Fitbit Air/Google Health review after 8 days
Sleep is mostly accurate. It does not think I fall asleep as soon as I lay down (I had that problem with a previous tracker). If I get up in the middle of the night that is reflected in the sleep tracking. The vibrating alarm is strong enough to wake me up. I use the smart wake feature. It also tracked a 25 minute nap accurately which I thought was funny because I fell asleep on accident and didn’t really need it recorded, but it did!
I’ve read that for some people their workouts will get paused somehow halfway through, but I didn’t experience that. It records my entire workouts and records my heart rate the entire time.
It struggles to log a treadmill workout. It gets the pace all wrong. I had to reiterate to the “coach” a couple times that I was on a treadmill and what my mph pace was, otherwise it said I was going way slower than I actually was. I don’t know if it thought I was walking outside and it was trying to use GPS to calculate a distance, or my arm movements didn’t match my actual speed? I was moving my arms, not holding on to the treadmill. Also it didn’t log the majority of the “active zone” minutes that it should have. Apparently this is a known thing that fitness trackers can’t accurately log a treadmill?
The second time I logged a treadmill workout I just waited until I was done and then told the “coach” my start and end times and how many miles. That seemed to be more accurate. Hopefully I can figure out a good way to log the treadmill without using the Premium AI.
Starting last night, Google Health can bring meditation minutes over from Apple Health! I’m so happy; it was a pain trying to get them logged manually.
Some metrics (like resilience, readiness, and skin temperature variation for example) take several days to start displaying as it gathers enough data.
“Coach” has a hard time talking about medications. 😆 Even though, during a chat, I emphasized that a medication was prescribed to me by my doctor, I kept getting the “Something on my end didn’t meet our safety guidelines. Try asking something else” message. That just made me laugh.
No issues syncing. It automatically syncs every time you view the app. It recommends that you keep the app open in the background all the time.
No issues charging. Charged from 20% to 100% in under an hour. I’m estimating one charge will last about 6-8 days for me (if I don’t want it to drop below 20%)
Very comfortable to wear. My one gripe with the band is sometimes the end of it will snag on something and undo the velcro. Specifically while I’m sleeping, it almost gets taken off by getting caught on the sheets.
Overall I give it 8/10, if I can figure out how to log a treadmill workout, I’ll give it 9/10.