If you use the Charge 2 in connection with your Android or iPhone while running, it can tap into the smartphone's GPS to give you a more accurate distance and pace measurement. That's still more limited than the vivosmart - which also shows Facebook and Twitter, as well as the weather - but the Charge 2's screen at least gives a bit more info at a glance than before. As before, you get call and text notifications, but now the watch will show calendar events, too. Smartphone notifications have been beefed up on the Charge 2. Beefed Up Notifications and Exercise Tracking I also found it hard to see outdoors, especially in bright sunlight I wish there were a way to reverse the colors (like on the vivosmart HR) so that it could be black text on a white background, or vice versa. While it doesn't have a touch screen like the vivosmart HR, it uses its accelerometer to detect a tap.Īs with many other fitness trackers - but not the vivosmart HR - the Charge 2's display doesn't remain on indefinitely you have to move your wrist or tap the Charge 2 to get the screen to turn on. Similar to the Misfit Shine, you can tap on the Charge 2 to switch menus. (Image credit: Jeremy Lips / Tom's Guide)

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