Fitbit One Wireless Activity Plus Sleep Tracker, Burgundy

I've had this little guy for over a year now - I wanted to get some mileage out of it before I reviewed it - and I'm still a big fan. First - I opted with the Fitbit One because a.) it had high reviews and b.) I wanted something that did both sleep tracking (so Zip was out) and I didn't have to wear in an ugly bracelet on my wrist (so pretty much everything else was out). I usually keep this in my pocket or clipped to my bra - works great in both places. ACCURACY: when I first got it (and a few times since then) I walked around counting my steps then checked with the fitbit -each time it's been within about 3 steps of how many steps I counted out of 50, regardless of if I wear it on my wrist, clipped to my bra, or in my pocket. just now I stuck it on my wrist and shook my hand back and forth vigorously 20 times and it added on 8 steps, so if you really want to cheat the system you can - though it probably will take more effort to shake on extra steps than actually just walk. I haven't had any problems with it adding on a lot of steps after car rides. I had a baby 6 months ago and have found that it counts bouncing up and down to calm a fussy baby as a step, but I'm cool with that - it's pretty much like jogging in place. the floors climbed feature seems fairly accurate - I haven't actually spent a day counting how many times I go up and down our stairs to compare it and it think it sometimes will count walking up a steep hill as a flight of stairs (once again, I'm cool with that), but on days i'm cleaning the house and thus going up and down stairs more often than usual my flight count is significantly higher. whether or not it gets your distance correct depends on how accurately you set your stride length - I think the easiest way to make sure it's set correctly is to go for a walk and set the GPS tracker on your phone if you have one, then once you get to 1 mile on the GPS check and see what your fitbit is telling you then adjust accordingly. SLEEP TRACKER: it's cool, it shows when you're "asleep" (not moving), when your "restless", and when you're "awake" - there are two settings sensitive and normal, apparently normal is if you're wearing it on your wrist and sensitive is if you have it in a pocket or something (because some pajama's have pockets - you know, for when you need to hold stuff while you're sleeping . . .) I set it on normal because I wear it on my wrist. I tried it on sensitive for a while to see if it worked better - it just freaked me out and told me only 1/2 of my time in bed was spent sleeping - I started wondering if I really was tired and not well rested, even though I never felt like I had trouble sleeping before. . . - just read the instructions and don't freak yourself out. Often times it will show me "restless" times during the night when I am definitely awake nursing - I guess there's a certain movement threshold you have to pass to be considered "awake", so it's not 100% accurate in that regard. it also doesn't coach you in sleeping well - just gives you the raw data on what happened during your night. (which has been super helpful with nursing - it's nice to see the trends of how long the baby's sleeping, how often we're getting up, how long we really are up for, etc. without having to have the presence of mind to make note of it while I'm half asleep). you can set goals on the app for how much sleep you're aiming for each night and set goal go-to-bed and wake-up times. putting the fitbit into and out of sleep mode is super easy (you hold down the button till it buzzes) and if you forget to put it in sleep mode one night or accidentally let it run well into your morning it's easy to go in and fix the times on the app. I love the silent alarms - I was skeptical that a little thing buzzing on my wrist would wake me up - but it works great and my husband appreciates how quiet it is. there is no snooze - which is good for me because I'm one of those snooze five times type people - this forces me to set a realistic time to get up and do it (though to be honest, I set a second alarm 10 minutes after the first one just incase. . .) you can set as many alarms as you want and have them go of on any day you want, so if you want to set alarms to remind you to get up an move around every hour or have an alarm that only wakes you up on * Note: I'm not a big fan of the little sleep wrist thing that comes with the fitbit. after a few months the velcro stated pulling it apart. For a while I cut off the top of one of my husband's socks and wore it folded in thirds on my wrist with the fitbit tucked inside- that worked OK but some nights the fitbit slipped out - now I have a cheap 3rd-party silicone wrist band thing made to fit the fitbit in it - it works great. DURABILITY: I have accidentally washed my fitbit twice and dried it once. it survived. And it counted the spin cycle as active minutes. The charge still lasts for a week or more. I don't recommend forgetting the fitbit in your laundry, but it has held up well to the wet and the heat. I wear it while working out and sweat has never seemed to be a problem for it. It's been over a year and is still working exactly the way it did when I got it. Two weeks ago the little plastic piece on the back of the silicone clip broke - I super glued it back together and so far so good. the clip itself would still be somewhat functional without that little plastic piece - it would just have a metal part poking out that could be poky- but you also can buy third-party replacement clips for $5 or spring for the actual Fitbit replacement clip for 3X more if branding is important to you. APP - i Like the app a lot. I've used it both on a Samsung tablet (android) and on an Iphone and both work great. you can set daily goals, see how much of your daily goal you've achieved, get weekly/monthly/quarterly historical graphs, track your weight, amount of water drank, calories, etc. I also like that you can get rid of things you don't want on it - for example I don't track my calories so i took that tile off my app and don't have it sitting there wasting space. in the settings there is a spot to mark if you are pregnant or breastfeeding - I don't know exactly what that does - my guess is it ups your daily calorie allotment - and maybe takes that into consideration when it tells you how many calories you've burned. I don't do the friends and competitions part of it - but there's a platform to connect with people you know and set little competitions or group goals - honestly the idea of me seeing what everyone else is doing and everyone seeing what I'm doing isn't very appealing, but it could be fun accountability if you set a goal with a friend/family IMPACT ON YOUR LIFE: Know thyself. Having this won't inherently make you healthier. I got this because I like tracking things and this gave me a way to gamify my activity - I set goals and I can see exactly how close I am to hitting them each day - which is a strong motivation factor for me - at 8PM if I see that I'm still 4000 steps shy of my daily step goal I'm much more likely to suggest we take an after-dinner walk in the evening. I've been drinking more water because I'm keeping track of it. It helped me track my activity level through my pregnancy and is helping me see how getting back in shape afterwards is going, I'm also glad I'll have this archived so when I get pregnant again I can see how I track compared to this pregnancy. If you're like me it will be strong motivation for you. If your highly competitive getting one of these then competing with your friends on it might work, or having an accountability partner who can see your daily activity may help keep you motivated. If none of those things pique your interest this probably isn't a good investment, but it is a well made product.

