I purchased a Fitbit Charge 5 over 3 years ago for about $140 and the battery started to go. Since I didn’t purchase it from Fitbit they would not do anything about it. A Fitbit Charge 6 is about $150 and I didn’t want to spend that much on something with a 3 year life, so I looked for a more moderately priced option. I reviewed a few and came down to the Mindrose H80 and this one. I bought the Mindrose H80 and returned it (see my review for that one). I then purchased this one. One feature I was looking for was blood pressure. The other important item was tracking my workouts. I’ve had this for about a month.
Here are the good features: heart rate, blood oxygen, steps, distance, and stress all seem to work well. It allows you to set your stride so steps is better than Fitbit. I read a lot of reviews for people having issues with the blood pressure. I’ve compared it to my cuff and at the hospital and it is either right on or up to 20 point off, both high and low. I don’t expect it to be as accurate as a cuff, but this seems good enough. If the measure is really high or low, then I would follow up with my cuff. As with any sleep tracker, not sure how to measure how accurate it is, but it seems to follow what sleep patterns I remember.
I like the exercise menu. I’m able to add, remove, resort the list. I wasn’t able to do that with either the Fitbit or Mindrose H80. I have on my list just what I need. I also like the ability to modify the settings menu, only having those I want. Unfortunately the apps menu does not work that way. That is one feature I would like to see, the ability to modify the apps menu like the other menus.
Here are the features that could use a tweak. Along with the apps menu, I would like to see a start button for heart rate, stress, blood oxygen, and blood pressure. The way it works is you go to that screen and wait a couple of seconds and it starts taking the measure. Some screens have the time in the upper right hand corner, but not all. Many have the space for it but do not show it. When I’m tracking my exercise it does not show time, but could. When you are charging it, it does not show the status of the charging. It just says charging. If you want to see how far along it is, you need to unplug it to see it. One item that is missing is a flashlight option. For a watch that is marketed as a military watch, I would think having a flashlight option would be part of it. None of these are big deals, but nice tweaks that would make this watch better.
Depending on the options you have the battery can last from 5 days to 10 days, so it is good. I don’t use the phone or AI options, so nothing to say on those. Integrating with the DaFit app was easy to setup and use and works well.
There can be 6 watch faces, but only one can be changed through the DaFit app. Not sure if that is an issue with the watch or the app. It would be nice to replace the 5 permanent watch faces with other ones.
Overall a solid 4+ and could easily be a 5 with some of the tweaks I’ve mentioned. Would definitely recommend this watch.
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