Fitbit Inspire 2

Don't waste your time with fitbit – Started off good a couple months later went faulty.with a lot stressful phone calls got a replacement one that took about a month. The replacement one was damaged and band wouldn't connect.

It work but you cannot see the screen in bright sunlight – It has a long battery life and it does everything that it says it will. The downside is that you cannot read the screen in bright sunlight or even in the shop.

Good for the money – For $100 you get a heart rate monitor with reasonable battery life. Size is reasonably small, but it sticks out from your wrist a long way for a small watch. Battery life is good, although I switch off notifications. Charging is quick. Syncing works much better than the Garmin I had continual trouble with previously. The big problem with the Inspire 2 is the tiny font used on the watch. If you need glasses for reading you will also need them to read the steps count, date, battery or heart rate. It’s especially irritating because most of the screen is taken up by icons which are just there for style rather than function.

The Fitbit app is complicated and works in different ways on different screens, for example each graph has slightly different functionality which gets confusing. I preferred the Garmin app.

Fitbit is owned by Google and I don’t trust their approach to privacy. They still seem to be fishing for a lot more information than is really required, such as prompting your phone’s GPS position to be switched on, even if you don’t want to use positioning (Garmin did not need it in the same situation). The premium subscription that comes with the Inspire 2 also requires your credit card details, even though the first 12 months are free.