Fitbit surge owner.

[Elvis7]

I've had my fitbit surge for a month now. Using it with windows phone 8.1 (Lumia 1020) . If anyone has any questions, ask away!

 

[Chacko Mathai]

How's the heart rate. Is it accurate ?

 

[Elvis7]

I tried comparing its hr to the one on a treadmill and there was 10 hr difference. So far its good, although there have been some times when it lost track of my hr for a few minutes. But, I've taken it in the water , tub, etc and it still,tracks the hr so that's great.

 

[secher]

How well is the sync and background sync working?
I have a Charge HR with the 1020, and syncing is horrible. Background sync does not work at all, and often i takes 5 minutes to get it to sync up when I open the fitbit app... Sometimes I even have to restart the phone before it will connect...

 

[hotphil]

Works perfect on my 1020 - never have any issue with syncing.

 

[Elvis7]

Syncing is good, although sometimes, the phone is already connected to surge and when I open the app,(set to manual sync) it says tracker disconnected and I have to turn Bluetooth off and on , on the phone for it to locate and sync.

 

[DI77ON]

How well do phone notifications work? Do you get caller id, text, and calendar/Cortana notifications on the Surge? Or are there limitations here?

 

[MangoGuy]

How well do phone notifications work? Do you get caller id, text, and calendar/Cortana notifications on the Surge? Or are there limitations here?

No notifications yet

 

[hotphil]

How well do phone notifications work? Do you get caller id, text, and calendar/Cortana notifications on the Surge? Or are there limitations here?

yep, same issues as all other smartwatches with windows phone - microsoft wont allow notificatons, alerts etc

 

[MangoGuy]

Have sent mine back looking at leaving windows by the end of the year as they are lacking to much