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A fit­ness bracelet is an invari­able attribute of many mod­ern peo­ple. Some­one uses it direct­ly for sports, oth­ers as a watch, phone, trendy gad­get and more. Anoth­er inno­va­tion in this increas­ing­ly pop­u­lar thing is the NFC func­tion.

Today, devices with NFC are in increas­ing demand. The dif­fer­ence between these fit­ness bracelets is that they have a built-in chip for con­tact­less pay­ment for goods and ser­vices.

The NFC mod­ule is an abbre­vi­a­tion for Near Field Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, which trans­lates as “com­mu­ni­ca­tion in the near field.” This is a short-range wire­less data trans­mis­sion tech­nol­o­gy. It makes it pos­si­ble to exchange data between devices at a dis­tance of no more than 10 cm. It is often used in the field of pay­ment for ser­vices: this allows you not to car­ry cash with you, not to take out a bank card or not to look for a qr-code for pay­ment in your phone. With such a bracelet, you can pay for pur­chas­es with one touch. You can also trans­fer data between devices via NFC — train­ing sched­ules, jog­ging data and more.

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In our coun­try, many gad­gets with the NFC pay­ment func­tion, unfor­tu­nate­ly, do not work. This is because man­u­fac­tur­ers have not agreed with pay­ment sys­tems on this pos­si­bil­i­ty. In order for such an oppor­tu­ni­ty to be, you need spe­cial soft­ware, which will include the process of con­firm­ing cards from the pay­ment sys­tem. Fit­ness bracelets do not always give it, because it is con­sid­ered not the safest method.

But NFC is used not only for mak­ing pay­ments, but also for data trans­fer. For exam­ple, when it comes to some health indi­ca­tors, sports pro­grams and oth­er impor­tant data. We talk about the best fit­ness bracelets with NFC that work in Rus­sia for pay­ment, as well as those that promise to be launched soon. In addi­tion, in the rat­ing we also talk about good mod­els in which NFC tech­nol­o­gy works will be use­ful for data trans­fer.

Editor’s Choice

Garmin Fenix ​​6 Pro Solar

Fit­ness bracelet with NFC, suit­able for any sit­u­a­tion. The Pow­er Glass tech­nol­o­gy here increas­es the time between device charges using solar ener­gy. Bat­tery life is sev­er­al weeks. between bat­tery charges is sev­er­al weeks. Built-in heart rate and Pulse Ox sen­sors mon­i­tor phys­i­cal activ­i­ty and health in real time. The Pace­Pro fea­ture helps to deter­mine the pace of the run tak­ing into account the ter­rain.

There is also the abil­i­ty to play music with­out using a smart­phone, which is very con­ve­nient dur­ing train­ing. Garmin Pay con­tact­less pay­ments work in Rus­sia.

Main characteristics

Com­pat­i­bil­i­ty	iOS, Android
Inter­faces	Blue­tooth, Wi-Fi, USB, NFC, ANT+
Sen­sors	accelerom­e­ter, gyro­scope, com­pass, ther­mome­ter, altime­ter, built-in heart rate mon­i­tor with con­tin­u­ous heart rate mea­sure­ment
Mon­i­tor­ing	sleep, calo­ries, phys­i­cal activ­i­ty, blood oxy­gen lev­els

Pros and cons

Can work for sev­er­al weeks with­out recharg­ing. Pos­si­bil­i­ty of pay­ment in Rus­sia

Swim­ming is not includ­ed in the train­ing plans

Top 10 Best NFC Fitness Wristbands in 2022 According to KP

1. Apple Watch SE GPS 44mm Aluminum Case with Sport Band EN

This NFC-enabled fit­ness bracelet fea­tures a large Reti­na dis­play to show you all the infor­ma­tion you need. It has advanced sen­sors for track­ing any phys­i­cal activ­i­ty — an accelerom­e­ter, a gyro­scope, a com­pass, an altime­ter, an ambi­ent light sen­sor, a built-in heart rate mon­i­tor with the abil­i­ty to con­tin­u­ous­ly mea­sure heart rate. These use­ful fea­tures help you keep track of your health and keep you safe.

The mod­el sup­ports the Apple Pay pay­ment sys­tem, which is sup­port­ed in many coun­tries, includ­ing Rus­sia. Pay­ing for pur­chas­es with it is very con­ve­nient: the Apple Wal­let vir­tu­al loy­al­ty card allows you to add dis­count coupons, a pass to a fit­ness club, movie tick­ets and more. Noti­fi­ca­tions are con­ve­nient and unob­tru­sive — a slight vibra­tion. How­ev­er, it is worth pay­ing atten­tion to the fact that when all func­tions are turned on, the bat­tery only lasts for two days.

