My first smart watch. It's all new to me.
I don't know how it does it, but the watch does a good job at recognizing when I've fallen asleep, either in bed at the end of the day, or even if I doze off for a nap in the easy chair for a few minutes or longer. When I'm sleeping, I assume it's somewhat accurate when it determines whether I'm in "REM sleep," "Light sleep," or "Deep sleep." And the next day, it accrues all the data, and rates the quality of my last night's sleep. If I dare wake up just once in the middle of the night, I'm labeled "Sporadic Sleeping," which I get 100% of the time, but it still gives me 4 or 5 stars out of 5, usually. If I only get 6½ hours of sleep, I only get 3 stars. It motivates me to get to bed earlier if I'm going to need to wake up early, and I try to accept the suggestion to go back for more sleep if it thinks I'm a little short. All in all, easier if you're retired.
My phone has an app that keeps updating the battery charge information. It was filling the watch with unnecessary notifications, so I went into the app to tell it to be quiet. However, I just realized that I don't need the watch to display notifications, since I always have the phone with me. So, I'm going to stop any notifications from being displayed on the watch, and I'm going to reset the phone's battery app the way it was before.
Watch provides a stripped-down peek at the weather, and the stripped-down, 6-day weather forecast. I don't think I need the watch for weather either.
The watch provides a totally inaccurate reading of blood pressure. I'm glad I double-checked with a sphigmomanometer before calling for an ambulance. Watch said 188/100 when I was actually 120/68.
The watch doesn't claim to provide blood-sugar levels. So far, today, any watch that claims to readout blood sugar levels is a scam. It would be nice, but the technology doesn't exist yet. If this watch claimed it could, I'd have tossed it out.
The heart rate is correct.
The "stress level" is incomprehensible. I don't know what it thinks it's measuring, possibly because I didn't read the instructions.
I haven't tried exercising yet, it might be helpful there. lol
I don't know if the watch gets my footstep count from itself or from the phone. Either way, at this rate, I'm never going to get there. The associated app wants to know how long my stride is; such complications. It's probably easier to assume 36 inches for starters, then walk a mile, and if the watch says I walked over a mile, then decrease the stride length, etc.
The blood oxygen level might be right.
The watch has a camera "Shutter" function. Some photos are best taken with a tripod, and a remote shutter-release can deliver clearer pictures than physically touching the phone to take the picture. I was amazed.
I did something wrong. To activate the watch, I went into PlayStore and searched for L70, and got trapped into giving some service my personal information, in an effort to activate the watch. What you're supposed to do, read the instructions that come with the phone, and they direct you, easily, to the proper app for your phone. If you read the directions. So I uninstalled the other app.
Somewhere along the lines, I tried reading the directions. Bad translation into English, so I opted for figuring out how to use the watch by playing with it.
I'm just not interested in the other functions. If I have to turn my wrist to do anything, it's more useful to do it with the phone in my hand than do much anything through the watch.
I certainly have not tried to make phonecalls through the watch. Does the watch have a mic and loudspeaker? I don't know. And, don't tell me, I don't want to know. In fact, I keep the watch on Do Not Disturb, the lowest brightness setting (which is bright enough). And I disabled the thing where the watch will come alive when it sees you trying to look at it, not sure if I'll re-enable that.
Oh, the battery charger cable is squirrelly. Magnetically held to the watch for two tiny electronical contacts. It's always a minor battle of wits with the inanimate objects to get the connections to stay together. But a few minutes of charge every couple of days keeps the watch going.
Another battle of wits with the watch band, but we have finally learned to cooperate. The watch doesn't have to be tight to do the Sleep trick. Still, how does it know the difference between me being motionless during Star Trek or if I'm sleeping?
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