Never had a smart watch before so I wasn’t willing to pay hundreds of dollars for the brand names as I wasn’t sure how it would work out.
Watch showed up on time. All packing was in good condition as was the watch.
It looks nice, had a nice feel to it and was comfortable on the wrist. I was pretty excited to try it out.
However, after wearing it for the first day/night cycle, I started noticing some not so amusing things about the watch.
The display is nice, colorful (depending on the dial you choose) and displays pretty much all the main functional activities.
The first issue I had was not being able to receive any notifications on it. I followed the instructions (printed in a font so small I couldn’t read it without high magnification) to set up the watch/phone to receive the notifications. Nothing. I contacted the manufacturer who sent instructions on how to set up the phone watch combo. Still nothing.
At this point I would like to mention, this particular watch requires many changes to be made to the phone settings in order to receive notifications which, by the way, did not work. In the end I had a bunch of changes to my phone settings with no positive outcome.
My phone operating system and bluetooth version met the requirements for using this watch.
The other issue I had was the sleep cycle function. It was extremely inaccurate. It showed me sleeping while I was awake and active and awake while I was sleeping. When it did register sleep, the time shown for when I go to sleep was off by many hours.
The rest of the functions (steps, spo2, heart rate, etc.) Seemed to be pretty accurate though.
The app is very simplistic, not much to it. Kind of limited in what it allows the user to do.
Overall, for the price, it’s not a bad device if you aren’t concerned about sleep cycles and blood oxygen levels. I know these kind of watches do replicate medical devices and are only close estimations but, when these estimations aren’t even close then what’s the point?
I bought three of these so I had one and shared te rest with a couple of family members. Unfortunately all three suffered the same issues so after a couple of weeks trying to get them to work with no success, I had no choice but to return them.
Wish they had worked out. I actually kind of liked the watch.
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