Fitbit, Bodybugg, or another device???

I've had a Bodybugg for a while (actually charging it right now) and it's been great. The only thing that gets to me is that you have to pay a subscription fee for their website which downloads the information and does pretty much what this one does for free. Since the Bodybugg only holds 15 days of memory, the only way to get it cleaned off is to update the website. So just keep in mind that you pay the price for the Bodybugg, and then an extra $80 a year for the online service.

I have the BodyMedia and I love it. It has really helped me see how active/inactive I am throughout the day, how well/bad I sleep at night (I have a toddler) and how many calories I really burn doing a certain exercise. I got mine from Costco and it came with a year membership. I am glad I have it and I talk to everyone about it. If you have specific questions let me know.

www.bodymedia.com

wearing my fitbit right now and really like it. The online graphs are great. My big thing was not wanting to pay for a monthly subscription which the bodybugg requires. FitBit's is free. But I've heard great things about both!

Are those kinda like a HRM? or is something like this better than one?

These actually don't capture your heart rate. What they do is measure the amount of calories you burn throughout the day and also the amount of steps you take. BodyBugg mentioned making a model that also includes a HRM, but that doesn't seem to have happened yet.

Has anyone tried the Polar FA20? That's one you just wear on your wrist, and I think it has HRM capabilities.

UPDATE: FA20 does not have a HRM.

I've been using a fitbit for 2 months to maintain my weight. I love it. It has a display that you can see calories burned, steps, and a flower that grows and shrinks with activity.
There is a 'start/stop' button to time stamp any activity you do (sleep included) so that when you sync it will be time stamped- though you don't have to do this, it's kind of cool to have it divied up and to be able to see your sleep pattern, how many times you tossed and turned in your sleep, etc.

I like seeing the calories in vs. out and use the trainer for exercise. It syncs automatically when I walk near the base station (I believe 15 feet) and I charge it about every 5 days while I'm in the shower.
The website with all of it's graphs is really intuitive. The community over there is very dead though and is just starting to get a little more activity. I'd love to see it as active as here.

As far as it's accuracy- I find it incredibly accurate on walking, running, no/low resistance elliptical, EA Active 2 lower body activities, treadmill, even zumba, and things of that nature
some people have seen success putting it on their sock for biking/stationary biking-- I manually log that.
not accurate for weight resistance -- need to manually log
certain yogas- need to manually log
if you're doing upper body work and your fitbit is on your lower body-- not accurate
I wear mine on my hip and it logs nicely. I've maintained my weight to the tee, no gain, no loss so it must be telling me something right! MFP had my maintenance calories wrong (underestimated) and overestimated all exercise calories.

Hope that helps a little on the fitbit. I didn't want to have to wear anything on my arm or pay a fee for seeing what I was doing so that's why I got the fitbit.

I wish that fitbit would link with mfp so I wouldn't have to log my food, exercise in both and so the community would be the same. Or at least have a feature like they do with the facebook feature on here where entering it here will send it there.

I don't log my food into Fitbit. MFP is way better for that.