Comprehensive Review of Fitbit Charge 6

This is the brand new Fitbit Charge 6. I've been using it for the last little while, putting it through its paces to see how well it works. with it are a host of new features some of them more sporty and some of them more just day-to-day usefulness in this review i'm going to walk through all those new features step by step telling you how well they actually work in real life after that we're going to dive through the user interface and show you all the basics from like a daily tracking standpoint as well as a sports standpoint and then from there we're going to dive into accuracy so don't skip that section because that's actually pretty important in the grand scheme of things and then finally some final recommendations with that let's just get started in all of the newness the very first thing to know is that of course the price 159 bucks but the actual first thing to know is there's a new button in town or well the button's back in town the button on the left hand side there in the previous edition they went to like a touch button that didn't actually exist now it's a physical button that you can press which i know sounds silly but it's so nice to have a physical button back there it just makes it a lot easier the next thing to note is the addition of a new heart rate sensor a fitbit claims that this new heart rate sensor is significantly more accurate than the previous one primarily in workouts now we're going to talk about that a little bit later on one of the things that fitbit said though is they took a lot of the algorithms the machine learning the ai they call the ai i'd say it's more machine learning from the google pixel watch one and pulled it into this unit here now they are separate sensors this is a google pixel watch 2 right here but the sensor on this just simply would not physically fit into the band on the fitbit charge 6 so we are seeing some differences there now with that new sensor they are bringing heart rate broadcasting that means that you can go ahead and pair your heart rate to other third-party apps and devices so something like the peloton bike now using the feature is pretty darn easy you're going to swipe down from the top there and choose heart rate on equipment tap that and it starts broadcasting meanwhile over on the app or device that you want to pair to you're going to see the charge 6 you'll tap that and then back on the watch you'll confirm that so basically like an authentication of sorts permission if you will and then you'll see the heart rate on your screen that all works great the one caveat is sometimes that whole like confirmation process gets confused and trips over itself and you have to do it a couple times that was my experience anyways on the peloton bike but once it's locked it's good and perhaps that's something they'll sort out over time to make it a little more seamless now after recording the video i found a couple more scenarios where things started to fall apart a bit one of them is applications that don't support encryption in fact virtually no applications actually support encryption of your heart rate data unfortunately fitbit has decided to encrypt the heart rate data broadcasted office which is not something that's normal in the industry unless you're going to find a lot of scenarios where it won't work Here on Zwift on Apple TV, it does work, but it fails a few times, then it finally does work. But on my phone, as well as other bike computers and stuff like that, it simply doesn't work, because it's not designed to work with encryption, because again, nobody actually uses it. Hopefully that's something they'll remove, because it's simply not needed. It's not a feature anyone has asked for, and instead it just breaks the heart rate broadcasting on most devices. Now the next new item is the addition of 20 new sport modes, but that's actually not the important part. The 20 new sport modes are great and all that fun stuff, bringing it up to about 40 new sport modes, that basically are just a bunch of new features. The big tick item here is the fact that you can now see all of those sport modes on the watch without having to define what six that you wanted. On the Fitbit Charge 5, you had to say, these are the six sport modes that I want. And if you wanted more than that, you had to go to the phone and set it. It was just a complete mess and really unnecessary. Now, you can just simply swipe through the list until you find the sport mode you want and then do the sport you want. It's just simple and functional. And hey, just a quick note before the next item. If you are finding this video interesting and useful, if you could just whack the like or subscribe button. It really does help with this video and the channel quite a bit. Next, there's the new YouTube Music Controls. Now, the way this works is it controls music on your phone on the YouTube Music app. It does not matter whether you have iOS, so basically an iPhone or Android. It works equally on both of them. In fact, that's true for every feature here. It works just fine. This is, in fact, an iPhone that I'm using to keep my notes and what's straight. You can swipe over on the Charge 6 to the YouTube Music Control panel, and then swipe down to access your playlist. You can then play whatever music you want. Of course, it's still playing back on headphones or on your phone, depending on how you configure it. there's no direct connection between the charge 6 and bluetooth audio devices it's just simply doing the thing from your phone and controlling your phone after that we've got another google feature which is google maps so this is google maps turn by turn integration again the same process to go ahead and authenticate to the google maps app on your phone whether again be ios or android and once you've got all of that stuff sorted out it'll show you those churn prompts automatically on the band so whether you're driving or walking whatever the case is you'll immediately start getting those turn by turn notifications on the charge 6 from the google maps app you can pause that if you want to and it basically just shows you each turn successively as you go through them and what you should be doing go left right etc for most people while they're driving it's probably really not that useful but if you're walking it's nice to have your phone in your pocket and just see the directions uh turn by turn after that there is the third app in the trifecta of google and fitbit integration now it's very clear these two teams these two portions of the company are actually