Fitbit One - physical activity tracker

On Habré, reviews of some physical activity trackers have already been published: Nike Fuelband SE and Shine . The turn has come to tell a little about Fitbit One.

The Fitbit One tracker captures, collects and transmits to the cloud service:

• calories burned
• steps taken
• the floors covered
• distance traveled
• the duration and quality of sleep.
• Silent alarm function at specified time.

I have been using Fitbit One since December 2013. During this time, he:

• was about two dozen times dropped to the floor from a height of one and a half meters,
• three times lost and will find in hotels and cafes,
• washed in a trouser pocket (in a clothespin) once.
• Not less than three times I managed to step on it with my foot in my shoe.
• One time I dropped the tracker in an elevator shaft, and it flew 13 floors in free fall.
• After that, he lay for two days in a puddle of engine lubrication.

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Despite the fact that my Fitbit One went through fire, water and the Olympic Games, all this, the tracker continues to work as if nothing had happened , and almost no scratches on it.

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I immediately ordered two identical Fitbit One at Hamme on Amazon for $ 102 apiece with direct free shipping to the Russian Federation (for orders exceeding $ 110). The package went to me from Japan via the EMS delivery service and reached the destination address after 9 days. EJ266486067JP - track to track through the website of the RF Post. Not very long, because it is worth noting that the delivery fell on the pre-New Year period, and the customs were full tin.



The package, but rather the parcel came in a paper bag. Packages with trackers were wrapped in bubble wrap.









The kit includes:

• the tracker itself
• short instruction
• wrist bandana
• rubber case with clothespin,
• proprietary charging adapter
• proprietary bluetooth dongle 4.0

The gadget is wireless, synchronization occurs via Bluetooth 4.0. Due to the bundled brand dongle tracker, you can purchase those who do not have a single device with support for Bluetooth 4.0. Moreover, access to the tracker settings can be carried out from any computer via a browser or smartphone installed by the application, and not just the one to which Fitbit One is attached.



The proprietary bluetooth 4.0 dongle in the kit is not universal - it works only with Fitbit devices.







There are some difficulties by first connecting the tracker to charging. He too tightly and tightly sits in the adapter for charging, so much so that then it is almost impossible to remove it from there. To avoid such problems, you need a soft graphite pencil to paint over the recess on the device, as shown in the photo, thus slightly smearing it.









Thanks to wireless sync, a wired connection is required exclusively to recharge the device.

The device has a sufficient amount of internal memory in order to accumulate information about each minute of activity for 7 days.



According to official data, the battery should be enough for the same time, but after the first charge (for 1 hour from the USB port of the laptop), it worked for me for almost a month.

Thus, the tracker has a large margin of autonomy.



The device is equipped with a monochrome OLED screen that displays various information at the touch of a single button. The body is made of smooth durable translucent plastic.





Rubber cover-clothespin from the kit. Allows you to attach the tracker to belts, pockets and clothing edges. Provides the tracker with additional physical protection. Initially, the cover seemed harsh, and I was afraid that I would tear it out of carelessness by putting a tracker in it, or that the cover would eventually stretch too much. Fears for 4 months were not confirmed, the cover has not lost its functionality and qualities.















Bandana for attaching the tracker to the hand is made of light soft-touch material. The tracker is hiding in the pocket of the grid on it. Velcro bandana.





The main purpose of bandanas is to help with the collection of sleep statistics. Before getting ready to go to sleep, you need to wear a bandana with a tracker on the hand that is not dominant (left for right-handers, right, for left-handers). Then by long pressing the button you need to activate the sleep mode. After waking up, you need to turn off the mode in the same way.

If you suddenly forget to enable or disable the registration mode of sleep statistics, you can make post-factum adjustments through your Fibit account, because the tracker writes statistics continuously.











The accuracy of measuring the distance traveled experimentally was determined as + \ - 5-10 meters for every 100 meters traveled. You can set to use metric or English system of measures.



Demonstrates the steps for installing, configuring software on a personal computer and registration. Optional in this form if you are using a smartphone, but somehow inevitable. You can optionally connect a Google or Facebook account and share achievements or compete with friends. Unfortunately, there is no Russian language. I propose to persistently ask for the introduction of his support.

Personal Area Fitbit

It looks like a personal account.



It is possible to take into account, manually adding, eaten foods, drinking water, various non-standard loads and activities, changes in weight and blood glucose level and pulse.



Firmware for the gadget does not come out often, but they are implemented new features. The update takes place wirelessly.



By the way, Fitbit One tracker is perfectly combined with smart scales of the same manufacturer. They record weight, body mass index and body fat percentage by transferring all the information to your Fitbit account during synchronization via Wi-Fi.
Fitbit Aria Wi-Fi Smart Scale, Black , cost 106 USD on Amazon.

Official pages of the Fitbit One tracker: general information , characteristics .

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