Show us your smart watch!

[witten]

Does anyone wear a smart device and a proper watch at the same time? I want to wear my normal watch (Bremont MB2 if that counts) but want to do the exercise, standing tracking etc that I get from my apple watch. I do not want to be a 2 watch moron. Thought about a thin fitbit on the other wrist but they all seem to be watches these days. Any ideas?

[Raddors]

Any love for Suunto on here? Had this for a few years but don't know what to replace with?

[techguyone]

I wear my Garmin Instinct Solar on left wrist and honor 5 smartband on right wrist.

Why?

I have a tattoo on my left wrist that unfortunately buggers up heartbeat sensors so I use the honor on the right side for heartbeaty stuff and the Garmin for everything else.

It doesn't look too bad as the honor is a slim black band rather than a smartwatch looking thing.

[Chilly for June]

Raddors said:

Any love for Suunto on here? Had this for a few years but don't know what to replace with?

I just got a Suunto 7 and I love it. The battery for a smart watch/wear os device is great. I can get two days with a 6-7km run each day.

The strap is immense and some Swiss watch manufacturers could learn something here. So pliable and love how it is like green on the underside.

Maybe not what you are looking for if you are coming from the more hardcore side of their range but I love the smart features to go alongside the fitness side.

[Raddors]

Chilly for June said:

I just got a Suunto 7 and I love it. The battery for a smart watch/wear os device is great. I can get two days with a 6-7km run each day.

The strap is immense and some Swiss watch manufacturers could learn something here. So pliable and love how it is like green on the underside.

Maybe not what you are looking for if you are coming from the more hardcore side of their range but I love the smart features to go alongside the fitness side.

Thanks for the info I'm looking at the 7 and the 9. I enjoy the baro features of the traverse which is only available on the 9 But realistically I don't really "need" it to check my altitude or alert me of a possible storm rolling into South Oxfordshire!! I think the 7 is the only one with Google OS which probably has far more useful everyday features.

[techguyone]

Chilly for June said:

Raddors said:

Any love for Suunto on here? Had this for a few years but don't know what to replace with?

I just got a Suunto 7 and I love it. The battery for a smart watch/wear os device is great. I can get two days with a 6-7km run each day.

The strap is immense and some Swiss watch manufacturers could learn something here. So pliable and love how it is like green on the underside.

Maybe not what you are looking for if you are coming from the more hardcore side of their range but I love the smart features to go alongside the fitness side.

I looked hard at the suunto range, before eventually deciding on the Garmin Instinct Solar, the 21 day battery life is hard to get past, especially as most typical smartwatches are around the 3 to 7 mark.

[gtidriver]

shirt said:

does anyone have (or have an opinion on) the huawei gt 2 pro?

Ive got a GT2 pro, I paid £195 from Huawei direct with free set of earbuds, I like that I can answer the phone with it and the battery life is around 2 weeks, there is lots it can't do, like paying for stuff and its limited on apps. That should get better if Joe makes up with China..

[jimmyjimjim]

Work have a program where you get sent a cell connected set of scales, attend weekly video meetings for a year with a dietician and earn a fitbit.
Naturally it's an inspire 2, but they also offer discounts on other devices. So I've a versa 3 due monday.

It does at least address a few of the issues with fitbits-
replaceable strap
can clean under the strap
doesn't burn you (force)
isn't as big as a small house (surge).

I've a vivosport right now, I'll be curious to see if it's any good. I had fitbits for 4 years before giving up and going garmin and finding the vivosport a much better device.
The vivosport is getting quite worn, so time for an upgrade; if it's crap I'll run it for a year then get another garmin.

[xx99xx]

techguyone said:

I wear my Garmin Instinct Solar on left wrist and honor 5 smartband on right wrist.

Why?

I have a tattoo on my left wrist that unfortunately buggers up heartbeat sensors so I use the honor on the right side for heartbeaty stuff and the Garmin for everything else.

It doesn't look too bad as the honor is a slim black band rather than a smartwatch looking thing.

Can't you just wear the Garmin on your right wrist and nothing but a tattoo on your left wrist?

