This gives you a welcome overview of your workouts, rather like Runkeeper and Strava, mapping your circuit and giving you an at-a-glance view of your pace, heart rate, heart rate zones and calories burned.

Want more data? Then head over to or fire up the app and you’ll get a more complete view of your most recent workouts. At the end of your run, you get a quick onscreen summary detailing the average pace, heart rate and how many metres you’ve climbed. Tap the screen and you can cycle through heart rate, distance, pace, average pace, calories burned and steps, and the time elapsed is displayed just above each. Thankfully, there’s still just the single button – simplicity is a big part of the Fitbit appeal – and this activates any one of the various activities on the Charge 2 such as starting a run, setting a stopwatch, or breathing exercises.Īs there’s no built-in GPS, you’ll need to have your phone in your pocket if you want to track your runs accurately. You can also now receive text and call alerts direct to your wrist.Ĭontrolling the Charge 2 couldn’t be simpler. You still only get the one metric displayed at any one time, but the time and date now stay fixed to the top of the screen, and tapping the screen cycles through the number of steps taken, your heart rate, distance travelled, calorie burn, stairs climbed, active minutes and hourly activity. While we weren’t especially taken with the Charge HR’s tiny display, the Charge 2 is a palpable improvement. The move to a larger display is long overdue. If you’re not taken by the stock strap, you can quickly and easily replace it with any colour you fancy, simply by unhooking a couple of metal clips.

The Charge 2’s new-found customisability is a sight for bored eyes, too.

You get a markedly comfier rubber strap, and the display has been swapped out for a larger OLED panel which, incidentally, seems to have been plucked straight from the Fitbit Alta. The Charge 2 adds some welcome refinements to the design of the original model. Fitbit Charge 4 review: The best wristband fitness tracker?

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