Design – Fitbit released another wearable, a Fitbit Alta with an upgraded hardware and additional features. Fitbit Alta HR, a fitness band with a heart rate monitor. According to Fitbit, the ALTA HR is a the slimmest fitness band with an HR monitor.
The Alta’s HR body is similar to ALTA but with a much better strap, much better locking mechanism. It has a stainless steel body, a 1.4” inch OLED screen with a tap touch screen operation. Still it has the same body just like the ALTA, but Fitbit was still able to fit HR feature in a small body making it the world’s slimmest fitness band with HR monitor.
Under the Hood – the Fitbit ALTA HR has still some of the best feature of the ALTA, the Fitbit ALTA HR has a step tracking feature, calorie and distance counter. It features auto exercise recognition, automatically detects your exercise like running or biking. One of the best health feature of the Fitbit beside heart rate monitor and pedometer is the auto sleep tracking, it can automatically track your sleep duration with sleep stages like light, deep and REM, this feature is coming soon to Fitbit.
Just like the Alta the Alta HR has call and text and calendar alerts, customizable clock faces and other goal settings. There is also a huge improvement on the battery, instead of just 5 days of battery life like in the previous Alta, the Alta HR has 7 days of battery life in just one charge.
