After FitBit failed to deliver a good, inexpensive product, I began buying inexpensive trackers, which led me to this tracker.
First it is a beautiful product. For the price way more features than I would have expected. But, where they could have spent the money to make great, “they’ half-assed it by adding features that weren’t needed. I do not need my tracker to answer my phone or show text messages; I do not need a blood pressure monitor that seems to get stuck on one or two readings, because I know for a fact that my blood pressures varies, and with careful breathing and visualization I can bring down my BP.
What I do need is an accurate and real time step tracker, heart rate monitor, and a sleep monitor. These are actually the features that “they” almost got right. The allure of a sports tracker was exciting, but unfortunately, this feature doesn’t offer any insight even it tracks my swimming for a full hour, there is no data.
Step tracker is decent. It tends to lag and then catch up or it seems to buffer and you lose those steps. This is important if I lose a hundred or more steps because my goal is 6,000 but I am for 10,000.
Heart Rate Monitor is not in real time. It too buffers. So, if I need to know if I am in fat burn or cardio, it is not happening. At some point the monitor will give data for percentage spent in different zones, but that doesn’t help when you are on the treadmill.
Sleep feature is actually the best feature. Other than the first night, it keeps track even if I wake around midnight (which I often do).
There are lots of watch faces available which is fun. The lettering on the face is very tiny so I picked a face with the most readable data. As all watches and phones tend to do, the watch wakes up for only a few seconds, so I am continually turning the watch back on. That takes me to the battery. I charged it up on Tuesday evening and have worn it continually through Sunday evening. It was at 35% battery left. So, for almost a week I played with the watch and it still had plenty of battery left.
There are more features, like turning on the music to the phone, that I also do not need, because my phone is right there so I can monitor my steps and heart rate.
The last part of the review is the app. Where FitBit failed on the inexpensive trackers, it excelled at the app, which could be loaded on my computer and had all sorts of reports and data. The app for this tracker is GloryFit. What would be great is if this tracker could sync with my FitBit app on my computer or even phone. If it does, I haven’t figured out how.
So, over all the tracker is ok. I bought the insurance so I may not keep it. I need real time monitoring and a sports feature that data will sync. I think there is a place to download data but my swimming is not a choice on the sports monitoring, even though it is an option that I selected to track.
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