Before joining Android Police, Manuel studied Media and Culture studies in Düsseldorf, finishing his university "career" with a master's degree. He focuses on Android, Chrome, and other software Google products - the core of Android Police’s coverage.
Manuel Vonau joined Android Police as a freelancer in 2019 and has worked his way up to become the publication's Google Editor. That doesn't make it a bad device - it just remains unclear who exactly it's for. You've got to be looking for a very specific feature set (on-board GPS and payments but no on-board apps) when you decide to go for the Charge 4. It offers barely any substantial improvements over the Inspire HR other than on-board GPS and Fitbit Pay and gives you much less bang for your buck compared to the Versa 2. I still think that the device is placed awkwardly in Fitbit's lineup, though. Overall, my opinion on the device hasn't changed too much, despite the sleep tracking woes - once you know that you have to accept certain inaccuracies, you can work around them.
This seems to help a lot with short bike trips, though of course, not everyone wants to see all of their 10-minute walks or rides in their workout history. I've also experimented with Fitbit's activity tracking cutoff and reduced the default 15-minute period for automatic workout recognition to 10 minutes for my more common exercises. The automatic tracking options are a bit hidden, but extremely powerful if you aren't happy with automatic tracking. I think I was awake until at least 3 or 4 AM, and I woke up well before 8 AM. While the Charge accurately recognized that I got up in the night on June 5 and stayed awake for about two hours, it didn't record that I still couldn't fall asleep when I returned to bed. I was initially happy with sleep tracking, but over time, I noticed that the Charge 4 is easy to confuse. Needless to say, the battery was dead when I returned to the tracker a few hours later. On one occasion, I didn't pay attention when I attached it to the flimsy 3-pin charging claw and didn't align it correctly. The most annoying aspect of the Charge 4 is still charging, though. I feared that I might run into the dreaded Fitbit Bluetooth issues, but to my delight, that has not been the case - notifications are synced almost instantly, and the few delayed messages I got can be blamed on Android's battery management rather than on Fitbit.
I've left the Fitbit Charge 4 on my right wrist over the last month after publishing the review to get an even better picture.
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