Disappointing lack of support for Huawei phones

[Sheldoreo]

Hi,

I recently bought a new phone - a Huawei Honor 9 Lite.  The reason for this choice is that I keep on dropping my more expensive phones and breaking them.  So I plumped for a budget phone this time.

On a side note, the Honor 9 Lite is a great phone!  BUT, as so many others on here have said, there is zero-to-little Fitbit support for Huawei products.

Why?

Huawei have around a 14% market share in Europe alone.  That's a heck of a lot of devices.

I can pair my phone to multiple other devices, such as in-car stereo, wireless speakers and headphones.  But my Fitbit watch?  Nope.  Nada.  No bluetooth connection, no sync.

It's really, really disappointing and frustrating.  Come on Fitbit, sort it out please.

[SteveH]

This is the reason according to fitbit:

"Due to Bluetooth issues that prevent Huawei Lite models, including P8 and P9 Lite, from syncing with some devices, like Fitbit devices, our products are not compatible with these mobile phones."

taken from: http://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/2315/?q=p8

Sounds like there may not be anything fitbit can do about it.

[PoolPaul]

Hahah im the same mate i always destroy my shiny phone during the contract by swimming with it when im drunk so i bought the P9 lite cos it's a fking cracking phone for the price. SHOCKING how it is not supported with my versa. I wanted to recieve whatsapp messages on it and have full all day sync on can't believe i have to sync my data every week to my tablet now such a waste of money this versa is now.