talking to each other and you're seeing all these google and fitbit services including Google wall integration again no requirement for Android phone or anything like that the way it works here is you go ahead and you once again authenticate a bunch of time there's actually way more prompts this time around you're going to agree like 90 five times once you've got all that set you'll be able to access your google wallet google wallet is different than google pay just to be clear google wall is a thing tied to your google account on the interwebs that has credit cards pre-loaded into it so i had four different credit cards there i then chose one of those credit cards to add to this you can choose more i just chose one and then you can basically just tap to pay with things it's again relatively straightforward once you get it set up and go through all those i agree type prompts next new feature is the new zoom magnifier This allows you to simply tap the screen three times, and it'll go zoom in. It's really straightforward here. It's an accessibility feature. You do have to enable that first in the settings, so you swipe down, you can enable in the display settings there. And then again, that just simply tap three times, zoom in, and you're good to go. Now the last housekeeping item before we get into the user interface portions is the battery life, which is claimed at seven days. Generally speaking, Fitbit's pretty good at their battery life claims, being relatively conservative. And so far, I think we're trending about right. I've had a couple weird quirks with charging. in like the lower levels where it shows a whole bunch of random numbers like just in a couple second span but that setting that aside once i get it fully charged it does seem to be chugging along just fine also of note is that you do have to convert your fitbit account to a google account google's been warning about this for like two years now and the time has finally come if you want to use either the charge 6 or the pixel watch 2 both of those watches require a google account the conversion process is trivial just a couple taps and boom your fitbit account becomes a google account There's a whole bunch of rules they agreed to with the EU and others around that and what they do with your data and all that kind of stuff. You can read about it on the interwebs. The point of the matter is that you do have to convert your account over if you want to use this. Okay, so this is the main watch face. You can customize this if you want to, choose different ones. If you swipe down from the top, you'll access the controls menu. This is where you'll see the Google Wallet option there. You'll see Do Not Disturb mode, there's Sleep mode, basically turn the display off at night, and the heart rate on equipment that I mentioned earlier on for broadcasting a heart rate. Keep on swiping up, you've got screen wake to auto, or you can turn it to manual if you want to. Define phone option will basically buzz your phone. And then to keep on going, water lock if you're going to go swimming, or settings to dive into display settings, quiet modes, heart rate, and so on. Kind of all the settings bits that you mentioned, or would expect, sorry, as well as the magnify that I talked about earlier on for going in and triple tapping to magnify things. You saw me just swipe from the left there to kind of back out again, and then I can swipe up from the bottom to access my dashboard. This is basically showing my steps today. So, uh 7 800 steps today 3.74 miles i also had a swim in there but this does not track open water swims so i didn't wear it on the swim and i used another watch instead for tracking that if i were to swipe up there i'll see my hourly activity so six out of 14 hours uh it wasn't a wasn't a strong day because i did have that swim in there i didn't take it with me for a couple hours on that and then i've got my heart rate so right now 76 beats per minute i got my sleep last night had a very late night uh flight arrival in a very early morning so not a great night of sleep in fact Fitbit agrees with that saying my sleep score is 54. I would agree with that 57. Sorry, I would agree with that as well. My sleep, my I'm hurting today. So anyways, readiness score, this is the daily readiness score. This is one component part of the Fitbit premium. And here, I would say that's one that's probably accurate to it's about how I'm feeling right now. Then you got your SPO2 score, your blood oxygenation score 96%. And then my exercise for the week. Today is only Tuesday. So basically just one of those five days so far. Now, If I were to swipe back up the top here to get back to that watch face, you don't have to, but you can just swipe to the right. You'll see the notifications. I can then swipe up here. You can see my wife just saying she's no worries. She's walking over this way. And then swiping again, this is the exercise modes. Now, I can swipe up to change the different modes. I go to more and you can see all those 39 different sport modes right there. Again, you can find a whole list of these on Fitbit's site. But if I go back here, you can see the last one I used was run. When I tap that, you'll see it's then going to try to find GPS. GPS connecting. and you'll see that top little status icon right there and that's the basically the gps lock once it finds it as well as i can swipe up here to set a goal and i keep them going to set laps if i want to i can turn heart rate zone notifications on gps on run detect on auto pause auto stop always on display on i prefer that when i'm running so it's just always on all the time and then once i'm ready to go here once it's found gps and it hasn't not found it yet because it hasn't locked on i would just simply tap the start button there and i would start to see the timer there I can tap this middle option to change the different basically main data fields. So, pace average, there you can see GPS just connected, but then it lost it again. Again, the problem here is that this band is not super great when it comes to GPS, despite me just sitting here doing nothing. Anyways, tap through these here. These are the different main basically pages that you can configure to see it in the workout. Again, you're not going to have a ton of customization on this. You can customize a little bit of this, but there's not a ton because of the fact that this isn't really designed to be a sports watch, but more just kind of a daily activity tracker. Now once you're done with your activity, you tap pause there, and then you tap finish at the