Fitbit Charge 2 Unboxing and Setup

By Gavin | July 16, 2019

I have had a Fitbit charge HR, I wore that for about a year and a half, the battery recently just died in it, it wouldn't come back for a while. Now I haven't had any sort of activity tracker and I went ahead and I picked up the charge too. One of the differences that you'll see is there's no Fitbit charge to HR because they've gone away with the two different models of it. All you get now is the charge, and it has heart rate monitoring, there's no charge without heart rate monitoring now. So I picked up the large size and let's just get into the unboxing just like before.

The standard charging cable is a little different of Fitbit Charge 2

You have a little magnetic clasp right there, there are your manuals instructions for helping get set up, let me get this little box out of there. I'm guessing this will be your standard charging cable, as you probably already know this is different, this looks like it's an actual like a clip, instead of just giving you something that it plugs into, let's go ahead and unwrap this.

As you can see right there the screens, a lot bigger on the charge, and as you can see I picked up the black one, it's got silver accents and let me go ahead and open the clasp. There you see, it looks like any other Fitbit product, in terms of the heart rate monitor you have your three pins for the charging, and that's what this little clip is for.

I believe it goes like that, it looks like that's how you're going to. Let's go ahead and get the charge to paired up with my iPhone. I am under the account tab on the Fitbit app. First off if you don't have it you're going to want to go download the Fitbit app, you click there, I already have it. I'm going to set up a device.

Cycle through the various modes

In this case, I have a charge, it's asking me to set up my charge, I agree that's just getting to know the part, the two products that you got the charge, and it's charging cradle right there just going to let it connect. There you see pair, it's asking a pair of the tracker, I'm going to hit three four four three and that is connecting to Fitbit.

This is letting me bring it up, hitting the button on the side lets you cycle through the various modes, stopwatch, relaxes, breathing exercises, back to the main screen, tap to cycle it, leaves it on the main screen, but you can actually tap like that to cycle through the various statistics that the tracker is tracking.

Quick view and sleep alarm of Fitbit Charge 2

Moving on quick view, that means when the screen turns off and the device is on your wrist and you bring up your wrist the device turns on Fitbit basics, that lets you know that your daily goal is set to 10,000 steps, you can up that or lower that depending on what your goals are.

Sleep in alarms, this does let you set an alarm to wake you up, and it vibrates on your wrist. I really like waking up that way, so I normally have the alarm turned on, that lets you track your exercise. Whether you do running elliptical weight lifting things like that, you can actually set to track that exercise on here next step.

It does use GPS on your phone to track your runs if you do like to run or bike, so that's one thing that you can do stay connected. The Fitbit app will actually get access to your phone and then that way when you get notifications recalls, you will see that come up on your Fitbit charge to guided breathing sessions.

This is waterproof, not water-resistant

This is similar to Apple's guided breathing sessions app as well, it just at certain parts of the day will remind you to just breathe, and it'll guide you through breathing in and then breathing out throughout the day, charging as you saw before. Let me bring that back in, it's a clip that goes right there, and that's how you charge the device.

This is saying to wear it with two to three fingers, worth of width from the start of your hand, down that way it can get accurate heart rate measurements, and these are just wearing care tips. This is waterproof, not water-resistant, so I would not recommend wearing it to the pool or showering with the device, and then also to clean it.

Can clean it or replace the band

It says to use a soap-free cleanser, things like Cetaphil would classify as a soap-free cleanser. I wore mine on my left wrist, and this one as you can see right there, the original charge HR did not let you swap up bands. Once this got nasty or tore that was the end of that unless you contacted Fitbit and they were able to replace it.

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Now you can actually be using these clasps on the back, you can actually remove the bands and get different colored bands or replace it if this does tear, and it's letting me know I'm all set.

There you go at syncing right now, if I go to the exercise tab right there it says 32 steps, and I go here you'll see it's 32 steps, and it matches there, the time matches. It is syncing and it has synced already.