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Bought my chinese no-name (it probably does have a name if I saved the box, but there's no brand on the device itself) for $10. Time, stepcount, calories, dist
by loons2 7y ago
Bought my chinese no-name (it probably does have a name if I saved the box, but there's no brand on the device itself) for $10. Time, stepcount, calories, distance, heart rate, BP, O2 sat, sports functions, sleep, etc. The watch does lose about 45 seconds a day, so I have to sync it once a week or so to keep the time display in an acceptable range. The app is otherwise irrelevant to me. Charge lasts about 6 days.
- icebraining 7y agoI frankly wouldn't trust the numbers of any device that can't keep the time. Have you tried to verify them somehow?
- loons2 7y agoStep counts as well as the fitbit. Heart rate is simple. How can it mess that up? Blood pressure is relative. You don't expect it to be accurate without a cuff. Same with O2. Those can show whether you're higher or lower "now" than you were an hour ago, a day ago, but they're not intended to be accurate on an absolute scale. Sleep seems to match up pretty well with snorelabs. Now that I think about it, I wonder how well any of them keep time without syncing to their app.
- jolux 7y ago>Heart rate is simple. How can it mess that up? You might be surprised: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/23/study-shows-fitbit-trackers-highly-inaccurate.html https://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/23/study-shows-fitbit-trackers-...
- loons2 7y agoThat story is about Fitbit, which I don't have. I check my pulse against a stopwatch during the same minute that Chinese no-name is counting my pulse, and the result is the same.
- icebraining 7y agoI mean, I'm not expecting them to pay a full $1 to get an RTC that keeps time up to 1s/month, but still, 45s/day is a lot, and it implies they really cheapened out on either design or components. I would mistrust even the relative measurements.