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Smart watch

With the help of them you can answer calls and mon­i­tor your health

2. FOSSIL Gen 4 Sport Smartwatch

With this fit­ness bracelet, you can pay with a bank card linked via NFC. It is also pos­si­ble to quick­ly view the noti­fi­ca­tion that comes to the phone. With the help of the device, you can answer the call or reset it if there is no time to talk.

The mod­el per­forms all the tra­di­tion­al func­tions of a fit­ness bracelet per­fect­ly: it is sleep mon­i­tor­ing, calo­rie count­ing, and phys­i­cal activ­i­ty analy­sis. There are sev­er­al built-in sen­sors that are impor­tant for ath­letes — an accelerom­e­ter, a gyro­scope, a ther­mome­ter, an altime­ter, an ambi­ent light sen­sor, and a built-in heart rate mon­i­tor. A big plus is that it is light and almost not felt on the hand.

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3. Xiaomi Mi Smart Band 4 NFC EN

Mod­el with a col­or AMOLED dis­play. The fit­ness bracelet has a high degree of mois­ture pro­tec­tion, you can run in the rain or swim with it. In addi­tion, the bracelet holds a charge for a long time: it can work up to three weeks in active use. The auton­o­my here is even greater than that of the Smart Band 5 mod­el.

Fit­ness bracelet with NFC works in Rus­sia. They can pay for pur­chas­es, even if there is no phone near­by. You can link up to six cards from Mas­ter­Card to it, since the man­u­fac­tur­er coop­er­ates with this sys­tem. You can also use the bracelet to switch music on the device that the bracelet is paired with. There is also a night mode for adjust­ing the bright­ness to increase the auton­o­my of the device.

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4. HUAWEI Watch 3 Pro Classic

The device has an ele­gant design. Bright 1.43″ AMOLED screen. The fit­ness bracelet, which is essen­tial­ly a minia­ture mobile gad­get, can be con­trolled using a sen­si­tive touch screen, a side but­ton and a rotary but­ton. By using the rotary but­ton, you can move between the func­tions dis­played on the screen and adjust the vol­ume.

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The bracelet has a body tem­per­a­ture mea­sure­ment func­tion. The own­er will receive a noti­fi­ca­tion if it is too high — from 37 and above. This helps to mon­i­tor health and take care of your well-being. A good bonus will be the abil­i­ty to per­form phone func­tions with­out a phone with eSim.

The gad­get also mon­i­tors the lev­el of oxy­gen in the blood using TruSeen 4.5+ tech­nol­o­gy, which allows you to mea­sure and rec­og­nize oxy­gen mol­e­cules in the blood even at low ambi­ent tem­per­a­tures and when you are at high alti­tude.

NFC for pay­ment, unfor­tu­nate­ly, does not work in Rus­sia yet, but man­u­fac­tur­ers are work­ing on solv­ing this prob­lem.

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5. Samsung Galaxy Watch Active

Fit­ness bracelet with NFC and a wide range of func­tions. The device mon­i­tors health, helps to train and is an addi­tion to the smart­phone. The man­u­fac­tur­er notes that the device is able to take into account the calo­ries burned, the dis­tance trav­eled, the dura­tion of sports activ­i­ties, helps to restore bal­ance in a state of stress — med­i­ta­tion, breath­ing exer­cis­es are offered.

The bracelet also col­lects train­ing sta­tis­tics, syn­chro­niz­ing with the phone. Work­outs are easy to con­trol, it is pos­si­ble to track your progress in real time. The device mon­i­tors the phas­es of sleep, ana­lyz­ing its qual­i­ty.

On a fit­ness bracelet, the NFC func­tion will work even if it is not on a smart­phone: it can be used for con­tact­less pay­ment for pur­chas­es using the Sam­sung Pay pay­ment ser­vice pre-installed in the bracelet.

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6Fitbit Sense

A bracelet from a com­pa­ny that is engaged in track­ing phys­i­cal activ­i­ty and seri­ous health mon­i­tor­ing: how the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic pushed the com­pa­ny to devel­op this direc­tion. So, the basic blocks of biosen­sors in the heart rate mon­i­tor use the new Pure­Pulse 2 sen­sor, the elec­tro­der­mal activ­i­ty sen­sor, the tem­per­a­ture sen­sor and can con­trol the breath­ing rate and sleep.

The nov­el­ty is aimed at warn­ing users about arrhyth­mia, low / high heart rate and sleep apnea. A fit­ness bracelet essen­tial­ly func­tions as a con­sumer med­ical device.

With this bracelet, you can answer voice calls, as well as dic­tate mes­sages to social net­works, for exam­ple, in Telegram, which is being com­mu­ni­cat­ed more and more often today. The appli­ca­tion in the device works in Russ­ian.

