Fitbit Inspire HR Health & Fitness Tracker with Auto-Exercise Recognition, 5 Day Battery, Sleep & Swim Tracking, Black

I was rather sceptical about these fitness trackers for some time but over the last couple of years have really found them to be an excellent motivator and thus, a useful thing in life. My first type was the Samsung smart watch which, I liked a lot until an upgrade somehow screwed up some of the functions. After that I realised that I had not been wearing my far more expensive watch which simply sat in a draw in my bedroom so instead decided to buy a smaller fitness tracker and use my real watch for it's intended purpose not as a bedroom ornament. So, I've had a couple of these things and now this Fitbit which, is by far the best I've had. Firstly, it's small so can be worn on my right wrist - I'm right handed - whilst my traditional watch is on my left and not look like Del Boy trying to flog a Chineseium knock off in the market. It has all the functions I want plus a few I don't use. My requirement is heart rate and steps both of which are remarkably accurate. I've checked the distance and steps against my wife's tracker and against Google maps and it's remarkably close to actual distance and steps. Heart rate compares favourably with my Omron BPM reading so pretty good. There are other functions of course such as time, sleep etc. Nice to haves but not my primary focus. The App is intuitive, easy to install and works flawlessly. It gives my more information than I need and asks for more than I can be bothered to input such as water consumption. I mean, who goes to those lengths? I was a marine engineer on a steam ship where the temperatures were often in the upper 50's C and we didn't worry about water consumption. We got thirsty and we drank until not thirsty. The App has a premium section which is behind a paywall. I'm a bit suspicious of that because once you get tied into something ending up wit a regular payment can be incrementally sneaked in. If that happens I'll be off to another fitness tracker. What else. Oh yes. You get two straps with this, small and large. The small one works for my petite 5'2" wife and the larger is great for me and I have large wrists thanks to many years in a ships engineroom and also working out in gyms. Power is good for at least five days. I reckon I've gone nearly seven days before it died so keeping it charged is not a problem. Apart from the actual charger that is. The charging USB cable is pants. It's the one downside of this tracker because it's not a hard fix onto the charging points and the cable tends to catch the strap and not sit securely. I ended up buying a 3rd party charger with a stand which, is far better. See the link. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07QL1B4SH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Overall a great fitness tracker and if you want a smaller one so you can still use your normal watch then this would be a good option.

Got the Inspire HR 7 days ago. Charged it to about 80%, today it was at 17% charge. Chargin to full took less than 2 hours. I got it to track my heart rate while swimming, walking, and cycling, and it does that just fine. The app will record a GPS trail with the heart beat and sync it to Strava, which works well (but I had to learn to make sure the device is connected when starting the exercise). The calorie count it shows seems to be relatively accurate; it is certainly in line with my expectations (people sometimes seem to expect it to track only additional calories burned during exercise, which makes them think it's off by an order of magnitude). I haven't been able to test it while swimming yet. Most watches annoy me with the sensation of having them on my wrist. This one is an exception, because it is nice and small (much thinner than a "normal" men's watch). The plasticky-feeling wrist band is not great but good enough. I find that I use it to check the time, now, which is much less distracting than looking at my phone. I love how it doesn't come with a charger; Nobody needs an additional wall plug to USB adapter in 2020. I charge mine on my laptop. The bit reminds me every now and then to get up and move a little, which is a nice gimmick (and can be switched off). It was not super intuitive to set the clock to 24-hour display (hint: it's not on the device or in the app, but on the web site), and during walks it displays my progress in some archaic unit that I don't understand (is it feet?), and there seems to be no setting for that. Doesn't matter — the app can be set to use metric. Haven't used the sleep tracking functionality.

This has been a decent upgrade from the Fitbit One. Only reason for upgrading was to get a Fitbit that tracked sleep better, had a heart rate monitor, and that I could swim with. So far so good. Its one of the smaller wrist worn fitbits and I like that I’m wearing something that feels quite unobtrusive. Also that I can swap straps (bought separately) to suit the occasion. The sleep tracking better than on the Fitbit One, is fairly accurate, and useful though has its limits; it isn’t sensitive enough to mark each waking period as a true waking period unless I get out of bed for example. This isn’t a deal breaker just irritating when I get a good sleep score but know that I slept terribly. The step count was way off initially. I wear on my non dominant wrist, on the the non dominant setting, but it was over counting steps and counting just about every action I did with that arm as a step too. To balance this out I’m still wearing on my non dominant wrist and have reduced the sensitivity by putting it on the dominant setting. Since that change the step count is a lot more accurate and comparable to the Fitbit One. Automatic exercise recognition is also taking some tweaking as sometimes it detects car journeys as cycling, but it is just a case tweaking settings. Over all I’m very happy with the purchase and hope over time it serves me as well as the Fitbit One did. Update: original review was written in March, 2 months later there are some additional things to note. The sleep tracking whilst interesting hasn’t been as insightful as I hoped. It can easily be fooled into logging light sleep and REM just by lying still and then being a bit restless. For anyone with insomnia or insomniac tendencies who has learnt to employ relaxation techniques to aid sleep, even if sleep doesn’t come, the sleep score in particular is going grate. Of course the sleep tracking tech in a device like this is always going to be limited and It may be useful for vast swathes of the population who do not have any kind of sleep dysfunction but for those of us who do, and have spent years learning to adapt, the technology in the Fitbit Inspire is going to fall way short of what you’ll probably find useful, unless you like the extra validation that you’re nailing those relaxation techniques. Secondly, the screen is very easily scratched. It’s nowhere near as robust as the Fitbit One. My Fitbit One was put through it’s paces, and it still looks great. My inspire already looks very tired. Going on the experience of my One I never considered for a second screen protectors for Fitbits were necessary or even a thing. My mistake as the Inspire definitely needs one - if you’re ordering the Inspire, order a screen protector suitable to your needs at the same time.

