The PROS and CONS of this tracker watch:
PROS -
-The anyloop app is easy to navigate, gives different watch face options, syncs data easily from your watch. Keep in mind it is best to connect/sync your watch through the app first and not just by Bluetooth.
-The tracker watch is user-friendly for 1st time smartwatch users (such as myself). The screen is a good size and it is easy to swipe through the different windows and it is easy to select buttons/functions. The silicone band is very comfortable and adjustable.
-This fitness tracker offers basic functions to keep track of: steps taken, heart rate (current, and average beats per minute), sleep tracking (deep and light sleep), weather, sport functions (different activities you can activate to track in the app), and calories burned. You can use the anyloop app to set goals for your steps and calories burned, and get more detailed data on your sleep tracking, exercises, and heart rate patterns.
-You can set your watch to silent, soft vibration, or strong vibration to let you know about notifications from your phone (such as messages, emails, etc). What you receive notifications on can be customized on the app, which is nice. The watch also has a 'do not disturb' mode so that you can wear it at night while sleeping so that the light from the screen doesn't wake you or your partner, and the notifications won't vibrate and wake you up either.
CONS -
-This tracker watch does not let you read the entire text message or notification message. When I get a long text or notification, there is no way to read the rest of it and I have to go to my phone to see it all.
-The watch doesn't have a phone feature, you cannot make or receive calls on it.
-The watch does not have a camera on it to take pictures, even though there is a function to shake the watch to take a picture. Maybe I can take a picture from my phone by using my watch to activate it, but I haven't figured that out yet. So in short, the watch cannot take pictures directly, but maybe you can use it to take pics with your phone.
-The accuracy of the step tracker leaves something to be desired. It doesn't seem very accurate, as I look at it as I walk around and it misses a lot of steps I take. I have paused in my walking to see if it catches up, and sometimes it does, but it does miss quite a bit of steps. Still, at least it gives you a general idea of how many steps you take and it's nice to know that my end of day number is higher than what is being displayed.
-The accuracy of the calories burned is badly inaccurate. I lift heavy with my husband at the gym 4 days a week and do 20 minutes of cardio after the workouts, and it'll say I only burned 200 calories or so. Even when I place the watch in an exercise mode (such as strength training or treadmill) it will read a very low amount of calories burned. I know for a fact this watch is highly inaccurate when it comes to measuring how many calories are burned, so keep that in mind.
-The battery life can be drained quickly if you have the watch set at full brightness and have the notifications setting on vibrate. I get maybe a day and a half worth of watch use before I need to charge it, so the vibration and brightness functions can take a lot of your battery life away. After I set it to the lowest brightness setting, and reduced my notification vibrations to during my work shift, the battery lasts longer. Using the exercise settings on it at the gym drain the battery more also,but keeping the brightness and vibrations down will help conserve battery life so that you don't have to charge it almost each day.
For someone who has never had a smart watch or fitness tracker, this one seems decent as a starter. I didn't want to spend hundreds on a fancy tracker watch only to not like it or be uncomfortable wearing it often. With its basic functions and user-friendly platform and app, it's a good tracker watch to try out and practice with, to see if you like it and want to invest in something fancier and more advanced. If it could let me read the entire text message or notification message, and take calls, this would be worth 4 stars, but as is, I give it an overall average rating of 3 stars, and recommend it as a low-cost starter tracking watch.