Fit­bit Pay does not work in Rus­sia, so for the res­i­dents of our coun­try the choice of such a fit­ness bracelet with the oblig­a­tory pres­ence of NFC for pay­ment is not yet the most suc­cess­ful.

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Fit­ness bracelets

Fit­ness bracelet turned from a toy into a healthy gad­get

7. Amazfit Core 2

With this NFC fit­ness bracelet, you can pay for pur­chas­es through Ali­pay. After turn­ing on the func­tion, you just need to raise your wrist towards the ter­mi­nal for the pay­ment to go through. True, accord­ing to the man­u­fac­tur­er, the NFC chip so far only works in Chi­na — for con­tact­less pay­ment through the Ali­pay pay­ment sys­tem. The device is equipped with a 1.23-inch IPS col­or dis­play. The bracelet is suit­able for peo­ple with any hand thick­ness, so it is so com­fort­able and pleas­ant to wear.

Thanks to the wide view­ing angle, the image is clear from any angle. The water resis­tance of the fit­ness bracelet is 5 ATM (sub­mer­sion up to 50 m), so you can not be afraid of splash­es and swim in the pool with peace of mind. The device is equipped with an opti­cal heart rate sen­sor and an updat­ed data cal­cu­la­tion algo­rithm, so that the heart rate is dis­played as accu­rate­ly as pos­si­ble.

Also, using the bracelet, you can eas­i­ly con­trol the play­back of music from paired devices with­out tak­ing them out of your pock­et.

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8. SIGMA iD.Run HR

This NFC fit­ness bracelet is made of plas­tic, light­weight and com­fort­able to wear. Pow­er is pro­vid­ed by a non-remov­able bat­tery. Among the func­tions — mea­sur­ing the dis­tance that a per­son runs dur­ing a work­out, move­ment speed, lap counter, calo­rie mon­i­tor­ing, the abil­i­ty to man­u­al­ly set train­ing zones and more — ath­letes will be sat­is­fied.

NFC data trans­mis­sion is car­ried out in the SIGMA LINK appli­ca­tion avail­able on Google Play. You can trans­fer data through it, but pay­ment in Rus­sia does not work here yet. Files and impor­tant work­out data can also be trans­ferred via USB.

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9. Smarterra FitMaster TON

Not the most expen­sive fit­ness bracelet with NFC with many use­ful fea­tures: body tem­per­a­ture mea­sure­ment, tonom­e­try, pulse oxime­ter, cal­cu­la­tion of the dis­tance trav­eled. The screen is bright and clear, the device also sits com­fort­ably on the hand, which is impor­tant, for exam­ple, while jog­ging, when you do not need to be dis­tract­ed by any­thing.

Using NFC, you can set up an elec­tron­ic lock on the front door, which can be safe­ly opened with a fit­ness bracelet — with­out keys or a key fob. Pay­ment for pur­chas­es in the Russ­ian Fed­er­a­tion using this bracelet is not pos­si­ble. Water pro­tec­tion is min­i­mal — you can safe­ly wash your hands, but it is unde­sir­able to take a show­er and swim with it.

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10. Sony Smart Band 2 SWR12

Styl­ish water­proof fit­ness bracelet with all the fea­tures an ath­lete needs. You can also con­trol music play­back through it. There is a smart alarm clock with a pleas­ant vibra­tion here — it has two lev­els to choose from. The device accu­rate­ly mea­sures heart rate and steps. Unlike most oth­er fit­ness bracelets, this one takes mea­sure­ments every 10 min­utes, and in the “Heart Work” mode, every 10 sec­onds.

Among the large num­ber of func­tions that a fit­ness bracelet can per­form, there is, among oth­er things, remote pay­ments. You can also con­trol music play­back from this device, which does not have a screen.

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How to choose a fitness bracelet with NFC

Choos­ing a fit­ness bracelet with NFC is a sim­ple pro­ce­dure, but you still need to get as much infor­ma­tion about this type of device before buy­ing. How to choose a fit­ness bracelet with NFC, Kom­so­mol­skaya Prav­da told Sales Direc­tor of TFN Group — Geor­gy Titov.

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A mod­ern fit­ness bracelet should con­tain the func­tion­al­i­ty nec­es­sary for today — a high-qual­i­ty dis­play and glass, pulse and oxy­gen lev­el sen­sors in the blood, a min­i­mum set of auto­mat­ic modes for deter­min­ing sports activ­i­ties, a capa­cious bat­tery, an NFC chip. True, in Rus­sia it works with restric­tions — pay­ment is not pos­si­ble on all devices, but only on those whose man­u­fac­tur­ers have agree­ments with pay­ment sys­tems.

Popular questions and answers

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