TE
TechEcho
Home24h TopNewestBestAskShowJobs
GitHubTwitter
Home

TechEcho

A tech news platform built with Next.js, providing global tech news and discussions.

GitHubTwitter

Home

HomeNewestBestAskShowJobs

Resources

HackerNews APIOriginal HackerNewsNext.js

© 2025 TechEcho. All rights reserved.

Fitbit is getting rid of the best reasons to use a Fitbit

12 pointsby YY-EN40Pabout 2 years ago

2 comments

gardenfelderabout 2 years ago
I&#x27;ve owned a Fitbit since Fitbit One - the tiny peanut-shaped thingy. When it went bonkers on me, they replaced it for free.After a friend&#x27;s puppy used mine as a chewstick, (spit it out when a canine pierced the battery), I upgraded to a Fitbit Charge 4 and used that through two sets of wrist bands, then upgraded to a Charge 5.<p>Big mistake. While the 5 does an ECG -- like an IWatch I was gifted, it dropped &quot;flights&quot; - elevation change. Worse, it made text messages its primary feature, which means I get woken up at all hours of the night with beeps of all kinds, some of which are SMS morse code - which my brain then tries to decode. Big mistake.<p>Edit two typos.
fl0psabout 2 years ago
Didn&#x27;t that happen when Google bought them?