I been using this tracker for about 3 weeks now, and I love, love it. Why I love it: -The application interface is beautiful, simple, clean, easy to use, it works perfectly on my computer (iMac), my tablet (Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1) and my cellphone (Samsung Galaxy S III). Also, the website works great, also clean, beautiful, easy to use. I have entered all my body measurements, body mass, weight, heart rate ( I use a heart rate monitor for working out), blood pressure; all information that can be managed in the website (for body measurements go to LOG > WEIGHT > LOG OTHER MEASUREMENTS.) - You can log other workouts like bicycling, swimming, using the elliptical, etc, etc, online, activities not tracked by this gadget. - You can also set a Food Plan if you wish, that way you can track your calorie intake VS calories burned. - It tells me how many floors I have climbed every day, which made me realize how little I was moving, so now I go up and down the stars at the office just to be more active and to see this numbers rise :D I love it when I get a badge for doing a good job and climbing more steps that the day before, yep, I love this cool lil' badges of encouragement. - A pedometer as we know, it reminds you that we should be walking 10000 steps a day, so after a couple of days using it at the office I realized that all I was doing was to sit like sac of potatoes for pretty much 8 hours every day, awful!, so now I walk, walk, walk as much as I can to complete the 10000 steps or to get as close as possible. Now I take my hour lunch to go outside and walk (even in the snow) for an hour straight, which to me yields about 7000 steps, hooray!, almost my daily quota. We all know we have go be more active, but this little tracker reminds you, with facts and real data, how much real activity we are doing every day, and that is an eye-opener and a great motivator. I want to beat the tracker so I walk to get to the 10000 steps. - I do exercise at the gym 4 or 5 times a week, I mostly do Spinning and some weight lifting, but I needed to add more activities through the day so this gadget is perfect. I been using it at the gym and I noticed that it does count my spinning workout as steps, I mostly ride the bike off the saddle (standing up) so I thought that was making the tracker count the movement as steps, but it does it even when I'm sitting down. That for me is not a problem, I just don't log my bicycle workout of that day online, but it may be a problem for other people trying to have a very specific data from workouts. Sometimes I don't wear it during Spinning workouts and later I just log that information online, with the precise information from my heart rate monitor. - Another surprising thing I found out thanks to this tracker, is that my quality of sleep is not as good as I thought, this shows you your sleep efficiency, time to fall asleep, times awakened, time you were in bed, time you were restless, and actual time you slept, information that we don't usually know. So now, I'm trying to go to bed earlier and definitely feeling better :D - I love the actual gadget, I have the burgundy one, it's so beautiful and sleek, but a little slippery and I fear I can lose it someday, so far I'm being extra careful when handling it, always in its case (except for sleeping, when I use the band provided). - The screen is clear and easy to read, and the button is big enough for me to handle with sweaty workout fingers. - At first I was looking for a wristband kinda tracker, like the many there's out there, but I'm glad I got this one, whatever I'm wearing or doing, I just clip this on my t-shirt of pant's pocket and I forget about it all day, I just keep track of my activities using their app or in their website. My needs right now are quite basic for using this gadget, all I want right now is a reminder-helper-assistant- cool gadget, that helps me realize how much activity I'm doing or not doing, pats me in the back when I do something good and holds me accountable when I get lazy, all in a nice, cool, fun and easy way. This is just pure perfection for me. I'm walking more (from 2000 steps I used to walk to 10000 I walk now) I'm climbing more stairs (from a couple of floors a day, to 40 or more) I'm sleeping an extra hour, and I'm feeling accomplished, energetic and in control, and that to me is absolutely worth it. Thank you Fitbit One, for real.

