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 charge 5. but before i get started make sure to
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help the channel grow so i have this in the color lunar white soft gold it does come with a lunar
white silicone band and soft gold colored bezel and this currently goes for 229.99 canadian or
179.99 american and i've already gone ahead and done a full unboxing of this watch so if you've
missed that you can go ahead and check that out on the top right or in the description below
all right guys this is the front of the package here we can see a beautiful picture of the
fitbit charge 5. here's the side so we can see there's a couple of things that the watch can do
on the back we can see that there is a multitude of information here
and some other pictures of the watch and at the side here there is some more information
all right guys this is what it looks like on me
and right now i am wearing the small band and my wrist is seven inches guys
and just going to the bottom here guys i am two holes up from the bottom here
so i'm actually going to show you guys how to change the bands so on the bottom side
of the watch there's these little clasps here so you just kind of push it out guys
and you hear a little snap and then you can detach it and then you just take the other band
here's the large one and push it in and then it snaps in i love infinity bands i find them super
comfortable to wear you don't have to worry about the band kind of coming undone and flapping around
so this is the large band on me guys and i go all the way up to the last hole here
all right guys so now i'm going to go into some feature highlights about the fitbit charge 5.
it has touch screen operation it has a amoled full color display and it is made of gorilla glass 3.
it has built-in bluetooth an eda sensor sp02 gps built-in heart rate monitor built in and with this
watch you can access silent alarms it also does have smart wake alarms so this will wake you up
at the least disruptive time in your sleep cycle it has 20 different exercise modes it's dust proof
and water resistant up to 50 meters it does have a water lock feature on here which you can go ahead
and turn on and it's going to lock the screen for you so it doesn't accidentally activate if
you're getting into you know wet situations like swimming or if you're in the shower you
can view your phone's notifications on here it can track your stress level your steps your calories
burned your active minutes and it does come with a six month trial a fitbit premium for you to use
so this watch has a quoted battery life of up to seven days
and with my uses which are things like 24-hour heart rate sensor
weekly gps runs daily alarms and timers and more as you can see on screen i have gotten
six days of battery life with this guys which is absolutely great i mean you only have to
charge this thing once a week and i think that could fit into a variety of people's lifestyles
all right guys so now i'm going to show you the display kind of indoors
and outdoors so this is what it looks like indoors under some lighting here
and AMOLED display has beautiful bright bold punchy colors and this is what it looks like
outdoors i took this watch with me when i went on a couple gps walks and runs
and as you can see it's clear to read in the sunlight as well but as it is an amoled display
it is quite reflective so that's just something to keep in mind as well all right guys so now i'm
going to show you some watch faces so the current one i have on here is this guy right here and to
change your watch face guys you're just going to want to go over to the fitbit app all right guys
so i'm just going to show you the watch faces currently available for the fitbit charge 5.
so there aren't that many right now which is a little disappointing for me
but i assume they're going to come out with more soon here are all the
ones that we have guys this is the one that i currently am using it is called progressive
all right guys so the first thing you're going to want to do is to wake up the screen so you
can use the watch so you can do this two ways one you can double tap the screen
and that is going to wake it up and two you can go ahead and turn on something called auto awake
which basically means if you take your wrist and you turn it towards your face the screen
is also going to wake up you can go ahead and swipe to the left or right
and this is going to get you to you know your major apps so you can see your notifications you
can start an exercise i'm going to show you guys some of the exercises on here
and you can go into the fitbit app and actually you know add some more
or remove workouts here we have alarms timers eda scan
and then you're back to the home page and once you get back to the main screen you could swipe
down and you could find your payments if you have any credit cards hooked up on here because it does
have built-in nfc there's also do not disturb mode if you want to turn that on there's sleep mode
there's a screen wake which is that thing where you kind of turn your wrist towards yourself and
it wakes it up there's a water lock function you can turn on or off and then we have the settings
so you can see your display settings which you can turn up or down the screen brightness you can turn
on or off the the auto lake you can turn on or off always on display but as they do tell you it
does impact your battery you also have quiet modes heart rate you can turn that on or off heart rate
zones you can turn on or off vibrations you can turn that strong or normal there's no kind of low
option and i do want to see the vibration here it's definitely not a light vibration like you
are going to feel it so i wish that there was a low vibration option and then gps guys you can
change up your gps settings and that's basically it for kind of your settings now if we swipe up we
can see all of our metrics for the day so we can see the active hours heart rate you see your sleep
dad on here i prefer to look at it on the app you can see your spo2 if you do have that turned on
your menstrual cycle your exercises for the week so for the eda scan guys it's
kind of just like measuring your stress you have to hold on to your your watch for
three minutes and just breathe in and out and you're supposed to kind of stay still
and calm and it's measuring your current stress levels and such um i know that they're planning
to introduce ecgs or ekgs into here that's not currently a function that is available for this
kind of thing right now the eda i don't really find it super helpful i find it a bit gimmicky
like i just have to stay here for three minutes breathe you're halfway there now this eda scan is
not something i like to use because just sitting for three minutes holding something is boring um
i don't know how many people are going to actually use this function but it's something that i wanted
to show you guys because they don't have this on all of their watches and a couple seconds guys
so now we are all done so now it's asking me to reflect on my mood so i'm just gonna say neutral
and it's showing the amount of eda responses that were sent it also says your heart rate
and your mood and that's it guys that's the basics of how to operate this watch
it also has built-in women's health tracking so with this you can track your menstrual
cycle's length duration any symptoms you're feeling such as bloating or cramps
and you can track your day-to-day mood how you're feeling any discharge stuff like that
so here is some sleep data for me click on each of these you can see everything kind of more in depth
and for deep in rem it shows you that little chart this is kind of a classic fitbit chart
um i do have the premium version right now it does come with the premium trial
for this watch so without the premium you aren't seeing all this information guys
and you can see you know specific sleep stages and then time asleep just shows this little graph when
you went to bed when you woke up and they give you some sleep tips and kind of your targeted sleep
goal if you have one set up and i've said this before guys and i'm saying it again fitbit has
the best sleep tracker on the market right now in terms of any kind of fitness trackers
smart watches they are the most accurate in my experience so if you're looking for a great sleep
tracker fitbit's probably your best bet for that but some other areas of fitbit is not as accurate
as the gps the gps did connect quickly and it was reliable connection didn't disconnect on me at all
when i have gone on a variety of locks and runs one thing i don't like about the gps is that when
it is connected it gets the pace wrong a lot of the time either too high or too low sometimes
if i'm walking like really slow maybe during a cooldown phase it's gonna mark me as like
walking super fast so it's just little things like that that i think they need to work on for the gps
all right guys so considering the price the quality the color the performance the battery
life and the ease of use of the fitbit charge 5 i would go ahead and give it a 7.9 out of 10. and i
definitely do give it a thumbs up so if you guys are looking to get the fitbit charge five i've
gone ahead and left a link down in the description for you to use if you are looking at the fitbit
charge and you're just finding it too bulky for you then i would actually recommend checking out
the fitbit luxe so i have done a full review on that watch which you can find at the top right and
in the description below and if there's anything i missed that you want to know just go ahead and
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