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Before you invest in Fitbit Aria Air, you must know that unlike other smart fitbit scales, it does not use a small electric current to estimate the composition of your body (including far, muscle mass and bones) – a method known as Bioimbedence. This means you will get a less complete picture of changes in your body, but it means it’s safe for people with implanted devices such as a pacemaker.
Instead, Fitbit Aria Water measures weight (in the imperial or metric unit), and calculates your BMI using the height entered when you create your Fitbit account. This is immediately synchronized with the Fitbit cellular application, where you can track changes over time and see how close you are to meet your target weight. It also makes it easy to see how any lifestyle changes, such as increased exercises or increased sleep patterns, may have influenced your weight.
Fitbit Aria Water is connected to your mobile via Bluetooth, and does not have Wi-Fi connectivity. This means very fast and easy to set, by not necessary to enter a password for your home network, but your cellphone needs to be in the bluetooth range for your data to synchronize.
If you have a Smartwatch Fitbit or fitness tracker, and not too interested in the details of your body’s composition, then Fitbit Aria Air is a good choice. It is built strongly and is easy to use, so it’s easy to get into routing weighing yourself regularly.
However, it’s not your only choice. There are third-party scales (such as Eufy Smart Scale C1) which is also very good, and synchronizes data with the Fitbit application as well. The setting is not easy enough, because you have to connect the EuFy and Fitbit application together, but if you have a budget then it is a cheaper option that is worth considering.
Price and release date
Fitbit Aria Air was released in December 2019, and costs $ 49.95 / £ 49.99 / au $ 99.95 directly from Fitbit.
For context, it’s approximately the same as Fittrack Dara (Bluetooth-Only body composition scale) and about double the price of Wi-Fi-activated with a scale of body composition + body.
Design
Fitbit Aria Air is available in black and white, and like almost all smart scales, has a platform with a hardened glass. In our test, this seems very vulnerable to fingerprints. It’s waterproof, so you can delete it with a dry towel if it wet in the bathroom, but we find a stubborn mark even when rubbed with a microfiber cloth.
It takes three AAA batteries, provided. The platform is large for a smart scale, measuring 12.8 x 12.8in (slightly larger than withing body +), unlike some other scales, no sign to show the best place to position your feet, but like the scale is not used. Bioimbedence, this shouldn’t be a problem.
We were surprised how heavy Fitbit Aria Air. Weigh 3.9lb (1.7kg), which is not much less than a wi-fi scale such as the Garmin Index S2, and especially from the Bluetooth scale scale C1 Eufy Smart. Fitbit suggests always saving an upright scale, so you might not often move, but it’s something to remember if the room in your bathroom is limited.
User experience
Because the scale does not track body composition, cannot identify you unless your cellphone is in the Bluetooth range. The steps above without connection and you will see your weight, but your data will not be synchronized. It is not stored on the scale itself, because there will be no way to pin it to certain users.
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It can be troublesome if you don’t have the habit of bringing your phone to the bathroom in the morning, but it means there is no limit to the number of people who can use a scale. Most of the smart scale only supports between four and 16 users, but Aria Water does not have such a lid, provided that everyone has a fitbit account.