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Fitbit Charge 6
Specifications
- Heart rate monitor: Yes
- GPS: Yes
- Water resistance: 50 meters
- Display: 1.04-inch AMOLED touchscreen
- Weight: 1.1 ounces
- On-board music: No
- Mobile payments: Yes
- Sleep tracking: Yes
- Battery life: 7 days
The Fitbit Charge 6 is Fitbit's latest top fitness tracker, replacing the Charge 5. It reintroduces a tactile side button for easier navigation and allows heart rate tracking during workouts with certain gym equipment. It's the first Fitbit to offer Google Maps, YouTube Music, and Google Wallet, requiring users to have a Google Account.
The Charge 6 excels at fitness tracking with built-in GPS for accurate outdoor activity tracking and more sports modes than its predecessor. It's comfortable to wear and easy to read in bright sunlight.
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Fitbit Inspire 3
Specifications
- Heart rate monitor: Yes
- GPS: No
- Water resistance: 50 meters
- Display: 0.7-inch AMOLED
- Weight: 0.62 ounces
- On-board music: No
- Mobile payment: No
- Sleep tracking: Yes
- Battery life: 10 days
The Fitbit Inspire 3 is a top pick for a fitness tracker because it nails the basics: monitoring heart rate, tracking workouts, and analyzing sleep stages. Although it lacks built-in GPS, you can connect it to your phone's GPS for outdoor activities. However, it compensates with features like Fitbit's community challenges for motivation.
It offers Fitbit's Active Zone Minutes, lasts ten days on a single charge, and boasts touch controls. The standout feature is its bright AMOLED screen, available in black with three band color options and two sizes.
While it may not suit everyone, the Inspire 3 is a reliable and affordable choice for fitness tracking.
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Amazfit Band 5
Specifications
- Heart rate monitor: Yes
- GPS: No
- Water resistance: 50 meters
- Display: 1.1-inch AMOLED
- Weight: 0.8 ounces
- Onboard music: No
- Mobile payment: No
- Sleep tracking: Yes
- Battery life: 15 days
The Amazfit Band 5 is a fitness tracker packed with features usually found in pricier smartwatches. It measures SpO2 levels, tracks stress, and alerts you to high heart rates. With built-in Amazon Alexa, sleep tracking, and other handy tools, it's a bargain.
Its fitness and sleep tracking is good, though not exceptional. But considering its low price, it offers more than other similar trackers. Plus, its battery lasts for 15 days, so charging isn't a frequent hassle.
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Fitbit Sense 2
Specifications
- Heart rate monitor: Yes
- GPS: Yes
- Water resistance: 50 meters
- Display: 1.58-inch AMOLED
- Weight: 0.8 ounces
- Onboard music: No
- Mobile payment: Yes
- Sleep tracking: Yes
- Battery Life: 6 days
The Fitbit Sense 2 is Fitbit's top-tier smartwatch, loaded with advanced health and wellness features surpassing their Versa line.
Compared to the original Fitbit Sense, the Sense 2 boasts improved design, interface, and EDA sensor, making it Fitbit's most comprehensive smartwatch. The upgraded stress-detecting EDA sensor, now called cEDA (continuous EDA), is a key improvement. It monitors stress levels or strong reactions throughout the day, prompting users with Body Response notifications to manage their mood.
As a leading fitness tracker, the Sense 2 is compatible with both iOS and Android devices, featuring built-in GPS, an app store, Alexa, and more. Fitbit has evolved beyond step tracking; devices like the Fitbit Sense 2 excel as versatile smartwatches.
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Garmin Forerunner 265
Specifications
- Heart rate monitor: Yes
- GPS: Yes
- Water resistance: 50 meters
- Display: 1.3-inch AMOLED
- Weight: 1.7 ounces
- Onboard music: Yes
- Mobile payment: Yes
- Sleep tracking: Yes
- Battery life: 13 days
This Garmin running watch sits in the mid-range price category and features a bright AMOLED screen that's easy to read, even in bright sunlight.
The Forerunner 265 includes special modes for triathlons and other multisport activities, allowing you to track all your training in one session. It comes in two sizes — 42mm and 46mm. Like other high-end Garmins, you can download training plans onto the watch to improve your running and racing.
Additionally, the Forerunner 265 offers advanced features such as the Morning Report and Training Readiness Score, providing insights into your overall health.
If you're looking to save money, consider the Garmin Forerunner 255. It's similar to the 265 but with a different screen, still offering great value.
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Garmin Venu 3
Specifications
- Heart rate monitor: Yes
- GPS: Yes
- Water resistance: 50 meters
- Display: 1.4-inch AMOLED
- Weight: 1.7 ounces
- Onboard music: Yes
- Mobile payment: Yes
- Sleep tracking: Ye
- sBattery life: 14 days
The Garmin Venu 3 is among the top smartwatches from Garmin right now. It's great for both workouts and style. It offers reliable fitness tracking with accurate GPS, phone notifications, and a voice assistant.
Although Garmin's app store is smaller and they don't yet support LTE, the Venu 3 allows you to make payments and store music offline, freeing you from your phone.
New features include nap tracking and a virtual sleep coach for better rest. It provides daily summaries of your restfulness and offers wellness suggestions. With a 14-day battery life and tracking for various activities, charging is infrequent.
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Samsung Galaxy Watch 6
Specifications
- Heart rate monitor: Yes
- GPS: Yes
- Water resistance: 50 meters
- Display: 1.3-inch AMOLED
- Weight: 1 ounce
- Onboard music: Yes
- Mobile payments: Yes
- Sleep tracking: Yes
- Battery life: 40 hours
Whether you're a Samsung phone user or not, the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 stands out as an impressive fitness tracker and top-notch smartwatch. It places a strong emphasis on something many overlook: sleep.
The watch offers a detailed Sleep Score Factor analysis, considering factors like sleep duration, cycles, wakefulness, and recovery data to gauge sleep quality. It even assigns you an animal based on your sleep habits, with a dedicated watch face for this feature.
In addition to analyzing body composition, measuring SPo2 levels, conducting ECGs, and monitoring heart rate, the Galaxy Watch 6 introduces personalized heart rate zones for workouts and alerts for irregular heart rhythms.
Like the Apple Watch Series 9, the Galaxy Watch 6 features a skin temperature sensor, providing insights into your menstrual cycle, stress levels, and sleep quality.