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Some good points were already brought up in the comments (IP5X, USB C charging), but I have the feeling that it's also just not a good fitness tracker/smartwatc

by lrae 2mo ago

Some good points were already brought up in the comments (IP5X, USB C charging), but I have the feeling that it's also just not a good fitness tracker/smartwatch. I see a single unboxing of the watch from three weeks ago on Youtube and zero reviews on YT or websites. Just posts based on their PR release that it's available now. (Though some clearly already shipped.) Thus, it's unfortunately very likely that the product is also not good at its main purpose, tracking activities, workouts and health. If it would only even come somewhat close to the performance of all the competitor smartwatches/trackers, they'd be louder about that part.

LeifCarrotson 2mo ago
There are only about 400 units in existence, and they just started shipping June 30: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/unawatch/meet-una-the-modular-gps-sports-watch/posts https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/unawatch/meet-una-the-m... so it's been out for less than a month. That's why you've seen zero reviews on websites, it's an indie Kickstarter. They don't have the marketing budget of a big wearables brand. It has a GPS, IMU, and heart rate sensor: That's enough, obviously, to track activities, workouts, and health which their competitors do with the exact same set of sensors. It remains to be seen how accurate those are, or how well the manufacturer and community can develop useful algorithms to turn raw sensor data into activity logs and actionable health insights, but step 1 is to release an MVP to get people wearing the watch and logging data, and step 2 is to use the data to improve the algorithms.
- microtonal 2mo ago
  It's not as simple as just dropping a heart rate sensor though. It also took Garmin, Coros, Apple, etc. several generations to make good-enough heart rate sensors and most of them are very proprietary.
- abstract_put 2mo ago
  Not that it changes any of the rest of your comment, but from their Kickstarter campaign updates it seems like there are at least ~800 watches out there (and the public store just launched).
abstract_put 2mo ago
I ordered the watch and just had it show up this week. The software side of it seems pretty immature (as you'd expect from first launch), but there's visible progress from the tiny team already. Appeals to me to be able to write my own activities and utilities, though I'm mindful of how far their "openness" extends. Nothing is locked down on the watch so you can dump the firmware, but they don't make the firmware publicly available AFAICT. The hardware seems top quality (looking past the waterproofing concerns, don't love that). On first blush it seems like its in the same league as my Garmin Fenix 6 Pro for tracking though, with obviously way fewer features at this point. I intend to do a side-by-side with the Fenix 6 and a heart rate strap to compare HR and GPS to see how it shakes out under tree cover and bouncing around, but the hardware seems up for it.

by lrae 2mo ago

LeifCarrotson 2mo ago

There are only about 400 units in existence, and they just started shipping June 30: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/unawatch/meet-una-the-modular-gps-sports-watch/posts https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/unawatch/meet-una-the-m... so it's been out for less than a month. That's why you've seen zero reviews on websites, it's an indie Kickstarter. They don't have the marketing budget of a big wearables brand. It has a GPS, IMU, and heart rate sensor: That's enough, obviously, to track activities, workouts, and health which their competitors do with the exact same set of sensors. It remains to be seen how accurate those are, or how well the manufacturer and community can develop useful algorithms to turn raw sensor data into activity logs and actionable health insights, but step 1 is to release an MVP to get people wearing the watch and logging data, and step 2 is to use the data to improve the algorithms.

microtonal 2mo ago
It's not as simple as just dropping a heart rate sensor though. It also took Garmin, Coros, Apple, etc. several generations to make good-enough heart rate sensors and most of them are very proprietary.
abstract_put 2mo ago
Not that it changes any of the rest of your comment, but from their Kickstarter campaign updates it seems like there are at least ~800 watches out there (and the public store just launched).

abstract_put 2mo ago

I ordered the watch and just had it show up this week. The software side of it seems pretty immature (as you'd expect from first launch), but there's visible progress from the tiny team already. Appeals to me to be able to write my own activities and utilities, though I'm mindful of how far their "openness" extends. Nothing is locked down on the watch so you can dump the firmware, but they don't make the firmware publicly available AFAICT. The hardware seems top quality (looking past the waterproofing concerns, don't love that). On first blush it seems like its in the same league as my Garmin Fenix 6 Pro for tracking though, with obviously way fewer features at this point. I intend to do a side-by-side with the Fenix 6 and a heart rate strap to compare HR and GPS to see how it shakes out under tree cover and bouncing around, but the hardware seems up for it.