OT: Activity trackers (Fitbit, etc.)

[Fishy]

Never start in the cheap end if you can avoid it.

And yeah, what's with the phone?

 

[8893]

Thanks again for all the replies so far.

Yes, I think I am really just looking for something basic, at least to start. I'm pretty good at keeping active and getting more active (and also practicing better eating/drinking habits) once I start ramping up again; but I'm also pretty good at slipping back into bad habits once I start ramping down, which seems to happen to me annually shortly after Halloween and often doesn't rebound until late winter. Once running outside becomes harder to get done because of shrinking daylight hours, I have to work in other things like the gym, hiking, skiing, chopping wood, etc. to make sure I get enough activity to offset my consumption.

The number one thing I'd like a tracker for is to know whether I have at least achieved an acceptable minimum activity threshold each day, and to prod me to move my if I haven't. Again, I'm just trying to prevent myself from slipping too far when I slip. Once I get going again and start seeing results, I'm usually encouraged and competitive enough to keep it going and increasing it. I really just want a policeman on my wrist to remind me when I start dropping off again, and to keep me at least meeting the minimum when I do.

 

[8893]

Upgrade it in a year if you like it. You know...along with your ancient phone.

And yeah, what's with the phone?

I tend to have a Depression-era mentality and use things until they die (witness our 2002 Honda Odyssey with 225,000+ miles). The BlackBerry still does what I need it to do and has never had a problem. I don't like to surf the web on a handheld device (far prefer iPad, laptop and desktop for that), so what I use it for more than 90% of the time is phone, text and e-mail, all of which it does extremely well. And it has been essentially bullet proof, having survived drops, falls, driving rains, etc. I don't use apps, I'm not on FB or Twitter and I don't stream music (I have an iPod classic that is maxed out with some 25,000+ songs, and I listen to Sirius most of the time in the car).

From what I understand (very little), BlackBerry is still supposed to have the most secure e-mail system, which is the reason we have used it for work. Whatever it is, someone must still value their technology because Samsung just offered $7.5B to buy BlackBerry based on the strength of its technology patents.

My wife and two of my daughters have iPhones and we have an iPad, so I'm able to make use of them as needed as well.

Best of all, it's already "retro." I get lots of great, nostalgic looks from many people, and BlackBerry itself just released basically the same design, calling it the "Classic."

My last phone before this was the Motorola flip-phone, which I had for probably four years and missed dearly when it was gone.

 

[Deepster]

I tend to have a Depression-era mentality and use things until they die (witness our 2002 Honda Odyssey with 225,000+ miles). The BlackBerry still does what I need it to do and has never had a problem. I don't like to surf the web on a handheld device (far prefer iPad, laptop and desktop for that), so what I use it for more than 90% of the time is phone, text and e-mail, all of which it does extremely well. And it has been essentially bullet proof, having survived drops, falls, driving rains, etc. I don't use apps, I'm not on FB or Twitter and I don't stream music (I have an iPod classic that is maxed out with some 25,000+ songs, and I listen to Sirius most of the time in the car).

From what I understand (very little), BlackBerry is still supposed to have the most secure e-mail system, which is the reason we have used it for work. Whatever it is, someone must still value their technology because Samsung just offered $7.5B to buy BlackBerry based on the strength of its technology patents.

My wife and two of my daughters have iPhones and we have an iPad, so I'm able to make use of them as needed as well.

Best of all, it's already "retro." I get lots of great, nostalgic looks from many people, and BlackBerry itself just released basically the same design, calling it the "Classic."

My last phone before this was the Motorola flip-phone, which I had for probably four years and missed dearly when it was gone.

So what you're saying is you're cheap.