Have been keeping an eye out for a good deal on one of these ~$69 less than retail.
Cheapest price ever according to pricespy!
Fitbit Charge 4 - Black & Rosewood $199 @ Pbtech
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DCRainmake - the guru of running watches - says the GPS is fine. There's a whole section he's devoted to the GPS accuracy in his review of the Charge 4.
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/04/fitbit-charge-4-gps-band…
I'm glad that his worked ok for the few test runs he did, but it's not reflective of what users are experiencing. There are endless threads like the following for most of their devices. I persevered for nearly 2 years before giving up and buying a Garmin which was perfectly accurate from day one.
https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Charge-4/Charge-4-distance-i…
https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Charge-4/Charge-4-GPS-distan…
https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Charge-4/Charge-4-GPS-inform…
https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Charge-4/Charge-4-distance-i…
https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Charge-4/Charge-4-internal-G…
The Charge 4 was only released in April 2020. Prior to that the only other Fitbit model with inbuilt GPS was the Ionic (which came out late 2017 I think).
I wear garmin and have worn a number of garmin models over the years and GPS isn't perfect but I will still recommend Garmin over Fitbit however they are pricey and the Charge 4 at this price is a pretty good buy compared to the cheapest Garmin (with GPS) at over $300.
@n908671: All the threads I linked were for the Charge 4, and all their models suffer the same problem with connected-gps anyway. I've found the GPS in my Garmin to be more accurate than any watch or phone I've tested (especially after increasing the polling rate) so I'm pretty happy with it. While this might be a decent deal for a fitbit, I just don't see the point if it can't perform its main function accurately.
They also have syncing issues. both mine and my mother have different models that sometimes sync fine sometimes wont at all.
Had Fitbit Ionic, sync issue was pretty common and support was unhelpful. Would not buy another Fitbit device again and won't recommend it to others either .
I wouldn't recommend any fitbit while they refuse to change their running distance calculation algorithm. All other brands rely on GPS and therefore have very accurate distances whereas fitbit combines GPS data with "stride length" and then corrects the gps data to fit what the pedometer counted. This results in distance being randomly under or over by up to 1/5 making the whole concept useless. Even if you measure your stride length and manually input it fitbit will "adjust" it over time leading to the same outcome. It's absolutely ridiculous when gps is far more accurate than a wrist pedometer will ever be and their refusal to fix this shows they would rather cling onto a point of difference rather than enhance utility or even just be accurate.