First, being blind, I need a device that talks to me, or at least allows me to interact with a voice assistant. This watch talks to me because my phone talks to me, which makes it useful. Although the Da Fit app this watch uses has its oddities and doesn't allow me to set some things that need a keyboard that doesn't pop up for me on my phone, it is overall usable enough to see my health stats and such. I even found that although I am not able to make calls from the watch because I am not able to see the screen, I figured out how to reliably answer an incoming call from the watch, or if I want, send the call to voicemail. Although I still need to pull the phone out of my pocket to do most things, I find the vibration on my wrist for notifications to be much easier to feel than the vibration from my phone in my pocket that I sometimes cannot feel.
This watch has a very easy way of interacting with the voice assistant on my phone. I just hold in the long button for about 3 seconds, then tap the screen and talk. If I want to ask a follow-up question, I only need to tap the long button and then the screen and speak again. The problem with this is that I wanted to use Alexa on my phone, but it only appears to work properly when the screen is on and unlocked. I also made the mistake of choosing to open Alexa every time my voice assist button is activated on my watch. This unfortunately cannot be forgotten it seems, not even when I forget the watch in my bluetooth settings, remove it from Da Fit and add it to Da Fit again, which automatically requests pairing with the watch again. Sadly, I think the only thing I can do is uninstall and reinstall Alexa, which I still use for many other things, so I don't really want to reset it that way. I even tried switching my default digital assistant to Google, but this has no affect on the watch.
Overall, this is a pretty good product, especially for the price, but I find that it may be better for me if the voice assistant is integrated with the watch instead of the phone, so four stars for otherwise solid performance.
Update: I was able to switch voice assistants just by installing another one. I find I can use the open source Dicio assistant with this watch, although it still struggles a bit when my screen is locked. Still, the voice assistant is not what makes this watch useful to me. I was able to resolve another problem I was having by installing an app called Voice Notify. So now, just like displayed notification show up on the watch for people who can see them, because this watch acts as a speaker while it's connected, I hear all my notifications spoken on the watch. Now that I found how to work around the limitations, I would say this watch is a 5-star product for sure.
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