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Fitbit is a gadget that measures your steps and tracks your sleep. Motivates you to stay active, live better.

It costs 7,160 Rs, on ebay India.

Fitbit pedometer is durable and a real motivator to track your daily activity. The step counter is pretty accurate and durable.

The battery lasts more than a week if you take 3000-5000 steps a day. It charges within an hour or even quicker some times.

It can store data on it for a few days, so daily syncing it not necessary. You can also set email reminders to remind you to sync the fitbit.

You also don’t have to connect it the sync cradle. Just being near it for a few minutes will sync if there is no activity.

There is a new version of this device called fitbit one. Which allows you to sync with iphone and ipod touches even.

If you are buying this in India there is no app support. But if you have a rooted android device you can get it via market enabler from app store.

The app is pretty bad on android, hope they improve it in future. But the website has amazing stats and charts.

If you forget to turn on the timer when you sleep you can go to the website and add the activity.

There is no on or off button on the device so you don’t have to worry about turning it on or off.

If it tracks something like driving a car or travelling you can make it ignore that from the website by defining the activity as travelling or driving etc. But you have to remember the timings.

All in all a very good device that you can leave on your belt or pocket and ignore. A must buy for any fitness geek who want to get better stats about their daily activity.

More info about Fitbit can be found here

1. Don’t go for the biggest size, look at the space you have and see what size tv do you need. (40 inches needs at least 5 feet viewing distance)

2. LED tv’s are thin compared to LCD but once you put it on the wall it doesn’t matter if its 2 inches or 10 inches.

3. Now above 40 inches are all the rage, if you go for a 40 or below you will get a good price almost half the price.

4. In most showrooms brightness is set to maximum which you will never use at home, it’s too bright. So reduce the brightness to half and see if it looks good and then buy.

5. If money is not an issues go for LED or stick with LCD. If you have HD set-top box LCD is more than enough.

6. Don’t get stuck by all the specs, look for what you need and if its good and in your price point buy it.

7. Think about the HD content expenses too. You need a HD set-top box to hook up with your LCD or LED tv. HD set-top boxes from Tatasky, Reliance, Dishtv etc cost around 5000 Rs. You will have to pay around 4000-6000 Rs per year as subscription fees for HD channels package.

8. Bluray and HD dvd players are also priced around 5000-10000 Rs. Blurays costs 500-1500 Rs, so take all this into consideration before buying.

9. USB content playback is a plus on tv, make sure it plays usb videos too.

10. More the HDMI ports the better, Wifi is also a good thing in tv’s now a days.