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Actuarial Fables
Jul 29, 2014

Taco Defender
I picked up a Fitbit Blaze back in 2018 and it did basically what I was looking for - HR tracking, sleep tracking, step counting, stopwatch. The included silicon band would cause a rash on my skin, but a replacement leather band fixed that issue. Today it doesn't lasts a full day before the battery is drained and the leather band is coming apart, so I'm trying to figure out if a new tracker is worth the investment or if I'd be better off just replacing the battery & band of my current one (~$40).

I was mainly looking at the Garmin vivosmart 5 - the thinner width of the "band" style appeals to me, but I don't know how much tracker technology has improved. Is there an appreciable improvement in heart rate/sleep/step tracking in a newer product?

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Actuarial Fables
Jul 29, 2014

Taco Defender
Thanks. I'm going to pick up the vivosmart 5 and see how my skin deals with the silicon band - if it doesn't work out I'll break out my soldering iron and get it dangerously close to a lithium battery pack to get my fitbit working.

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