Currently wearing a mechanical watch. No data collection, no batteries, and it has radioactive tubes that glow for decades so I can see what time it is at night with zero effort.
If I wanna track fitness I’ll open vim and record it there.
I am very happy with my Skagen Jorn gen 6 hybrid. Hybrid means both e-ink screen and physical watch hands. It has a few health sensors, can display notifications, track workouts, send commands to Alexa if you want that, and much more. It’s simply an awesome smartwatch in a classic inconspicuous design, and it has a hopping 5 weeks battery life, and it’s supported by Gadgetbridge. Nothing can beat it in my opinion.
I just want something that auto tracks my fitness, shows the time, and shows notifications from my phone on a nice looking display. Everything else is bloat for me.
I use a Garmin vivomove Sport! It has a physical analog watch with a screen underneath the watch face. It tracks my steps and activities I engage in as well as shows me notifications from my phone. It has quite a lot of other options such as stress and sleep tracking as well but those are purely optional.
Ngl I have used the find my phone function a LOT on my smartwatch, and do like having google maps showing on it when I’m navigating in an unfamiliar location. I’m sure there’s other features I utilise but these came to mind as being really handy.
Oh I absolutely need find my phone in my life without a doubt, but usually I just get my laptop and use the android website directly. It’s just easier for me ¯\\(ツ)/¯
I’ve got a Mi Band 6 and I think it guesses based on activity half the time. I just sat still and shook mine about, and it reckoned I was well over 120bpm, but manually checking and it’s barely over 1 beat a second. Being half or double what it should be seems pretty common.
It could be because I’ve got hairy monkey arms, but my wife also found it to be poor with her old FitBit (which has shockingly bad phone connectivity instead) keeping much better track of it during exercise.
It’s nothing vitally important, but you probably shouldn’t use it for any actual athlete stuff.
Interesting. I mean there are random spikes that are much higher than before and after, but those are only once or twice a day and I assumed those were just wrong measurements anyway.
Thing is it does have my heart rate going up a lot when I’m at the gym, even when I’m not doing anything with my arms, it could detect as activity, so I assume it at least somewhat accurately measures heart rate.
You are of course right, I don’t expect Apple watch accuracy from a band for such a low price.
Is there something like a fitness bracelet without a display that one could wear? I already have an old school Casio digital watch, and I like to too much to replace it with a smartwatch.
Check. I’ve been looking at something like that as well, but it comes with a $6/mo subscription model on up of the $370 price for the ring itself. The subscription model made me not want it anymore.
I have wanted a decent product in this category for YEARS now and sadly, there’s really not many options at all. The ring one that requires a damn subscription is laughably a non starter. What on earth.
Love my Fenix 5x. Sapphire glass, rugged and the battery lasts forever. It wasn’t cheap but worth every penny. No touch screen and I turn off most notifications. It just works as a nice watch with fitness tracking. Garmin really makes a good product.
I don’t find my pinetime very good for using with an iphone. It somewhere on a shelve waiting for good sofware for iphone or for when I switch to android
I’m an avid paddler/wind sports/surfer, so having good water resistance, cellular connection for emergencies, at least 4+ hours of GPS tracking battery life, and good GPS are requirements. AFAIK only the Apple Watch Ultra ticks all those boxes. I used to use Garmin’s but the lack of cellular made me switch. If anyone has other options, I’m open to them.
I’m happily on the garmin ecosystem. Felix 5x is still going strong for about 2 weeks battery on normal use. takes a beating and still looks new. only had to replace the band. I use garmin on my bike too
5x is great. Still working perfectly and looks great. That sapphire glass is fantastic. I have friends with scratches in their pixel watches already yet with all my yard work, stone work, building things and sports - not a scratch.
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