Before the watch was even delivered, I received a message from Parsonver stating that while the watch was rated as "IP68 waterproof", it should NOT be worn in the shower. That was strange, because that is definitely NOT an IP68 characteristic! More like IP62. But then I got the watch, and it got even more interesting. When I first tried this fitness watch, I had not yet downloaded the Fitomo app that you have to pair ("bind" is the word the developer uses) it with in order to TRACK your progress. I just mainly wanted to see if it counted steps and flights of stairs properly before downloading the app, as I have had several fitness trackers before – even a very expensive one – that absolutely did NOT. When it finally got past its QR Code splash screen and allowed me to choose a watch face, I was able to use it as a step counter. In that very basic mode (not even correct time, but again, I just wanted to see if it actually worked!) the step counter seemed to work perfectly. For one entire day, it was within just a few steps of the Fitbit I was using to compare with it. Satisfied that it worked okay, I downloaded the Fitomo app the next day and went through the pairing ("binding") process specified in both the written and online instructions. Once paired, I wore it for another full day and periodically checked the tracker app to see what information was being transmitted between the watch and the app. At the end of that day, when my Fitbit showed over 11,000 steps, the Parsonver watch showed just under 7,000 steps. I was baffled by this wide discrepancy. So I reset the watch, unpaired the app (with the "unbind" function), and then went through another day after setting it up all over again. And AGAIN, the Parsonver watch was not even close to the number of steps counted on my Fitbit, and I was actually wearing it on my dominant arm. So the next day, I reset it again, but unbound it from the app to check one more time if it would count steps correctly. And it DID. As long as it was not bound to the app, it seemed to work fine – although the watch face would randomly change itself or start to dim out. Weird. I did the same thing all over again for the next few days with the same results. The step counter does not work correctly when paired with the app, but does work when unpaired. It made me wonder what watch/App processes were churning along in the background while riding my wifi/bluetooth that actually served as an impediment to accurate motion tracking. So it makes no sense to have a "fitness tracker" that doesn't actually track your progress over time, if it only works when NOT connected to the tracking app. If you just want a daily step counter, this watch works fine – but you do have to pair it with the app in order to set the correct time. Then just "unbind" again from the app to count your steps.
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