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 just received the Fitbit One yesterday, so I can't really give as detailed a report as some of the others I've read. I spent a very long time deciding which item to purchase - did I want a Flex? Did I want my heart rate monitored? I think the first thing to figure out is what you exactly want to accomplish. For my needs, tracking my steps, calories burned and sleep is really what I wanted and the Fitbit One had outstanding ratings. As well, I did not want to have to wear anything on my wrist during the day. The clip vs. band was a huge plus for me. Plus the burgundy color is really nice (though where I clip it, no one sees it anyway). I downloaded the free Fitbit app and created an account online as soon as I got it (you have to activate and set up online anyway). It asks for your goals as far as weight loss, in what time frame, steps per day goals, etc. You can make changes if you need to. Based on the goals you set for your weight loss amount and how hard you are willing to work for it (from easy at 0.5 lbs/week to very hard at 2 lbs/week), it will calculate how many calories a day you should be eating and then tell you how long it should take to reach your goal. This is the website or app, not the Fitbit One itself. The Fitbit is small and I barely notice I'm wearing it. The clip is a rubbery material that is very soft, so it is easy to get the One into and out of the clip when you want to put it into the band for sleeping. I clip it to clothes on my upper body as per the instruction recommendations, and I don't remember it is there. You can set a message for when you first start it up, and then you can cycle through various stats, like # steps walked, stairs climbed, miles walked, calories burned, and then it will show the time all on the display. On the website/app, you will get more details about all the areas that are tracked. When you meet a milestone, it has a little "hooray" for you - for example today I met my steps goal. If you want it to track your sleep, you need to put it in the sleep band. I did that last night and it is super easy to get the One out of the clip and slip it into the band. I had to keep the band fairly loose so it wouldn't be uncomfortable - it isn't the softest material - but when I fell asleep I didn't even notice I had it on. In the morning, it gave me details about my sleep pattern and how long I was actually sleeping vs. how long I was in bed, which I think is super helpful. This is a great tool, but like any tool the responsibility is still on the individual. You have to manually enter your food in the online tracker (or in the app), and it will tell you how many calories you've eaten, how many you have left, etc. It will also tell you how many you may have left because of the amount of calories you've burned. But that is all dependent on a person taking the time to put the information in and doing so accurately. For me, that's the hardest part (I've tried food tracker apps in the past). I think once I get into the habit and make it my routine, it shouldn't be so difficult. Synching data from the One to the computer/app is done wirelessly. I noticed it makes it to my app (via bluetooth) much more quickly than it makes it to my computer. Sometimes I have to refresh the computer several times to get it to show the right number of steps, etc. However, there is so much more information in the online dashboard than in the app, and you can get into great detail about your sleep and other things that I really do want it to synch accurately (and quickly) with my computer. My one complaint is that I didn't realize it already came with a clip and a sleep band so I bought them separately. That might be MY mistake, though, so I didn't take any stars off for it. But if you want to buy this, unless you want to have an extra clip and band just in case, you do NOT need to buy them separately. Overall, I'm very pleased with this choice. It was a tough decision but so far so good. I'll update if status after I've used it for awhile.

