![]() ![]() With the Fitbit Surge, there are times when you must use the touch screen, though I found it more reliably recognized my finger than the Mio Fuse, which has a touch capacitive display (it's not a screen, per se). I like having buttons on sport and activity-tracking watches because touch screens can't read input when you're wearing gloves. Three buttons, one on the left and two on the right, line the edges. The monochrome LCD screen, which has backlighting, measures 0.82 by 0.96 inches. ![]() On the rear side is the charging connection point as well as the optical heart rate monitor, which looks like two glowing green lights with a tiny sensor between them. Unlike the Fitbit Flex, no part of this band detaches, so there are no small parts to lose. The elastomer polymer strap is 1.34 inches at its widest point, and a stainless steel buckle fastens the band elegantly and securely. (Opens in a new window) Read Our Misfit Flash Review ![]() The test unit I received was black, though you can also choose blue or tangerine. The Fitbit Surge comes in three sizes: small (for wrist sizes 5.5 to 6.7 inches), large (6.3 to 7.9 inches), and x-large (7.6 to 9.1 inches x-large only available at ). All three have their sweet spots to suit different kinds of consumers. The Fitbit Surge is a PCMag Editors' Choice activity tracker, alongside the Basis Peak and Mio Fuse ($100.41 at Amazon) (Opens in a new window). When compared with other trackers on the market, it clearly rises to the top and sits alongside an elite few. More importantly, it's reliable and easy to use. Or you can take several modest walks a day and trust that it's keeping tabs on whether you walked more or less than on other days. You can run and have it track your pace, route, and heart rate. What the Surge gets right is the blend of those three categories, rather beautifully at that. The Surge isn't a perfect activity tracker, runner's watch, or smartwatch, but nothing is. It's a better device than the Charge ($94.99 at Amazon) (Opens in a new window) or Flex ($139.99 at Amazon) (Opens in a new window), a nicer wristwatch with more expensive parts, that also brings new options for what you will want to do with it, in terms of upping your fitness routine. The new device is an upgrade in the truest sense of the word. It not only tracks your steps and sleep, but also alerts you to incoming phone calls and text messages, keeps tabs on your heart rate with a built-in optical heart rate monitor, uses GPS to track outdoor activity, and has much more functionality especially for runners. Its latest and most advanced fitness tracker to date, the Fitbit Surge ($249.95), is a rather sophisticated piece of machinery in the form of a touch-screen wristwatch. The company has been iterating and spinning out different versions of its original Fitbit Ultra smart pedometer since 2011 (2008 if you start counting since the initial public concept reveal). Of all the brands of fitness trackers on the market, Fitbit takes the trophy for being the most well known, and for good reason.
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