It still features the same compact 40mm rounded aluminium square case, the same 1.58in AMOLED display with a 336 x 336 resolution, and the same soft silicone straps in medium and large (both come in the box as standard). Design-wise, though, both devices are practically the same. That millimetre having been shaved off means it juts out less awkwardly on your wrist, sitting much more uniformly against your skin, and we barely remembered we were wearing it, because it’s so feather-light. The Sense 2 is lighter by a few grams and thinner by a millimetre or so. Put the Sense and the Sense 2 side by side and you’ll barely be able to tell them apart. And, blimey, we were stressed, and we were forced to be mindful about it. These are so class-leading, we knew exactly when our emotions were heightened throughout the day, because the Sense 2 kept telling us. However, it’s also £30 cheaper than the original model, and is flush with class-leading health, sleep and stress-tracking features.
On top of that, third-party apps have been seemingly stripped from the watch altogether, you can’t control music playback, and wifi has been deactivated.
The voice assistant is weirdly locked to Alexa, and there is no support for Google Assistant, despite both being available on the original Sense. There are things missing, however, and these omissions might put you off buying the device. Sure, the fitness tracker does feel more like a Wear OS product, following a redesign of the user interface, but the Fitbit Sense 2 still runs on Fitbit OS, and you can still use Fitbit Pay to make NFC payments, with Google Wallet said to be launching in a future update, as well as Google Maps. While the company has been busy weaving Fitbit into the fabric of its new Pixel Watch (poaching essential Fitbit sensors), on the Sense 2, you’re still getting a simple, non-intrusive Fitbit experience like no other. Fitbit still has a place in the increasingly crowded wearables market, even with Google on board.įrom what we can see, Google’s influence on the latest Sense has been kept to a minimum, if not dramatically reduced. But nearly two years on from the completion of the acquisition, and with the company’s new flagship Fitbit Sense 2 device on our wrist, it seems there wasn’t too much to worry about. Some feared Fitbit would lose its identity, as it was inevitably rolled into future Google wearables, while others worried Google’s influence on the device might be too severe. “Fitbit is doomed.” That’s what critics said when Google announced it was acquiring the fitness wearable company in 2019.
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