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Unboxing the Fitbit Force

2013-12-12
this unboxing is brought to you by Best Buy get the right gift at the right price all at your ultimate holiday showroom hey I'm Donnell Bell for cnet.com and today we are unboxing the Fitbit force now this is the new hundred and thirty dollar top-of-the-line Fitbit it's a fitness tracker it comes in two colors comes in black it comes in like a slate blue kind of color not sure which color we have here take a look we have there is the Fitbit force got in black it's understated it's gonna be a good color for me a good way for me to get in shape or at least just look like I'm about to alright we got it out of one box let's get it out of the the other one here the box itself looks pretty cool it gives you a little description of what the Fitbit force is all about let's open this thing up carefully so there's the Fitbit force itself you see one of the coolest things about this particular version of the Fitbit is that it has a display that can tell the time you can click the little button here on the side and be able to see a record of your activity number of steps taking all that good stuff let's see what else is in the box I get a little tab down here at the bottom give that a tug so inside the box and see what we get we should have some instructions here it's telling you to go to fitbit.com slash setup because that's really the critical part of this whole thing it's not just the force itself but all the software that can help you track and set goals and do all that good stuff and then you've got the charging cable now the charging cable is only gonna come in handy once every week it says the battery life here should be about seven to ten days which is a nice long stretch and then you also have this this is the USB dongle that gives you Bluetooth 4.0 compatibility for your laptop it's both Mac and PC compatible and it's a way for your Fitbit force to communicate wirelessly to your computer so it can upload all that important information about how many steps you've taken calories burned and all that so you get the charging cable you get the USB dongle and you get the Fitbit force that's all there is to it let me try this thing on what do you think cool now the cool thing about this is that it is both splash proof and sweat proof so you can get pretty active here and not have to worry about it blinking out on you the other interesting thing that the Fitbit force does that a lot of the other competitors don't is that it tracks your sleeping habits and tell you how good a night's sleep you're getting so you're supposed to keep this thing on you 24/7 and live a better life because of it so there you go that's the unboxing of the Fitbit force 130 dollars great way to kick off a New Year's resolution you can learn more about it over at cnet.com you
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