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## Video: TIME Tech Review: FitBit Surge

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_Published 2015-02-04. Time's Deputy Tech Editor, Alex Fitzpatrick, reviews the FitBit's new wearable, Surge_


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## Transcript

Fitbit's new Surge, is the company's most expensive and feature packed tracker to date. Here's how it stacks up. Surge boasts built in GPS, heart rate monitoring, activity tracking, phone notifications, music control and more at about two hundred and fifty dollars in three different colors. The heart rate monitor is extremely useful for working out. That number is an indicator of how hard or little you're pushing yourself. The GPS feature is also a plus for people who run or hike and want to conserve their phone battery for calls. The surges user interface can be a little counterintuitive. Some functions are controlled via swiping the screen, while others are controlled by hardware buttons on the side.

All of these features come at a price. The surge is most expensive Fitbit wearable. Fitbits charge HR is $ 100 less and has many of the same features. For fitness obsessed athletes who want one of the best fitness trackers. On the market. The Fitbit Surge is a really good option. But for the rest of us, the step down model, the Fitbit Charge HR is the best bet. [ MUSIC ]

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