I hate this thing but can't return it because I went abroad. TLDR: don't bother.
Pros: slim smooth design feels unobtrusive on the wrist. Reasonable price. The sleep tracking seems to work and the graph showing the 3 depth levels of sleep is cool. That's it.
Cons, lots:
– The design with the long glass front misleads you into thinking it's all screen, which would be great, and is available on off-brand equivalents that cost less than £20. It's not one of those, it's a tiny postage stamp sized screen for the center 1/3rd. Very difficult to use too because that's all that responds to touch. It's no bigger than your fingertip itself.
– The interface is not designed well for this form factor. It's possible to, but clearly not been paid attention to the details to make it work properly. Screens don't quite fit in the display height, things get cut off when scrolling, names for things are very long so they have to scroll sideways to read them. Stupid. Why is notifications the first menu option in my fitness tracker? Why can't I delete that altogether? I just need clock and shortcuts to exercises.
– Fitbit want to lock you into their ecosystem and WILL NOT feed data to Apple Health. You can work around this with (paid!) third party apps that port the data between them, but that only runs a few times a day, messing up your logging.
– Fitbit's app – the ecosystem they want to lock you into and have you pay for Premium on top if you want the device to be actually useful – it often sucks on basic things. Example: the clock automatically syncs to my phone, great. But something internally uses a different clock and it's stuck on GMT even when I travel, which means it thinks I sleep during the day now. Fitbit app doesn't let you change time manually. I could change my location, but you have to choose it from a list of countries, and mine wasn't there. The list isn't sorted by GMT offset but alphabetically. Oh and by the way, when you do select one that is a bearable compromise, it will also change the language for you as well with no option to choose that manually either. No me gusta, no bueno.
– Another example, it is still asking me to wear it at night for 7 more days to calibrate, or something. This is after over 2 weeks of wearing it every night.
Will be buying something else, this is junk. Something either open-source, or at least platform neutral and happy to talk to Apple Health. I bet a £20 chinese thing would have been better. Mostly I'm annoyed that they got my money and consider me a successful sale.
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