I purchased the FitBit One for a few reasons: 1. To give me a bit more motivation to get more active during the day, even when I’m extremely tired. (I have narcolepsy with cataplexy and fibromyalgia, which makes exercise excruciating most of the time.) 2. To keep track of what progress I’m making with regards to steps taken, amount of activity I’ve had in a given day, etc. 3. Given my narcolepsy/cataplexy diagnosis, the sleep tracker feature intrigued me. While I know that the sleep data offered by a tiny device worn on the wrist in bed is not going to be anywhere near the level of accuracy of a polysomnogram (professionally-performed sleep study where multiple electrodes are worn all over the head, face, and body), I was interested in seeing how its data would correlate to my own perception of how well I slept during a given night. 4.To hold myself accountable and show me what I need to do better on with regards to exercise, diet, sleep, etc. I’ve had the FitBit One for nearly a month now, and while it is a great little device for some things, there are some ways in which it could be improved. The FitBit One comes with a short-corded USB charging cable to plug into your computer for charging the device. It doesn’t need charged more than once a week, though, and charges very quickly. It also comes with a bluetooth dongle, which allows you to sync the FitBit with your computer. Even if your computer has bluetooth already, you’ll still need to use the dongle to sync the FitBit. You also receive a fabric wristband in which to wear the FitBit for tracking your sleep, and clip with silicone cover to use for clipping your FitBit to your waistband, bra strap, pocket, or any other part of your clothing that will slip into the clip. The wristband wraps around easily and fastens with velcro, having a slot and pocket in which you can slide the bare FitBit for sleep tracking. The belt clip with silicone cover should be removed before putting the FitBit into the wristband. I’ve found the belt clip to be very secure in holding the FitBit, and I don’t know how others had such a difficult time with it unless they were somehow not inserting the FitBit properly, or not fastening the clip onto their clothing and pushing it all the way down so that the clip was secure. The size of the FitBit One is small enough that it will also fit, while in or out of the clip/cover, into the small, inner pockets in most women’s yoga pants. FitBit One as an Activity Tracker: As an activity tracker, the FitBit One seems to be extremely accurate when you’re actually walking. When I look at the screen and take note of the number of steps, then walk a bit, taking mental count of how many steps I’m walking, it seems to update accurately with the proper count. That being said, when you wear this on your wrist in sleep mode, it seems to track steps when none are taken. Essentially, this is due to rolling over in bed, or moving your arm, but it makes your step count very inaccurate if you tend to move quite a bit in your sleep. The FitBit One is limited to counting steps and flights of stairs as it relates to physical activity tracking. It can’t track weight lifting, crunches, swimming (as it’s not water resistant), calisthenics, aerobics, cycling, or anything else that isn’t related to walking or running. However, using the iPhone/Android App and/or the FitBit user website, you can manually track other physical activity that you do by adding it to your profile for the day. I would also strongly suggest adding MyFitnessPal to your apps and websites used, as it has a better library of activities to add. If you do very little walking as exercise, and the other features of the actual device aren’t piquing your interests, this might not be the device for you. But the apps might still be very useful for tracking your physical activity, calorie intake, etc. Apps and Diet Tracking: In addition to tracking your physical activity via the FitBit site and App (and MyFitnessPal), you can also track what you eat on a daily basis. Again, MyFitnessPal gives you a huge added benefit here by telling you approximately how many calories, carbs, proteins, and fats you should aim for on a daily basis. Simply input what you ate, and MyFitnessPal probably has it in the database already. If not, quickly add nutrition info and save it. It will keep track of everything you eat or drink, and keep a list of your most frequently used foods so you can add them more easily. MyFitnessPal even allows you to input your own recipes to find out what the nutritional facts for fats, carbs, protein, and calories are for your favorite family treats. Tracking your weight is also extremely simple on both apps by just typing it in every time you weigh yourself. You’ll get a simple line graph displaying your weight fluctuation over time. And since the MyFitnessPal and FitBit apps sync with one another (as do their sites!), your data will be updated to both, giving you access to more information and insight than you’d get with only the FitBit app. FitBit One as a Sleep Tracker: As a sleep tracker, I’m still skeptical about the accuracy of the FitBit One. I will state that I am receiving a new Jawbone UP tomorrow to compare to the FitBit One, and I’m interested in wearing them both to bed on the same night to see how much they differ in my sleep stats. To set the FitBit One into sleep tracking mode, you simply hold down the small button on the display until it changes to a flickering stopwatch. It’s now in sleep mode. It will start immediately to count how long it takes you to fall