Train smarter and go farther with Surge - a sleek, fitness super watch designed to help you reach your peak performance. With built-in GPS, multisport functionality, and automatic, continuous heart rate, Surge delivers the stats you need to measure your effort and maximize your training time.

Fitbit Surge Announced in October 2014, the Surge was a smart watch and an activity tracker.

October, 2017: The Fitbit Surge Is Discontinued The only model of Fitbit that offers a built-in GPS, the Surge took home one of our Editors' Choice awards, only lagging the top score by a single point.

Fitbit Surge Fitness Super Watch - Black, Small However, while sports watches and smartwatches are being designed to look more and more like traditional timepieces, the Surge doesn't make any such efforts. It basically looks like a really big fitness tracker. The Surge can be found for around £150 on Amazon.

People wear a Fitbit on their wrist to track their daily steps and help them improve their health and fitness. Depending on the specific model of Fitbit, a person may also use it for: tracking their sleeping patterns. monitoring and tracking their heart rate.

The Fitbit Surge™ is water resistant to 5 ATM, or 50 meters, and the Fitbit Charge™ and Fitbit Charge HR™ are water resistant to 1 ATM, or 10 meters, which means they can withstand accidental submersion but should be removed from water promptly.

Without GPS enabled (standard mode), the Surge's expected battery life is five days, and that's with the continuous heart rate monitor running. With GPS on, which is only when you're tracking an outdoor activity like running, the battery life is about five hours.

Is my Fitbit device waterproof? Most Fitbit devices are water-resistant to 50 meters. They're designed to be swimproof and stand up to even the sweatiest of workouts.

Because battery life is affected by use and other settings, actual results may vary. Please take note of the following to improve your tracker's battery life: If you use the Fitbit app, make sure All-Day Sync is turned off. All-Day Sync increases battery drain on both your tracker and mobile device.

If you take your phone with you, your tracker uses your phone's GPS sensors to map your route. If your phone is nearby but not moving when you start the exercise, your tracker uses built-in GPS. Built-in GPS: Your tracker uses built-in GPS sensors to track your route, pace, distance, and other stats.

Fitness Trackers They don't work with the third-party apps you find on smartwatches. But they usually don't cost as much, either. That said, Fitbit's higher-end trackers do offer features, like stress tracking and heart rhythm monitoring, that were once the province of smartwatches.

While both brands offer outstanding, high-quality wearables, Fitbit has more budget-friendly options, superior battery life, and better health and fitness tracking than the Apple Watch. The Apple Watch edges out the Fitbit in terms of accuracy, convenience, and extra features, but it may be too pricey for some users.

Fitbit devices have been used in 900+ published studies, more than any other wearable, and is the most commonly used tracker in biomedical research. Fitbit devices are registered in clinical trial studies 10x more often than any other wearable brand and are used in 95 percent of NIH-funded research.

There are no truly waterproof Fitbit devices. Every Fitbit is water-resistant to an extent, but don't expect to go deep-sea diving with any of them.

Most Fitbit devices are water-resistant to 50 meters. They're designed to be swimproof and stand up to even the sweatiest of workouts. See the table below and our user manuals for specifics as to whether your device is swimproof or splashproof.

Even though it may be ok to shower with our water-resistant devices, not doing so reduces the potential for exposure to soaps, shampoos, and conditioners, which can cause long-term damage to your device and may cause skin irritation. We also don't recommend wearing any of our devices in a hot tub or sauna.