Owners Of The Fitbit Charge 6 Get Four Great New Features

Forbes

5 days ago

Fitbit Charge 6
Good Fitbit news tends to be outweighed by the bad these days, but Fitbit Charge 6 owners have a reason to feel happy as it has just received a handful of new features.
The key substantive change if the Fitbit Charge 6 can now connect to more exercise and gym equipment. This is used to send heart rate data to the machine, letting you take part in heart-rate-led sessions without having to keep your hands on those grimy sensors the whole time.
Concept 2 is the brand added to the compatibility list in this firmware update. And that's a biggie, as its rowing machines were once considered the go-to for commercial gyms and workout spaces.
Here's the full list of brands supported at present by the Fitbit Charge 6:
The bad news: two of the most common gym brands remain unsupported, Life Fitness and TechnoGym.
Fitbit's update also adds three watch faces to the Fitbit Charge 6, called Momentum, Geometric and Axira.
Charge 6 watch faces
'They're designed to provide you with more comprehensive data at a glance,' says Google, although you'll only truly notice this on the Momentum face. It really packs in the stats, including daily steps, heart rate and distance, among others.
Geometric and Axira are more subtle, instead slotting a health stat or two into what is still a more style or design-led face.
Google says the update also brings 'general bug fixes' and tweaks to, alongside the Charge 6, the Inspire 3, Sense 2 and Versa 4.
However, the Charge 6 getting new features while the Sense and Versa series largely do not is consistent with the Fitbit trajectory seen over the last couple of years.
Fitbit's smartwatch families have been deprecated, while areas not served by Google's own-brand wearables are allowed to flourish. That includes the Fitbit Charge 6, and the Ace LTE, a watch made for children.
Even the Fitbit Charge 6 is quite old at this point, though, released in October 2023.