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Fitbit One: The Bluetooth Smart-enabled Fitbit
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Fitbit One: The Bluetooth Smart-enabled Fitbit
Fitbit One: The Bluetooth Smart-enabled Fitbit
Fitbit One: The Bluetooth Smart-enabled Fitbit
Fitbit One: The Bluetooth Smart-enabled Fitbit
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I bought one of these last Thursday and am very interested to see your detailed review. My three initial impressions are:
(1) it’s fun as long as you use it to do more than the day before, rather than take any notice of the actual metrics (seems to read a little high).
(2) The sleep functionality is a gimmick that I’ve used twice and won’t bother with again.
(3) there are just too many add-ons with the dongle for USB-charging, dongle for PC-synching, silicon clip case, wrist band etc.
(4) whereas the PC synching is a little painful with the extra dongle, the iPad bluetooth synching is fantastic – it’s almost enough to convince me to upgrade my iPhone (whereas I had been considering defecting to another OS).
I had planned to get the Aria scales at the same time, but the store had them alongside the generic non-wifi scales and I found it very hard to justify an extra $100 for wifi connectivity and dodgy bodyfat calculations. I bought a $30 digital scale and it takes 2 seconds to enter the weight into the app myself.
I’ve bought my wife a Fitbit One to replace the Ultra she lost. I’m also getting her a HRM to go with it – either the Polar H7 or Wahoo Blue. I’m assuming the HRM will pair with the Fitbit iPhone app but I’ve not been able to find any definitive information to confirm this. Do you know if this is the case? Or is there some other way to sync HR data to a Fitbit account? Thanks.
I just tried it. The FitBit iPhone app – at least as far as I can tell – has no method of pairing to any HR strap. Really nothing except the FitBit shows up on it.