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Re:Pebble CEO explains why he sold to Fitbit by revelation on Monday December 12, 2016 @05:11PM (#13162444)
The "watch with largish LiIon battery" market is very odd. Nobody seems to have any clue what the market wants or what the market is. The only company doing reliably well is Garmin, who just iterated on their sports watches with low hanging fruit like smartphone notifications or step counters (one of the most bizarre features).

Everyone else is just in a drunken random walk. So now there are watches that waste lots of battery on recording rough HR all day but totally fail reliably capturing HR during sport activities. I have no clue what they think that is doing, utterly useless.

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Re:Pebble CEO explains why he sold to Fitbit by rconti on Monday December 12, 2016 @07:48PM (#13163536)
According to most on-wrist HR device reviews I've seen (for example, dcrainmaker), the on-wrist devices work just fine but filter 'noise' too aggressively to accurately capture your abrupt heart rate fall when doing intervals. For most people, this is 'good enough'. I have an AppleWatch2, Fitbit Charge HR, and a Suunto Ambit that uses a chest strap. To be honest, the chest strap is unreliable enough that I don't think I'd say that system works better than the on-wrist devices.
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