Device as an incentive to exercise more, but ...

The Withings Pulse is a device for traceability of activity ie steps and distances, sleep and heart rate.
The device weighs 10 grams and comes not in the dimensions 40 x 20 x 8 mm, therefore. It comes with a belt clip, which is needed for the analysis step, a USB charging cable and a bracelet, which is needed for sleep analysis.

After charging the device is connected and synced via Bluetooth to your smartphone. Before you have to download the Withings app from the Google Store. It then responds with his personal information to, enters their body measurements and then go kanns in rough going.

The Withings Pulse in the belt clip and put these to the belt and started walking. I have now tried more times and my Withings Pulse actually shows rather less steps as I have made them. The difference is not large but mega halt available. Furthermore made in altitude are measured, because I must say that the inaccuracy is there rather greater. In my journeys were measured in the elevator, but only upward. Traveled altitude on stairs were measured very inaccurately. Sometimes there were deviations of 50%.
Furthermore, the distance traveled and calories burned is measured. These are due to the inaccuracy in the measurement step, of course, not exactly.

By placing a finger on the back of the device can measure the heart rate. Here the measurements are the most accurate. By inserting the device into the supplied strap can also monitor and evaluate the sleep his sleep activity on a graph. The data from the Withings pulses are sent through Bluetoothsyncronisation on smartphone and there you can see what it is the respective charts for the measured data.
One battery charge lasts me the way, more than a week, now and then has the equipment with me but also break ...

The purpose of the thing is actually an incentive to take more exercise. Plotting the device around the clock, then it may already be an incentive to reach the goal of 10,000 steps displayed. The calculation of calories burned and the distance traveled here are certainly also very helpful even if the measurements are marked by uncertainty.

So who needs a "coach" to overcome the baser dog who can define this device. The device works in the rough and the app is not bad to record and analyze.
However, for those who value accurate measurements, which should leave it alone, otherwise the subsequent disappointment is inevitable.