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3.0 out of 5 starsAccuracy is debatable!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 May 2024
I received this watch last night, and was impressed with the design and packaging, as well as setup & the ease of downloading the integrated app. I have childishly small wrists, so even though it doesn't seem too much bigger than an Apple watch, it does look huge on me, which I was expecting so that's fine. I wore it overnight to get a feel for it - on first impressions, the touchscreen is responsive, it seems simple to use, and the 'lift arm to wake up display' function is nice if a little spotty. There are a good range of watch faces on the app (although many of them are questionable design wise!) and I found one that I liked after a bit of scrolling. Heart rate and blood oxygen sensors seem to work (although I can't speak for accuracy), but the blood oxygen had some trouble with my tattoo so I had to switch wrists. I also had to go into settings to stop it automatically playing audio from my phone, but that's pretty minor - the app does drain your phone's battery as it's always on in the background, so something to bear in mind.
However, in wearing it overnight, I've found a few problems - firstly, the sleep tracker. Apparently, I am asleep as I write this 😂 I've been up for over an hour, using the watch and looking through the app, but it seems to think I'm sleep scrolling (a thoroughly modern problem) - it also thinks I was wide awake at around 3:30am (I was not), and the blood oxygen monitor seems to have stopped recording at around the same time. Also, despite only having worn the watch in bed, I've apparently walked 26 steps (at 2am, so not aligned with the time it thinks I was awake)... No, I'm not a sleepwalker! Finally, the sleep information is not uploading to the app - heart rate and blood oxygen are, so there's a problem there. I'll try and do a bit of troubleshooting, but as I bought this to track my sleep as well as my fitness, if I can't get it to work reliably I'll have to return it.
I'll test the fitness functions today, and I'll update if I can get the sleep tracker working properly - so far, it's a nice looking piece of kit for the money, with some decent functionality, but that's only useful if the functionality actually works as it should!