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I'm not a watch wearer, so I don't plan to buy one. However, I thought if I DID (or if I got one as a gift), I would probably want an Apple Watch. So Apple has
by sideproject 9y ago
I'm not a watch wearer, so I don't plan to buy one. However, I thought if I DID (or if I got one as a gift), I would probably want an Apple Watch. So Apple has convinced me there. Do others feel similar?
- Mahn 9y agoI wear a fitness tracker. If I'm gonna wear something on my wrist, it ought to do something that my phone doesn't, otherwise it's hard to justify the cost.
- criddell 9y agoI like to wear a watch, so I kind of wish I could get a fitness tracker (with heart rate monitor) that doesn't have a clock on it. I sometimes wear a watch and a fitbit and that just looks stupid.
- brlewis 9y agoWhich Fitbit? Seems like the Flex 2 wouldn't look bad next to a watch.
- criddell 9y agoI have a Fitbit Charge 2. I wear the Fitbit on my right arm and my watch on my left, but I think it looks pretty stupid.
- theGimp 9y agoIf you don't mind wearing a big fitness tracker, the Fitbit Blaze has been great in my experience. It's a bit old now, and the new bigger fitbits are the Surge and the Charge 2, but I still love my Blaze.
- brlewis 9y agoBlaze is actually newer than Surge and has more features than Charge 2. It's the Fitbit that most competes with Apple Watch at present.
- criddell 9y agoThe Blaze still has a clock though, as far as I can tell. I have a (very modest) collection of watches that I enjoy wearing but I also like the data collection of a Fitbit.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> the new bigger fitbits are the Surge and the Charge 2, but I still love my Blaze. The Blaze is newer than the Surge; it's basically a Surge with a color screen and the face detachable from the band (which is much better for charging, as well as making replacing the band practical) but without independent GPS (which means if you want to do run tracking without carrying a phone, the Surge still has an advantage.) The Charge 2, IIRC, replaced the Charge about the same time as the Blaze was introduced, it's basically the next tier down from the Surge/Blaze. (Current Blaze and former Surge and before that Flex user.)
- theGimp 9y agoI stand corrected!
- nradov 9y agoYou could try wearing a heart rate monitor chest strap under your shirt and carry a Garmin fitness tracker in your pocket.
- onion2k 9y agoYour phone almost certainly has all the functions that your fitness tracker has - the advantage is that you don't always have your phone on your person. The same is true of a smartwatch - you get the some of the functionality of your phone without needing to have your phone on you.
- Mahn 9y ago> Your phone almost certainly has all the functions that your fitness tracker has No, it doesn't, that's the whole point I was trying to make. My fitness tracker tracks heart beats for example.
- nradov 9y agoNo my phone can't track my swims or measure my heart rate or tell me if my running stride is uneven.
- bluthru 9y agoYep. I'm just waiting for it to become thinner. The thing still looks like a wrist computer instead of a watch in my opinion.
- Eric_WVGG 9y agoYeah. Aesthetically speaking, I really dislike wristwatches. But I want that fitness tracking and haptic reminders badly. If they get a good calorie counter in the form of the rumored glucose monitoring (I’m not sure if it could be used for that) I’m sold.