The Fitbit Ultra Wireless Activity Tracker is an ideal fitness partner motivating you with real-time activity stats including steps walked, floors climbed and calories burned.

The Fitbit keeps monitoring throughout your everyday routine and sleep as well as your exercise sessions so you know exactly how close you are to achieving your fitness goals.

Small but powerful, the Fitbit Tracker is lightweight and unobtrusive enough to wear all day without anyone knowing but every glance of the LED display will give you the motivation to outdo previous days and make the small changes in your routine that can add up to big results.

Features

Activity Tracking

Fitbit makes every step you take a step toward better fitness, even on your busiest days. Fitbit Ultra's super-sensitive 3D motion sensor tracks your day down to details a pedometer can't catch, showing your exact steps taken, calories burned and distance travelled.

The new altimeter tracks floors climbed by stairways so you can monitor this heart-healthy activity, encouraging you to take the stairs at home or work or climb a little further on your next hike.

Sleep Tracking

We all know solid sleep is hugely important to well-being and weight loss. But until now the question has been just how do you track sleep? The answer is the Fitbit Tracker. Slip your Tracker into the Fitbit sleep wristband before bed and it will keep a watchful eye as you slumber. When your info uploads to Fitbit.com, you'll see not only how long you sleep but how well you sleep. The Tracker monitors how many times and how long you wake up during the night. Over time, you can apply what you learn to give you a better understanding what helps you sleep better.

Display

Check your real-time stats at any time with a quick glance at your Fitbit Ultra. Switch between steps, distance, calories burned and floors climbed with a single button. With every peek, you'll get a little burst of motivation to fit in a few extra steps.

Steps The Fitbit Ultra accurately tracks your activity all day long, counting every step you take.	Distance See how many miles (or km) you walk heading to the coffee shop, to lunch, or just around the house.	Calories Burned See how your activity translates into actual calories burned.
Floors Climbed Fitbit Ultra includes an altimeter to track how many floors or hills you climb throughout the day.	Flower Your flower will grow and shrink, depending on how active you've been lately.	Clock With the time at your fingertips, you can work out and still know when you need to be home.
Stopwatch Hold down the button for 2 seconds to time an event, such as a walk, run or sleep period.	Greeting Give your Tracker a fun name to easily identify yours from your friends.	Chatter Get fun messages to keep you moving, each time you pick up your Tracker.

Wearable

Unlike bulky, awkward devices that all but scream "Look at me, I'm on a diet", the Fitbit Tracker is light and small enough to wear all day without anyone knowing. In fact, it's the smallest fitness tracker out there. Tuck it in your pocket or clip it to your belt or bra and you're set.

Stats & Graphs

Your activity and sleep stats come to life on Fitbit.com, creating a visual map of your progress that gives you a clear picture of how you're doing and where you're headed. Use your custom dashboard to analyze your day and chart your progress over time. You can keep score with yourself and see how you compare to other people in your age and fitness range.

Wireless

Your stats automatically upload to Fitbit.com whenever your Tracker is within about 15 feet of the base station plugged into you Mac or PC. There are no buttons to push, no data to enter, just your stats waiting for you to explore.

Social

Nothing motivates like a supportive community and a little healthy competition. On Fitbit.com, you can share info with friends and family and create your own private groups with them to set collaborative or competitive goals. You can also join public groups and forums to ask questions and get advice from thousands of people with similar fitness goals.

Logging

Pack even more details into your data by logging individual foods and workouts from your smartphone or computer. Find specific foods in our database of over 100,000 food items and enter workout specifics from yoga, pilates, elliptical workouts, boot camp, spinning, kickboxing and even Wii games. You can also track your weight and other health indicators like blood pressure, glucose and heart rate.

Mobile

Log workouts, food, water, weight and more with Fitbit's free iPhone app or on Fitbit's mobile website. Plus check your stats while you are on the go!

Specification

• Sensors: The Fitbit Tracker uses a MEMS 3-axis accelerometer that measures your motion patterns to tell you your calories burned, steps taken, distance travelled and sleep quality. A built-in MEMS altimeter measures your vertical climb up stairs and hills.
• Size (H x W x D): 2.125 x 0.75 x 0.5625 inches (5.5 x 1.95 x 1.4 cm)
• Weight: 0.4 oz (11.34 g)
• Controls and display:
  - Single-button control
  - Each press of the button cycles the display through one of 6 modes: Steps, Distance, Floors Climbed, Calories Burned, Flower (overall recent activity level), Clock
  - You can also personalize your display with: Greeting/Name, Chatter (encouragements)
  - 1 x 0.25 inches blue organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display
• Wireless sync: The Fitbit Tracker syncs wirelessly to the base station (included in package) using an ultra-low power 2.4 GHz ANT radio transceiver. Sync occurs automatically, anytime your Tracker is within about 15 feet of a base station and relatively motionless. The base station plugs into your Mac or PC’s USB port. Syncing and uploading requires use of the Fitbit uploader application.
• Memory: While Fitbit recommend you sync your data regularly, the Tracker can store up to seven days of detailed, minute-by-minute data as long as it has minimum battery power. It will also store daily totals (calories, distance and steps) for the trailing 30 days but without minute-by-minute stats.
• Battery and power: The battery will last a minimum of 3 days between charges. The typical user's experience is 5-7 days. To check the battery level, place the Tracker on the base station and press the button. You can also see your battery level on your personal dashboard at Fitbit.com, based on the last time you synced wirelessly. To charge the battery, just put it on the base station. It takes about an hour to fully recharge from a low indicator.
• PC/Mac requirements:
  - Windows XP/Vista/7, USB port, Internet connection
  - Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7, USB port, Internet connection
• Browsers supported: Chrome (12 and up), Firefox (3.6.18 and up), Internet Explorer (7 and up), Safari (5.0.5 and up)
• Environmental requirements:
  -The Fitbit Tracker is not waterproof. It should not be worn while swimming. When taking part in activities that might produce a large amount of sweat, the Tracker should be protected from exposure to moisture.
  - Operating temperature: 0° to 40°C
  - Non-operating temperature: -17.7°C to 54.4°C
  - Relative humidity: Up to 85% non-condensing
  - Maximum operating altitude: 30,000 feet (9144 m)

What’s Included

• 1 x Fitbit Tracker
• 1 x Base station/charger
• 1 x Sleep wristband
• 1 x Belt holster
• Free membership to Fitbit.com, which includes ability to log and chart activities, food, sleep, water, body mass, weight and much more

Editor Review

Advantages

I bought the Fitbit 3 weeks ago and am very impressed with it. Ittook just a couple of minutes to set up my account on the computer and pair it with the device.

I p ut it in pocket and went out for the day and when I came back the Fitbit paired wirelessly with my PC to show how active I have been.

I downloaded the iPhone app so I could add food when I was out for the day and keep a log of calories consumed.

When you get used to it, you will find yourself parking a bit further away from your destination so you can get the extra exercise in and thinking about what you are putting in your body via your mouth.

You can choose what rate you want to lose the weight from 0.25 to 2 lb a week and the software will work out how many calories a day you are allowed.

I feel the best feature is that the software works out how active you have been, how much you have eaten and then lets you know how much you can eat for the rest of the day.

I put in my plan to lose 2 lb a week and have lost 6 lb so far just by walking everywhere and watching my food intake.

Disadvantages

Obviously the Fitbit costs quite a bit of money but I don’t think the price is too high considering what you would pay for gym membership, if you log everything as you eat/exercise then you have a 24/7 personnel trainer/dietician.