asleep, count how many times you wake up during the night, how long you stay awake, and tell you when you woke up in the morning. Hold down the button again to report that you’re getting out of bed for the day. When you next sync your FitBit, you’ll be able to see how long you spent reportedly in bed (from the time you pressed the button to signal you were going to sleep until the time you held it down again to report you were getting up), how long the FitBit thinks you were actually asleep (cumulatively), and how many times it thinks you woke up throughout the night. As I mentioned earlier, this is not nearly as accurate as a sleep study you would get in a professional sleep lab, and should mostly be considered anecdotal. I’d be very interested in seeing how the results from a FitBit compared to the results of a real sleep study when performed simultaneously. All in all, the FitBit One isn’t a bad little device. There are a few things that could be changed to make it a little better, in my opinion. 1. The button on the device is too easy to trip. It’s tiny, it’s easy to press, and it’s apparently fairly easy to hold in long enough to toggle the sleep mode. More than twice in the last month, I’ve accidentally toggled the sleep mode on the device. Once, I was awake and didn’t realize that I had accidentally turned on the sleep mode and it had been running in sleep mode for about 6 hours. It wasn’t a huge problem to toggle sleep mode off, sync the FitBit with my computer at that moment, and then delete that sleep period from my record. However, one night when I was sleeping and had turned sleep mode on, I woke up in the middle of the night and tapped the button to see how long I had been asleep. The sleep mode had some how been accidentally turned off, presumably just by the pressure of my head on the pillow and my wrist under the pillow. I toggled sleep mode back on, and went back to sleep. The next morning when I synced the device, I expected to see two separate sleep graphs. Unfortunately, it only had the latter graph. The former sleep period, however long it was, never appeared. For a person with narcolepsy, this is unfortunate. Often as part of our treatment protocol, we are required to take one or more scheduled naps throughout the course of a day. If we can not store more than one sleep period’s data on the device between syncs, it becomes far less convenient. Also, if the button is that easy to trip, perhaps it should be on the side or edge of the device, rather than on the face. 2. The wristband for wearing the FitBit to sleep is a great idea, but it’s not very practical the way they designed it. The FitBit itself is very smooth, sleek, and has no real texture to it. The slit in the wristband that you slide the FitBit into so that the pocket can hold it has no closure. This has resulted in numerous times waking up with it barely still inside the pocket by about a centimeter, with the remainder of the FitBit hanging out precariously. Adding some type of closure-- velcro, fold-over, anything really-- would secure the FitBit much better. The wristband is 2.5” (6.5cm) wide, and is 9.5” (24cm) in length. The slit for the pocket is 1.25” (3.5cm) wide. The bare FitBit One device (without the clip or wristband) is about 1.75” (about 5cm) long, tapers from 0.75” to about 0.5” (about 2cm to 1.5cm) wide, and is about 0.25” (about 8mm) thick. Given those dimensions, it’s not hard to see why the FitBit would easily slide out during sleep, especially if someone is a fairly active sleeper. Also of note about the wristband: That width measurement (2.5” or 6.5cm) is extremely wide. The wristband has no elastic, so there is very little, if any, stretch or give. Trying to wrap it snugly, but not too tightly, around the wrist and make it actually comfortable is a bit of a chore, especially if you don’t have an additional set of hands to help. And since there’s no elastic, it doesn’t really conform to the narrower part of the wrist *and* the gradually widening area simultaneously. For me, this made it uncomfortable to wear no matter what. 3. Syncing requires the extra dongle for your computer. Seriously, Fitbit, what’s the deal? I have an iPhone. I have an iPad. I have a MacBook. If the FitBit will sync with my iPhone(only with iPhone 4S and newer!), and my iPad (3rd Gen), why can’t it sync with my MacBook Air via the built-in bluetooth? Why do I have to occupy one of the USB ports with a dongle to make it sync? In a world where ultrabooks and netbooks are pretty much ruling the landscape, we don’t have a whole lot of spare USB ports. And since most of them have built-in bluetooth, why not get a software update to the FitBit to make it sync over standard bluetooth? Having to either keep one USB port constantly occupied or keep track of a tiny little USB bluetooth dongle is a bit of a pain for some of us. (Especially when we only have two to begin with!) You have quite a bit of technology stuffed into this little guy. I’m sure you can add that last little bit of oomph to it, too. It’s not a bad device if you want a great pedometer with extra features and an iPhone app that syncs well. I’d definitely recommend the addition of the MyFitnessPal app for the expanded databases. Just make sure you don’t plan to count the sleep tracking data as gospel, and more as a general idea of what your sleep patterns look like. I would definitely say that I’m *not* disappointed with the FitBit overall. If they could just address those minor little snags, I think it’d be a much better device, and much more convenient to use for more people.

