r/GoogleFitBitAir

I have just picked up the google fitbit air and i love it. Its light, thin and good looking. However, i have a very bony wrist and it feels very uncomfortable wearing it on the back of my wrist like a normal watch. Is it fine to wear it on the inside? Will the data be inaccurate when wearing it this way? I just wanted to share this to help anyone else, like me, who is in pain. Thanks!

I’ve shared this story many times, and I’ll keep sharing it because I’m honestly so angry. This is not fair.

I pre-ordered the Fitbit air on Amazon.de on May 5, and I was supposed to receive it on May 29. But I still haven’t received it. It got stuck in the dispatching phase.

I contacted Amazon support, and they said they would send me another delivery date, but then they stopped responding to my emails. I’m so tired of this shit. I pre-ordered it because I wanted to have it on launch day, and now everyone else seems to have it before me.

I want to get loud and get Amazon’s and Google’s attention, because this is completely unacceptable. If I pre-order something, it’s because I want to receive it when it launches and not be ignored and left without answers.

Did this happen to anyone else?

i had pre-ordered the google fitbit air and charged it to 100 percent last Wednesday after all the updates. And the battery was all drained and at 0 percent by today morning 10am. I am really disappointed. Can anyone please help on what to do? I had high expectations from this device's battery life tbh and now it didn't even last a week as marketed by google :(

Disclaimer: I was not a fitbit user whose app got changed into Google Health, these observations are from a brand new user that did not use the previous fitbit app. These are just my thoughts and observations with the hope they will benefit potential buyers with their decisions.

- The app / device combo is still a work in progress, with plenty of inaccurate and missing features; however, things are being added. (i.e. first day of use you could not add the weights, only allowed recording reps, a few days ago this was added)

- Charges insanely fast, never had to charge it apart from shower time. Form factor is great, barely feel it (I hate wearing things on my fingers or wrist). Included straps get dirty very fast, premium one handles dirt better.

- The way heart rate is displayed as a chart is very good motivator to stay away from the bad things that spike it (alcohol, smoking, late night eating), which is helping me change my lifestyle for the better.

- Google Health app is not integrated with Gemini app, so you cannot go into Gemini and say "do this change for me" or "pull up this data from Google Health". Option not available due to "health data being sensitive" according to Google.

- You can take photos of your different gym environments (i.e. i have an apartment gym i use 3 days of week and a proper gym 4 days of the week) and you can tell it what your goals are through chat and it will create a well rounded plan for you taking into account what tools are available, including pictures/animations of ~%80 of the workout moves.

- You can update and change it on the fly (i.e. my wife will join me this weekend and she wants us to focus on shoulders, adapt the program) without much effort.

TL&DR: While still work in progress, excellent for those who can:

- benefit from these easy changes / adaptations according to your schedule,

- do not need ultra super accuracy/depth,

- can benefit from a little motivational nudging.

At the same time, I can see how it pissed off lots of ex-fitbit-app users that miss it.

When I have my Fitbit Air on the BPM tiles gives me live BPM.

When I have my Pixel Watch 3 on the BPM title gives me my BPM range for the day. I know it gave my a live number at one time. I have looked in the app and watch settings without a solution.