Vorteile: - motiviert, motiviert, motiviert! - zählt Schritte, andere Aktivitäten wie Radfahren, Yoga, Schwimmen können manuell eingetragen werden - berechnet aus Schritten (und eingetragenen Aktivitäten) die verbrauchten Kalorien - Kalorien der Lebensmittel können eingetragen werden (Liste allerdings nicht so hilfreich, muss man teilweise googeln) - berechnet aus allen Angaben die verbrauchten und aufgenommenen Kalorien und teilt mit, wie viele man noch zu sich nehmen darf - Schrittwettkämpfe mit Mitgliedern der community motivieren sich mehr zu bewegen - zählt auch die Etagen, wodurch man plötzlich sehr gerne die Treppe nimmt - man erhält Abzeichen für erreichte Ziele, allerdings nicht täglich, sondern beim ersten Erreichen: 10.000 Schritte, 15.000 Schritte, 20.000 Schritte usw. ebenso für Etagen sowieso Gesamtstrecke, auch für Gewichtsreduktion - übersichtliche Anzeige der Daten in der Software als Kacheln, bei erreichtem Ziel erscheint ein Smilie, der Hurra ruft - begrüßt einen morgens mit Namen und einer kleinen Aufforderung wie "Auf! XY" oder "Rock on XY" oder "Bewegung! XY" oder sogar "Love ya" - Ziele werden vorgegeben, können aber individuell verändert werden, bei Gewichtsreduktion kann eingestellt werden, wie schnell man sein Ziel erreichen will, sprich wie viele Kalorien man am Tag einsparen möchte - zur Verbesserung des Fitnessgerades zeigt er auch verbrauchte Aktivitätskalorien an - hält einen durch Aufzeichnen der Getränkemenge zum Trinken an - Blume motiviert zu höherer Aktivität - diskret (man guckt allerdings eher aufs Handy als aufs Display, wenn man ihn angesteckt hat, da er sehr fest sitzt) - Akku hält sehr lange Nachteile: - Schlafaufzeichnung besteht (zumindest bei mir) nur aus wach und geschlafen,was aber auch daran liegen kann, dass ich ihn nicht in den Schlafmodus bekomme, obwohl man nur lange auf den Knopf drücken muss, außerdem finde ich den Wechsel in die Manschette nicht gut gelöst - wird gerne mal vergessen (verloren) durch das An- und Abnehmen oder auch in der Hosentasche, wenn man sich umzieht - ab und zu bekomme ich verfälschte Ergebnisse z.B. bei der Anzahl der Etagen oder beim Radfahren, finde ich aber nicht so schlimm Fazit: Anfangs dachte ich, warum so viel Geld ausgeben für einen Schrittzähler?! Aber das Fitbit one ist viel mehr durch die App bzw. homepage. Er sagt mir, wie viel ich noch essen darf in Abhängigkeit von meiner Aktivität, er motivieret mich durch Anzeige meiner noch nicht erreichten Ziele, durch den Wettkampf mit anderen, durch Abzeichen... Schade ist, dass man andere Aktivitäten manuell eingeben muss, wobei das recht einfach ist, wenn es sich um Joggen, Radfahren oder Schwimmen handelt, und dass die Kalorienliste wohl auf den amerikanischen Markt bezogen ist. Mein Leben ist mit fitibit deutlich aktiver als vorher, ich mache jeden Schritt und nehme jede Treppe gerne, weil ich weiß, dass es gezählt und mir gutgeschrieben wird. Klare Kaufempfehlung!

