Fitbit Alta Review 48 Hours Later

By Gavin | July 16, 2019

I wanted to do a post on the Fitbit Alta, now that I've had it a couple of days go over my first impressions and how I have it set up.

As you can see, this is the large, there's quite a bit of band left over, but it's not uncomfortable or anything, and the clasp is not your standard watch clasp, it's just a couple of pegs that go into the holes and keep secure, that way it does a pretty good job as it hasn't felt like it was going to come off or anything.

Track your mileage and the number of hours you spent

So it's a pretty nice tracker doesn't look gaudy or anything, and it does just what it's supposed to do. It keeps track of your steps when you set it up you get to put in your height and weight, and then it can kind of calculate how many calories you burn in a day. It'll also keep track of your mileage and the number of hours you spent doing an activity.

You can use taps to get it to turn on and then switch through the options. It's not doesn't appear to be really a touchscreen, it's more of just detecting the movement of hitting it and so that activates it, and what I have set up is as soon as you turn it on the first time it isn't always responsive.

Turn it on the first time it will give you steps, and then as you walk through it gives you the time and date, and your mileage, and then calories burned, and then that's silent alarm, there was actual, you could have it track the amount of time you during an activity, but I didn't really use it that much.

Can track weight and meal and sleep also

I just turned it off, you can have a default to any of those screens. Like at first I had a default to the time, but I use my phone so much that I just rather see the steps right off the bat does pair with the phone pretty easily, and the app is pretty good.

As you can see here it'll tell you the same thing as on the Fitbit number steps, how much time how many hours you've spent with your goal. I have mine set at 250 steps per hour, you can see the mileage and calories burned and then how much time I've spent doing activities.

You can track exercise, let's see I've it set to my weight, and then this is how many hours I'd like to sleep, this is actually how many hours I slept during the night, how many times I woke up, how much time I spent moving around. You can do meal plans if you want, and how much water you've drunk. I don't do any of that.

Set up silent alarms and then notifications

If you want to go into the setup of the Fitbit, I said that I'm right-handed, but I'm going to wear it on my right left wrist, and the clock faces. You can choose from different options, I also do horizontal, although, with the way it was wearing on your wrist, you'd be looking at it, this way which is why I picked the vertical.

Then you can do set up silent alarms, and then notifications you can get call notifications, texts calendar alerts, and it's pretty quick. As soon as your phone gets the alert you're the Bandol vibrate and then you'll be able to read it. When you turn it on have you used it a whole lot, the band of the face is pretty small, so it the text just kind of Scrolls across and it will only show you whatever you would see on your earphones lock screen.

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It cuts off a lot of the text if it's long reminders to move. Every hour if I haven't walked 250 steps it'll tell me I have 10 minutes to walk another 39 steps or whatever is left, and if you've got over 250 then it doesn't tell you to customize the displaced.

It has pretty good battery life and charges easily

I took off the active minutes, because I didn't really use it, and then you can change the order of which these appear, the quick view is really I don't know why that's there because the display doesn't show you a clock.

In my case, you can have it sync all through the day which is what I did, and at least on this phone it doesn't seem to really drain the battery that much but depends on the phone, and I got it two days ago at night and I triggered it up, and then I got it Wednesday, now it's Friday evening and it's about 50% of battery.

So it has pretty good battery life, but that, of course, is because it doesn't do a whole lot, it's not a real SmartWatch, but it's a pretty good tracker, and it doesn't look terrible, and charging is pretty easy, there's a dock that just slides right on and you can charge it through USB.

As I said, it's not super responsive, I'd like it to be a little bit better, but it's not too bad, seems to work better. If it's on your wrist and you have your wrist out, and then turn it over, it turns on most of the time. It's pretty easy that way, all in all, I like it, it's pretty much what I was looking for.

You can add friends and track on it also

They do have multiple bands, so this piece comes off and these are two different pieces here, and you can get different bands for it, but I just got the standard black leather or black rubber, and so that's pretty much it, the app is pretty nice, you can do everything from the app if you want.

One cool feature is you can add friends. I added my wife on here and I can actually teach her cheer or messenger. I can also see how many steps she's taken, that way you can get each other to take more steps with the account, you can reset up the device, you can set your goals sleep.

You can say like how long you'd like to sleep, not just put eight hours, even though I never sleep that long. Now you can set the time zone, all the basic stuff, your sleep sensitivity, I don't really know what to do with that, I just kept it at normal, then you can see a list of compatible apps through the website.

All in all, it is pretty good, it doesn't count your stairs and it doesn't track your heart rate, just basic steps, and then what it can calculate for calories burn in distance. If you're looking for that this is not the right fitness tracker for you, but that's all I wanted to do for this post.