Swiping up from the home screen brings up what Fitbit calls "Today" - a dashboard of your progress towards step, calorie and distance goals, in addition to other data like where you are on your menstrual cycle (assuming you have one). What's clearly more useful is the touchscreen and the interactions it enables. Without having tried it out myself in the real world, though, I don't know how useful this is just yet. It's meant to make your workouts feel more personal. I launched a bike session, for example, and could choose to set 20 minutes, 10 miles or 300 calories as my goal. Not much has changed here except that when you launch a new workout session, you can now set a goal for things like calorie burn, distance or time. Just like the rest of the activity modes, you can see data like elapsed time, number of reps or laps and your heart rate on the screen.
Using Swim mode does a number of different things, including turning off the heart-rate monitor since it doesn't work underwater. Thanks to its water resistance (up to 50 meters), the Charge 3 can track your laps at the pool. The company said it would work with wet fingers too, so you can use it at the pool or even after a super sweaty session.īy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy. It's a little pressure-sensitive notch on the edge that you press to go back a page, and the vibration in response makes it feel more realistic. In addition to the proper OLED touchscreen, the Charge 3 has a new inductive "button" on the left of its face, instead of a physical one to help with water-resistance. Besides, for the audience that Fitbit has in mind, it's not a major omission. Sure, it would have been nice to have built-in GPS, but that would have led to a larger, more expensive device with worse battery life. But the Charge 3 is also swim-proof, lasts seven days on a charge and is a little more stylish than before. The interactive display allows for more features, like a dashboard when you swipe up on your homescreen, or quick replies to messages from your wrist. The Charge 3 is the first Fitbit tracker (not smartwatch) to get a true touchscreen. It's been two years since the company last updated its Charge tracker, and from my experience with an early unit, it may have been worth the wait. That's why I'm so glad Fitbit added a touchscreen to the Charge 3, which launched today.
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