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.