How accurate is Fitbit Luxe data? It comes with smart features and 6-month trial of Fitbit Premium. Tune in to your body with health metrics like breathing rate, heart rate variability and more (in-app only). The face is much smaller, but the variety of faces and the fact that the colors and print are so vivid make everything easy to see. Fitbit Luxe fitness and wellness tracker with stress management reviews.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Bright, crisp AMOLED display
- More than 5 days’ battery life
- Solid performance
- Small, lightweight, and comfortable
- Beautiful color AMOLED display
- Includes six months of Fitbit Premium
- Color touch screen
- Tracks heart rate variability and sleeping respiration
- Robust companion app
Cons
- No music controls
- Small screen limits visible data
- SpO2 monitor not yet activated
- No built-in GPS, altimeter, or NFC
Specs – Fitbit Luxe fitness and wellness tracker with stress management
- Display: .76 inch color AMOLED, 124×206 pixels with 326 PPI denity
- Battery: Up to 5 days
- Sensors: 3-axis accelerometer
- Dimensions: 1.43 x .69 x .4 inches
- Materials: Stainless steel case
- Special Features: Google Fast Pair on Android
- Weight: .96oz (26.2g)
- Optical heart rate monitor: Vibration motor, Red and infrared sensors for SpO2
- Water Resistance: Up to 50m
- Colors: Soft Gold/Lunar White, Graphite/Black, Platinum/Orchid
Price
The Fitbit Luxe was announced in April 2021 and, shortly after that, was made available for preorder. The standard Luxe is available in three colors: Graphite, Soft Gold, and Platinum with Black, Lunar White, and Orchid silicone bands, respectively, and retails for $150. There is also a Special Edition variant in Soft Gold that comes with a gorjana Soft Gold Stainless Steel Parker Link Bracelet and Peony silicon band that costs $200.
The Fitbit Luxe was announced April 2021, and is due to start shipping on July 1 2021. It costs $149.95 / £129.99 / AU$199.95 for the standard edition with a silicone band, and $199.95 / £179.95 / AU$299.95 for the special edition with the gold colored Gorjana link bracelet.
That puts it nicely in between the Fitbit Inspire 2 (which launched at $99.95 / £89.99 / AU$179.95) and the Versa 3 smartwatch (which costs $329 / £299 / AU$499).
Fitbit Luxe fitness and wellness tracker with stress management reviews
Design
Measuring 1.43 by 0.69 by 0.40 inches (LWH), the Luxe stands out among Fitbit’s other trackers for its AMOLED color display and stainless steel case. it has a three-axis accelerometer, an optical heart rate monitor, a vibration motor, and red and infrared sensors for blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) monitoring. The Luxe is water resistant to 164 feet, so it’s safe to wear in pools and the shower.
Band size
Fitbit offers the Luxe in soft gold with a white band, matte black with a matching band, or platinum with a pink band. The band is made of silicone and features a metal buckle. In the box, you get both small and large bands, which fit wrists measuring 5.5 to 7.1 inches and 7.1 to 8.7 inches in circumference, respectively.
Control
The Luxe features a streamlined design with no physical buttons, so you navigate it soley with swipes and taps on the screen. It doesn’t have an always-on display, meaning the screen turns off after a few seconds of inactivity.
Screen
Its screen is correspondingly small. The screen itself is crisp, bright and colorful. This is a 0.76-inch AMOLED panel running at a 124 x 206 resolution. It’s surrounded by a thick bezel, which is probably hiding all the Luxe’s sensors.
Activities
For starters, the Luxe supports over 20 exercise modes. Through the Fitbit app, you can load up to six quick-launch exercises at a time, and many of those are customizable to some degree. Running, hiking, and biking workouts allow you to add lap information to the display screen if you like, which is pretty cool for such a small screened device. It even features SmartTrack to automatically record your workouts if and when you forget to. The display is plenty bright for outdoor use
Oxygen level
The one Luxe enhancement that satisfies is the SpO2 sensor. For most people, the readings of blood oxygen levels will be good enough for a general idea of your health and subsequent changes to it. It doesn’t match a pulse oximeter in accuracy, though. The Luxe underreported my oxygen saturation by two to three percentage points compared to a pulse oximeter.
Mindfulness
In the Mindfulness section of the Fitbit app, you can set a goal for how many meditation sessions you aim to do each week, track your daily mindfulness minutes, and discover trends over time as you practice. A Premium membership gives you access to more than 200 mindfulness sessions from third parties such as Aura, Breethe, and Ten Percent Happier.
Battery life
Fitbit says the Luxe offers up to five days of battery life on a charge. It’s possible the company is lowballing this estimate, because in testing, my Luxe review unit still had 43% battery life remaining after four days of continuous use. That said, it’s still less than the Inspire 2, which offers up to 10 days of battery life, as well as the Charge 4, which lasts up to seven days (or up to five hours while using GPS).
