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I can echo what he's saying about the Aria. It's not that big of a deal to me. For the most part it's accurate and the tradeoff for wireless syncing is pretty awesome.

My biggest problem is losing the Fitbit trackers themselves. I've lost two and just got the One which I almost lost playing ultimate frisbee this weekend. That's $300 lost. I like the Fitbit ecosystem enough to get the One and it's great so far.

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I too had the same problems with the fitbit. I lost one during a hike and recently lost another one while I was snowboarding, even with a small clip tether. The things are too easy to lose. At this point I'm just waiting for my basis band to come in the mail, since I wont loose a watch in the same way. At this point I recommend if you have one right now you should tie the thing to your body with a lanyard to not lose the thing.

Fitbit will usually replace lost trackers for free if you've lost one. You just have to contact support. That is how I got my second one.

Maybe you should get the Zip. Only $60 but less features than the One.

I think the upcoming Flex might work best for him. It has to be pretty hard to lose a wrist band.

I'll be waiting for this before I get a Fitbit. And excuse the imagery, but it seems you have to wear clothes in bed for the vibrate-to-wake feature to work with the existing versions ;)

At night the tracker is within the sleep wrist band, so it vibrates near your wrist. So feel free to pull a Marilyn Monroe. :-P

Actually, it comes with a wristband to clip it to for sleeping.

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