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C-Euro posted:Is the Charge HR still cool and good? I grabbed a used Charge HR off eBay for like $25 and am pretty happy with it. If you can snag one for cheap, go for it. That said, anyone have a Xiaomi Mi Band 2? The two things I wish the Charge HR had is waterproofing and Google Fit integration. It seems like the Mi Band 2 has both of those, an HR sensor, the silent alarm vibration, etc. I'm considering grabbing one since my SO wants to steal my Charge HR anyway.
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I have a mi band 2, it's good for the 22 dollars I paid for it. This app substantially increases the functionality https://play.google.com/store/apps/..._FKbb0gLT4ZLYDA Hr sensor seems to be accurate, it can sync with Google fit but I don't. Check gearbest or AliExpress to get it cheap
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Cross posting from SA mart but I'm selling a Fitbit Charge 2 HR Black (small bands) $110 to continental US goons.
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My Charge 2 finally updated to sleep stages the other day and I have to say it is pretty drat cool if their accuracy claims are true and I have no reason to believe that they are not. For instance on Tuesday it shows me waking up right out of REM sleep and I had a vivid memory of a dream I was having when I woke up and then last night it shows when I was woken up by my partner getting into bed as being in deep sleep and I remember being completely out of it when he woke me up and falling right back to sleep.
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I've got a Fitbit Charge 2 and the elastomer band is separating. Has anyone else run into this issue? Ordered a different kind of band on Amazon because gently caress paying $70 for one of Fitbit's leather bands, but it's still kind of frustrating since I've only had this since January or February.
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May 3, 2017 18:26
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Fitbit coming out with a new smartwatch. Still not Android Wear.
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I'm looking for a wearable with a few requirements: 1. Monitors sleep and can wake you up in a specified sleep phase. 2. Has a silent alarm for this purpose 3. Tracks heart rate 4. Is water resistant enough to wash my hands 5. Lasts at least 36 hours on one charge. Is there a most-recommended device that does this (because lots of them seem to make the claim)?
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May 5, 2017 18:17
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Three Olives posted:My Charge 2 finally updated to sleep stages the other day and I have to say it is pretty drat cool if their accuracy claims are true and I have no reason to believe that they are not. For instance on Tuesday it shows me waking up right out of REM sleep and I had a vivid memory of a dream I was having when I woke up and then last night it shows when I was woken up by my partner getting into bed as being in deep sleep and I remember being completely out of it when he woke me up and falling right back to sleep. I was jazzed about this too, another thing I missed from the Microsoft Band, although my sleep is wrecked by a new baby.
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Does anyone have an opinion on GPS tracking? Seems like a cool feature but not sure if I would use it enough to justify it destroying the battery life. Is it one of those things you turn on just before a big ride/run? Since I really don't care about notifications, or a screen, if i can live without GPS it makes my options a bit cheaper.
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a real chump posted:Does anyone have an opinion on GPS tracking? Seems like a cool feature but not sure if I would use it enough to justify it destroying the battery life. I was in a really bad road bike accident a few years back. A bystander called my wife with my phone while I was being loaded into an ambulance, unconscious. He basically told her I might be dead, but was being taken to a hospital, then hung up. She had to call around to find out where I was being taken, and since then I use Strava live feed via my Garmin GPS or apple watch. I have also used life360 for free tracking, and it's pretty useful for letting her know if I've left the office, or letting me know if she's about to arrive at home (So I can put my pants on). If you have a use case for it, it's good stuff.
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eyebeem posted:I was in a really bad road bike accident a few years back. A bystander called my wife with my phone while I was being loaded into an ambulance, unconscious. He basically told her I might be dead, but was being taken to a hospital, then hung up. She had to call around to find out where I was being taken, and since then I use Strava live feed via my Garmin GPS or apple watch. I have also used life360 for free tracking, and it's pretty useful for letting her know if I've left the office, or letting me know if she's about to arrive at home (So I can put my pants on). Note that all of those can be done with separate apps on your phone, though. They're all good use cases, but if you'll have your phone with you anyway, those particular needs may not necessitate a GPS capable wearable. Google Maps even has live location sharing built in now. As far as integrating live location with your fitness data, I can't speak to that.
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Sweethome updated their fitness tracker recommendations. The main reason I share it here is that they've got a lot of pretty good comparative analysis showing how pedometry and heart-rate monitoring compare. Just a couple of samples:  
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Ed: hey look, per device settings I didn't notice before.
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My wife's Charge HR is starting to break. I'm considering getting her a Charge 2 for her birthday. Those Wirecutter charts worry me a bit, but she's pretty heavily tied into the social/group challenges aspect of Fitbit, so I don't think a Garmin will work. Is there any reason to not get a Charge 2 at this point? I haven't seen any rumors of a Charge 3 on the horizon, but it'd feel a bit bad to see it released right after finally getting a Charge 2. She likes the altimeter, so the Alta HR is out.
