My favourite Fitbit is less than £100 in deal that beats Amazon and Currys
There are many excellent options if you are in the market for a smartwatch in 2025, but there are far fewer great fitness bands available to buy these days. Tech firms have plenty of pricey, large screened smartwatches with all the bells and whistles ready to sell, but in recent years it has become harder to find a simple, Fitbit-like activity tracker.
Thankfully we do still actually have Fitbit, even if the company is now owned by Google. Fitbit’s best fitness tracker is the Fitbit Charge 6, and it’s currently on sale from EE for £99.99, a decent £40 saving on its £139.99 RRP.
At the time of writing, this is cheaper than £109 at Currys and £108 at Amazon. Even Google’s own price isn’t as good at £109.99.
I have extensively tested the Charge 6, both at launch in 2023 and more recently, and found it an excellent device. It’s slim, lightweight and has great battery life, plus it has built-in GPS for tracking run routes and even supports Google Wallet for contactless payments.
It’s all the best bits of a smartwatch in a smaller form factor for a cheaper price, which appeals massively to me. I’ll always opt for the more compact version of a tech product if I can, and the Charge 6 is basically a Fitbit smartwatch but in a smaller body.
The Charge 6 even comes with a more advanced heart rate sensor compared to older Fitbits, and benefits from clever software Google also uses in its Pixel Watch lineup to improve the sensor’s accuracy. You can even use the onboard Bluetooth to beam your heart rate to compatible gym equipment including some treadmills, if you want to.
You do miss out on some things by not going for a smartwatch such as an Apple Watch or Samsung Galaxy Watch, though. The Fitbit has no third party apps, so you can’t control music playing on your phone (unless you use the Google-owned YouTube Music), and there’s no way to download apps for things such as Starbucks or Uber.
But you can track more than 40 different workout types and sports, which means the Charge 6 is a focussed fitness tool rather than a distracting extension of the time-suck that is your smartphone.
You can wear the tracker 24/7 thanks to decent battery life (I get at least four days at a time) and the fact it’s waterproof, so you can wear it in the shower. It’s also slim enough to be comfortable at night, and I enjoy the insights of the Fitbit app into my sleep quality.
One thing to bear in mind is the most revealing and useful sleep data is locked behind a paywall. Though most features are available in the Fitbit app for iPhone and Android free of charge, you need to pay £7.99 per month to get absolutely everything.
Perhaps you can justify that spend for a few months with the £40 you’ll save on the Charge 6 when it's just £99 from EE.
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