![]() ![]() While some other smartwatches allow you to operate offline, this is not the case with Fitbits. After that, they will start freeing up storage from the bottom-up and all unsynced data will be lost.īut under all circumstances, you will have to create a Fitbit account and share your data with Fitbit to enjoy most of the features. The internal storage it has can storage 3 days of detailed data and 30 days of summary data. It will work just fine if you take it away from a smartphone, but at the end of the day, it has to sync the data somewhere. To summarize what we found, Fitbit works without a phone’s dependency but with limitations. We recently posted on the blog how Fitbit works without a phone. Perhaps, it would be good too if you don’t have to send this data to an online server at all. They are times when you want to have full control over how your data is being stored. People are very concerned about privacy in electronic devices and it is for a good reason. Fitbit (Partially) Works Without a Phone Dependency They would either overestimate or underestimate it depending on your activity. To date, none of the smartwatches in the market seems to calculate calorie burn accurately. But when it comes to heart rate monitoring, Apple Watch, Garmin and Polar offer slightly lower error rates to Fitbit but here we are talking about fractions. Fitbit himself emphasized that the accuracy will improve a lot if you wear it properly according to their given manual.įitbit also does a pretty good job at tracking sleep. It is the average of a lot of data and there weren’t any ground rules set, for example, it should be worn according to the manual. Although it may so bad, it isn’t actually if you compare it to other smartwatches. Kind of!Īccording to this research published on NCBI, Fitbit offers accurate step tracking half the time. Being fitness first, it was obligatory for Fitbit to offer more accurate biometric data than its competitors. This is where things start to take sides with Fitbit. Fitbit Boasts More Accurate Biometrics Than Most Smartwatches Time will tell if Fitbit would ever be interested in collaborating with any of those companies for a better software experience.Ĭoncerning the availability of apps, Fitbit is picking up some momentum and has the necessary apps in their app store already, but again that is really a small amount compared to Google’s or Apple’s app store. Google Wear OS and Apple watchOS are hands-down more superior than Fitbit OS. It becomes more difficult (sometimes impossible) when software giants like Apple and Google are competing against you. They created their own operating system called Fitbit OS to go inside all their products.Ī good software experience is a hard thing to achieve especially for a newcomer. Fitbit Lacks Apps Compared to Other Smartwatchesįitbit started its smartwatch journey late and it has only been a few years since its first smartwatch launched in 2017. Having that said, Fitbit is rock-solid as a fitness tracker (except a few things we don’t like about them, read the points below!) and reliably does what it should. That’s how I usually compare it against regular smartwatches. You can probably replace your mechanical watch with some good-looking smartwatches, but not with a Fitbit for sure. In my eyes, they are like rubbery wrist bands with some good tracking sensors in them. But if you look closely, you will also see they don’t exactly look like a watch either. Not only that it is capped in the number of features. That results in only a handfew of features compared to what powerful smartwatches can do nowadays. To keep Fitbits small and light, the company cannot just throw a lot of hardware or larger software in it. While other smartwatch companies are going after larger displays and premium material, Fitbit focuses on smaller displays and lightweight material. If you picture a Fitbit next to a smartwatch, you will see a few obvious distinctions. Fitbit is fitness band first, smartwatch second. But still, we decided to include this in our list as we cannot emphasize this point enough. Fitbit is More of a Fitness Band, Less of a Smartwatch Now that there are hundreds of smartwatches in the market, we can clearly see Fitbit has created a category of its own without going after everyone. In fact, when smartwatches weren’t a popular thing, people pictured Fitbit when they heard the word smartwatch.īut things have changed. ![]() This blog post will make this decision a lot easier for you!įitbit has established itself as one of the authorities in the industry of fitness trackers. But wait! You are also pulling your hair trying to decide whether you should go for a smartwatch or a Fitbit band. You have made your mind that you want to buy your first wearable. ![]()
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