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Well, I bought a "hybrid smartwatch" from them. Because I hate the plastic toy look of most other options, and as a bonus please wake me up when the apple watch
by nottorp 3y ago
Well, I bought a "hybrid smartwatch" from them. Because I hate the plastic toy look of most other options, and as a bonus please wake me up when the apple watch battery lasts a week.
It sounded good in theory: normal watch with the background e-ink that will show your notifications and step count and heart rate and whatever. More of a fancy fitness band but that was good enough to start with. The battery even lasted 2 weeks.
Unfortunately the eink was almost unreadable unless directly in the sun. It had a light you could turn on by tapping the watch but it was weak. Need I mention the software to configure it was pretty limited? Especially in the part where you configured what notifications to get and what not?
But that's not the main problem. The main problem is either the glass front wasn't tight enough or it had humidity under it from the factory. So every time it got cold and humid it fogged up. That never happened to me with any other traditional watch, no matter how cheap it was.
And one day... in about 2 years and some change... it just died on me.
Waiting a few years and then checking hybrid watches again. Maybe this market niche will survive.
- insane_dreamer 3y agoI have a Withings ScanWatch and am quite happy with it; ticks the boxes (2 week battery life, notifications, a real analog movement, readable inside/outside, looks good). Also ECG which is the main reason I got it.
- LelouBil 3y agoI bought a hybrid smartwatch from them 6 months ago, but I use it exclusively with Gadgetbrige.
- Shawnj2 3y agoI don’t think the fossil style hybrid watch is going to survive, I think the hybrid watches we still have are ones which completely lack screens or only have extremely basic screens for showing health info and lack a user interface for checking texts etc.
- solardev 3y agoThe Garmin ones are much better, FWIW. They don't use eink but some other fancy technology with good battery life and durability and waterproofing.
- nottorp 3y agoYeah but they're still plastic sport thingies. Me no like. Me no need a smartwatch so me can afford to be picky about looks. I might try a Withings once I get over the Fossil.