I bought the FitBit One specifically because I wanted a pedometer that could be clasped somewhere other than my hip. I am an obese female office worker and pedometers in the past have not tracked well, been too visible through my clothes, or easily fallen off. I received my FBO in November 2013 and immediately tested it out around my home and office, areas where previous devices (or manual counting) ensured consistency. To me, it appeared to be quite accurate and I wear it clipped to the middle of my bra, display facing my body. When I change in the evening, it gets clipped to my pajama pants waistband and continues to be accurate and secure. I like being able to set goals in all or few of the various actions that FBO tracks - steps, minutes active, distance, calories burned, etc. I have a goal set for steps and active minutes per day. I do feel that FBO accurately tracks my calorie output -- that is, provided I track any activity that is more than walking (such as weight training or Zumba). I began paying closer attention to calories in and calories burned after having the FBO for 6 months, and my weight loss has fairly consistently lined up with my intake/burn defecit. Another plus: the vibrating timer. I examined my work schedule, and saw that two days a week, I sit at my computer for 4+ hours. I set multiple vibrating timers to remind me to get up - and I don't always listen, but I am way more aware now of how long I stay in one place (it also prompted me to but a sit-stand desk which has helped my posture). While visiting friends with a bi-level home I noticed that the online tracker showed half flights! I loved this because of the hills in our neighborhood being counted as half flights or whole flights. I have an elliptical that the FBO does accurately count steps for. What I don't feel FBO does well when I am on the elliptical is count my active minutes - it frequently does not consider them active. I can't expect the FBO to track my heart rate to know what IS active for my body, though, so I learned after several months that the key is to track my elliptical activity in the app versus as steps. This allowed me to reach active minutes goals and more accurately reflects calories burned. I have only used my FBO to track sleep a few times, maybe a total of 20-30 nights. I know my sleep habits are poor and I didn't need a device to tell me that. This was the one defining factor in comparing to other trackers - the ability to wake me with vibration during a certain depth in my REM sleep cycle. That would be a nice feature, but where the other device had it, it lacked in other areas where the FBO excelled. I love that my FBO syncs automatically when I get home, and also with my MapyMyRun and MyFitnessPal accounts. I don't use either accounts consistently, but I have support networks on both so FBO shares my mileage, active minutes, and weight updates to keep me engaged with my network. In those first few months, I averaged fewer than a depressing 4K steps per day. A work challenge in June really prompted major activity changes for which my daily average has increased to 8K per day. It doesn't sound like a lot to some people, but for someone who spends over 75 minutes commuting and 10+ hours in the office each day, I'm thrilled with the new activity level. I find myself checking FBO during bathroom breaks, and feel motivated to have informal walking meetings, or eat my 10-minute lunch in another building (all connected) just to rack up the steps. I never thought I'd be able to make it work, but somehow it is, and I give a lot of credit to my FitBit One!! **the small rigid plastic piece on the back of my burgundy holder cracked in 2 pieces last week - the second week of August, after 9 months of daily wear. I was only bummed because the exposed metal made it difficult to slide down on and off my bra, so I cut a small piece of duct tape to cover the sharp edges. Still works perfectly, and I don't feel the integrity of the product is compromised or cheap - although I do wish I could buy and glue on just another little cap versus a whole new holder. Oh well, still love this thing!

