FitbitInspire HR Health & Fitness Tracker with Auto-Exercise Recognition, 5 Day Battery, Sleep & Swim Tracking, Lilac

I am very pleased with this item thank you

Great little fitness tracker, worked well for a couple of years but screen started to fail after about year 3. Strap wore out in similar time frame.Would've hoped for slightly better longevity given the brand/price.

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.

I was initially very sceptical about buying this product, because of the negative reviews I read here. Luckily, the huge discount during the Black Friday sale made me buy it and I am very, very happy about it.*Step & Distance Accuracy:- This aspect is being heavily criticised in the reviews. I checked it in a couple of ways and I can say that I am very satisfied with the accuracy.- Test 1: During a 1-week holiday I went with my wife (which involved a significant amount of walking) who has an Apple watch, we compared the steps and distances covered shown by two devices every day. Distances were almost perfectly the same, and my steps were slightly lower (perfectly normal given that I have longer legs).- Test 2: The device pushes you to walk at least 250 steps during each working hours and shows you the number of steps left to complete this target. I saw that when the device says "68 steps needed to complete the target", it really completes the target in exactly 68 steps (yes, I counted).- Test 3: During the semester I teach at a university, 1 day per week. During that extremely busy day, I have a very specific walking pattern from building to building, which is repeated exactly in the same way for each Monday. For consecutive weeks I noticed that Fitbit produced very consistent distance and step results for different Mondays.*Sleep Tracker Accuracy:- I use the device with an Android phone (Pixel 3) and my Fitbit does not have a heart rate monitor.- One needs to set the expectations from this device correctly. The device tries to guess whether you are asleep or not, based on your arm movements.- For example, if you wake up but watch TV in the bed, or go to the toilet, or read a book (or any other activities without body movement) the device can not understand that you woke up. So if you want it to be precise in these cases, open the Fitbit app in your phone.- Other than this, I found the sleep tracker to be surprisingly good. I have problems with sleep, and I saw that the phone shows that I could not sleep during specific time intervals, during which I exactly knew that I could not sleep.*Ease of Use & Comfort- Another topic that I could not understand the existence of negative reviews.- This may be the easiest electronic device I have ever used. It has 1, yes, 1 button that does everything. And the touch screen works perfectly.- Charging is extremely simple and fast. I put the device to charge when I go to the shower, and in 15 minutes it gets around +40% of charge.- The device is very light and after getting used to it you do not feel it.- The strap is not uncomfortable, but I constantly feel like it is not secure enough. It feels like the device can fall from your wrist without you even feel.*Overall- I am very, very happy about this purchase at this price level. It exceeded my expectations significantly.- The important thing is to set the expectations correctly. It does not do magic, it just makes estimations based on some algorithms. It is not fair to compare a £39 device with +£150 ones.