[Sportsandrec] Accessable Fitness Trackers comperable to the Fit Bit Charge II?

[Heather Bird]

Hello. I currently use the Charge II which is one of the wrist models 
from the Fit Bit line. I also have the Aria, which is the wifi scale 
made by the Fit Bit brand. I am wondering what other options are out 
there that can do all of what the Charge II can do, that are more     
         ? I am not looking for a talking pedometer. I know they make 
those, but this is way more sophisticated. It can track steps, yes, but 
it also monitors heart rate, tracks movements to give a report on sleep 
quality, can           different types of movements such that it can 
automatically detect sports like walking, running, bicycling and use of 
an          machine. It also has an          that can track flights of 
stairs climbed. Although, that is the one feature I am willing to 
forego, because the one on my Charge II is not accurate. Riding in a 
bumpy para-transit bus has it giving me 40 or 50 floors climbed, which 
is of course incorrect, and there is no way to edit my stats to delete 
those floors. The Fit Bit app. takes all of the data and gives me info 
about miles walked, step count, heart rate data including          
zones, floors climbed,      burned, based on actual heart rate data, so 
it is way more accurate. It also has a vibration for alerts that tells 
me when I meet one of my goals for the day and that vibrates when my 
phone gets a text or a call. It does not have GPS on it, but it can use 
the GPS of my iPhone when I have that with me, to chart my route and 
make my      even more accurate. Cons? It does not talk, and not 
everything in the app. is accessible, such as the charts and the graphs, 
some of the buttons in the settings are not labeled, etc. Some people 
have the Apple Watch, but that doesn't do heart rate tracking, or does 
it? I would like something more accessible, but if there isn't anything, 
then I'd rather continue to rely on a sighted person once in a while to 
change or update something, and get the wealth of information that I get 
from my Charge.  Any suggestions or recommendations would be very much 
appreciated.


PS, it is accurate in my step count when I walk on a tread mill, use my 
guide dog, and even when I use my white cane, push a grocery cart or 
pull a stroller. It could tell when I was doing the seated elliptical 
machine at the gym that I was on an elliptical machine. The only things 
that falsely inflate my step count are typing on a Braille Writer and 
pulling stitches through on my needlepoint.