

These include running, walking, hiking, biking, and elliptical workouts. The Charge 2 also has dedicated functions for recording workouts, something that the Charge HR didn’t have. It will show notifications from your smartphone, like incoming phone calls and calendar alerts. It records your daily step count, stairs climbed, calories burned, distance traveled, heart rate, and sleep patterns. I found notable discrepancies in distances tracked with the Charge 2 compared to GPS sport watches (something Fitbit said was due to bugs after multiple attempts to troubleshoot the issues).įirst, at the most basic level, the Fitbit Charge 2 does what many other activity trackers do. It’s a Charge HR on steroids, a Charge HR that pushes you to do more beyond just basic step-counting and sleep-tracking.īut it didn’t fulfill that promise for me. The promise is great, The reality is different Fitbit has also added "connected GPS" to the Charge 2: the wristband will pull GPS data from the phone while you’re walking, running, or hiking outdoors. But this key design change enables a multi-sport mode: tap on the display once for running, tap on it again for biking, and so on. The Charge 2 most definitely looks like a fitness tracker, not a bracelet or anything suggestive of a "fashion" wearable. What more could it possibly do, you ask? For one, it has a bigger display than the Charge HR.
