If you aren't sure you want to invest in a high end smart watch, try this one out first! That's what I did during the sales at Christmas and I'm pretty pleased with it. I've never had a smart watch before, but I have a heart condition and COPD and wanted/needed a way to track my heartbeat and my O2 over time and my nurse suggested a smart watch. I bought this one, which was very cheap at the time on sale, and overall I think it was a good buy. It meets my main need and tracks my O2 and my heart rate, recording everything over time so I can download it to my phone daily and later show my doctor or nurse my numbers for the day or over a week or month. This feature works great, storing all the info in my phone where it's easy to scroll through and see the timestamps on any odd readings. The battery life is awesome, I only need to charge it about twice a week and it charges quickly plugged into the USB on the front of my computer tower. And the phone relay feature works fine, letting me answer a call even when my phone is in the next room so important calls don't get missed.
This watch might well be five stars for most people, but I'm picky and there are a few features that annoy me. Top one is I can't just turn off the features I don't use. I'm disabled and in a wheelchair most of the time, and I really do not need to track my steps. lol Second feature that I find annoying is the dial. Yes, I can put my own wallpaper in and did immediately, but you can't change the clock layout at all on the "custom dial" or add any other little mini readouts to it like are visible on the prefab dials which mostly track steps and dieting, which I don't need. Third feature I dislike is needing to manually sync daily to keep my information. My memory isn't so great and I'm sure to forget! Fourth is the sound for the call relay feature, in both directions. I hardly use it so it doesn’t bother me a lot, but for someone wanting to talk on the watch often it would probably be more of a problem that it can sound crackly sometimes on both ends of the conversation. Finally, I didn't like the band at all, which was too rigid for me, made my wrist sweat, and was kind of cheap feeling with a plastic buckle. The band honestly reminded me of the ones that were on the cheap plastic watches I wore as a kid back in the 80s. I replaced it immediately with a stretchy woven nylon one that is much more comfortable and doesn't make my wrist sweat.
Overall, this is a decent quality, very useful watch. For me it's a solid four star because I like it and will continue using it even though it's not perfect. When the time comes to replace it, I will probably spend more to get a more customizable watch, but for my FIRST smart watch, this one is pretty good!
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