Basis B1 reviews

Give it a while. I was on the forums there for over a year before it was released.... The communication to the "community" was dire. I'm glad i didn't pre-order.

Before i even consider buying one, i want to read some proper user reviews... Not just the PR crap thats floating around at the moment.

I have one. I was on the waiting list for a year and was lucky to get in the first batch of orders.

Simply, I wasted $200. I stopped wearing it in March. My old Fitbit Ultra is a much better tool than this.

Specifically:
* Poor Dashboard. Information isn't editable (all activity whether walking or exercising is marked Activity-you can't mark the entry with a note about what kind of Activity it was). The "Habits" you can pick from are all about activity or sleep and they're boring.

*The watch itself is bulky and ugly. It may look fine if you're a guy, but I can't wear something that bulky all day every day. The watch is a lifestyle watch, not a performance watch, so the idea is to wear it every day.

* Heart Rate Monitor isn't real time but if you are exercising and you get past a "safe" heart rate, this gadget has no idea. I've been in the middle of a pretty intense workout & it's rated my HR at 85.

*As it turns out, the calories burned it estimates using the perspiration monitor, the heart rate monitor & the skin temperature function are very close to what Fitbit estimates for activities using just my personal information and the info gleaned from the fitbit

*I slept with it & woke up one morning and the band had popped away from the watch in a way that couldn't be popped back in and I had to superglue it back in

I know some of the reviews for it have been great, but I don't think the reviewers wore it long enough to make a really good judgement and if they weren't comparing it to anything else, it's pretty impressive.

With regard to the how their site hypes it up, now that I have the actual watch- if I hadn't seen the site before & if I saw it without a picture of the watch, I would not be able to associate the thing on my wrist with the description on the site.

Stick with a Fitbit. I indiegogo'd the Misfit Shine and if how they've handled this pre order to launch phase is any indication, this thing is going to be awesome. Basis was almost a year late, their communications were infrequent, and they really blew it with a large amount of the people who had been waiting on it. I would say their thing is a worse user expectation than the Jawbone UP initial launch. (with the UP, they communicated, they admitted the thing wasn't great and they refunded my money promptly)

Hope that helps.

I am happy with my basis but we all have to be patient as the amount of interesting data collected by the band is still not properly used by the software-app. It has a lot of potential but I confess the website is poor and does not generate useful info with skin temp and perspiration so far. I like the fact that it has a very accurate pedometer a fairly accurate hr (not supposed to be used for hard workouts as stated by the manufacturer) and a good sleep tracker (new software version coming end of jan 2014 will be nice to see deep insights on sleep quality). By now it is getting better and honestly is far more featured than any other tracker on the market.
i would recommend to anyone looking for a good continuous heart rate monitor and sleep tracker. It is helping me a lot to improve my habits and I hope they will insert reminders too for that matter

Need to update my post. After posting this, I noticed that the Basis band actually *does* capture steps even if I'm holding something. Not sure why it didn't seem to work the other day, but I did confirm it worked fine last night for this. I tested the elliptical again this morning and it still does not work properly on an elliptical unless i swing my watch hand, which I'm doing anytime I use the elliptical now.