2 weeks of using this, I have to say I’m loving it. Wore it for my swimming session. It worked! As for battery life, it’s not as bad as what others have commented. I did not turn on the text notification. Only for calls. If they text means it’s not urgent. Well at least that’s my theory. The watch looks great too. The strap is comfortable. Certain material will tend to stick on the strap but u can just wipe it off. I strongly recommend this if you are looking for something less costly yet stylish, reliable and comfortable.

Questo fitness tracker è senza ombra di dubbio un ottimo dispositivo, ma andiamo per steps: - PACKAGE Se devo proprio essere sincero (e pignolo) mi aspettavo una scatola più "professional" invece si presenta a mo' di prodotto da appendere che fa un po' "seconda linea" ma non c'è problema. Sono le mie fisse :) Per il resto tutto ottimo, all'interno troverete: - Orologio con cinturino Small - cinturino Large - carica batteria USB - libretto informativa sicurezza e garanzia Tutto ben curato, Fitbit è una garanzia da questo punto di vista. - CONFIGURAZIONE La prima cosa che faccio è provare ad indossare il tracker senza leggere nulla, e infatti sbaglio, nonostante ci sia il 51% di carica il dispositivo si accende ma non monitora (eh lo so, sono frettoloso). I passi da eseguire per il primo utilizzo sono i seguenti: - Scaricare l'app di Fitbit - Mettere in carica il tracker tramite il carica batteria USB in dotazione - seguire il wizard tramite app di Fitbit che vi indicherà tutti i passaggi step by step Una piccolissimissima nota dolente: durante la configurazione mi è stato richiesto un aggiornamento che è durato quasi 15 minuti, in questo periodo di tempo non potrete andare distanti con il vostro telefono perchè sarà in continuo sincro con il tracker. Dovrete portare pazienza. La nota positiva è che la batteria si carica molto velocemente, a quanto pare, è passato da un 51% al 90% in questo periodo di configurazione cha sarà durato massimo 20min. - UTILIZZO Beh che dire... molto comodo. Grazie alle sue piccole dimensioni quasi non si percepisce nemmeno. Non starò qui a ripetere tutte le funzionalità possibili (sono tutte scritte nella descrizione) ma mi limiterò a dirvi questo: - Rilevatore battito del cuore molto preciso e costante, uno dei motivi principali che mi ha spinto ad acquistare questo prodotto - Contapassi, per ora, fedele a quanto effettivamente fatto (leggo molte recensioni che si lamentano del conteggio durante il sonno, vi saprò dire) - fantastico nel riconoscere l'attività fisica - il conteggio calorie viene stimato sui 15 minuti per ora risulta fedele al mio metabolismo basale - la possibilità di utilizzare il timer a countdown, per quanto sia banale, ma è super (anche se sarei stato un po' preciso con i secondi) - Ho eliminato ogni tipo di notifica extra, ma questa è stata una mia scelta personale (ho già il telefono che "rompe") e se volete un consiglio: toglietele pure voi, no gioverà la durata della batteria - PREZZO Il prezzo è in linea con il prodotto che state acquistando, il rapporto qualità prezzo non si discute. Fitbit, ottimo lavoro!

I only wanted it to track my steps, and it serves that purpose well.

Works well, looks great, light and exactly as advertised. My one real criticism would be that working a desk job where you move your hands a lot (like filing or stapling packages together) does count steps. Make sure you go into the settings and set the watch to your dominant hand so it knows to filter out some of the movements. Or, pick one day you to almost no steps and find out how many steps are counted based on moving your hands around, and then up your daily goals to include that discrepancy. The fitbit app you need to use the fitbit is easy and detailed. And you can get even more detailed activity reports by logging in online. I would recommend to anyone who wants to track their day to day activity. You can set goals and notifications, and quick access options if you tend to run/bike/swim rather than other activities. I would suggest turning of the progress notifications if you're just using it day to day. They can be a little distracting.

Funziona perfettamente per chi fa sport e non solo