How to setup Fitbit Luxe fitness and wellness tracker with stress management?
To set up the Fitbit Luxe, just plug the included charging cable into a USB port and attach the other end to the tracker, then wait for it to reach 100% battery life.
In the meantime, download the Fitbit app (available for Android and iOS) if you don’t already have it on your phone. When you’re ready to set the Luxe up, tap your profile icon in the top left corner of the app, press Set Up a Device > Luxe > Set Up, accept the Privacy Policy, press Next, and the app will begin searching for your tracker via Bluetooth. It will then ask you to enter the four-digit code shown on the device’s display. After that, accept the Bluetooth pairing request, select Allow/Don’t Allow when it asks if you want the Luxe to display your phone notifications, and press Update Now to install the latest software version. Make sure to keep the Luxe on its charger and near your phone while it’s updating.
App
The app pools data from all your Fitbit devices in one place, so if you have a smart scale like the Fitbit Aria Air, your weight and body composition data will be synced as well, so you can see how changes to your lifestyle have affected your body over time.
To get the most out of the app, you’ll need a Fitbit Premium subscription, so it’s good to see that the Luxe comes with a year thrown in, which you can activate as soon as you’ve connected the watch to your phone (a simple process that takes only a minute if you already have a Fitbit account).
Fitbit Luxe fitness and wellness tracker with stress management Performance reviews
After tracking a workout with the Luxe, the Fitbit app shows a wealth of information, including the amount of time you spent in each heart rate zone (Fat Burn, Cardio, and Peak), a graph of your heart rate throughout the workout, your average heart rate, total calories burned, calories burned per minute, and Active Zone Minute points earned.
After tracking a workout with connected GPS, the Fitbit app shows a map of your route. Toggle options on the map let you see your heart rate zone and pace at each point in the workout.
Screenshots of the Exercise section of the Fitbit app
The Luxe supports Fitbit’s SmartTrack feature, which automatically recognizes and records certain types of workouts, including walking, running, aerobic and elliptical sessions, outdoor cycling, continuous high-movement sports (like tennis, basketball, and soccer), and swimming. In testing, SmartTrack accurately logged several walks, but one time mislabeled a walk as a swim. In the Fitbit app, you can always edit the duration of a workout (just in case you forget to stop tracking), but you can’t change the type of exercise (from swim to walk, for instance), so I just deleted that session.
Fitbit Luxe fitness and wellness tracker with stress management Customer reviews
A really nice Fitbit
I was hesitant about this fitness tracker at first, having owned a Fitbit HR, inspire, and inspire 2. I thought myself, what makes this vast improvement over the others? The simple answer is the screen. This full color screen looks worlds better than any of the Fitbits I’ve owned. The screen is bright, responsive, and the watch is actually quite beautiful. The band is slim, perfect for my wrist, and because of this looks so much nicer than any of the previous bands on my old Fitbits. The battery power lasts much longer than 5 days! At least 7. Every other Fitbit kind of lies about its battery life. This one was conservatively estimated, which I really appreciate and was pleasantly surprised by. After wearing this for a couple of months, I would never recommend the previous Fitbits. This is the one to get,
By Clare at Best Buy
Fitbit Luxe fitness and wellness tracker with stress management alternative
Fitbit Charge 5
SPECIFICATIONS
Heart rate monitor: YesGPS: YesWater resistance: 50 metersDisplay: 0.86 X 0.58 inches AMOLED touchscreenOn-board music: NoMobile payments: YesSwim tracking: YesBattery life: 7 days/5 hours with GPSECG monitor: Yes
REASONS TO BUY
+Bright, always-on display+Fast connecting GPS+Addition of an ECG monitor
REASONS TO AVOID
-Lack of buttons on the Fitbit makes usability frustrating-No Spotify compatibility
The Fitbit Charge 5 is Fitbit’s latest tracker and it has a number of exciting features usually reserved for more expensive devices, such as an ECG heart rate monitor. The bright, always-on color touch screen is a massive improvement to that of the Fitbit Charge 4 — it is easy to read in bright sunlight and is great to use during a HIIT workout or on a hike, although we found the lack of physical buttons made it a little fiddly to navigate around when running.
The Fitbit Charge 5 also has Fitbit’s new ‘Daily Readiness Score’ feature, which gives you an idea of how ready you are for a big workout, based on three different metrics — fitness fatigue (activity), heart rate variability (HRV), and recent sleep.
If you’re looking for a tracker that looks beautiful against your wrist, is easy to read in the bright sunlight and has some impressive features for the price tag, this is a good buy. Also, if you’re using a Fitbit Charge 3 or older, the upgrade is worth it for the color screen alone.
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