The Tamagotchi is alive!

The "Fitbit One" is similar to the popular in the second half of the 90's Tamagotchi virtual chick is to that you have to worry about such a real pet from the time of hatching (of purchase) of - only that instead of the needs his ancestor like sleeping, eating, drinking, to fulfill affection must feed it with your body activities. As a "couch potato" you will be punished quickly: no incentive messages on the iPhone app, no badges and entertaining awards or contributions from the Department of "useless knowledge" such as: "You have now climbed 11 floors - as high as the largest dinosaur" or "mastered floors 33 - You" climbed Big Ben ".

The Fitbit One is in my view, primarily a good motivation tool - feed your Tamagotchi. , , and you will be rewarded with funny "useless knowledge". Why the escalator use when I can run up a few steps and for a performance badge with a cool spell to read get (on the Fitbit site in my account) or see if I reached my own excepted daily, weekly, monthly or annual target or have other virtual friends or Forum members have outstripped ?!

To use seriously: I used a Fitbit One for a month as an entertaining motivation tool (a serious training tool is not of course) and leave it at a monthly running workload of 100 - 120 km comparative next to a running computer (Garmin Forerunner 610) run along. It has already been written about the "Fitbit One", so only a brief list of Pros & Cons due to my experience:

PROS

+ Good and entertaining motivational tool also for recreational athletes by cool quotes and "useless" but it is very entertaining facts, interesting insights to tägichen own physical activity (how many km I walked in everyday life? How many stories on the mission, have as much or as little I slept last week?)
+ Very good workmanship of just small finger-sized Trackers
+ Very nice design - a flatterer
+ Good dissolved, quality support (rubber with metal insert; the to be fixed to the clothing clip is tight and has due to the rubber on a high friction to clothing, so you can not lose the device even in fortuitous physical performance)
+ High accuracy of the 3D acceleration sensor in the Fitbit One: without calibration (which is possible via the website) deviates the range accuracy compared to my GPS-supported training computer (here Garmin Forerunner 610) only by about 2 - 3% from. With increasing stride with increased Pace an increasingly low distance information through the Fitbit One is displayed (however, this is inherent in the system - pedometer vs. GPS - measurement conditions)
+ Crested floors are displayed analogously when running on inclines. Be registered by the way only up spilled floors - which I find useful because the downstairs / downhill running disproportionate fewer calories consumed
+ Long battery life (in my case even with intensive use of maturity more than three weeks on a single charge)
+ An important consideration for the purchase price through - even without Premium Membership - many, well-presented data on the beautifully designed website
+ Problematic function of software and dongle also on Mac
+ Easy to read dot matrix display
+ Ability to synchronize the accounts (available workaround for integration into the Fitbit account since their own notion Fitbit scale "Aria" is no longer on the website but the Web) with a "Withings scale"

CONS

- Comparatively high price
- Something "fummelndes" Neoprene Armband for recording the sleep duration / aktvivität
- Lack of availability / exportability of their own data, which are verfübbar only by booking a Premium Membership for Euro 45 / year. With regard to the right to claim on their own data, I think this is at least marginally.
- Still very incomplete German Lokaisation terms of recorded food for keeping a calorie-based diary
- IPhone app works! Only faulty (incomplete and incorrect display of tracked data, which are displayed correctly only on the website)

CONCLUSION

In summary, in my view, the "Fitbit One" a very good, entertaining, albeit expensive motivational tool for physical activity is, is high-quality workmanship with high-quality feel and perceived quality and cool design and functioning properly. A star deduction I give for available only via an expensive premium membership export function of the tracked data and the (still) insufficient German localization of the food list.