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Hope I just got a dud. *Updated*
I've had several Fitbit over the years, my last being the Ionic and I loved it. I decided to get this since I killed my ionic while accidentally slamming it onto some rocks and being immersed in hip-deep water while hiking lol. I love all the doodads on the Versa 3, it's basically an upgraded Ionic, however, the heart rate monitor is super hit and miss! I have also a chest heart monitor that I wear when I'm doing my stairclimber and on that, it says my heart is 178, I'm dying, but then I look at my fit bit and it says 120 and doesn't seem to want to go past 145. Then at work, while just typing sitting doing nothing all a sudden the FitBit jumps up to 145 then down to 89 and thus giving me a calorie count of 4k lol. I'm just typing.....but apparently I'm working harder at typing than actually working out lol. I changed all the settings on the Fitbit to try and make it less sensitive, I rebooted, I reinstalled, and put back to manufacturer startup but nothing has helped. I'll order another one and see how that turns out. Here's to hoping! *Update* I returned my Versa 3 and received another one. It seemed to track better than the last but I also noticed that for it to really read accurately on me I have to have it 2 and 1/2 inches above my wrist bone, I posted some pictures of this. When working out having the Versa at this height seems to read my calories and heart rate correctly for weight lifting, stairclimber, and pilates workouts. When jogging the watch read everything fine by my wrist bone. I also noticed while at work my watch would count crazy calories still and that's due to me doing typing for 8 hrs straight, to fix this I tried putting on my other arm, I adjusted the sleep to normal but that didn't work. I then put it up on my dominant hand up the 2 and 1/2 inches and it read me at work correctly. It's just a bummer that I have to have the watch up so high to get correct readings when on my Ionic I didn't need to do that. Oh well, it is what it is. I still like the watch though and I'll continue with it. So in short if it doesn't seem to be reading correctly try it up higher on your arm.
October 2020 · Sports and Outdoors · verified purchase
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