Bought this for my wife as she was wanting to get fit. I think this is the best fitbit as it can be discreet with anything you are wearing and it isn't a giant black band on your wrist. This also calculates how many stairs you've climbed which is a great inspiration to climb stairs instead of taking lift and climbing stairs is so good for you! The fitbit app is decent though I still think the UP App is better. The Fitbit app allows you to add data like weight and food intake etc if you so choose. The fun thing is that Fitibit is social so you can challenge your friends who also have Fitbits to a weekend or week challenge to see who does the most steps over that weekend. It's again a great way to keep motivated. If you want a little something to help keep you active during the day then this is a good priced gadget that will do just that.

Ce produit répond tout à fait à mon attente : très facile d'utilisation; petit et élégant; informations claires; interface Web sympa. Cela pousse vraiment à faire un peu d'exercice, quand on voit ses compteurs d'activité trop bas ! Très bonne autonomie : j'ai du le recharger au bout de 17 jours seulement (marrant : il écrit même un mail pour demander à être chargé !) Deux petites critiques : - le clip en rose n'est pas très esthétique (l'appareil lui est très bien dans ce coloris); mais le clip ne me sert à rien, je mets le Fitbit One directement dans la poche du pantalon - les informations détaillées sur les périodes d'interruption du sommeil ne sont pas très faciles à lire (informations visibles quand on passe le pointeur de la souris sur une barre symbolisant une interruption : elles sont furtives, voire illisibles) - cela devrait être améliorable par une future évolution du logiciel

This product is simply awesome, I gifted or to my wife and she had been using it since 6 months now. Got a very good deal for 5642/- on amazon. About the product, it is as Fitbit standards, shows accurate results and very handy device. You can clip it to your denims, tee, or underwear and the result is compared to hand wearables are accurate as hand wearables show results based on hand movements. I would recommend this device specifically to ladies if you don't want hand wearables

Ce petit tracker est top ! Compact, il se glisse partout et sait se faire oublier. Le clip est robuste et tient vraiment bien, pas de risque de chute même pendant une séance de sport intensive. De retour chez soit, il suffit d'ouvrir l'aplli sur son pc/tel et il se synchronise automatiquement. Il ne reste qu'à constater l'évolution au jour le jour (nombre de pas, étages, distance parcourue...) Pas mal de petites options et challenges aussi. Graphique heure pas heure permettant de voir quand on a tout donné... Niveau autonomie, rien à redire, ça se compte en semaines avant de devoir le recharger ! Pour suivre son activité au quotidien, je recommande ce Fitbit efficace et ludique.