News Fitbit.com is shutting down next week — what you need to know

[admin]

Fitbit.com is going away and Fitbit devices will be sold via the Google Store starting October 1st.

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[DrPlanarian]

There is a major drawback to the Google Pixel Watch when compared to Fitbit's men's watch-sized trackers like the Sense and the Versa: battery life.

Where the Google Pixel Watch's battery is advertised to last 24 hours (36 hours in battery-saver mode), the Fitbit Sense and Versa are advertised to last seven days, but in practice they last more like ten days (I have had a Versa 4 for a couple of years and it has NEVER run low on power quicker than ten days , and it charges back to 100% from nearly depleted within less than three hours).

This permits sleep tracking on the Fitbit products, which I see as an important feature.

I wish DoJ Anti-Trust has prevented this buyout.

 

[slyvella]

Battery life is a big drawback but as a woman with a slender wrist I have always preferred the smaller Fitbit trackers and will never move to a smart watch. Ok maybe when I'm old enough to need the functionality to call someone when I've fallen and can't get up.

 

[The_Quixotic_1]

There is a major drawback to the Google Pixel Watch when compared to Fitbit's men's watch-sized trackers like the Sense and the Versa: battery life.

Where the Google Pixel Watch's battery is advertised to last 24 hours (36 hours in battery-saver mode), the Fitbit Sense and Versa are advertised to last seven days, but in practice they last more like ten days (I have had a Versa 4 for a couple of years and it has NEVER run low on power quicker than ten days , and it charges back to 100% from nearly depleted within less than three hours).

This permits sleep tracking on the Fitbit products, which I see as an important feature.

I wish DoJ Anti-Trust has prevented this buyout.

Agreed. My wife and I bought Pixel Watch 2s when they were released because Google offered amazing promotional trade-in credit for our Versa 2s. After a week of having to charge the PW2s every 18 hours or so, we sold them for a loss on Facebook Marketplace and bought ourselves Sense 2s. The "tiny" round 40mm watch face combined with atrocious battery life made the PW2 unusable for the both of us.

With moderate-heavy usage our Sense 2s still last us 6 days on a charge without issue. We track our sleep, she has a heart condition and monitors her heart rate several times throughout the day, we track our steps, and we like the ability to use our watches to see our phone notifications and pause/skip music. We're holding on to our Sense 2s for as long as we can and I dread what our options will be when the time comes to move on from them.