end, and you'll get a bit of a summary here. Here's a different summary from one of my runs I did, so you can see what that looks like for a normal activity. Now swiping back out of this, go to the right here, you can see you can set alarms if you want to, you can set timer. This is an EDA scan. So basically you sit there for three minutes and it tells you how stressed out you are. You can see a little bit of a video of me doing this back a couple days ago. Again, the same functionality I've had in the past. And the idea here is that you can basically do breathing exercises or other things or track that stress over time and try to aim to reduce that particular stress. Now, swiping to the right, you've got the ECG functionality. In this case, you would put the watch on your wrist, as you see right here, and then you basically go ahead and touch the sides to do that ECG. This takes about 30 seconds. And then when you're done, you get a report saying whether or not you had a normal or abnormal sinus rhythm, as well as a report you can access from the Fitbit app. Swiping out again, you have the Google Maps integration that I talked about earlier. And again, the YouTube music integration that I talked about earlier. And then finally, you're back to the watch homepage there. So with the hands-on section covered, let's talk about accuracy. There's basically three components to accuracy, or three core components anyways. There is sleep tracking accuracy, there's heart rate accuracy, and there is GPS accuracy. starting off with sleep tracking accuracy that's kind of the easy one in my mind i mostly focus on what time i went to sleep and what time i woke up did it get those two things correct uh in my testing yeah i nailed all those no problem at all uh the second portion of the sleep piece is whether or not get sleep stages or phases correct frankly i don't put trust in any wearable to do that correctly so i'm not going to judge that because also the technology to judge that from an accuracy standpoint it's only like 80 or so percent accurate so that seems like you're comparing apples with pears so we're just going to throw that into the dumpster over there and move on to the next thing which is heart rate accuracy because that is easy to validate this area Fitbit talked a lot about their improvements with the new sensor as well as the algorithm and I saw that in my testing for example if you look at a couple of these indoor interval workouts these tracked very well with both the heart rate strap as well as even the pixel watch there and other heart rate sensors I had and then if we move outdoors for some outdoor interval workouts which are one of the more challenging things for optical sensors it was generally pretty good a little bit of lag though in a couple cases for some of the really hard sprints if it was a more subtle sprint it wasn't too bad but the really hard sprints it was a bit more challenging now the third piece is gps accuracy and this is where things are not not so awesome so one of the big challenges with the charge 5 if i throw my phone out of the way here was the band design so the charge 5 the antenna is basically along the underside of the band right there so when you had it on in a snug way which is the way you normally want for good heart rate accuracy it would kill your gps and fitbit basically straight up admitted this in the various calls i had and that was just a design limitation of the band a pretty poor one if you're asking me that you can't use gps with heart rate but that's was that so i was hoping in the charge six that might be fixed and when i asked them about this they said it would be unfortunately relatively similar to the charge five however there was the new heart rate algorithm so in theory you could loosen a bit more and the heart rate algorithms might be able to compensate for that um no that didn't that didn't work at all so a couple different scenarios here i went out and i tested things At first I went out for a run where I had it the normal snugness level, which is basically two right there This is normal workout snugness again You want it snug for accuracy from a heart rate standpoint? When I did that it would rarely get GPS at all and when it did it will lose it almost immediately So then I moved it to the next setting which is the very last setting on this particular band size and you can see it's Pretty floppy and there's a hole I can see through the hole and I can see you in the camera That's a horrible setting for heart rate accuracy. If I did that it mostly stayed connected, but not always so now you can still use your phone if you want to if i hadn't thrown on the ground there you can use your phone as gps instead for outdoor workouts and if you do that in combination with snugging up the snugging up snuggling up making the band tighter then you're basically fine then you've got perfectly functional heart rate accuracy for this type of device as well as decent gps accuracy so just keep that in mind i've got a whole bunch more of those gps data sets if you want in my written review that's linked down below in the doohickey there where i go into that in much more painful detail so where do we stand overall on the charge 6. well here's the thing from like an overall feature standpoint they added a ton of new features i think if you've got like a charge anything through charge 4 in that case it's a pretty clear major upgrade especially with the newer display coming from the charge 5 which is also here on the charge 6 and all the new features that are part of this from a youtube and google etc standpoint if you're coming from a charge 5 then you're probably asking yourself do you want those three core integrations around google so google maps google wallet as well as Google Music, as well as perhaps the heart rate broadcasting. Those are, I think, in my mind, the really big ticket items. But there are, of course, all those additional sport modes and stuff like that. Still, for $159, this is a pretty good deal, especially for something that lasts seven days per charge. That's, you know, generally not the case for most of the AMOLED displays that you see on a lot of the watches, like the Pixel Watch 2 here, which lasts about a day, day and a half, give or take. Anyways, if you found this video interesting and useful, give it a like down the bottom or subscribe for plenty more sports technology goodness, including the Pixel Watch 2 review dropping soonest, like really soon, but, uh, you know, it's pretty nice here, so maybe not exactly soon. With that, have a good one.

