Muve Gv1000-na Personal Activity Monitor, White/Gray

I'm on a treadmill right now as a result of purchasing this little guy!Its a great item for gaining a better understanding of your day to day activity. Without being intrusive, it gently reminds you to get up and move around. Furthermore, at the end of the day, you can review charts with details of exactly how much you did or didn't do that day.While $99 isn't trivial, its much less than a gym membership and can help you remember to move around more. The website is pretty good from a data point of view. However it doesn't allow you to input much else. So you'll have to use other websites to monitor food etc.Overall, its an amazing device and well worth the money.

I purchased this device with high hopes and at first it seemed to deliver on the claims. Providing an interesting view of my exercise/caloric burns.The device requires you to connect to their site to download the stored data and I experienced periods where I was unable to connect to their site (for 1-2 days). Which was very frustrating. After a few of these blackouts, I discovered that the issue was related to the https connection and I was able to connect via http (probably a problem with the load balancer on their side).Next, the little rubber flap that protects the USB connector on the device detached itself.From time to time, the device would just lose the data stored on it when I attempted to sync it. From what I can guess, the device downloads the detailed data and then keeps a summary value in itself to know where you are in terms of the daily goal (color). If there is some communications issue, the detailed data is just gone. Poof, no way to resend it :(After a few of months of use, I noticed that their were dropouts in the data where it looked as though I was doing absolutely nothing. These were intermittent and gradually became more frequent and thus rendered the results worthless. Why work towards a "goal" when you may only get 80% of your exercise recorded.About this time, the clip that holds this device to your belt snapped off at the Gruve.I returned the device for warranty repairs (at my expense) and explained about the growing frequency of the dropouts as well as the obvious mechanical failures.After several weeks, the Gruve was returned and seemed to operate like new for a couple of days, then the dropouts started recurring. When I exchanged emails about the issue with technical support, I was told then had been unable to duplicate the issue, so that had simply returned the unit with the repaired clip and port cover!I tried charging the device completely to see if I could stop the dropouts which continued and finally the clip snapped off again. When I contacted tech support I was told the warranty had expired on the unit. So, I'm stuck with a worthless device despite my attempts to have it repaired while in warranty. Save yourself the money and effort and find some other choice for an exercise monitor.Another item that I read is that after the first year they charge to use the web site (which is the only way to see the data). So, just be aware of that.

The pros for the Gruve are:1 - The ability to monitor your periods of activity/inactivity,2 - If you're inactive for a long period of time it will vibrate to remind you get off your rear and on your feet and,3 - The on-line program does set goals.The cons for the Gruve, IMO, are:1 - The price, listing at $200.00,2 - A $75.00 annual fee after the first year to remain on the Gruve program and,3 - What I feel is the inaccuracy of the calorie burn.Today is July 28th, the 18th day since I started using the Gruve Personal Activity Monitor. I've been religious about wearing it attached either to my waistband or at least to my cargo shorts pocket. Due to a health situation two prime activities I've been able to work at are walking and using on my elliptical. In addition to the Gruve and elliptical I have two other devices that count calorie burn; a Polar HRM and a $3.00 cardio program on my Droid cell phone. Since receiving the Gruve I compared the calorie count on all 4 devices. For walking I use only the Gruve and the $3.00 cardio program.My example of inaccuracy: Today before my evening exercise regime the Gruve program said I had 150 calories to burn to reach my "Green" goal. I set the elliptical for to cycle off once I'd burned 150 calories, strapped on the Polar HRM transmitter, attached the Gruve to my waist band and started my exercise. When the elliptical cycled at 150 calories the Polar HRM indicated I'd burned 190 calories and the Gruve showed only 60 calories burned still having 90 to go before reaching my "Green" goal. I reset the elliptical for 90 calories, attached the Gruve to my shoe this time and started a second workout. Once the elliptical reached the 90 calorie mark the Polar HRM indicated I'd burned an additional 113 calories and the Gruve said I'd burned only 73 calories more and was still 17 short of my "Green" goal. The program on my Droid showed I'd burned a total of 334 calories for the two sessions, the Polar HRM 303 and the Gruve 133 calories. This has been the standard throughout the period I've used the Gruve.This has been my experience with the Gruve so I'm returning it and will rely on the Polar HRM and the cardio program on my Droid for what I want to accomplish. Your experience, activity level and the goals you wish to accomplish could be entirely different.