Fitbit Inspire HR Health & Fitness Tracker with Auto-Exercise Recognition, 5 Day Battery, Sleep & Swim Tracking, Black

I was rather sceptical about these fitness trackers for some time but over the last couple of years have really found them to be an excellent motivator and thus, a useful thing in life.My first type was the Samsung smart watch which, I liked a lot until an upgrade somehow screwed up some of the functions. After that I realised that I had not been wearing my far more expensive watch which simply sat in a draw in my bedroom so instead decided to buy a smaller fitness tracker and use my real watch for it's intended purpose not as a bedroom ornament.So, I've had a couple of these things and now this Fitbit which, is by far the best I've had.Firstly, it's small so can be worn on my right wrist - I'm right handed - whilst my traditional watch is on my left and not look like Del Boy trying to flog a Chineseium knock off in the market.It has all the functions I want plus a few I don't use. My requirement is heart rate and steps both of which are remarkably accurate.I've checked the distance and steps against my wife's tracker and against Google maps and it's remarkably close to actual distance and steps.Heart rate compares favourably with my Omron BPM reading so pretty good.There are other functions of course such as time, sleep etc. Nice to haves but not my primary focus.The App is intuitive, easy to install and works flawlessly. It gives my more information than I need and asks for more than I can be bothered to input such as water consumption. I mean, who goes to those lengths? I was a marine engineer on a steam ship where the temperatures were often in the upper 50's C and we didn't worry about water consumption. We got thirsty and we drank until not thirsty.The App has a premium section which is behind a paywall. I'm a bit suspicious of that because once you get tied into something ending up wit a regular payment can be incrementally sneaked in. If that happens I'll be off to another fitness tracker.What else. Oh yes. You get two straps with this, small and large. The small one works for my petite 5'2" wife and the larger is great for me and I have large wrists thanks to many years in a ships engineroom and also working out in gyms.Power is good for at least five days. I reckon I've gone nearly seven days before it died so keeping it charged is not a problem. Apart from the actual charger that is.The charging USB cable is pants. It's the one downside of this tracker because it's not a hard fix onto the charging points and the cable tends to catch the strap and not sit securely. I ended up buying a 3rd party charger with a stand which, is far better. See the link.https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07QL1B4SH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1Overall a great fitness tracker and if you want a smaller one so you can still use your normal watch then this would be a good option.

Got the Inspire HR 7 days ago. Charged it to about 80%, today it was at 17% charge. Chargin to full took less than 2 hours.I got it to track my heart rate while swimming, walking, and cycling, and it does that just fine. The app will record a GPS trail with the heart beat and sync it to Strava, which works well (but I had to learn to make sure the device is connected when starting the exercise). The calorie count it shows seems to be relatively accurate; it is certainly in line with my expectations (people sometimes seem to expect it to track only additional calories burned during exercise, which makes them think it's off by an order of magnitude). I haven't been able to test it while swimming yet.Most watches annoy me with the sensation of having them on my wrist. This one is an exception, because it is nice and small (much thinner than a "normal" men's watch). The plasticky-feeling wrist band is not great but good enough. I find that I use it to check the time, now, which is much less distracting than looking at my phone.I love how it doesn't come with a charger; Nobody needs an additional wall plug to USB adapter in 2020. I charge mine on my laptop.The bit reminds me every now and then to get up and move a little, which is a nice gimmick (and can be switched off).It was not super intuitive to set the clock to 24-hour display (hint: it's not on the device or in the app, but on the web site), and during walks it displays my progress in some archaic unit that I don't understand (is it feet?), and there seems to be no setting for that. Doesn't matter — the app can be set to use metric.Haven't used the sleep tracking functionality.

This has been a decent upgrade from the Fitbit One. Only reason for upgrading was to get a Fitbit that tracked sleep better, had a heart rate monitor, and that I could swim with. So far so good. Its one of the smaller wrist worn fitbits and I like that I’m wearing something that feels quite unobtrusive. Also that I can swap straps (bought separately) to suit the occasion.The sleep tracking better than on the Fitbit One, is fairly accurate, and useful though has its limits; it isn’t sensitive enough to mark each waking period as a true waking period unless I get out of bed for example. This isn’t a deal breaker just irritating when I get a good sleep score but know that I slept terribly.The step count was way off initially. I wear on my non dominant wrist, on the the non dominant setting, but it was over counting steps and counting just about every action I did with that arm as a step too. To balance this out I’m still wearing on my non dominant wrist and have reduced the sensitivity by putting it on the dominant setting. Since that change the step count is a lot more accurate and comparable to the Fitbit One.Automatic exercise recognition is also taking some tweaking as sometimes it detects car journeys as cycling, but it is just a case tweaking settings. Over all I’m very happy with the purchase and hope over time it serves me as well as the Fitbit One did.Update: original review was written in March, 2 months later there are some additional things to note.The sleep tracking whilst interesting hasn’t been as insightful as I hoped. It can easily be fooled into logging light sleep and REM just by lying still and then being a bit restless. For anyone with insomnia or insomniac tendencies who has learnt to employ relaxation techniques to aid sleep, even if sleep doesn’t come, the sleep score in particular is going grate. Of course the sleep tracking tech in a device like this is always going to be limited and It may be useful for vast swathes of the population who do not have any kind of sleep dysfunction but for those of us who do, and have spent years learning to adapt, the technology in the Fitbit Inspire is going to fall way short of what you’ll probably find useful, unless you like the extra validation that you’re nailing those relaxation techniques.Secondly, the screen is very easily scratched. It’s nowhere near as robust as the Fitbit One. My Fitbit One was put through it’s paces, and it still looks great. My inspire already looks very tired. Going on the experience of my One I never considered for a second screen protectors for Fitbits were necessary or even a thing. My mistake as the Inspire definitely needs one - if you’re ordering the Inspire, order a screen protector suitable to your needs at the same time.