Hopefully that's something they'll remove, because it's simply not needed. It's not a feature anyone has asked for, and instead it just breaks the heart rate broadcasting on most devices. Now the next new item is the addition of 20 new sport modes, but that's actually not the important part. The 20 new sport modes are great and all that fun stuff, bringing it up to about 40 new sport modes, that basically are just a bunch of new features. The big tick item here is the fact that you can now see all of those sport modes on the watch without having to define what six that you wanted.

On the Fitbit Charge 5, you had to say, these are the six sport modes that I want. And if you wanted more than that, you had to go to the phone and set it. It was just a complete mess and really unnecessary. Now, you can just simply swipe through the list until you find the sport mode you want and then do the sport you want. It's just simple and functional.

And hey, just a quick note before the next item. If you are finding this video interesting and useful, if you could just whack the like or subscribe button. It really does help with this video and the channel quite a bit.

Next, there's the new YouTube Music Controls. Now, the way this works is it controls music on your phone on the YouTube Music app. It does not matter whether you have iOS, so basically an iPhone or Android. It works equally on both of them. In fact, that's true for every feature here.

It works just fine. This is, in fact, an iPhone that I'm using to keep my notes and what's straight. You can swipe over on the Charge 6 to the YouTube Music Control panel, and then swipe down to access your playlist.

You can then play whatever music you want. Of course, it's still playing back on headphones or on your phone, depending on how you configure it. there's no direct connection between the charge 6 and bluetooth audio devices it's just simply doing the thing from your phone and controlling your phone after that we've got another google feature which is google maps so this is google maps turn by turn integration again the same process to go ahead and authenticate to the google maps app on your phone whether again be ios or android and once you've got all of that stuff sorted out it'll show you those churn prompts automatically on the band so whether you're driving or walking whatever the case is you'll immediately start getting those turn by turn notifications on the charge 6 from the google maps app you can pause that if you want to and it basically just shows you each turn successively as you go through them and what you should be doing go left right etc for most people while they're driving it's probably really not that useful but if you're walking it's nice to have your phone in your pocket and just see the directions uh turn by turn after that there is the third app in the trifecta of google and fitbit integration now it's very clear these two teams these two portions of the company are actually talking to each other and you're seeing all these google and fitbit services including Google wall integration again no requirement for Android phone or anything like that the way it works here is you go ahead and you once again authenticate a bunch of time there's actually way more prompts this time around you're going to agree like 90 five times once you've got all that set you'll be able to access your google wallet google wallet is different than google pay just to be clear google wall is a thing tied to your google account on the interwebs that has credit cards pre-loaded into it so i had four different credit cards there i then chose one of those credit cards to add to this you can choose more i just chose one and then you can basically just tap to pay with things it's again relatively straightforward once you get it set up and go through all those i agree type prompts next new feature is the new zoom magnifier This allows you to simply tap the screen three times, and it'll go zoom in. It's really straightforward here. It's an accessibility feature.

You do have to enable that first in the settings, so you swipe down, you can enable in the display settings there. And then again, that just simply tap three times, zoom in, and you're good to go. Now the last housekeeping item before we get into the user interface portions is the battery life, which is claimed at seven days. Generally speaking, Fitbit's pretty good at their battery life claims, being relatively conservative. And so far, I think we're trending about right.

