Fitbit after 250 miles

Like them or not, when you wear a Fitbit and track your activities, you will get badges.  "Badges", you say, "We don't need no stinkin' badges!"  Maybe not. But in any event, me getting my 250 mile badge was a good trigger for me to sit down and write this blog entry to say what I'm liking and not liking about my Fitbit One.

The Good

• Battery Life: It's been excellent.  I charge for maybe an hour every week or so.  Each time I plug in, it appears as if I'm still halfway charged.  I thought I'd have to manage this more closely and am very glad that I do not need to.
• Data: It collects data in a very seamless way.  Especially when combined with the Aria scale, its a pretty powerful set of information to drive good decision-making.
• Alarm: I no longer wake my wife up in the morning with my alarm clock.  Which is good because I just broke it.  Powerful motivator to wear the Fitbit at night.
• My wife likes it.

The Bad

• Nighttime Braclet: The odd velcro-like closure is already starting to wear and catch on my covers leading to it coming off a number of times while I was tossing and turning.  I expect that I will have to be routinely purchasing these (perhaps at 4 to 6 month intervals).
• Sleep Monitoring: Seemingly uncorrelated with how well I feel when I wake up.  I moved to the sensitive mode because I was routinely sleeping with 99% efficiency.  Now, it claims I'm only sleeping between 4 1/2 and 5 hours a night.  I hope not.
• No feature updates via software (yet): I'd still very much like to be beeped at if I remain stationary for 10 or 15 minutes.  And then more vigorously beeped at if 15 becomes 30 minutes.
• Proprietary Data: Where is it?  Can I get to the raw or treated stuff?  Not clear.
• Dashboard 2.0: I switched over to it not long ago.  Lacks an easy ability to see different date ranges as you could with the original.  Some displays of the data are clunky (while others are notably improved - sleep over the last seven days).
• Changing Logs:  At least for sleep, once a record is created, there doesn't appear to be an easy way of changing it.  Make a mistake and forget to tell it your done sleeping?  You are out of luck.  Seems like an obvious oversight.

One Step Beyond?

• More types of data: I'd love to have my pulse, oxygen levels, sweat levels and blood pressure constantly across the day.  I don't know how to do it, but somebody will figure it out.
• More sensors: I can tell the Fitbit that I did a "light to moderate effort" free-weight workout for 35 minutes.  The moment I go for a run on the treadmill, the Fitbit knows exactly what is up.  It would be much more useful if I didn't have to tell it what I was doing, it should be able to figure whatever it was, out.  I'd be willing to wear ankle sensors, wrist sensors and a waist sensor, almost whatever it would take.  Whoever figures this out, will have me in a heartbeat.
• Waterproofedness: I've been spending a fair bit of time in the pool with the boys (now that we have a basketball hoop and volleyball net).  None of this activity can be logged or reasonably represented from my fitbit, as noted here.  Waterproofing seems like a fairly reasonable upgrade and one that would likely provide some additional robustness to their design (avoid failure due to being overly sweaty). [Added 2013-07-22]