There’s even a term for it: coronasomnia. That has taken on added momentum as more Americans like me report sleep problems amid the disruption of COVID-19. Wearable sleep trackers are part of a $30 billion sleep improvement industry that includes everything from sound machines to sleep drugs that promise sounder slumbers. Since I’m a tech editor at Consumer Reports and self-professed gear geek, I planned a deep dive to find a device that would help me better understand my out-of-whack sleep patterns. For me it hasn't been noticeably better than the others.After trying the easy stuff, such as buying a squishy down pillow I liked at Marshalls, I decided to turn to technology. GPS on the Venu is ok, but I expected better. Fitbit ionic is always 2-3000 steps ahead of those 2 in days I count around 10000. Venu and Watch active 2 is actually pretty much in sync step wise. Regarding step counting I can't fault the Venu as it seems correct. I really like what Polar has done with their newest watches with a summary of your sleep and a report with recommendations of either rest or exercises the following day. Therefore the sleep analysis is important. For me this is tricky as I for some reason feel fatigued a lot of days and I think this has to do with my bad sleep. Many will aks the question how important is sleep tracking in the long run? Most people have their routines and go to bed and wake up at the same times every day. Can't remember how the Baro 9 was in this regard as I returned after 1 week. Watch active 2, Ignite and ionic all record this. Why can't they get this right when all the others kinda do? It doesn't even record naps! We have a newborn in the house which means I often wake up early and go to sleep again after a couple of hours. This really surprises me as Garmin supposedly is this g iganotosaurus in the fitness world. They all have their pros and cons I guess, but as we're discussing sleep tracking the Garmin watch is by far the worst of the bunch. Please Garmin, improve sleep tracking and get it at least as accurate as before the REM sleep phase introduction.ĭuring the last couple of months I've tested the Galaxy watch active 2, Polar Ignite, Suunto 9 Baro, Garmin Venu and the Fitbit ionic (which I've had for 2 years). So they "only" need to fix it in the Connect SW platform, not on each device separately as far as I can tell. This isn't a device problem but a platform problem. Of course first it is a fitness watch but why can't they put them money and staff in to get this more accurate. Complains over complains for so long and they don't do anything. But I'm really annoyed by how they handle sleep tracking. This is besides all the bugs still great and good service, although they rarely introduce new features after some time.
Fitbit sleep tracker accuracy software#
I love Garmin watches and I think, even so they haven quite a few bugs, which fitness band manufacture hasn't? But Garmin is the only one besides Apple giving software updates even years after introducing the device. They have done nothing to improve anything even so this problem is known for many many months. And they have done zero improvement since then. Then came REM sleep introduction and things got messed up. Maybe 10-20mins more, but overall sleep time, not comparing sleep phases, was really quite accurate. It was almost always quite the same as Fitbit. And what's the worst part of it? Before introducing REM sleep phase I think last year or the year before Garmin almost every time got at least the overall sleep time right. I always have around 30-60mins more sleep on my Garmin than on Fitbit. This is really the worst aspect of Garmin's sleep tracking. But before that it was always spot on, esp. Even though Fitbit sleep tracking accuracy got worse over the last months introducing sleep score. When it comes to sleep this is really right. But that is something that you can find out yourself by just looking at the lowest HR during night and day yourself. I never understood either but Fitbit was way off with resting HR, Garmin is way closer. Maybe in some activities like strength training Fitbit was a little better but overall I think HR accuracy is quite comparable. Way less accurate so, I would even say that this is really a shame for Fitbit selling bands that can't handle moving and steps as other companies can. Only beaten by Polar watches with around 100% more steps (20.000) on busy days. And the last Fitbit bands I owned always had around 14.000. when Fitbit One said 10.000 steps Garmin watches always had like 12.000 on normal days, not only walking but doing stuff with your hands. I had a Fitbit One tracker for years which was very accurate cause I wore it on my body.
Had the Fitbit Charge 3 and Inspire HR and both counted around 20% more steps in allday activity like working.
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