hi everyone Abby here and welcome back to my channel for tech tuesday or
welcome if you're new today i'm going to be reviewing the fitbit
sense but before i get started make sure to hit that subscribe button if you're not already
subscribed so you can stay tuned to all my new videos dropping weekly and so you can help the
channel grow and i do have a full unboxing on this watch if you are interested you can find
that in the top right or in the description below so i have this smartwatch in the color
lunar white soft gold and it currently goes for 239.99 canadian and 226 american and that is
the current sale prices guys because they are on sale as of recording because it has been out for
a while it was released in 2020 it definitely goes on sale quite frequently which is great
all right guys so this is what it looks like on me
and i do have a seven inch wrist and i'm wearing this small band right here and when i actually
put on the large band i go all the way up to the top guys so they definitely do fit a wide variety
of wrist sizes so when it does come to comfort on the swatch i do find it pretty comfortable to wear
the silicone on this fitbit is nice and smooth and silky feeling it's not
kind of a sticky feeling silicone like some smart watches does have this kind of
quick release mechanism where you just pop it out and pull
all right guys so this has a 1.58 inch color amoled display so you can definitely see those
bright bold punchy colors it has a battery life up to six days it has built-in nfc gps glonass wi-fi
and bluetooth it has vibration for alerts as well as a speaker and a mic
so you can take calls on here and speak on your watch directly it does have
voice assistant being google assistant or alexa it has spo2 so you can track your blood oxygen
saturation it has 24 hour heart rate tracking advanced sleep tracking it's water resistant up
to 50 meters and it is swim proof so you can take it in the pool it has all-day activity
tracking for things like your steps your floor is climbed your calories burned and attracts a
variety of workouts like swimming running and yoga you can download these or playlists but if
you're like me and you use spotify you cannot download music with spotify it has relaxation
breathing and an eda sensor now these are not all the specs about this watch but as you can
see i'm running out of space here and these are definitely some of the most important i think
so right now i'm showing you the display indoors under some lighting and it is quite reflective as
you can see and i do not have a screen protector on here so this is how it just naturally appears
and i have it set to the dim brightness just the same battery life but you could always punch it up
dim normal and max all right guys so this is what it looks like outdoors in the natural lighting
under some sunlight and as i said before it is quite reflective indoors and outdoors um when you
are outdoors i would definitely recommend pumping up your brightness to the normal setting because
that dim it is readable but for some people this may be hard to read because it is quite reflective
so the gps i'm finding to be decently accurate but the time it takes to connect to the gps is
really long it takes usually two to three minutes for me to actually get this watch to connect
outdoors so i'll just kind of have to start my run start my walk and wait for it to connect
which is annoying because i'm missing out on it tracking data in the meantime
so overall accuracy on the smartwatch is pretty good guys
but an area where i think they could improve is with the step accuracy i'm finding the steps to
be a bit high when i do compare this to some other smart watches for example even i just walked about
50 steps i counted it out and when i got to 50 this was at 56 so it's a bit high guys but the
hari data has been very accurate in my experience and here's an example of one of my workouts
so this has an advertised battery life of up to six days as a smart watch and with my
uses which i have on screen for you guys things like gps walks runs daily alarms timers and more
i've gotten on average four and a half days of battery life with this watch now for me i think
that's okay you know you have to charge your watch like once or twice a week you don't have to charge
it every day and that's definitely steps above some other smart watches out there but personally
i like smart watches that last longer because i am someone who does forget to charge things so i just
find that more convenient but i definitely do think that this can fit well into a lot
of people's lifestyles and do keep in mind guys the battery results i get might differ from what
you get you know battery life is something that heavily differs depending on your individual usage
so i'm just going to go ahead and show you guys kind of an example of a text message
so here is a text that just came in
and this is what it looks like so you can see the entire message here it says the sender
the message here you can also go ahead and click this and send a quick reply like a yes a no
and then you can go ahead and send emojis to which i really like
all right so now i'm gonna be talking about women's health so for my male viewers out there
who don't want to see this you can definitely go ahead and use my timestamp right down here and in
the description and skip to the next section where i'm going to talk about how to use this watch
so when it comes to women's health i'm a little disappointed in it because you're not able to log
your symptoms and how you're feeling on your smart watch there's just no option to do that
when it comes to logging all you can do is log your weights you can log your food and water
so what you have to do for that is you have to go into the fitbit app and then you can kind of
track your menstrual health there and here's a quick example of how it looks on my phone
it does have a period prediction and you can log your symptoms
all right guys so now i'm going to go into how to use this watch and i'm just going to go over
