Fitbit Sense 2 Advanced Health Smartwatch, Shadow Grey

I feel like I’m cheat with my steps because, I noticed the steps be counting a lot when im driving down the highway. I also noticed one of the clock faces don’t work anymore. Fortunately when using the app, there are many other faces to use! Lastly, the watch isn’t consistent at tracking my activity. It usually can “sense” an elevated HR and more steps would equal some sort of activity. The last time I played soccer it didn’t track my activity. I guess I’ll have to be mindful and select the sport activity prior to playing.

Mi experiencia con estos dispositivos fue hace tres años tuve un fibit sense; y este fibit sense 2 mejoró muchísimo es más ligero (no parece que lleve algo pesado en la muñeca) , ahora tiene un botón más visible me encanto y lo ❤️❤️❤️ muchísimo, solo las aplicaciones las manipulas con e el botón que les describo. Estoy completamente contenta con la compra porque tuviera tantas mejoras el producto. Bellísimo diseño y color negro se me hace elegante y combinable.

I highly recommend this smart watch for anyone who wants to track their health and fitness. This watch comes with many features and is easy to use. My daughter is able to get her Dexcom notifications as well. I enjoy being able to monitor my heart rate, steps, sleep, activity levels, and many other health features. I can also receive text messages and other notifications. It is easy to use, set up and maintain. The app itself also is easy to navigate. I like the large square face to the watch, helps being able to see things clearly and you can customize it as well. Battery life is very good, the more apps running and customized wall paper i noticed a slight battery extra draw but nothing that causes the function of the watch to become unreliable or in constant charging. Very happy with the purchase.

This was so easy to setup. Very easy to use and love how it tracks my health. Keeps track of my steps, my heart rate, and so much more. Great product.

After 5 years of good service my old Versa was struggling to keep a charge for 24 hours so I decided to replace it with a Sense 2. Huge mistake!

This device drops to 20% charge in about 12 hours and then requires charging for about 2 hours. You can wear it during the day or at night, but you really can’t do both unless you set aside a couple of hours for charging.

The watch has all sorts of sensors, but they all need to be turned off if you want 12 hours of life. Searching the message boards this seems common. I will play with the recommendations Insee there for a couple more days before returning it, but I’m not hopefull.

It is inexcusible for a company to try to market a product that falls so short of their written claims! Avoid Fitbit if you are looking for a smart watch!

Update: Turning off things like stress management and a restart apear to have imroved the battery life. Yesterday it dropped to about 60% including a 40minute walk with the GPS on. Unfortunately, it won’t charge back to 100% in the time it takes me to shower and dress like my old Versa. So it is probably a charge twise a day affair rather than the advertized once every 6 days. As others have remarked, the HR monitor seems to be incredibly inaccurate. It takes quite a while to react when starting a vigourous exercise and the HR laghs the obvioud signs like heavy breathing by several minutes. It barely registers exercises like the rowing machine in spite of the evident level of exertion. On a very steep hill that left me huffing and puffing it barely cracked into the fat burn zone. For some reason, the weather app has decided to stop working, too. The Google Maps shows turns that have nothing to do with the route being shown on the phone. This came and went, but I certainly wouldn’t trust it if I needed to get somewhere. I’m still quite dissatisfied. More later…

Well, I did get the weather app to work by turning location services to “always”. On days I don’t use GPS I can actually charge it during my morning shower and get close to 100%.

The heart beat monitor continues to be awful. My old Versa was often slow to recognize exercise, but the Sense 2 can take 10 minutes to even notice increased heart rate.

I started the trial offer on Premium but don’t see anything there that would persuade me to pay for it once the trial period ends.

Further update – for some reason, the Sense 2 has begun to mistake driving for bicycling. Based on it’s claims, I should easily win the tour de france. Pretty good for an old fat guy😃

Update after another month. The charging seems to have sorted itself out enough that I only need to charge once per day. The GPS IS some sort of random number generator, with the distance for the same exact walk varying by around 30% from day to day. Very brisk walks often show a slower pace than casual strolls.

The Sense has begun to begrudgingly acknowledge my heart is beating during rowing sessions, but is wildly inaccurate. For the stationary bike it tends to not register anything, then overshoot to ridiculous levels before settling in to reasonable agreement with the HR monitor on the bike.

The sleep logging seemed to stop at 14 days even though I have worn the Sense every night for at least 40 days. I’m not sure I care what my “sleep animal” is anyway – is this intended for children, or what???

My next fitness tracker/smart watch will definitely not be Fitbit. I will miss having 7 or so years of history, but if most of it is bogus, who cares?

The notification is not strong enough which is below my expectation.