Katsmeow
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I have the fitbit Force. My wife got The Rash from hers, and so returned it, but I am fine (no allergic reaction to the nickel for me).
If you read the long thread on the Fitbit discussion pages, many people have reported problems who don't have an allergy and many people who do have problems with nickel have no problem with the Fitbit Force. That is, I don't believe there is any conclusion whatsoever that the problem with the Force is due to nickel.
Here is a good thread on the Fitbit discussions about the skin irritation:
https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Force/Fitbit-burned-arm/td-p/3661
I had a Fitbit Force and had no problems myself. However, I returned it for a couple of reasons. First, there have been reports of some people who had problems who did eventually develop a problem. I saw, for example, someone who didn't return her Force because it wasn't causing a problem and then it did cause a problem and she ended up with a scar on her arm even though she quit using it.
Secondly, while they will support the Force with updates that are easily applicable to all of their products, I seriously doubt that they are going to do much to upgrade a recalled product. It is basically a dead product now. In my case, I returned the Force, got my refund, and I've gone back to using my Fitbit One (which I already owned). DH is using a Fitbit Flex which is also nice.
If you have an iPhone 5S you don't really need a band to measure your steps. Just keep the phone in your pocket and use an app that reads the phone's M7 coprocessor that measures all this stuff.
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I do have an iPhone 5S and I do use also an apps that tracks steps with it. However, the thing is that I don't carry my iPhone 5S in my pocket 100% of the time and don't want to do so. So, the Fitbit works better. Also, the Fitbit does do things other than just measure steps (I use the calorie burn coupled with MyFitnessPal to tell Fitbit what I've eaten to determine my calorie deficit).
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