Yep. I'm just waiting for it to become thinner. The thing still looks like a wrist computer instead of a watch in my opinion.

Yeah. Aesthetically speaking, I really dislike wristwatches. But I want that fitness tracking and haptic reminders badly. If they get a good calorie counter in the form of the rumored glucose monitoring (I’m not sure if it could be used for that) I’m sold.

I wear a fitness tracker. If I'm gonna wear something on my wrist, it ought to do something that my phone doesn't, otherwise it's hard to justify the cost.

Your phone almost certainly has all the functions that your fitness tracker has - the advantage is that you don't always have your phone on your person.

The same is true of a smartwatch - you get the some of the functionality of your phone without needing to have your phone on you.

> Your phone almost certainly has all the functions that your fitness tracker has

No, it doesn't, that's the whole point I was trying to make. My fitness tracker tracks heart beats for example.

No my phone can't track my swims or measure my heart rate or tell me if my running stride is uneven.

I like to wear a watch, so I kind of wish I could get a fitness tracker (with heart rate monitor) that doesn't have a clock on it. I sometimes wear a watch and a fitbit and that just looks stupid.

You could try wearing a heart rate monitor chest strap under your shirt and carry a Garmin fitness tracker in your pocket.

If you don't mind wearing a big fitness tracker, the Fitbit Blaze has been great in my experience. It's a bit old now, and the new bigger fitbits are the Surge and the Charge 2, but I still love my Blaze.

> the new bigger fitbits are the Surge and the Charge 2, but I still love my Blaze.

The Blaze is newer than the Surge; it's basically a Surge with a color screen and the face detachable from the band (which is much better for charging, as well as making replacing the band practical) but without independent GPS (which means if you want to do run tracking without carrying a phone, the Surge still has an advantage.)

The Charge 2, IIRC, replaced the Charge about the same time as the Blaze was introduced, it's basically the next tier down from the Surge/Blaze.

(Current Blaze and former Surge and before that Flex user.)

I stand corrected!

Blaze is actually newer than Surge and has more features than Charge 2. It's the Fitbit that most competes with Apple Watch at present.

The Blaze still has a clock though, as far as I can tell.

I have a (very modest) collection of watches that I enjoy wearing but I also like the data collection of a Fitbit.

Which Fitbit? Seems like the Flex 2 wouldn't look bad next to a watch.

I have a Fitbit Charge 2. I wear the Fitbit on my right arm and my watch on my left, but I think it looks pretty stupid.