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Casio need to market their watches better, they have the Smartest dumbwatch**** of them all -
Casio have several lines that support Bluetooth - essentially will beep and vibrate on Notifications, calls and messages. Does basic fitness tracking. It also does all of this whilst basically being indestructible and a battery life of atleast 3 years.
No one seems to know this and I blame Casios poor marketing - I didn’t know any of this until I bought a new G-Shock and realised it had a BT label in the manual.
Casio for sure! Best quality. Made in Japan
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 agreed. Additionally it has to be cheap and not too bulky. Mi Band does the trick in my experience.
Yeah, I got one a few years back. The heart rate tracking is piss-poor, but for £20 I wasn’t expecting much.
How did you figure out it was piss poor? Compared with another tracker?
It certainly shows my heart rate going up by a lot when I’m in the gym.
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.
I have a Mi band 6.
It was cheap and it’s not bulky. Two things most important to me, as every fitness tracker does its core functions well enough.
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.
Mi band has a display, but it’s pretty slim and you could just leave it turned off. But a ring might be the better option for you.
