomfortably narrow space. The Charge 2 shows the first 40 characters of incoming text messages and calendar appointments, and identifies the caller when a call comes in. One advantage of a bigger screen: a choice of watch faces.
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