Wearable smart gadgets has been actively gaining popularity, with all of their diversity, perhaps the biggest success enjoyed fitness trackers - they are not as expensive as smart watches, but it is quite functional.What is the fitness tracker?This "smart" bracelets to help keep track of the physical condition of the user.
Of course, most of the target audience of fitness trackers - active people involved in sports.However, whether justified their purchase?Is fitness trackers so necessary and useful, as it appears to them to developers and not replace them with ease if the faithful "friend" of every modern man - a smartphone?Let's deal.
To begin, we remind you the basic options trackers.We will not consider any specific model, because, as well as unlimited calling like "Big Three" operators such as Megafon, Beeline and MTS, so similar to each other in terms of functionality all trackers.
So, here are their main options:
- Options for athletes - time analysis activities, counting calories burned, steps, and so passed
- analysis of sleep - fitness trekeroy can track the phases of sleep and its quality, can wake a person during the rapid phase (the most favorable for the awakening)
- sync with your smartphone and PC
- alert calls, received SMS and other developments sincesmartphone
- Demonstration time
However, it is important to note that the last two options are not available in all trackers.
In general, as you can see, maybe not so much.Furthermore, even with the available options, in fact, not all smooth.One has only to go to any portal and begin to read reviews of the owners impressions fitness trackers it immediately becomes clear.Complaints are so many, we are only identified the main of them.
main problem - the inability to adjust the tracker to different types of activity.Of course, there is a primitive set, for example, walking, running, jumping.Here, for example, if you want to calculate how many calories spend, doing in the gym at the various simulators, your tracker will not be able to help you in this case.
Another important drawback - the inaccuracy of the data.Software algorithms most trackers are highly dubious, many "happy" owners of writing about the fact that sometimes the calories for walking accrued and when you sit, but, for example, strongly zhestikuliruesh.
Another not very nice moment - trackers interact, usually with special applications only companion, which are often not just a little functional, but also work with permanent lags.
And finally, an analysis of sleep - chip, which attracts so many users.Of course, the opportunity to check how well running this option you do not have, but in 2007 the American Academy of Medicine decided that to accurately determine the current phase of sleep needed: an electroencephalogram for frontal, central and occipital channels, recording EOG and EMG genial muscles.So it is hardly a "smart" little thing on your wrist can really figure out what phase of sleep is the user.
In general, as you can see, most of the announced features a fitness trackers - no more than a fantasy of their manufacturers.However, should not get upset.The perfect gadget for sports, and there is likely every day you wear it in your pocket - your smart phone.
What are its advantages?Firstly, in calculating the physical activity he can use not only the built-in sensors, but also access to GPS and GLONASS.This fact provides a more accurate and allows to evaluate the activity of more parameters, such as acceleration and rate.Second, the smartphone is today a huge amount of software, these programs allow to evaluate the efficiency of exercises virtually any sport - from tennis to dance.In addition, a special application can turn a smartphone into a "otslezhivatel" phases of sleep.Of course, it will be the same conditional and imprecise as to the fitness trackers, but the fact remains - this option is available.
It is impossible not to note the fact that the smartphone will make it possible to listen to music, because few people like to work out in silence.In addition, if a morning jog you suddenly came into our heads to photograph the sunrise, the smartphone and then come to the rescue.
And, of course, the use of a smartphone instead of a fitness tracker - a great opportunity to save money, and because now the country's crisis to save have to try on everything, including the service not directly from mobile operators and through dealers, through the company "Link Corporation "for example, which, incidentally, not only provides mobile communications cheaper, but often gives a golden mobile numbers.
Perhaps the only advantage of the fitness trackers - their compactness.For athletes importance of freedom of movement, and they often will not know where to attach the smart phone, the moment when the fitness tracker can be conveniently positioned on the hand.
course, ultimately you decide what to choose, but, perhaps, if they make a choice in the direction of fitness tracker, it is not necessary to take some dorogushchuju model, it is unlikely to work more accurately, but the damage purse cause.But, again, you decide.
article was prepared on the site www.corporacia.ru
