I've tried about 5 of these cheaper Chinese watches, and this is the best one I've tried so far. It has some annoying quirks, so I can't give it 5 stars, but it's close to 5 stars (in this price range).
First, the watch face is very large. I think it's too large and therefore would not wear it if I wanted to look good. I will only wear this for utility.
It comes with two bands: one metal and one plastic. The metal band makes it feel high quality in comparison to normal smart watches, which I really appreciate. The metal band had some issues for me though. It has enough links to fit an extremely large wrist, so naturally you will have to remove 3-5 links. I removed 4. It comes with a surprisingly decent tool to remove the strap links, but two pins were stuck and impossible to get out. The tool's pin would bend trying to push it out. My own tool, which was heavier duty, also bent. I even used a mallet + pin to try and push it out, but no luck. I was able to remove the pins in other strap links to still remove enough links, but this overall speaks to the quality of the band. It frustrated me enough that I almost gave this a 1 star review until I figured out how to work around it.
As for the watch itself:
– You can enable periodic heart rate monitoring in the app settings. It doesn't tell you what the period is, but you can set the time of day that it will monitor, e.g. 12am – 11:59pm if you want it 24/7. It seems to measure your heart rate every 15 mins based on the graph. It would be nice if I could customize the period here, as some other watches let you do.
– It allows you to disable the annoying "achievements" that these Chinese watches typically have, which is nice. Somehow, being able to disable this is not the norm.
– Cannot hide the useless apps on the watch (e.g. "Games" and "Female"). So you need to scroll through all of these when finding the app you want.
– There are two buttons on this watch, and the bottom one is full customizable. You can change what happens when you single click it (e.g. "Return"), and long press it (e.g. open the "Timer" app). This is a really nice feature for me.
– You can rearrange and add/remove tiles from the watch face
– This watch has a physical flashlight, which is actually very handy. Another reason I am still using this watch.
– There is an option to disable sound on alarms, but unfortunately it doesn't actually work. This would be nice though, because I like to use my watch alarms as vibrate-only so that I don't wake other people up with my alarms.
– Has plenty of good clock faces that you can choose from. Normally these watches have really bad ones. This one has a bunch of faces with the data I want (heart rate and weather), but unfortunately most of these also have a lot of extra, useless stuff on them like buttons to go into "Sports" (which I don't use). So there is no perfect one for me, but a lot of good ones nonetheless.
– It lets you toggle on/off notifications to the watch for every app on your phone. This is very nice, but is actually the norm with these types of watches.
– Sleep tracking is potentially good, but it didn't register any of my sleep after I briefly woke up. It considered me to have stayed awake once I woke up.
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