Re: What can't you do on Android WITHOUT a Google Account set up in the OS?

R.Wieser <address@is.invalid> wrote:

Theo,
 

To use a Fitbit, you need a Google account

 
Which is a good reason no to use it.
 
I could imagine using an open-source or freeware map app in which you can
locally(!) record the path you've walked (and calculate/estimate the total
length of that path) ?

  FTR, Fitbit *can* track your position/route, but only if you enable
that function (it can use its own GPS (if it has one) or use your
phone's GPS (if you carry it with you)). (I don't have that function
enabled.)

  But as its name implies, its main function is as an activity tracker;
steps, (estimated) distance, (estimated) calories, heart rate, oxygen
saturation and sleep analysis.

  As I mentioned before, 'smartwatches' are a different category  of
devices, but the functions largely overlap, i.e. 'smartwatches' have
activity tracking and sleep analysis and 'activity trackers' are also
watches and somewhat 'smart.