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I recently went from a Charge HR to a Charge 2 and am very happy with it. Full disclosure I don't really care how accurate the HR monitor or the steps are or any of that stuff, as long as it's within a certain percentage having that actual information is still neat/useful. The sleep tracking is really nice and I use a jailbroken app on my phone to allow push notifications from every app which is also something I was looking for in a wearable. If you care a lot about the actual fitness aspects of it I'd probably recommend a Garmin over it, but if you just want a hassle free tracker that provides interesting data then go for it. They were $120 a few weeks ago. Charge 2 came out within the last year (?) so I doubt there's anything on the horizon in the Charge line at least. Maybe a new Alta or whatever the big watch thing is called.
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PerrineClostermann posted:Fitbit coming out with a new smartwatch. Still not Android Wear. Old post but here's an update: they are incompetent quote:Alas, sources have told Bloomberg that among the issues that have pushed a potential product launch from this spring to this fall is the lack of a finished app store and malaise among smartwatch app developers over this upcoming ecosystem. The main draws of the pebble imo were the battery life and the price. 300 is too expensive and gps and poo poo is gonna hurt the battery life 
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Yeah, but who couldve guessed that there own app store wouldn't work out?
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More about the Fitbit Pebble: the whole reason they bought them was for the Pebble sdkquote:I valued Pebble because it did different things with smartwatch design. Its thinner devices shipped with smaller LCD displays and looked more like everyday watches. This just looks like a fitness tracker with a display. Fitbit acquired Pebble and apparently learned nothing from its design team. Look at this poo poo, it is horrible and ugly  
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Pebbles were hideous, too, so no real change.
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Does anyone with a Google pixel have a recommendation for a smartwatch that works well with it? My only experience I had with a wearable so far was a fitbit charge HR 1. I liked it well. Enough. It was stolen out of my car one day when I stupidly left it in there.
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That ugly rear end fitbit is 300 USD. Gizmodos comment: A smartwatch, even an unattractive one, makes sense for Fitbit right now. Lol
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You'd be surprised. I see SO MANY loving soccer mom's with the Blaze. $300 is probably too much, but I wouldn't automatically count it out.
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Bill Barber posted:You'd be surprised. I see SO MANY loving soccer mom's with the Blaze. $300 is probably too much, but I wouldn't automatically count it out. Huh. I don't know that I've ever seen one in Real Life and, as a dad with a daughter at just the right age, I'm around soccer moms all the time. I wonder what the sales have been like on the thing.
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I got a Samsung gear fit 2 in a sale for 80 and I gotta say that for this price, it's more than worth it.
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RC Cola posted:Does anyone with a Google pixel have a recommendation for a smartwatch that works well with it? My only experience I had with a wearable so far was a fitbit charge HR 1. I liked it well. Enough. It was stolen out of my car one day when I stupidly left it in there. gear s3 has no problem with the pixel
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Yeah a whole ton of people at work got and wear them to this day. Too big & goofy, does too little to justify the looks and ergonomics. Still pretty happy with my LG Watch Style, admittedly I'm very easy to please - just want it to last all day, do notifications and step counting.
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The Gear Fit 2 Pro looks like a hell of a device and a good value, although I doubt I can give up the 2-3 week battery life of my Polar M400 https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/30/samsung-gear-fit-2-pro-hands-on/
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Syrinxx posted:The Gear Fit 2 Pro looks like a hell of a device and a good value, although I doubt I can give up the 2-3 week battery life of my Polar M400 I'm not seeing enough improvements to warrant getting a $200 device when you can get the gear fit 2 for $80-100 right now (unless you care about swimming, of course). I also wonder why they kept it as a gear fit 2 and only added pro to it. Maybe they will also push the software updates to the regular fit 2? If that's the case, then I'm even less interested in it.
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I had no idea that pebble never made it and sold off to fitbit. I still like my original Steel and I guess owing to the fact that no one else has smartwatches to be jealous of I'm pretty content with it. Theres probably still nothing else out there that can come close on battery life is there?
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I just got a rather big firmware update to my gear fit 2. Apparently it's getting all the software improvements that will be on the gear fit 2 pro. Interesting, I wonder if there will be a revival for the app market on it, but I doubt it.
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got a gear s2 for 100 refurbished and it owns too bad :samsung: but it's otherwise incredible
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logikv9 posted:got a gear s2 for 100 refurbished and it owns Yeah, that thing is pretty great. I wish the app situation was better, but still its good.
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Is there anything on the market that works well with iOS, and looks nice next to a 'real' watch? I'm looking at replacing my pebble with something, but it looks like the choices are slim. I don't even need many features, I pretty much just use my pebble for notifications, silent/smart alarms, an always-visible weather display, and the time. The montblanc smart strap looked perfect (form-factor wise) when it was announced, but it looks like it never went anywhere, and if it did, gently caress paying 4k for a watch. I'm surprised nobody has made something similar.
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cheap and chinese, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7s2CCg0KZY
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Thats actually p neat
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turns out this refurbished gear s2 is actually the t-mobile data-enabled version. which owns in that it was cheap and the battery is bigger, and with me not using the actual data features it just gives me more battery life
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Horse Clocks posted:Is there anything on the market that works well with iOS, and looks nice next to a 'real' watch? The new Garmin Vivomove HR looks good to me. It just came out and I think Best Buy had them already. $199 https://explore.garmin.com/en-US/vivo-fitness/
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