Reminder to Move

[MelT]

Just saw that the new Fitbit Alta has a "remind to move" feature.  What are the chances of this being added to the Blaze?  I feel like it would be an awesome addition!  

[Marko3]

Well this sucks, I am about to get a new tracker and it's seem that it won't be fitbit blaze. I am working a lot behind a pc so reminder to move is really really important to me. Plus I don't like the - it's comming soon, seems like marketing BS to me by now.

Seems like I will take a look at Garmin vivoactive HR. Got the reminder , bit more expensive but for extra 50 I get waterproof , GPS and better battery life(although it's ugly). Pitty I generally liked my Charge HR (except construction)

[racertempo]

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@Marko3 wrote:

Well this sucks, I am about to get a new tracker and it's seem that it won't be fitbit blaze. I am working a lot behind a pc so reminder to move is really really important to me. Plus I don't like the - it's comming soon, seems like marketing BS to me by now.

Seems like I will take a look at Garmin vivoactive HR. Got the reminder , bit more expensive but for extra 50 I get waterproof , GPS and better battery life(although it's ugly). Pitty I generally liked my Charge HR (except construction)

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Good move, don't buy a Blaze on the IOU of the potential added feature.  The vivoactive is ugly, but definitely focuses on runners with the on board GPS.  Good luck.....you might want to check out the Polar A360 too.   It has reminders to move, is waterproof, but no GPS and HR is only during workouts, which preserves battery life in a big way.

[Rich_Laue]

Updates for the app are fairly easy to release. Firmware updates on the Blaze are another thing, they have to be released slowly 3-4 weeks, to keep from overloading the server, plus require extra steps for the user. Fitbit I'm sure wants to get it right the first time.

[Philus]

so.. 6 months later...... ?!?!?!?!??!!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[Marko3]

Thank you for the tip! I will take a look at it.

[Marko3]

Actually there is also Garmin Vivosmart HR and HR(+) seems to look nicer and have more functions than Fitbit. So I guess good bye Fitbit! Hopefully I will get my money back for Fitbit charge HR next week.

[racertempo]

Ah, gotch...funny.  In the US the Vivoactive HR is $150 and the Vivoactive HR+ is $220, so the blaze is in the middle at 200.  The garmins are waterproof and have reminders to move (not important features to me), but the blaze has changeable bands and is color.  Just depends on what you want, for the extra $20 you get the onboards GPS in the Vivoactive HR+ which could be good for some.  

The point was, that none of the Garmin devices have interchangable faces in the price range as the Blaze, you need to spend much more money on Garmin to get what the other guy was talking about "having hundreds to choose from". The Polar has 4 'faces', but if you thing the Blaze faces are boring these would put you to sleep.  All have good products and if you just detail the specific features that are most important to you there is a clear best.  Want waterproof and GPS, Vivoactive HR+, want nice color display and interchangable bands, Blaze, want the simpliest app and waterproof, Polar.  It is sort of a good thing that none of them are exactly apple to apples.

[RadPitt]

Isn't the update from April ( https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Blaze/Blaze-Firmware-Update-17-8-200-3/td-p/1318684 ) the latest one? Has it been abandoned since then?

[RadPitt]

Distributing updates is a solved problem. It doesn't take 4 weeks to roll out an update due to server load. This is solely a matter of their developers having to develop the feature. They are probably understaffed, which makes it take extremely long time to develop new updates.

[ConeOfFire]

I posted on Fitbit's Facebook Page. Here's the conversation:

Fitbit: Thanks for reaching out, Sean! This suggestion has been posted already on our Ideas Board, have you already visited this link to show your support by voting and leaving a comment: Feature Requests? Hope to hear from you!

Me: Yes, I have shown support by voting; however, if you look at the link I've posted, this is a feature that was already promised to us, not only in that forum post but when Blaze was first coming out; however, corrections were made that it would be "added later" because it wasn't ready at launch.

Fitbit: Thanks for the info! We’re working to make Reminders to Move available in a future firmware release for Fitbit Blaze, but don’t have an estimated delivery date yet.

Me: That is the same message that I have received since day one, which is exactly why I wrote this post. Do you know how that makes us feel? Your customers? When we buy a product, are made promises, are ignored and then fed the same line over and over again? How dare you respond with that same answer after reading my initial post.

No Further Responses. Original Thread on Facebook

So, yeah, this is pretty aggravating. Instead of feeding us literally the same line every month, someone on staff needs to man or woman up and give us a real update on the situation before we get to the point that the "Fitbit Blaze 2" has this feature and we all need to upgrade again for another couple hundred dollars.

[RadPitt]

At least they should man up and admit that it isn't coming and that they made a mistake. This is just unprofessional behavior and, as you say, aggravating.

[johnmccash]

I've seen exactly ONE of these alerts since I've been wearing my Blaze. It looks like the feature was implemented, but maybe there's a bug of some kind in it that prevents the alerts from going off all the time? There also doesn't seem to be any way to adjust the sensitivity. A couple of days ago, my sleep tracker log showed that I was asleep at work for a couple of hours because I didn't move enough, but I still never got a move alert during that period. Something's definitely wrong there somewhere...

[racertempo]

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@johnmccash wrote:

I've seen exactly ONE of these alerts since I've been wearing my Blaze. It looks like the feature was implemented, but maybe there's a bug of some kind in it that prevents the alerts from going off all the time? There also doesn't seem to be any way to adjust the sensitivity. A couple of days ago, my sleep tracker log showed that I was asleep at work for a couple of hours because I didn't move enough, but I still never got a move alert during that period. Something's definitely wrong there somewhere...

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It was not implemented.  It could only be implemented if you updated your device and they have not released any device updates since April.

[racertempo]

Here is why you will not be getting reminders to move on the Blaze:

http://www.cnet.com/news/fitbit-to-unveil-new-products-by-years-end/?

[bbarrera]

@racertempo "new products ... exciting new features and designs" - does that mean Blaze2 and Surge2 are going to be so much better, and include mobile payments? Maybe go the Android wear route like Polar M600 announced today?

Once those are launched the engineers we have time to implement Reminders to Move on Blaze.

[racertempo]

I just hope the don't integrate third party apps into fitbit products. I think the reminder to move is never coming to the blaze, but probably the new devices.

[BeachGuy78]

Any update on when this will be released?

[mitser]

Does anyone know of this is a feature that will be added to the charge hr?

[Rich_Laue]

@mitser there has been no talk of it coming to the Charge line, there is a departure request for it.

[Lordrobs]

Here is why you will not be getting reminders to move on the Blaze:

http://www.cnet.com/news/fitbit-to-unveil-new-products-by-years-end/?

Interesting. I was wondering about this the other day. Can everyone remember when the Blaze was first announced and Fitbit shares went through the floor based on the initial reaction. Every reviewer and critic seemed to write it off before it was even released. I wonder if that caused Fitbit to cut their losses from a development point of view and move on to the next product? Obviously since then the Blaze has gone on to sell in huge numbers but if you've already got the momentum on designing the next big thing what do you do? Move half the development team back to creating the watch faces and move reminders that people who have already bought the current product want or keep them pressing on with the next product.

They might do some more updates for the Blaze but I can't see anything major coming from it and the longer I own it the more it feels like Windows 8. A rushed product to deal with a problem that didn't quite exist yet (i.e the thought that everyone was about to jump ship to a smart watch)