This year I got an Apple watch, and thus began the comparison against my beloved FitBitch...
I don't know anyone else with one yet, so the interaction with friends bit is unfulfilled and will have to wait.
The cool factor for me is being able to measure my own heart rate, and see what is normal for me. Currently my range is anywhere from 46 bpm while sleeping up to 120 bmp while running around which is pretty cool!
Similarly to the FitBitch, floors climbed seemed to not work as I would expect... which softened the blow I had initially given the Fitbit over the same matter... until I recently read that the altimeter portion is contained within the paired iPhone and not the watch. Given how many things they had to cram into the watch I understand why it isn't in there, but it left me feeling like it was inaccurate.
The charge time on the watch is about a day and a bit, which makes it relatively ineffective for capturing sleep habits and heart rate. I've found that if I do wear it overnight, I end up charging it during an awkward time the next day and subsequently forgetting to put it back on, or not wearing it when I'm actually doing something. Not that big of a deal unless you're getting credit for your workouts somewhere else.
I had thought that the watch was going to help eliminate lugging around as much tech during workouts, however due to the altimeter and gps functionality residing in the iPhone it actually increases the amount of gear you've got. Of course it gives you the added functionality of heart rate monitoring, which at the moment you would have to strap on a heart rate monitor to get any other way... so it's not that bad, and at least is more comfortable than trying to keep a heartrate monitor in place.
Overall they've done a good job, but it still has a ways to go in terms of being more than a glorified heartrate monitor for me.
Yes it brings some of the functionality of my phone conveniently out of my pocket, but I wasn't someone who was really that bothered by taking my phone out of my pocket to do things in the first place. For me, that's like people who complain about webpages being too long... and that everything should fit on the screen. Quite frankly I'd rather scroll than have to click through 10 different pages of screen sized content if it doesn't really make any sense to split it up in the first place. Scrolling is not that difficult. Get over it.
I don't know anyone else with one yet, so the interaction with friends bit is unfulfilled and will have to wait.
The cool factor for me is being able to measure my own heart rate, and see what is normal for me. Currently my range is anywhere from 46 bpm while sleeping up to 120 bmp while running around which is pretty cool!
Similarly to the FitBitch, floors climbed seemed to not work as I would expect... which softened the blow I had initially given the Fitbit over the same matter... until I recently read that the altimeter portion is contained within the paired iPhone and not the watch. Given how many things they had to cram into the watch I understand why it isn't in there, but it left me feeling like it was inaccurate.
The charge time on the watch is about a day and a bit, which makes it relatively ineffective for capturing sleep habits and heart rate. I've found that if I do wear it overnight, I end up charging it during an awkward time the next day and subsequently forgetting to put it back on, or not wearing it when I'm actually doing something. Not that big of a deal unless you're getting credit for your workouts somewhere else.
I had thought that the watch was going to help eliminate lugging around as much tech during workouts, however due to the altimeter and gps functionality residing in the iPhone it actually increases the amount of gear you've got. Of course it gives you the added functionality of heart rate monitoring, which at the moment you would have to strap on a heart rate monitor to get any other way... so it's not that bad, and at least is more comfortable than trying to keep a heartrate monitor in place.
Overall they've done a good job, but it still has a ways to go in terms of being more than a glorified heartrate monitor for me.
Yes it brings some of the functionality of my phone conveniently out of my pocket, but I wasn't someone who was really that bothered by taking my phone out of my pocket to do things in the first place. For me, that's like people who complain about webpages being too long... and that everything should fit on the screen. Quite frankly I'd rather scroll than have to click through 10 different pages of screen sized content if it doesn't really make any sense to split it up in the first place. Scrolling is not that difficult. Get over it.
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