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Wednesday
Jun292016

Chad's Crappy Corner and a brand new theme for July.

Chad's Crappy Corner new theme for July (Voted on by our loyal patrons) is “Cheap Bluetooth Gadgets”! And Chad's 1st gadget is the iBitz Unity Adult Fitnesss Tracker. 

Here's what Amazon says about it: The adult model, ibitz Unity is an activity tracker that can track the whole family's fitness activity by syncing to the Unity app. Track daily steps, distance, calories burned, weight as well as historical views of activities by day, week and month. ----- Now back to The Giz Wiz. Looking at the reviews, it seems it only works with recent iPhones and iPads, not anything Android.

 

And Chad's take: Before we tell you that, let's talk about the price. I have never seen such a wide range of prices EVER on Amazon. From $1.99 to $49.99 for what appears to be the exact same device! Chad paid only $1.99 plus $4.99 for shipping, a total of less than $7! Before we knew this, I said $29.99 when he asked me to guess a price. Chad got the version in black, but if want the same thing in red, it's $49.99! Chad got it to sync with his iPhone and it registered some steps as he moved around the Giz Wiz set. He's going to give us an update after he uses it for a while, but he seems to think the only thing it can do is count steps. If that's true, you're only buying a pedometer for $7, and that function is already built into Chad's iPhone. But again, it was just $7.00 with shipping included. There's no display on the device, you see everything in the app on your iPhone or iPad. So unless you have a recent model device, it's not even worth the $7. But we'll learn more from Chad after he uses it.

 

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See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/1577

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