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The Good The Charge 3 is affordable, lasts a solid week on a charge and can be worn while swimming. It has a larger touchscreen and added features include app notifications, weather, stopwatch and timers. Works with iOS and Android.The Bad Limited watch faces, and you can't get new ones or apps like the Fitbit Versa can. Single haptic pressure-sensitive side button isn't customizable to start workouts. No music storage or remote playback. No GPS (but syncs with a phone's GPS to record runs).The Bottom Line Fitbit's improved general-fitness tracker does just about everything well, and covers most everyday needs, including phone notifications. But the Fitbit Versa offers just a bit more.
View full gallerySarah Tew/CNETThe Charge 3's price is reasonable ($150), and its feature set is nearly complete. It gives you heart rate, sleep tracking, 50 meter swim water resistance, a larger display with phone notifications, plus weather, timer and stopwatch apps and optional NFC payments in a special edition. It also lasts about seven days on a charge. I still think the, Fitbit's more watch-like fitness tracker, is a better bet for its fun watch faces and music capabilities plus its extra-customizable physical buttons, and it's being offered on sale this holiday at.While the Charge 3 is super functional, its missing features include:. No onboard GPS (it tracks using your phone's GPS). No music storage or remote music controls.
Weather 45 Checktheweather 45 Addorremoveacity 46 Update,Restart,andErase 47 RestartCharge3 47 EraseCharge3 47 UpdateCharge3 48 Troubleshooting 49 Heart-ratesignalmissing 49 GPSsignalmissing 49 Otherissues 50 GeneralInfoandSpecifications 51. Fitbit Charge 3 User Manual. Fitbit Charge 3 or Charge 2: Battery life and water resistance. Battery life is always a compromise between size, screen resolution and more.
No app store. No watch face storeIt comes down to this: If you're looking for an everyday fitness tracker that has app notifications and just a bit of smartwatch-ness, the Fitbit Charge 3 is a pretty great pick. It's similar to what other manufacturers are making in fitness bands, and a close match would be the, which adds a new pulse oxygen-detecting heart rate sensor that promises similar advantages now to what Fitbit is claiming it will unlock in its improved Charge 3 heart-rate sensor down the road. But the Fitbit Versa still is worth the upgrade for its large collection of watch faces and apps, bigger color display, sideloadable music storage, and extra physical buttons.
(For a comparison between Versa and Charge 3,.). View full galleryThe Fitbit Versa on the left. The Fitbit Charge 3 on the right.Sarah Tew/CNETDesign: A perfectly fine trackerThe Charge 3's grayscale touchscreen OLED is larger than the previous.
It fits time, steps, and heart rate into most of the selectable watch faces. It's easy to glance at, and swiping up the screen shows other daily fitness goals and stats (stand hours, sleep, distance, stairs climbed and active minutes), while a swipe-down shows notifications. Fitbit's app allows discrete control of individual app notifications, too. It's also an easy tracker to wear, although not all the bands felt super comfortable. I preferred the black silicone band included in-box, while the woven nylon and perforated sport bands felt a little less cozy on my wrist.
All the bands, however, are easy to snap on and off with a simple release mechanism on the back. Charge 3 straps use specific proprietary connections, but aren't as difficult to attach as the Versa's straps were.Setting up the Charge 3 on an iPhone X and XS was occasionally challenging when pairing didn't seem to work. But I got it to work after a few tries and everything's been fine since.