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I'm looking for a completely waterproof tracker with all of the features (sleep, heart rate, steps, stairs, miles, calories, reminder to move, phone alerts, clock with date, etc) all in one. When?? Please make this your next release!!!!!
Yes, definitely water proof them. ALL OF THEM. There are wrist based HR monitors that are water proof so that can't really be an excuse. I will not buy a fit it till they are. Until then, I will stick with Garmin. Fit it, seriously, can't you see you're losing $ by not waterproofing them? So many ppl would switch over, these threads just prove it.
I see that people have wanted a waterproof Fitbit since January 1/2014. I do realize making one that will keep working while being used in the ocean water is not easy to do. But I am willing to pay $300.00 for one that does. A course I expect it to have all the features my Charger HR does. But I do not care how it looks, I only care that it does continue to work in the ocean. Also expect that the owner would have to clean it after being used in the ocean. But yes, it is hard to make something that is idiot proof too.
I doubt Fitbit will ever create their own waterproofing service/cases for their devices. Water based activites are not a high priority for the developers since so many of the features use step counts for their calculation.
I'd look into something like this though I've never personally used this service. I'm sure there are others out there as well.
I swim laps every day and would love to be able to track, count this activity! Will you ever make a waterproof Fitbit or do I need to go to another tracking device? Thanks for listening!
I wish fitbit offered the waterproofing service through them, or if they offered the charge hr as a waterproofed version without the altimeter I would be happy! This is the only thing that's stopping me from buying a fitbit. I would buy one the second it came waterproof!
There are hundreds of comments on waterproof but without searching I would bet that the only altimiter comments have to do with the amount of stair steps being wrong. To put it bluntly - dump the altimiter, make it waterproof. If the purpose is for some kind of high altitude calorie correction, make it a manual setting in the app.
i would gladly buy a new fit bit if it was water proof or didnt humidify when it got wet. My force i had , i took swimming , in the shower, and washed dishes all the time. My friend takes his apple watch swimming all the time without any issues. If fitbit cant fix the problem soon, i may have to switch to an Iwatch. Dont want too , but i dont want to go through this problem again. i've already replaced 1 charge (customer support was excellent, by the way). I just dont understand how you can go from the force which was a beast to the charge, which feels like a cheap flea market watch. Word of the day for fitbit techs should be WATER PROOF !
I agree completely! I am always at the pool and it is sad that I can't wear my tracker while I swim. I use MyFittnessPal to help track some things and swimming is one of them because Fitbit does not have an option for tracking swimming at all. But I wish I could just wear my tracker so it could be more accurate to my swimming and not an approximation.
I'm a big fan of my fitbit surge HR, but it pains me to say that I have to revert to another brand every time I want to go for a swim. It wouldn't be so much of a problem if there where API's enabling me to import my swim data or even if I could enter the data manually (laps/time/stroke/distance). But it would seem Fitbit are not alone, I've searched high and low to find a one watch fits all and I'm yet to find it; even my swim watch does not have the always on heart rate tracking capability, or sleep patern capability of the Fitbit. The Fitbit is almost perfect! solve this problem and you have solved the holy grail of fitness trackers.
Seems like there's an easy solution. Have a model Charge HR-A with an altimiter and a Charge HR-WP for a waterproof model. For the waterproof just plug the hole and disable the altimiter features. See what sells (hint: waterproof)
Having a model Charge HR-A with an altimiter and a Charge HR-WP for a waterproof model. This would not work for me. I have climbed over 2700 flights of stairs and I do spend a lot of time in the ocean too. Any unit being used in the ocean will require wireless charging.
I finally had to switch to The Garmin Vivoactive specifically for this reason. The app is no where near as good as the FitBit app but tracking swimming is important to me.
I know other people have posted about waterproofing but I wanted to try to get peple to actually vote for it. Swimming is a very important activity. I finally gave up on FitBit when I saw that the brand new Blaze still wasn't waterproof for swimming. I switched to The Garmin Vivoactive and even thought the app isn't as good as Fitbit I'm willing to give up some things to get my swimming tracked. I have gone from the FitBit one all the way up to the Surge. Every time there was an upgrade I upgraded. I can't do it anymore. Fitbit should offer at least one waterproof device even if it does not do some of the things the other Fitbit's do. I'm a long time Fitbit client and now I'm not. If you ever go waterproof I'll be back.
I feel the same way! I swim laps for an hour a day and my Fitbit can't record any of that! it's linked to my Weight Watchers account too, so I M doubly sad to have to go to something else...thus, my question! Let's hope for the best!
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