I'd been thinking about getting a fitness tracker device for awhile before I bought this. I'd been considering a heart rate monitor. Then I found out the law firm I work at was switching insurance to Humana and that we'd be enrolled in the HumanaVitality wellness plan. Since you can earn points in that plan for tracking workouts, I decided to choose a device from the approved HumanaVitality list. After reading a lot of reviews, I settled on the Fitbit One. At any rate, if your insurance plan includes the HumanaVitality wellness plan, this is definitely a device you can use with that plan. Even if you don't have Humana insurance, though, you can still get a lot out of the Fitbit One, so read on! Overall, I'm pleased with the purchase. (I should say up front that I've never owned a device like this before, so I can't make comparisons to other devices.) I've already got the Fitbit One working with my wellness plan account, but I've been using it for a couple of weeks prior to starting the wellness plan. The Fitbit website (can't put links here, but you'll see it on a card that comes in the box) has a lot of tools that you can use in conjunction with your Fitbit One to really get the most out of it. Lots of data from the Fitbit One transfers automatically to the Fitbit website. This includes number of steps taken, flights of stairs climbed, calories burned, sleep time and quality (more on that later), distance traveled, and number of "very active" minutes. Other data, you'll have to enter manually if you want to track it. For example, there are places to input weight and body fat percent (if you don't have a Fitbit Aria scale, which will send this data to the Fitbit website automatically -- I don't have one of these scales, so I type this data in). You can also track inches (e.g., waist, hips, etc.). If you know your heart rate, blood pressure, or blood glucose, there are spots for those, too. I think you can also log food, although I have tried logging food through other apps and websites in the past and have found it too tedious. But, if that's something you're into, it's available. At any rate, I find myself logging into the Fitbit website at least a couple of times a day. You see partially-filled circles indicating your activity levels and I find them motivating -- I WANT to hit green (100% filled) on all of the circles and I feel good when I do. I also constantly check the Fitbit display during the day to see how far I've come and how much more I need to do, if I'm away from my computer. There's a paid version of the Fitbit website that allows you to export data and generate several reports. For me, it's not worth it to subscribe to the paid version. The free version has all the tools I could ever want/need. Speaking of computers, another thing that led me to choosing the Fitbit One was that I have a Mac (currently running Snow Leopard) and this was one of the devices that actually worked with Mac. (I don't have a smartphone.) The Fitbit One comes with a little device that fits into one of your USB ports. This is how the Fitbit One communicates with your computer. I just leave it in the port all the time because it would be very easy to lose, otherwise. It syncs periodically if your Fitbit is within 15 feet (I think) of the sync device (although you can force the sync using a button on the menu bar, too). Setting up all this communication between device, computer, and website was nearly effortless. Note: Any of the Bluetooth communication devices will sync with your Fitbit, but the data only goes to your account. (Someone at my office has a Fitbit Force and my Fitbit syncs with his computer. But the data remains private and only I can see it.) One thing that aggravated me to no end, though, was the lack of a paper manual. I hunted around on the Fitbit website for a long time before I found the PDF manual. And then it was so short that it didn't even answer my questions. They do have some discussion forums there, and Fitbit employees seem to be monitoring the forums, but these forums are relatively new (as of December 2013) and there's not a lot of content to search through yet. There were a few questions I had when I first got the Fitbit, that I really couldn't find answers to. I did eventually figure everything out. But it took me a little while and it was frustrating. So don't expect to be able to do everything right out of the box. I've mentioned the sync device. There's also a charging cable, a clip/case, and a wristband in the box with the Fitbit unit. The clip/case is relatively easy to insert and remove the Fitbit from (you have to remove it from the case for charging and for use in the wristband). It's silicone and it seems to be holding up well so far. The clip is actually a little hard to get onto things, but the up-side of that is that it won't fall off easily, either. I usually