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The Blaze, Surge, Charge and Charge HR should get this feature. It's just a matter of changing the Firmware for one of these and pretty much copy and pasting for the others...
This announcement disgusts me. I bought a product expecting it to have a feature "reminder to stay active" is, as it has been pointed out, very misleading. Then, after Christmas, after I'm sure hundreds of people have bought a fitbit, also expecting this feature, you announce "oo look shiny new product for you to spend extra money on for a feature you thought you were getting anyway".
Will this be a firmware update to other fibits such as the ChargeHR? I have no problem upgrading to blaze if it has the reminder feature, but I'm not going to downgrade to alta, I need the HR monitor for workouts.
Also I won't be upgrading to blaze if there is no way to turn off hr on the device - I need to be able to turn hr on and off on the device as currently its a nightmare to turn off the feature especially in a low/no signal area.
Wow Was just about to buy a newer model, with heartbeat and such... Nevermind now. This feature should have been in the first Fitbit, and all. To only add it to newer and leasure featured models and not backort is icky. I'll just go with a Gear.
Now I don't need to spend time on my Raspberry Pi or Android making a special App that combines Fitbit and S-Health data.
Thanks for saving me time, and informing me of your filthy customer service.
I've been waiting for this feature since the spring when I bought my Charge HR. Fitbit, please reconsider adding this to the older models. Will not be buying the alta.
This has NOT been implemented. Adding it to a new product is NOT the same thing as implementing it on existing products which is what everyone has been asking for these past 3 years! If you aren't going to support the older devices then why are you still selling them?!
Alta which is new product with alert does not do... stairs or heart rate it is a down grade... and blaze they say they might add alert but it does not have it at this time and they do not have a time frame...
Has Fitbit Corp responded here or anywhere else on their apparent indifference to customer requests for this important feature to be added to purchased products?
Do they claim it is not technically possible via firmware update to some models?
Do they concede that NOT providing firmware updates to all models (where it is technically possible) is an attempt to entice current users to purchase another device?
Yes, but the Alta doesn't have a HR monitor or a stair climb tracker. So in a year or so, they'll release a new, improved Alta with one of those features and expect everybody to throw away their devices and buy the new one.
Then people will complain that it is not water proof, so maybe a year or so later, the;ll release another new, improved model and...
Am actually thinking of selling my Charge HR and getting the Garmin ine, does everything the Fitbit does AND has the idle alert. Just won't tell a home that's interested in buying it what's wrong and why I'm selling.
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