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Notifications
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While fitness tracking is the main purpose for these devices, notification of a text or phone call coming in from your smartphone can be very handy.
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Webpage tracker
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Does the fitness tracker have a webpage that you can access via your PC to see your stats such as steps taken, calories burned, etc?
- No
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Alarm
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An alarm can be a useful thing, especially if it's a silent alarm that just buzzes on your wrist to wake you up without waking up anyone next to you.
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Altimeter
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Most fitness bands and smartwatches measure this by assessing barometric pressure. A useful feature for measuring floors climbed.
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Heart rate monitor
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Heart rate monitors are a useful barometer of effort for some people and can act as a way to measure your fitness regime more precisely.
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Sleep tracker
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A sleep tracker claims to be able to measure when you are active in your sleep.
- Yes
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Session tracker
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Some fitness bands have a session tracker which means you can trigger an activity type (such as a run or a cycle) and note it via the tracker rather than having to log it manually later. This means it can assess the number of calories you've burned in this period.
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Food tracker
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A food tracker built into the smartphone app used by the fitness band means you can log your intake of food throughout the day.
- No
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Milestones
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Motivational points in your training regime. Models vary between supplying preset goals and allowing you to customise your milestones.
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Shares results via social media
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Some devices allow you to share milestones reached via various social media. Most can share these with a few different social platforms.
- No