Fitbit Charge 5 Tracker Design and Features Leaked in New Video

[SFjohn]

Google-owned Fitbit appears to be readying an update to its Charge fitness tracker lineup, based on a leaked video and renders of the wearable shared online.

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With a price tag said to be $179, the Fitbit Charge 5 will be $50 more expensive than the current Charge 4, but there are some obvious hardware changes on the way that have more in common with the Fitbit luxe, not least being a full-color rounded display that traces the curve of the ergonomic wrist strap.

The images suggest the device will have capacitive touch areas on the sides, and according to the leaked video, the Charge 5 will additionally have built-in GPS and ECG sensors, as well as an electrodermal activity (EDA) sensor that claims to track your stress levels.

The EDA sensor plays into the company's Daily Readiness Score, which is a subscriber-only Fitbit Premium feature ($10 per month or $80 per year). The score is based on your exercise history, sleep, and heart rate, and is used to recommend what exercise routine you should undertake each day.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1429512996510912516

Every device purchased comes with a six-month trial of Fitbit Premium, which is clearly competing with Apple Watch and its Apple Fitness+ integration, with guided workouts and programs on offer on top of sleep tools and other health insights.

The Fitbit Charge will be available in at least three colors, and there's no word on the specific release date for the fitness tracker-cum-smartwatch, but Google is likely to place it strategically around the launch of the Apple Watch Series 7 that's expected to be announced in the next month or so.

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That would be a bad time to announce it I think. Apple gets a lot of attention when releasing new hardware. Google hardware could get buried in the Apple releases.

 

[SFjohn]

Fitbits have really good sleep tracking though. Apple Watch is embarrassingly bad.

i have to schedule when I go to sleep? I have to tell it when I’m up? And the sleep tracking itself or borderline useless. “You slept, probably.”
Fitbit shows way more detail and even has a score. It knows when you go to sleep and when you wake up.

i like my Apple Watch, but tempted to get a Fitbit just for Sleep tracking.

My Apple Watch tracks my sleep without any need to start or stop tracking. It even knows when I get up to pee in the middle of the night, and keeps tracking my sleep. It gives me a detailed look at my night, noting my best/longest sleep period. It tells me how many hours of restful sleep I get each night, as well as how much was restless. Now it doesn’t give me a score for the nights, but with so much automatic info I can’t imagine wanting one.

 

[sofila]

We’ve had (and I know directly about others) several Charge 3 and 4 that became unusable due to faulty screen, too dim or directly corrupted. Not worth the price they’re asking for.