Debating on Fitbit purchase...

I have the Charge HR, as does my partner. I love it. And despite all the people who say the hr isn't accurate, I have not found that to be the case at all. As long as it's worn correctly, I find it accurate to less than 5 beats per minute.

Battery life isn't great, but I find if I charge it during my shower daily, I never have to worry about it dying on me as it never drops below medium.

I had a BLACK FitBit Charge HR but broke the band...I learned the band is not replaceable like other HR wrist products. I climb stairflights & got upto 50 daily (too high to keep count) and this model of FItBit tracks STAIR FLIGHTS climbed AND sleep data. I considered another FItBit product or other HR wrist productd out on the market which also tracked heart rate. I didn't REALLY want to learn another gadget and really loved usuage of info captured & stored. Although I researched alternatives, I chose to get another FitBit Charge HR--this time in NAVY BLUE! I have noticed outside in sunlight I can read this one with a blue print on black screen, whereas I could NOT read the white print on black screen of the BLACK model out in sunlight.

Good luck with YOUR selection & purchase!

My husband and I both have the Charge HR we love them! I almost feel naked without it anymore. He insisted that he didn't want one but I got him one for an early father's day gift and he's hooked now! It's a fun little tool! We're even going to get my girls each a flex so we can have competitions seeing who gets the most steps lol.

I recommend getting a FitBit that isn't a Charge. The bands aren't replaceable, but come apart easily. I went through four of them (always replaced for free by the company) before switching to the FitBit Alta. The Alta doesn't track flights of stairs or heart rate, but it's perfect for what I need.

My husband and i both just got the Samsung Gear 2 and we both are loving them. They track your heart rate, estimate your calories based off of your entered height and weight along with your activity level that it tracks. I love it because it holds music and tracks my runs via gps, pace, and distance. I just take my watch and my wireless headphones and I am good to go run! It tracks a ton of different workouts, and seems really accurate. I can also get text messages, calls, emails, and notifications on the watch.

The S Health platform is awesome as well.

I would decide what is most important to you in a activity tracker and then decide which type of product will work best for you.

I bought a fitbit charge hr 3 weeks ago. It has far exceeded my expectations - it is great. Accurate heart rate, tracking steps. Buying one has made me realize that I am much more active than I thought, therefore I needed to actually eat more to lose weight. And its working! It comes into its own for step counting and cardio workouts.

I've had several Fitbit devices as well as a slew of other Garmin, Polar and Motorola. The last round with Fitbit wasn't so positive. I was an early adopter of the Surge and long story short I was one of the people that it did not work for. HR was completely inaccurate and that was the one feature I really wanted. The biggest thing was the daily calorie burns were way off for me, sometimes up to 4000 calories in a day. Now, as mentioned above, if it was inaccurate in repeatable ways I could have made it work, but again, for me it didn't work.

Anyway, my wife and I both had the Force and it worked perfectly for the tracking it did and the calorie tracking was dang near spot on. Wish i would have kept it during the recall, but I selfishly took the guaranteed upgrade to the Surge.

I will say, in all the work I did with Fitbit and their customer service, they were good about trying to address my issues and finally doing a return when things did not work out.

Anyway, any questions drop me a PM.

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I started with a fitbit flex but after a year upgraded to a fitbit blaze. It does everything I need and looks pretty good to. One thing that I have to say that I dislike about all fitbits, and this could also be true for many of their competitors products is that you have to have a data connection in order for them to sync to the app. The memory will hold up to 30 days worth of data if you have no connection I still thinks that it sucks. It should be able to sync locally to your phone and then upload and sync to the servers when you have an available data connection. That said I still wouldn't be without it. Just something to bare in mind :-)

https://youtube.com/user/OnwardAthletic
This guy has done lots of product reviews on various HRMs...he goes over both the hardware & software of each. I would recommend going through some of these to make your decision.

I recommend getting a Blaze over the HR. Maybe I'm biased but my Charge HR crapped out on me not even having it a month in. I've also read that the HR has the most issues. My Blaze has been nothing but awesome and I've had it for almost 4 months now!

I don't have one but I'm looking at the blaze. The bands are replaceable which also means different materials (surge can get itchy or cause irritation some reviews say due to the unchangeable band). I also wanted the HR monitor and I hear it's fairly accurate when put to the test against HR monitors. It's not waterproof but my Polar t7 will fit the bill for that when I eventually start swimming. I really had wanted he surge for the independent GPS without a phone since I'm a hiker but it's very glitchy while the blaze GPS with your phone tagging along is much more reliable from reviews. However I'm often in areas where I have no service let alone 4g so I figure this is a feature I'll need a better GPS tracker for. Blaze also offers a nice color screen despite being referred to as "clunky" in reviews. I wanted a watch that would display what going on with easy color visuals (I like fun graphics and colors). I looked at Apple Watch but without sleep monitoring and at nearly double it just worth it to me despite all the do-dads since sleep monitoring is important as I suffer from frequent bouts of insomnia.

Good luck on finding your match!