I second you on this but if you want an answer is simple, if they gave you this option everyone would would select it, because its common sense, however if this was enabled, your screen would be on... all the time... if you are an actively social person, which would basically drain the battery way faster than they want it to drain, this would cause mayor upheaval in the forums by customers feeling duped as they expected a product that had a battery life of days and got one with hours.
This is clearly a situation where at the end of product design the design team in charge of battery life noticed it would not have the battery life they expected, so they were scrambling to cut battery useage any way they could, and they figured in all of their inteligence that cutting this off would save roughly anywhere from 30-50% of battery, and went ahead with it, this way the watch would meet the original battery life envisioned by the main designers. and only be a "minor" inconvenience to customers, however the idiot that suggested this has clearly never used a smartwatch in his life, as screen light up on ANY notification is basically smartwatch 101 in any brand or manufacturer.
That is aside the fact that whomever designed this thing to be removeable in order to CHARGE it should be should be taken out to the parking lot and shot, im sure if the screen would work as we want it to, the battery would last less than a day, which would put them in a really bad situation PR and Marketting wise, since they already advertised battery life as superior than their competitors.
I come from a combo of pebble watch and Charge HR, pebble on left hand, Charge on right, because it gave me the flexibility to have the best of both worlds, 5 days battery life on both devices on an active lifestyle, now the blaze comes out, and i IMMEDIATELY buy it, only to find it uses the same useless and awkward charging cradle the old nike fuel gps watch used to use, (which in a practical enviroment is uselless, tried it and never worked properly).
The pebble lasts a whole week without charge, and this is from a person that has at least 100 notifications or more a day, the e paper screen is ALWAYS ON, you dont have to flick a wrist to turn it on, if a call came in, it vibrated and automatically turned on the light (like it should), you could customize to give you weather etc, and best of all the pebble was FULLY submersible up to 10m and didnt require a cradle to charge.
What im going with this is i love my fitbit charge, best thing ever designed, (xept for it not being completely waterproof which still baffles me, as it would be easily doable) also fitbit has great CR service, it is beyond my comprehension how fitbit, having competitors pumping out stuff like the new pebble color, could seriously make such a under impressive device.
I am dissapointed at fitbit for letting this product reach market.
As you perfectly put it, a product that needs 3 parragraphs to explain its most basic feature of operation, its not fully waterproof even tho its a sports watch and marketted as such, and requires disassembly of the product to do the most basic operation of it (charging), is a product that should have never left the drawing board at the company, whomever greenlighted this thing to market should seriously be fired, i know i would have been if this had happened at my company.
Dear Fitbit, please try it again, make it charge like the pebble does with a simple magnetic charge connector, use a color always-on epaper screen (again like the pebble) for best experience and increased battery file and loose the "touchscreeny" ness and dissassembly-to-charge ness, if you bought a fitbit you didnt buy it expecting touchscreen, you bought it because expect perfect funtionality, long battery life, and ruggedness to survive an active lifestyle, like your charge hr did, have any of your designers ever tried "swiping" while running? clearly not, this is why when active, buttons are king, when you are running, trying swipe is a really bad idea, you always end up clicking or swiping different things. im just counting the days until im using this thing and during a hard sport the actual watch cube will pop out and get damaged, if i wanted a "delicate and fancy watch that didnt last a day worth of battery" id buy an apple watch, so please dont try to copy the apple device.
Again fitbit i am deeply dissapointed, i am going to return this product and keep using my pebble/charge hr combo until you get it right.
For the record, this was an Im angry but still love you/get your stuff together rant, not an i hate you never want to see you again rant, and yes it does make a difference. just wanted to make sure to say it.
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