[techguyone]

xx99xx said:

techguyone said:

I wear my Garmin Instinct Solar on left wrist and honor 5 smartband on right wrist.

Why?

I have a tattoo on my left wrist that unfortunately buggers up heartbeat sensors so I use the honor on the right side for heartbeaty stuff and the Garmin for everything else.

It doesn't look too bad as the honor is a slim black band rather than a smartwatch looking thing.

Can't you just wear the Garmin on your right wrist and nothing but a tattoo on your left wrist?

I could, but I've worn a watch of some sort on my left wrist for 50 odd years and it would feel damned odd not too if you know what I mean, I figured for the sake of the £25 odd quid the honor 5 cost, it would be all ok.

[Davie_GLA]

Still enjoying my Gen5 but battery life annoys me. I have disabled always on and tilt to wake but still have to charge is every 4-5 days.

To be fair it charged rapidly but annoying. I'm using it mainly got tracking sleep and heart rate but it does all the usual stuff. Connects to Google Fit via Wear OS but I read that Google just aren't investing the time in the Google Wear or google fit do it may become obsolete soon.

[Chilly for June]

Finding it hard to take this watch off. Battery lasting 2 days with a run each day. Great hardware, display and the strap is of really high quality.

Suunto are an underrated brand I would say but are maybe marketed more at hardcore athletes of which I'm 100% not one!!!

[evenflow]

egomeister said:

Just had my Withings Scanwatch delivered. I think it looks better in the metal than the images on the website. App looks pretty decent too.

Hi ego
I was looking at one of these today - how are you finding it?

[egomeister]

evenflow said:

egomeister said:

Just had my Withings Scanwatch delivered. I think it looks better in the metal than the images on the website. App looks pretty decent too.

Hi ego
I was looking at one of these today - how are you finding it?

I'm happy with it. I haven't used any of the notification features so can't really comment on that, but the health side of things seems good. I tend to just leave it monitor stuff in the background then check into the app occasionally to have a look. It's not told me I have breathing disturbance in my sleep, or atrial fibrillation! I don't think they have approval for the "medical grade" sleep apnea detection yet, unlike AFib.

The app gets regular updates and well designed and stable (android). It's a bit annoying it can't generate a fitness score if you walk/run without your phone (as it needs it for the GPS), but I guess the watch itself can't log enough info to do the calc. I also like that there is a bigger ecosystem of devices (like scales, blood pressure etc)

[techguyone]

I find it hard to believe any watch can detect sleep apnea, unless its got a load of other sensors attached to you.

Some years back when I was tested for Sleep apnea, I was connected up to a vast array of sensors, to the point it was hard to go to sleep with all the gubbins attached.

[egomeister]

techguyone said:

I find it hard to believe any watch can detect sleep apnea, unless its got a load of other sensors attached to you.

Some years back when I was tested for Sleep apnea, I was connected up to a vast array of sensors, to the point it was hard to go to sleep with all the gubbins attached.

Who knows? I guess that is why they don't have any official certification for that feature yet.

There are a number of watches now that do ECG/Atrial Fibrillation detection to some kind of "medical grade" level with a single sensor on the back of a device rather than the multiple ones used on a proper medical test. I know that these can be quite effective as part of the reason I was interested in these was a colleague who used one to do a lot of preliminary diagnosis for Atrial Fibrillation and very much shortcut the process that he would have otherwise gone through with the Doctor.

The way I see it is a cheap and convenient way to get a heads up about an issue, which can then be followed up through the normal channels.

[JiggyJaggy]

Random one but does anyone know any Smart Watches which currently measure Glucose levels via the blood stream rather than taking data from a bio sensor attached to the skin?

[webstercivet]

New toy day: Garmin Forerunner 245 Music.

[mcpiston]

Big fan off Suunto. I currently have two, this one and a Core Black.

[Monsterlime]

I don't wear my smart watch much anymore, mainly because I haven't commuted for 4 years (pre Covid), and it was an ideal commuter watch.

But I still have it, still going strong and works fine, not sure how many Kickstarter Pebble Time Steel's are still out there!



I didn't wear it for my morning walk either, which is why it thinks I haven't moved at all today.