slide the clip over my waistband if I'm wearing pants to go out, or on the neck of my t-shirt if I'm hanging around the house. If I'm exercising, it usually gets clipped to my sports bra. I do notice slight differences in counting steps depending on which place it gets clipped, but I feel like it's generally pretty accurate. The charging cable plugs into a USB port. It takes more than an hour to charge the Fitbit One to 100% (I lost patience the second time I charged it and I wasn't really paying attention the first time) but you can get a week or more of use out of 60-90 minutes' worth of charging time. My first charge, which was to 100%, lasted 10 days. You can check the battery level on the Fitbit website (not sure if there's another way). The wristband is intended for use in tracking sleep. You take the Fitbit One out of the clip/case and put it in the wristband, then put the wristband on your non dominant wrist. The wristband is one-size-fits-all and is nearly too big for me, but I do manage to make it work. Anyway, put the wristband on and get into bed, then hold the button on the Fitbit One until a timer shows up. After that, just try to sleep. When you get up in the morning, hold the button again until the timer shows up and stops (the display sleeps when not in use to save power). Data on how many times you were restless or woke up will show up on the Fitbit website next time you sync. This is not as accurate as a sleep study in a lab, of course, but it can give you a general idea. Poor sleep might be an indication that you need to see your doctor. (I have only gotten below 90% one time. I'm consistently in the 95 to 98% range.) So far, I have not managed to rip the wristband off in my sleep, which is excellent (I have a bad track record with things I wear in my sleep; I have given up on sleep masks, for example, because I always fling them halfway across the room in the middle of the night). As far as counting flights of stairs, from what I can tell, the Fitbit One does not count riding in an elevator as stairs (I work on the 8th floor of my building so I've been able to test this). It does count hills as stairs -- something I've learned by walking my dog around the neighborhood. The Fitbit One does not count my driving time as walking, although if you do experience some weirdness of that sort, you can go into the Fitbit website and enter another activity to get rid of the extra steps (after all, why would you get an activity tracker if you weren't interested in being honest?). Something I find mildly funny is that, when the Fitbit has been still for awhile, if it moves, messages of encouragement will flash on the screen. This includes times when you stand up after sitting on the toilet. Being told "You Rock!" after using the bathroom is amusing in an immature sort of way. I'm sure this is just an unintended consequence and that what the makers are actually encouraging is standing up from your desk at work or getting off the couch instead of watching TV or even putting the Fitbit back in/on your clothes after setting it down for awhile. In the end, I think the Fitbit One is a great fitness tool. It's easy to use once you get over the initial barriers that result from the lack of a decent manual. It talks to Macs and to the HumanaVitality website. It's motivating, as well. While it doesn't measure or track heart rate, it does a good job of figuring out when I'm "very active" (walking a full-grown Rottweiler up hills, climbing stairs, and doing P90X3 count as "very active" according to my Fitbit One). Considering the cost and the learning curve associated with other types of fitness devices, I'm definitely glad I went with this one and I would purchase the same thing if I had it to do over again.

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.

Out of the box it's fairly easy setup. Battery life is excellent. Overall I like this item. Consistency seems pretty accurate compared to the pedometer on my Galaxy S5 with one exception which is explained below. It's small and easily hidden, can be placed just about anywhere and out of sight. So much so, it's ended up in my hamper several times because I forget I am wearing it The sync funtion has failed a few times (with the android app) which gets frustrating, but I don't know if this is the app or the fitbit. No stars off for this since I don't know where the problem lies, but just noting it. Computer syncing is simple and has never failed The 1 star loss is for the complete inaccuracy of the "floors" count. I drive 65 miles to work everyday and 65 miles home. I wake up at 5am, get ready and head out. When I get to the office, the fitbit tells me i have climbed 11 floors which turns into 22 when I get home. That's 22 floors I did not climb. I have no idea why this is happening and it happens everyday. Occasionally I have to drive to another office, and so far since I've had the fitbit, ive only had to do this once, and the device did not record any floors at all during that drive. I can only guess some of the hills I drive over get recorded, i dunno. It's a bit frustrating because I imagine that those count towards additional calories lost which is inaccurate. This is the biggest issue I have with the device. The sleep recording is ok, and I really don't know how accurate that information is. I guess i could record myself sleeping and compare with the fitbit. Overall it's a really good device and the little devil is motivational especially if you have friends who use it as well. I'm happy with the purchase and would reccommend it

