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My fitbit charge 4 has gps, but what's it good for? I look at my runs and it shows a circle. I guess if I were out hiking it could be pretty nice to see where
by codecamper 6y ago
My fitbit charge 4 has gps, but what's it good for? I look at my runs and it shows a circle.
I guess if I were out hiking it could be pretty nice to see where I've hiked. But that seems like such an edge case for 97% of people.
- hedora 6y agoGPS enables distance tracking of runs that aren’t on tracks. It could also allow turn by turn navigation if this thing had an sd card slot (4mb of storage isn’t going to carry many maps). You could also use it as a bike speedometer or a running pace monitor. (Though, the battery may be too small for all these use cases.)
- wongarsu 6y agoA couple KB should be enough for turn-by-turn navigation if you plan the route on a smartphone and then upload the map of the route and immediate area to the watch. You really only need a graph of GPS waypoints that you can navigate between