Can anyone recommend a "health" smartwatch?
My fitbit with a heart-rate sensor died, so I bought a Spade and Co "Health Smartwatch 2", which was absolutely /beautiful/, just what I wanted... and didn't work. All three apps they use all demand I own a phone with a larrrrge screen, so you can fill in the forms. I have a small screen, and the app knows I wouldn't want to scroll down, so it prohibits my doing so. (They should terminate their UX person with extreme prejudice (:-)) Any recommendations about good "health" watches? If folks have had good experiences with some, I'll try their apps, and if they work, order one. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 at 08:32, David Collier-Brown via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
My fitbit with a heart-rate sensor died, so I bought a Spade and Co "Health Smartwatch 2", which was absolutely beautiful, just what I wanted... and didn't work.
All three apps they use all demand I own a phone with a larrrrge screen, so you can fill in the forms. I have a small screen, and the app knows I wouldn't want to scroll down, so it prohibits my doing so. (They should terminate their UX person with extreme prejudice (:-))
Any recommendations about good "health" watches? If folks have had good experiences with some, I'll try their apps, and if they work, order one.
Hi Dave. My brother recently long-term loaned me his older Withings watch because he bought the latest by Withings. Stylistically quite different from "smart watches," it's mostly meant for health and/or sports. It actually looks quite good. I've been hugely impressed with the battery life - I charged it when I got it, and a month later it's at about 50% ... I haven't been using it much (I wear it when I walk, and not even always then), but compared to "smart watches," it's still astonishing. It does steps and heart-rate (although in its current mode you have to press a button to request heart-rate). It probably does a whole lot more I'm not aware of yet. I wanted it mostly for heart-rate ... and as a result of my privacy fanaticism, I haven't even installed their app. My brother is pretty hard-core on privacy too: I'd say that his buying their watch(es) at all - and using their app - is a vote of confidence. Worth a look at least? -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 at 08:32, David Collier-Brown via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
My fitbit with a heart-rate sensor died, so I bought a Spade and Co "Health Smartwatch 2", which was absolutely beautiful, just what I wanted... and didn't work.
That watch's promo pictures make it suspiciously look like the COLMI you can buy for ~$30 on Aliexpress. I haven't been inclined to try it, but apparently you can reflash it with Pinetime and basically make it an open-source watch. However, Pinetime is missing a lot of the functionality of the stock firmware and the only real benefit is the ability to write your own apps. Yours has a different button on the side, but maybe made by the same manufacturer in China. Maybe it'd pair with the Colmi app? (some searches imply it may not be worth bothering: https://www.reddit.com/r/smartwatch/comments/q37ic6/did_you_fall_for_the_spa... )
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