I've had a couple weird quirks with charging. in like the lower levels where it shows a whole bunch of random numbers like just in a couple second span but that setting that aside once i get it fully charged it does seem to be chugging along just fine also of note is that you do have to convert your fitbit account to a google account google's been warning about this for like two years now and the time has finally come if you want to use either the charge 6 or the pixel watch 2 both of those watches require a google account the conversion process is trivial just a couple taps and boom your fitbit account becomes a google account There's a whole bunch of rules they agreed to with the EU and others around that and what they do with your data and all that kind of stuff. You can read about it on the interwebs. The point of the matter is that you do have to convert your account over if you want to use this. Okay, so this is the main watch face.

You can customize this if you want to, choose different ones. If you swipe down from the top, you'll access the controls menu. This is where you'll see the Google Wallet option there.

You'll see Do Not Disturb mode, there's Sleep mode, basically turn the display off at night, and the heart rate on equipment that I mentioned earlier on for broadcasting a heart rate. Keep on swiping up, you've got screen wake to auto, or you can turn it to manual if you want to. Define phone option will basically buzz your phone.

And then to keep on going, water lock if you're going to go swimming, or settings to dive into display settings, quiet modes, heart rate, and so on. Kind of all the settings bits that you mentioned, or would expect, sorry, as well as the magnify that I talked about earlier on for going in and triple tapping to magnify things. You saw me just swipe from the left there to kind of back out again, and then I can swipe up from the bottom to access my dashboard.

This is basically showing my steps today. So, uh 7 800 steps today 3.74 miles i also had a swim in there but this does not track open water swims so i didn't wear it on the swim and i used another watch instead for tracking that if i were to swipe up there i'll see my hourly activity so six out of 14 hours uh it wasn't a wasn't a strong day because i did have that swim in there i didn't take it with me for a couple hours on that and then i've got my heart rate so right now 76 beats per minute i got my sleep last night had a very late night uh flight arrival in a very early morning so not a great night of sleep in fact Fitbit agrees with that saying my sleep score is 54. I would agree with that 57. Sorry, I would agree with that as well. My sleep, my I'm hurting today.

So anyways, readiness score, this is the daily readiness score. This is one component part of the Fitbit premium. And here, I would say that's one that's probably accurate to it's about how I'm feeling right now. Then you got your SPO2 score, your blood oxygenation score 96%. And then my exercise for the week.

Today is only Tuesday. So basically just one of those five days so far. Now, If I were to swipe back up the top here to get back to that watch face, you don't have to, but you can just swipe to the right. You'll see the notifications.

I can then swipe up here. You can see my wife just saying she's no worries. She's walking over this way. And then swiping again, this is the exercise modes. Now, I can swipe up to change the different modes.

I go to more and you can see all those 39 different sport modes right there. Again, you can find a whole list of these on Fitbit's site. But if I go back here, you can see the last one I used was run. When I tap that, you'll see it's then going to try to find GPS. GPS connecting.

and you'll see that top little status icon right there and that's the basically the gps lock once it finds it as well as i can swipe up here to set a goal and i keep them going to set laps if i want to i can turn heart rate zone notifications on gps on run detect on auto pause auto stop always on display on i prefer that when i'm running so it's just always on all the time and then once i'm ready to go here once it's found gps and it hasn't not found it yet because it hasn't locked on i would just simply tap the start button there and i would start to see the timer there I can tap this middle option to change the different basically main data fields. So, pace average, there you can see GPS just connected, but then it lost it again. Again, the problem here is that this band is not super great when it comes to GPS, despite me just sitting here doing nothing.

Anyways, tap through these here. These are the different main basically pages that you can configure to see it in the workout. Again, you're not going to have a ton of customization on this.

You can customize a little bit of this, but there's not a ton because of the fact that this isn't really designed to be a sports watch, but more just kind of a daily activity tracker. Now once you're done with your activity, you tap pause there, and then you tap finish at the end, and you'll get a bit of a summary here. Here's a different summary from one of my runs I did, so you can see what that looks like for a normal activity. Now swiping back out of this, go to the right here, you can see you can set alarms if you want to, you can set timer. This is an EDA scan.

So basically you sit there for three minutes and it tells you how stressed out you are. You can see a little bit of a video of me doing this back a couple days ago. Again, the same functionality I've had in the past.

And the idea here is that you can basically do breathing exercises or other things or track that stress over time and try to aim to reduce that particular stress. Now, swiping to the right, you've got the ECG functionality. In this case, you would put the watch on your wrist, as you see right here, and then you basically go ahead and touch the sides to do that ECG.

