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The Fitbit Charge 6 also gets Google Maps support, just like the Versa 4 and Sense 2. Manage your expectations, though – this doesn’t mean maps on your wrist. Instead the watch can relay instructions from a Google Maps session taking place on your phone. Still, it’s a neat, potentially useful feature. You’ll likely only notice this if you don’t maintain a connection with your phone, as the Fitbit Charge 6 will leech location data from your phone if it can. But if you’re going to just do that, you might as well consider dropping down to the perfectly charming step-down Fitbit Inspire 3. All of this is without significantly loosening the strap – and if you do this, the effect is going to vary depending on the shape and composition of your wrist. Either way, it’s not good news for the Fitbit Charge 6’s fitness cred.
Our experience of using the watch ended up feeling quite incomplete, though, because of a problem highlighted by some in the Fitbit Charge 5.The bottom of the Charge 6 is where you'll find the heart rate sensor and the connectors for the included charger.
You take around 30 seconds out of your day, with finger and thumb on the side of the watch, to see if something might be up with your heart. It failed about 50% of the time in my tests, but only because of an unusually low resting heart rate. And the experience is actually pretty neat, with a graph that shows what the watch is ‘seeing’ in real time.
The Fitbit Charge 6 leaves a little to be desired
In the gym we found the Fitbit Charge 6’s monitoring performed okay at times, but could be slow to react to the additional exertion of a set. And in classic so-so heart rate accuracy fashion, the band tends to mess up quite badly in the first 5-10 minutes of a run before usually finding its feet, at least in consistent runs rather than interval sets. When you're sleeping, the Charge 6 monitors your Sp02, or blood oxygen level, along with your skin temperature and the number of breaths you take per minute.
A Fitbit Charge 6 weighs 37g according to some spec run-downs, although our scales say it’s just 30g. While that’s fractionally heavier than the Charge 5’s 28g, this remains an ultra-light wearable that you can easily keep on 24/7. I did find that its rear left a notable red mark on my wrist on one occasion, but that was once over weeks of use, and was likely the result of over-tightening the strap.Navigating the watch and its apps is done through a series of taps and swipes on the touch screen and using the side button. I found using apps like YouTube Music to be a little cumbersome due to the size of the display, limiting the number of buttons and controls that can be shown at any given time. Is Premium worth it? You can decide for yourself, as the Fitbit Charge 6 comes with a 6-month free trial, or read our Fitbit Premium review and our guide to the best fitness apps. There are few wearables that compare directly to the Fitbit Charge 6. It’s a petite band, not a watch. But where that style is typically home to simple and feature-light watches, this one has a bunch of advanced elements seen in the Fitbit Sense 2. An EDA asks you to sit still for three minutes, with your finger and thumb on the watch surround. The act of doing this is obviously going to affect your stress level, though, making it of limited use. Plus, it’s just not something most people are likely to do regularly.
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