Fitbit's New Activity Tracker Is Designed to Help You to Get Moving
If you’ve spent the last few weeks cooped up in quarantine, you know exactly how hard it can be to remember to make movement and activity a priority. Hopefully, you have some type of system in place to remind you to get up and get going—but if you don’t, Fitbit has one for you.
The wearable company just announced its newest wrist-worn device, the Charge 4. The device is the latest in Fitbit’s most popular line, one of the few dedicated activity trackers left standing after most other companies in the space have either shut down (Jawbone, etc.) or pivoted completely to smartwatches. Like its excellent predecessor, the Charge 3 (which we called Fitbit’s best tracker in years), this latest iteration of the Charge family zeroes in on performance while packing a ton of functionality into its small frame. If you’re sick of your smartwatch taking over your life nearly as much as your phone as your second screen—or if you’d never wear a smartwatch for just that reason—the Charge 4 is designed to serve as a happy medium. You can pre-order the device now for $149.95 for an April 13 release.
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The Charge 4 adds built-in GPS tracking to the device—a first for a Fitbit tracker, and a feature whose exclusion was one of the few knocks we had against its predecessor. The new functionality makes outdoor workouts more easily trackable, so you can be more inclined to hit the road without your phone. Other standout features include an estimated seven day battery life, Spotify connectivity, Fitbit pay as a standard feature (previously available only on Premium editions), and exhaustive sleep tracking, including a relative SpO2 sensor to estimate oxygen level variability.
Fitbit will launch a new feature with the Charge 4 to finally march beyond the standard 10,000 daily steps guidance wearable companies have been touting since the first devices hit the market. Active Zone Minutes instead uses the device’s heart rate tracking to set a goal of 150 minutes of activity based on personalized zones for each wearer, then gauges that activity based on the level of effort expended. Credit toward achieving the predetermined goal is earned by spending time in the higher heart rate zones, making vigorous activity more valuable to reaching goals than just any type of movement. The feature will roll out for other Fitbit devices eventually, too—but it’ll debut on the Charge 4.
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The company will also expand the offerings available on Fitbit Premium, the subscription fitness and wellness suite it launched last year. New workouts are available from partner brands like barre3, Down Dog and Physique 57, and the library of in-house content, like personalized guided programs will be updated. In a gesture to everyone homebound during the coronavirus pandemic, Fitbit will also open up some of the Premium feature to general users on the Fitbit app, and offer free 90-day trials to the paid service. Fitbit Coach, the company’s platform for guided workouts, will also be available for free 90 day trials.
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