I've used the device for a week. Many things it promises have been delivered; yet some things are undelivered. Fitbit is (apparently) having problems with the sleep tracking part of this little device - or is it their software on the "cloud"? Evidently I did not do enough "due diligence" on how the data would be reported and maintained. It is not done on one's computer/tablet/smart phone. The information is taken from the little piece of machinery and delivered directly to the the Fitbit central servers where one may see it in a "dashboard" of reports - but not in depth ones; that comes at an additional charge. Yes that is correct. This little enterprise is somewhat akin to selling printers so that profits can be made in ink sells. Note I wrote "somewhat". For the time being one may see the results of the data collection at no charge - save and except the more detailed reports that have a cost associated with them. I think have an application not in cloud but one which the owner of the device would have on his computing device would be the better way to go. As it is, the number of steps one takes, how long one sleeps, how many stairs are climbed and if one wishes to enter it how many calories are consumed, how much one weighs and the % fat one has can be entered into the data base on the website. Who has access to that? Of course one can access his own data and can even share it. But yet, it is not under the control (lock & key) of the owner of the information - it is intrusted to Fitbit. The little device seems to do what Fitbit says it will do. The reports, without premium payment, are pedestrian - and some are problematic (the sleep one as an example). Personal information is outside of one's own control. I am sharing this with you - but I really don't want you to know what I do in the way exercise (or anything else really) how fat I am and my sleep patterns. That is too much information that has left my control and is turned over to who knows what. If you don't mind sharing - if you love the Facebook world - if you want to allow others to see your personal information; then this may be a super way for you to "share". Since I spent my mad money on this I will continue to use it. Maybe it will in fact prod me to more activity and a healthier life. But you will never know. One last comment. The wrist band that holds the device while sleeping: works really well. I was quite surprised that it did not bother me - not in the least. Now if the software would only correctly report sleep - some days it shows I sleep all the time (and despite what my employer thinks - I don't sleep "all" the time). Take a look at this one - you may well like. I have recommended to others - with caveats. [I wanted the Fitbit wrist machine - but since the backlog was up to 2 months I bought this one]

Motivator: Ich hab den Fitbit One in Burgunder jetzt seit fast 3 Monaten. Hab mir den Tracker zugelegt um mich zu mehr Bewegung zu motivieren. Mit der Sport-Funktion (Knopfdruck am Anfang und am Ender der Trainingseinheit) sieht man sofort wie erfolgreich man beim Training war. Aber auch im Alltag ist der Kleine eine tolle Motivation! Ich war am Anfang echt überrascht, wie wenig man sich an manchen Tagen bewegt ( hab nen typischen Schreibtisch-Job). Durch den Tracker steigt automatisch die Motivation abends nochmals ne Runde spatzieren zu gehen oder die Treppe statt den Aufzug zu nehmen! Und das alles ganz nebenbei... Der Fitbit One zählt im Alltag die Schritte relativ genau. Manchmal "verpasst" er mal 10 Schritte, dafür berechnet er an andere Stelle welche extra. Insgesamt stimmt es dann aber in etwa, mir kommt es nicht auf 100 Schritte mehr oder weniger an. Bei Stockwerken schummelt er aber gerne mal ein paar dazu. Vorsicht ist auch auf längeren Autofahrten, besonders bei holprigem Untergrund, geboten. Ich war damit im Urlaub unterwegs und bei einer 4-Stündigen Busfahrt durch die Berge habe ich schon mal bis zu 8.000 Schritte und 50 Stockwerke angerechnet bekommen :-) Ein Plus war dafür aber, dass der Akku über 2 Wochen durchhält, man immer und überall ohne Internet /Handy seine täglichen Erfolge direkt auf