Fitbit Surge Ultimate Fitness Super Watch, Large (Black)

I am from Kerala. I have purchased fitbit Surge on Feb 2016 and got the product within a few days. Since then fitbit had been the part of my life and I could reduce my weight from 81 kg to 74.2 kg within this short period less than two months.That is not solely due to the use of fitbit device alone, as I have used proper diet with the help of fitnesspal.com and fitbit app on android which sync calorie data from fitnesspal automatically.This is an honest review of fitbit since I have used the device and found it much helpful. It has drastically changed my lifestyle. Just a few weeks before I had purchased garmin vivofit 2 from Amazon itself and was quite satisfied about that fitness tracker too. But the quality of fitbit app and interface was much more appealing and easier to understand than garmin 's. So I decided to buy a fitbit. But the need to buy a watch lead me to decide to buy Surge and at that time Blaze was just announced. I wanted a watch and fitness device urgently and I decided to buy Surge after considering other options offered by fitbit.It is an expensive device who just look at it from a simple fitness tracker point of view. But the device is great for those who want to look into its higher functionalities.I have never used it to monitor phone notifications yet. It is a fitness assistant for me. Not a smartphone alternative.The device is strongly built and is not bulky enough to get eyeballs roll at your hand. But considering other smart watches it is thicker. But device firmly fits into your hand and you don't always feel that you are wearing a watch. It is considerably lighter or to precisely speaking 1/5 times lighter than the Titan Fastrack watch I had earlier.The watch accurately counts your walking and running. I find that some people complain about fitbit and all other brand fitness trackers that they count steps while biking and travelling in car or bus. But what they have to understand is that what these trackers faithfully track is their body movements and all body movements burn some calorie from our body. Even motorbike riding for one hour burn more than 100 calories in good road conditions. So what fitbit counts is still valuable even if it counts while you are on the plane or in the elevator or on your bike.I am much satisfied about the product and is planning to buy a fitbit Aria to add to my fitness tools list.What I like more is that it found out that I am sleeping less and cured my lack of proper sleep. It showed me the pattern of my sleep and I could change my sleep time to get better results. Now I feel better in terms of my fitness. May be my bad sleep habits also caused my weight gain.Now I am happy that my weight is gradually reducing. I plan to reach 70kg by June 2016. I hope that I will reach that target with the help of fitbit.A final word to fitbit... if they read this..One important functionality that is lacking in fitbit which I found much useful in garmin vivofit 2 is the inactivity alert. Garmin's inactivity bar is a great reminder tool. Unlike that Fitbit surge will not remind you to be active whole through the day. If that was also added through a software upgrade this will be the ultimate fitness Superwatch... no doubt...

Update 13th AprilReceived the 4th ( 3rd warranty replacement) Fitbit Surge . This is a 2015 batch . To the question on expected life of Fitbit Surge , they said "With regards to the expected life span of Surge trackers, there is actually no expected life span for Fitbit tracker as it depends on the user's usage and the environment that you're going to be using it at."Update on 7th AprilFitbit support team got back with the gracious offer to replace the 3rd bricked Fitbit. Want proof of destructionSo here is the photo of destruction . I am cured of Fitbit fascination. Will try the Microsoft Band 2 now.Update on 23rd MarAlas, the expected has happened. On 20th March syncing started to be flaky. Had to restart the watch to get it to synch. 21st March , syncing stopped altogether. All trouble shooting methods have been tried. Wrote to customer support again. Send a tweet to CEO Park James. Support got back that they will get back by email. While it should make me angry, strangely, expecting that it will /should happen , makes it less traumatic - may be satisfaction at the theory of production batch being faulty proven right . In any case, I would strongly discourage buying this in India . I do see quite a few similar problems but 3 units from the same month/make batch failing in 8 months points to a clear production problem . I was amazed that President Obama wears this - may be he gets one every month !Update on 28 Nov:Got the replacement . It is from the same batch - I suspect this could also fail after a time. Turned off the sync always mode to reduce the number syncs in day. Lets see if this lasts,Update on 23 NovAs of now , no replacement from Fitbit. I can't even change the time on the watch . So it is 20000/- Rupee paper weight.Update on Nov 17th .My replacement Surge has failed too. Stopped synching . Have approached Customer support -So I have to change the rating to a single star as HW quality seems suspect atleast as far as I am concerned.-----------------------------I have been wearing this in place of my regular watch constantly since the day Amazon delivered it. I wear it while sleeping too. Quite comfortable for constant wear.As many others report , the biggest impact has been increased motivation to get my 10000 steps a day and 7 hours sleep, every day. I am used to tracking my activities using Runtastic and myfitnesspal - so tracking in itself was not a big change. With those you had to consciously bring yourself to do the activity and enter the data. But Surge does it on its own , non intrusively - with the result, you end up wanting to meet the goal every day , whenever you scan the watch.It is very accurate ; I have checked the distance against other GPS trackers when running or walking outside. Sleep and heart rate tracking work flawlessly. The iOS app is quite good : simple and intuitive .Tactile alarm is useful too.As a smart watch , it is hardly a match for Apple. Notifications are barely readable. BW low resolution display is unexciting .So if you are quite keen on fitness , not too bothered about glamor , this the ideal fitness watch: you will find yourself wearing it constantly and checking if you met your goals !Update as on 25 Sept 2015:The Bluetooth synch was becoming erratic last several days. I had to restart the tracker everytime to sync it to my iPhone Fitbit App. In the mean time the latest firmware update was available and I downloaded and updated succesfully .I synched a few times after this but every time I had to restart the tracker before the app could sync.Today it would not sync at all even after restarts - tried every trouble shooting known to man on Fitbit in the Internet . Even the wifi sync to the desktop would not work. The device could not be discovered at all . I tried a different phone too.So I called the customer support - very courteous and finally concluded the device will have to be replaced. I am hoping this is a one off quality issue and the next replacement will work without any issues. But disappointing all the same - I loved the device - I was hitting my goals consistently every day thanks to this .I am waiting for the RMA and the replacement.Will keep this updated.Update on 2 October 2015I got the replacement from Fitbit- I must record my unabashed admiration for a customer support that simply sent a replacement after the first call and restart attempt.My fitness level has improved significantly from the plateau I hit before Fitbit- so I am changing my rating to five stars !

Used this for regular workout, worked quite well initially, but in some time the straps wore off and got damaged, I have changed straps twice on this watch, but that was ok, since the rest of the equipment was fine. However just after an year it started giving problems first with the touch screen, and then it would arbitrarily stop recording heart rate, then later it stopped synching and eventually it stopped booting up. Now a 25K watch which has the wrong time, cant's synch, and the touch screen does not work