This takes about 30 seconds. And then when you're done, you get a report saying whether or not you had a normal or abnormal sinus rhythm, as well as a report you can access from the Fitbit app. Swiping out again, you have the Google Maps integration that I talked about earlier. And again, the YouTube music integration that I talked about earlier.

And then finally, you're back to the watch homepage there. So with the hands-on section covered, let's talk about accuracy. There's basically three components to accuracy, or three core components anyways. There is sleep tracking accuracy, there's heart rate accuracy, and there is GPS accuracy. starting off with sleep tracking accuracy that's kind of the easy one in my mind i mostly focus on what time i went to sleep and what time i woke up did it get those two things correct uh in my testing yeah i nailed all those no problem at all uh the second portion of the sleep piece is whether or not get sleep stages or phases correct frankly i don't put trust in any wearable to do that correctly so i'm not going to judge that because also the technology to judge that from an accuracy standpoint it's only like 80 or so percent accurate so that seems like you're comparing apples with pears so we're just going to throw that into the dumpster over there and move on to the next thing which is heart rate accuracy because that is easy to validate this area Fitbit talked a lot about their improvements with the new sensor as well as the algorithm and I saw that in my testing for example if you look at a couple of these indoor interval workouts these tracked very well with both the heart rate strap as well as even the pixel watch there and other heart rate sensors I had and then if we move outdoors for some outdoor interval workouts which are one of the more challenging things for optical sensors it was generally pretty good a little bit of lag though in a couple cases for some of the really hard sprints if it was a more subtle sprint it wasn't too bad but the really hard sprints it was a bit more challenging now the third piece is gps accuracy and this is where things are not not so awesome so one of the big challenges with the charge 5 if i throw my phone out of the way here was the band design so the charge 5 the antenna is basically along the underside of the band right there so when you had it on in a snug way which is the way you normally want for good heart rate accuracy it would kill your gps and fitbit basically straight up admitted this in the various calls i had and that was just a design limitation of the band a pretty poor one if you're asking me that you can't use gps with heart rate but that's was that so i was hoping in the charge six that might be fixed and when i asked them about this they said it would be unfortunately relatively similar to the charge five however there was the new heart rate algorithm so in theory you could loosen a bit more and the heart rate algorithms might be able to compensate for that um no that didn't that didn't work at all so a couple different scenarios here i went out and i tested things At first I went out for a run where I had it the normal snugness level, which is basically two right there This is normal workout snugness again You want it snug for accuracy from a heart rate standpoint?

When I did that it would rarely get GPS at all and when it did it will lose it almost immediately So then I moved it to the next setting which is the very last setting on this particular band size and you can see it's Pretty floppy and there's a hole I can see through the hole and I can see you in the camera That's a horrible setting for heart rate accuracy. If I did that it mostly stayed connected, but not always so now you can still use your phone if you want to if i hadn't thrown on the ground there you can use your phone as gps instead for outdoor workouts and if you do that in combination with snugging up the snugging up snuggling up making the band tighter then you're basically fine then you've got perfectly functional heart rate accuracy for this type of device as well as decent gps accuracy so just keep that in mind i've got a whole bunch more of those gps data sets if you want in my written review that's linked down below in the doohickey there where i go into that in much more painful detail so where do we stand overall on the charge 6. well here's the thing from like an overall feature standpoint they added a ton of new features i think if you've got like a charge anything through charge 4 in that case it's a pretty clear major upgrade especially with the newer display coming from the charge 5 which is also here on the charge 6 and all the new features that are part of this from a youtube and google etc standpoint if you're coming from a charge 5 then you're probably asking yourself do you want those three core integrations around google so google maps google wallet as well as Google Music, as well as perhaps the heart rate broadcasting. Those are, I think, in my mind, the really big ticket items. But there are, of course, all those additional sport modes and stuff like that.

Still, for $159, this is a pretty good deal, especially for something that lasts seven days per charge. That's, you know, generally not the case for most of the AMOLED displays that you see on a lot of the watches, like the Pixel Watch 2 here, which lasts about a day, day and a half, give or take. Anyways, if you found this video interesting and useful, give it a like down the bottom or subscribe for plenty more sports technology goodness, including the Pixel Watch 2 review dropping soonest, like really soon, but, uh, you know, it's pretty nice here, so maybe not exactly soon.

With that, have a good one.

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Comprehensive Review of Fitbit Charge 6