Why I currently would not recommend the sense to friends or others

[AtrainT13]

The heart rate tracking is currently functioning inappropriately, thus, it affects the user experience for everything. I cannot get an appropriate readiness score because I can't appropriately track my active minutes. I can't take advantage of the food functionality because I can't appropriately track my calories burned. My sleep score and resting heart rate are skewed. Thus, every piece of their software is null in void due to poor functioning hardware at this time. They offer a free 6 month premium membership, but my question is, why have a free premium membership if I can't take advantage of it?

I'm hopeful they will find a fix soon for it, but at this time, it is not a recommended device that I would recommend to my patients or my friends/family.

[MattcFriend]

Yeah I've tried wearing a charge 3, 4, and a new charge 5 and also manually counting pulses and the sense (less than 1 weeks old) will consistently be between 20 to 30 bpm below the others.  I really have to push my cardio to get it above about 105.  During heavy weight training I can often get my bpm up into the low 140's  (and double checked by counting pulses for 30 seconds and x2) and at the same time the sense will be like 95 bpm!!  

If the heart rate was just standalone that would be one thing, but it really determines your calorie count for the day, amount of exercise within training levels, everything.....

[TommyIzzo]

I got a refund on the Versa 3, and grabbed a Versa 2 before they are gone. Hopefully that works out for a while. See what's best in 2 years or so.

[AtrainT13]

@TommyIzzo does it have the same pin loaded spring for a watchband connector as the versa one? One of the reasons why I switched to the sense was to get away from that, and I didn’t know if the versa 2 had that as well or not

[SunsetRunner]

@AtrainT13 

Versa 2 and Original versa are identical on terms of band connection

[TommyIzzo]

@AtrainT13   I never even noticed how easy it would be to replace bands on the Versa 3 or Sense. That's a nice feature, but it's still useless to me for the heart rate failure. @SunsetRunner is correct, the Versa 2 has the old standard spring pin for attaching the band.