dem Display sieht und alle Daten bis zu 30 Tage auf dem Gerät gespeichert werden. So hat es also gereicht erst nach den 14 Tagen Urlaub zu synchronisieren und zu laden - was nur 1-2 Stunden dauert. App: Die App habe ich am Anfang auch häufig genutzt, besonders um meine Ernährung zu "überwachen". Es sind nicht alle typischen "deutschen" Lebensmittel in der Datenbank vorhanden (man merkt dass das Gerät von einem US-Unternehmen stammt). Trotzdem konnte ich so besser einschätzen wie viel Kalorien ich am Tag zu mir genommen habe. Bei vielen Lebensmittel kann man ja dann einfach etwas "verwandtes" eingeben. Da mein Handy noch kein Bluethooth 4.0 unterstützt, kann ich den Tracker nicht direkt mit dem Handy synchronisieren. Durch den Bildschirm im Tracker ist dies aber kein Problem, da alle Daten auf Knopfdruck angezeigt werden. Schlaffunktion + Wecker: Die Schlaffunktion ist am Anfang ganz interessant, aber nach ein paar Tagen war die Statistik für mich eher uninteressant, da ich einen regelmäßigen Schlafrhythmus habe. Der Fitbit One unterscheidet nur zwichen "schlafen" (bei absoluter Bewegungslosigkeit) und "wach" (bei Bewegung). Es gibt hier also keine Unterscheidung für "leichten Schlaf" wie z.B. beim Jawbone. Für mich ist besonders die Weckfunktion ein echter Gewinn! Ich bin bisher immer von der Vibration am Handgelenk aufgewacht (war also nie zu schwach), egal wie kurz die Nacht war. Ist wesentlich angenehmer als ein schriller Wecker... Ein absoluter Pluspunkt ist der Support: Ich trage den Tracker - wie vorgesehen - täglich an der Hosentasche befestigt oder am BH. Beide Varianten sind sehr angenehm und je nach Kleidung sehr unscheinbar, was mir sehr wichtig war. Der mitgelieferte Clip hält sehr gut. Meiner hielt anfangs sogar so gut, dass ich den Clip manchmal schwer wieder lösen konnte. Dadurch hat sich nach nur 2 Monaten die kleine Plastikkappe am Ende des Clips gelöst. Dadurch war der Clip fast unbrauchbar, da das Metall die Kleidung leicht beschädigen kann und ich den Clip nur noch schwer handeln konnte. Ich habe deshalb den Support angeschrieben und um Ersatz gebeten. Nach 2 Tagen kam die erste Antwort, dass sie noch ein paar Daten von mir brauchen und 1 Woche später habe ich kostenlos einen neuen Clip bekommen. Dieser hält auch sehr gut, ist aber nicht mehr ganz so "starr" wie der andere, weshalb er hoffentlich länger halten wird. Fazit: Für alle die einen unauffälligen Aktivitätstracker suchen, der NICHT am Handgelenk getragen wird, ist der Fitbit One sehr gut geeignet. Er funktioniert auch ohne App und Handy-Synchronisation gut motiviert durch die aufgezeichneten Schritte, Stockwerke und die Entfernung. Ganz witzig sind auch die Blume, die je nach Intensität der Bewegung wächst, und die "Begrüßungssprüche", wenn man den Fitbit z.B. nach dem Duschen wieder zur Hand nimmt :-)

Un excellent coach (podomètre), fini le changement de piles car cet appareil a un batterie rechargeable ! Il vous donnera les informations suivantes : Nombre de pas réalisés, le nombre d'étages gravis, le nombre de calories brulées, le nombre de kilomètres parcourus, le nombre de minutes actives et votre progression par rapport à votre objectif. Vous pouvez également analyser votre sommeil ou fixer des exercices ou démarrer un programme alimentaire, suivre votre consommation d'eau, suivre vos calories absorbées. Il sait se faire discret et a une autonomie d'une semaine. Couplé à une smartphone, il affiche toutes vos données sur l'année, les trois derniers mois, le mois en cours, la semaine en cours, le jour. Je vous le recommande vivement.

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.

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

Great little gadget which is definitely motivating me to move more. It's good to have targets to aim at and great when you achieve them. The FitBit One is very discrete, clips anywhere and is very secure. The stair counter depends on a change of elevation by 10ft - if a floor is less than that it won't register, so it doesn't always record flights of stairs when I'm at home. I'm loving the silent alarm which wakes me up without disturbing my other half. And the sleep band is so light I don't feel I'm wearing it. The sleep monitor itself is interesting but I think the novelty will wear off shortly. I've tried both levels of sensitivity and I don't think it's telling me anything I didn't already know about my sleep patterns. The FitBit syncs easily with my iPhone and my personal dashboard on the website provides plenty of extra features in the way of activity and food tracking etc. although that's done manually. Wanted to give it 5 stars but the stair tracking is a bit hit & miss sometimes - and that's why I bought the FitBit One instead of some other tracker, so that's a wee but disappointing but it's not a deal breaker. The main thing is it's definitely motivating me.