A swipe down from the top of the screen gets you to the tracker’s water lock and do-not-disturb toggles, plus the settings menu shortcut. In dry conditions, however, it works just fine and it’s a doddle using it to navigate your way around. The Luxe is no different in this regard its touchscreen behaves a little erratically if you get it wet. Touchscreen-only operation is usually a no-no for serious running watches, because touchscreens don’t work that well when sweat or rain are involved. READ NEXT: Our guide to the best fitness trackers to buy Fitbit Luxe review: How does it perform? There’s also automatic activity detection, which is handy for those times when you forget to manually start tracking a session from the workout app. As you’d expect, there’s plenty to choose from here, with the core activities all covered (running, walking, cycling, “workout”, treadmill and pool swimming are loaded by default), plus a number of others, from yoga and weights to golf and kickboxing. Beyond that, its core tracking features are fairly basic: it has an optical heart-rate tracker but it doesn’t have GPS.Īs for exercise goes, you can either choose a workout from Fitbit Premium to follow or just use the Luxe to track a workout as you would with any other tracker. The Luxe is a slender fitness tracker with a small 0.76in, 124 x 206 resolution AMOLED touchscreen, and a steel casing that feels solid and well made. On the face of it, though, you don’t get a lot for your £130 outlay. READ NEXT: Our guide to the best fitness trackers to buy Fitbit Luxe review: What do you get for the money? That’s not to say the Luxe is the first good-looking Fitbit wearable or, indeed, the first to offer designer accessories the difference is that the Luxe is the first Fitbit to put that aspect front and centre as the main selling point. It’s different because it’s the first Fitbit to fully embrace fashion as the main element of its design philosophy.
The Luxe is still a fairly basic tracker at heart and has no GPS. That’s not to say it has added any particularly innovative feature. In a sector where competition is fierce and margins infinitesimally small, that’s no mean feat.
You’ve got to give it to Fitbit: its latest wearable, the Fitbit Luxe, manages to break new ground.
0 kommentar(er)
