[Moto 360] abuzar1:
I just wanted to share my experience coming from a Basis B1, which I sold in anticipation of the Moto 360, to a Moto 360 and using it as a fitness/sleep tracker. I got the Basis because it was one of the few trackers with heart rate monitoring back when it came out and it also features sensors for measuring your perspiration and your skin temp, although I'm not sure what good those did. However it does not feature GPS or any smartwatch functions and connects to your phone merely to display the data the watch collects.

As far as general walking goes the Basis will collect steps similar to the Moto360 but if you're out for a walk it will also show a timer displaying how long you've been walking. It also does the same for how long you've been running and how long you've been cycling. The 360 will tell you your steps but it won't break it down like the Basis which would show me how many minutes I've been active in a day and then breakdown the activities showing me how many minutes I spent walking, how many running and how many cycling, how many calories I burnt doing each activity and my total caloric expenditure for the day. Now, I know the 360 is great with runtastic and the GPS is more accurate than a non-GPS fitness tracker but it is pretty redundant if you think about it. When I used to go for runs with my Basis I did not need to bring my phone along with me but if you run with a 360 your phone needs to be there... in which case why have the watch?

Heart rate monitoring and data collecting seems very very very basic in the 360 and android wear in general. For example here is a graph on the Basis showing activity over a day (although a small period is selected). It shows the calories burnt (it also shows how many calories per minute), it shows how much you were sweating, your skin temp, how many steps taken while walking, while running, averages, and time.

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The other thing I got it for was sleep tracking which works BEAUTIFULLY on the Basis. I mean nothing else even comes close. It's such a passive device, you go to sleep and it knows it and starts tracking it. When you wake up in the morning it will tell you how long you slept for, how much time you spent in REM sleep, deep sleep, and light sleep. It will also show you how many interruptions you had and how many tosses and turns. I did find a sleep tracker for android wear but man it SUCKS battery. The watch was close to dead after a night of sleeping. I hope they can fix that but I will still be using it and then charging up my watch after I wake up. It also shows my deep sleep but I don't know if I trust it vs the Basis. On the Basis I could see where my heart rate and skin temps would change when the sleep state changed so it used those in addition to the accelerometer. I don't think the 360 lets anything else access the HR monitor so it is probably not as accurate.

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I know this got a bit long but this is the sort of thing I was looking to find before buying my 360. Compared to a dedicated fitness tracker like the Basis (which is pretty good compared to the glorified pedometers that other fitness trackers are right now) the 360 is pretty... lackluster. The potential is there for it to be much better all it requires is better software. There needs to be better PASSIVE monitoring, I don't want to connect to a phone to record my run or do any of those things. That's what I loved the most about the Basis, I never had to touch it. It would figure out on its own what I was doing and when I was done it would just automatically sync and there was my data on the phone and on the computer.

I know the post comes off negative but I really do enjoy my Moto 360 and I am keeping it. Most of the time I really wish I still had my Basis but it's not a smartwatch and it's really ugly. I've attached a link with a picture below. Ultimately to me the fitness aspect was just as important, if not more so, than the smartwatch component. While people can argue the use of notifications on your wrist that you get on the phone in the first place, the fitness, HR monitoring, and sleep tracking are something your phone CANNOT do. These features need to be more fleshed out, I believe, because that's a sets a smartwatch apart. Ultimately the other features we have on the watch are just slaves to our phones but this would be core functionality that would give purpose to the watch.

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