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Fitbit Alta Review: A Skinnier Fitness Tracker

Don't expect to earn too many style points with the $130 Fitbit Alta, and you won't be disappointed. The fitness tracker is good as an everyday accessory for those with smaller wrists, and accurately monitors your activity.

Fitbit Alta

A basic fitness tracker that looks good, but doesn't really do much to stand out

Fitbit Alta review

Update : Fitbit has beefed up the sleep-tracking capabilities of its companion app. The new feature, called Sleep Schedule , does much more than just track the amount of time you've slept each night, it learns from your habits and compares them to the anonymously collected data of other Fitbit...

The Fitbit Alta HR is the first product that we've reviewed in a while that does exactly what its marketing material says it does, and holds no surprises beyond that. But is that such a bad thing? The Alta HR looks and feels very familiar to past offerings from the company.

Review: Fitbit Alta HR

Occasionally, a Beckenbauer, Ennis-Hill or Phil Neville will arrive with the combined talents of an entire team. But most of the time, all-rounder means almost.

Fitbit Alta HR Review

A sleek look, heart-rate features, and low price make the Alta HR perfect for casual athletes.

Fitbit Alta HR fitness tracker review

Not much can be said about fitness trackers that hasn’t already been written. The wrist-worn wearables record your steps, calories, and other metrics to help you to lose your love handles — or at the very least, feel less guilty about the leftover pizza you had for breakfast. Fitbit’s the undisputed king of these trackers, shipping 5.7 million devices in the second quarter of 2016 and capturing 25 percent of the global fitness market. But even incumbents can’t afford to rest on their laurels. That’s where the Alta HR, Fitbit’s newest tracker, comes in. Fitbit’s Alta HR improves upon last year’s Alta with sleep-tracking and heart rate-monitoring features — all in a slim, compact frame. We came away impressed by the device’s accuracy when tracking heart rate. While we wish the body was waterproof, and the display was a little easier to activate, we think the Alta HR is one of the best fitness trackers you can buy at its price point. It’s near impossible to tell the Alta HR apart from its...

Review: Fitbit Alta HR

No one needs an activity tracker. Sure, you feel a whiff of superiority wagging your wrist and boasting about how much ground you've covered today. But let's not pretend that wearing a wrist computer makes you a better person.

Love my fit bit!

It's small, easy to use, and the battery holds for a great amount of time. I also like how this is a thinner model because you're able to use bracelets on the same arm as the watch.