Fitbit One vs Garmin Forerunner 35

And then since getting this Fitbit, the Fitbit is just easier to use, it's smaller to fit in your pocket or clip, the accessories seem of higher quali...

Well, we're pretty much all my workout gear. The risk based heart monitor to me was a major selling feature. I want to be able to learn the maximum I ...

HOWEVER, it should be noted that something like Runkeeper is very intensive on your phone's battery life, and it generally will not work indoors or in any situation where it can't get a stable GPS signal. The One is appealing it that it's a clip-it-and-forget-it type measuring device; once you attach it to yourself, you can pretty much just go about your business as you normally would and not worry about it until you need to change your clothes, and it will faithfully record everything. The downside to that is .

While I have found getting these alerts on my wrist pretty useful, this particular feature falls short of what the Pebble offered. There's no queue or timeline for reviewing notifications as there is on the Pebble and I find I miss the ability to simply scroll back through previous alerts. BATTERY LIFE The Forerunner 35's battery life is outstanding. I get between 8 and 10 days between charges, and a full charge takes only a few hours

Anyway - knowing this thing is attached to me (I wear it clipped inside my bra), waiting for me to DO something, is rather motivating because unlike my pedometer, I get SO much more feedback. A quick glance at a bar graph for the week, showing calories eaten and calories burned, tells me if I'm on the right track. I LIKE that and find it motivating. The sleep monitor is interesting - as other reviewers have said - it simply charts any movement during the night

What I don't like: ------------------ Phone integration for text and call notifications is spotty. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. It's a nice feature when it works. The phone downloads slowly but reliably to my Moto G7 Power

Update- I'm keeping it, so I raised my review to four stars. Alarm- I like that I can set an alarm for the mornings I have to get up early and leave it set, without worrying about the days I don't have to get up. Conclusion- maybe one tracker just can't do everything well, but the Fitbit people really need to create a better, more elegant app. What would make sense to me on the sleep activity is if you could adjust it (say with a slider) after a night of sleep so that what it report reflects what you know is true (amount of waking for example) and then it would be more accurate

The first of the three times I got up to pee the Garmin showed that my ARHR had by that time dropped to 44, indicating that even though customer service told me that ARHR is an average over the last 7 sleep periods, my ARHR when I went to bed was close to 44 - which tracks with readings of the previous night, which also dropped intranight to 44. However, last night, except for those 4-5 brief intervals, which totaled about 10 minutes across the duration of my 6:30 sleep period, the graph of my HR shows a resting pulse that ranged from 34-44, with the average for the night being about 40. Yet at the end of my sleep period my ARHR had gone back up to 45! How did customer service explain this anomaly? Apparently the device ignores any resting pulses below 40 as artifacts, and since my RP was in the 30's for about an hour and a half, and since this wasn't even counted in averaging over the night (which gave more weight to the brief periods when my RP was in the high 40s and 50s) there was no drop in my ARHR, and in fact, over the last 6 months I've only briefly ever gotten it down to 44, even though my actual RP for the night is typically around 10-42, except on the nights after intense training sessions. Despite these evident software design flaws, my overall impression of Garmin, and even of the Forerunner 35, is positive