the basics here so the first thing you're going to want to do is wake up the display so you can
either double tap or you can choose to hit this little kind of like hidden button at the side
here and then when you have it on your wrist you can go ahead turn it towards your face and the
screen will wake up alternatively you can choose to turn on the always on display mode but that
significantly lowers your battery life guys so the next thing you can do once you have
um you know the screen open is you can swipe down to look your notifications if you have any you
know click on them there you can swipe right and see your shortcuts here and then the battery life
you can swipe left and then you can see all your apps so i'll show you guys the ones i
have on here if you want to go start an activity for example you would just click on exercise
and then you know choose your activity
and click start and adversely if you wanted to use any of these you just go over to it click it
and you're good to go and then you can press this at any time to go back to the home page
and then you click it again and it will turn off the display or kind of put the display to sleep
so you can also swipe up and this is where you're going to see your daily metrics so it's going to
show your heart rate um your current exercise for the week your sleep and what other other
activities that you do have activated and if you decide to click on something for example like the
heart rate i'm going to show you kind of a bigger metric and a bit more information than what you
saw at that quick glance and another thing you can do is if you hold this you can open up your
shortcut for me that is alarms and if you double tap this button at the side here you're going to
open up kind of a little shortcut menu and you can choose you know what you have here and all
right guys that's the basics of how to use this watch i definitely do find it pretty easy to use
now sleep tracking is definitely fitbit's strength in my opinion compared to other smart watches i
find them to be one of the best if not the best sleep trackers so looking at my sleep here we
can see the sleep time the sleep score and a little message and then we can see our sleep
stages light deep rem and time awake and the sleep i have found to be pretty accurate and one great
thing about fitbit is if you do take naps during the day it does track that and if you're someone
who also does shift work and you sleep during the day and not at night your watch will track
that as well no problem where some other watches do have issues with that type of sleep tracking
it does have you know ecg or ekg depending on where you're from it could be called either or
and with that you can see basically like your heart rate rhythms and it will check
for abnormal heart rate rhythms i'm just going to do a quick example for you guys
so here's the results you know normal sinus rhythm that's what it appears like
and if i go over to the fitbit app now you'll be able to see that information
you can take calls on this smartwatch honestly the calls don't sound crystal clear they are
decent but they could be better i'm just going to show you guys a little demo of how the calls do
sound on the smartwatch so it shows who's calling and then you can choose to accept or deny
hello
good can you hear me does it sound like clear or not
oh okay well thanks for letting me know yeah i'm just testing out my uh fitbit sense here
okay so i don't think this is the best option for calling but
if you're in a pinch on the go and you don't have your phone directly
on you maybe it's in your bag it's definitely usable for taking calls
all right guys i have noticed some kind of cons about the smart watch the first one for
me is that it's a bit slow when it comes to responsiveness so when i go to you know wake
up the screen i find sometimes there's a delay and sometimes it doesn't record your double taps
if i'm going to open this up you do have to wait for it to load and that goes for opening up most
things it's definitely slower than i would have liked it to be in 2022 a lot of things that you
want to view on the watch you don't have access to exclusively on the watch unless it's currently you
know paired to your phone so that's something that i don't like so sleep is a big one for me you're
not going to see any of this until you sync it to your phone in the morning and your phone processes
it and then sends it to your smart watch the final con i've noticed about this watch is that it gets
quite sweaty i do find that when i'm working out and just having this on in the summer which it is
right now as i'm recording i find that the watch does get quite sweaty under here and it's also
sweaty under the band so these are definitely some things i'd like to see improved in the future
alright guys so considering the price the quality the color the performance the accuracy the battery
life and everything like that i would go ahead and give this a 7.8 out of 10. and i definitely do
give it a thumbs up so if you guys are looking to pick up the fitbit sense here i've gone ahead and
left a link down in the description for you to use so for those of you wondering if the fitbit sense
is worth it in 2022 at this time i would say yes if you're looking to stay in the fitbit ecosystem
if you're already invested in the app if you like how it works stuff like that i would definitely
say that this could be a good option for you but if you don't need the ekg or bluetooth calling out
definitely check out the fitbit version 3 and save yourself some money and if you want to get
out of the fitbit ecosystem i definitely think there are some great options from garmin and from
samsung for example if you want to watch a little bit faster and a watch that can work a lot more
independently without being synced to your phone then i would definitely check out one of those
and if there's anything i missed today that you want to know just go ahead and drop a comment
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