I finally ordered a Charge 3 and waited in great anticipation because I've been long wanting to do stuff that a (and especially this) fitness tracker can do for me.
So far nothing works as expected and I'm really starting to feel scammed by this product and its marketing.
- No sleep tracking
Basically a not working feature for many of the Charge 3 users as I've been reading here. One of the reasons I bought this. - Drink water "feature". What a "great" feature to specify that I just drank a glass of water on the phone -- why do I have to have a watch for this?
Furthermore, no alarms for reminding me to hydrate -- I guess this goes beyond the capabilities of your development team.
Setting up 7 hourly alarms for this is a joke... (the 8th is the morning alarm). The watch should calculate how much a I had already drank and then remind me how much more should I drink in eg. the next hour. - No reminders for moving every hour or so. Again, the name is fitness tracker.
No for this I actually must give credit to the watch 'cause it tells me every so often that I need to "take steps" but that's not really what this is about. Moving is not only about walking, and having a job where I must sit the majority of the time it should be able to tell me if I've been too lazy in the past hour or so and just remind me to stretch, move (and yes, walk, it does that already but not in this fashion). - And greatest scam of all time: the SPO2 sensors. Oh how stupid I was not to check the customer forums before purchase... And you're a clever company too, I must say! You never actually advertised this as a working feature to track you SPO2 measurements, you just marketed this as having and SPO2 sensor, which is (maybe) true -- I cannot really make sure 'cause nothing uses it.
So here it is, I have a 180 USD (160 EUR) freakin' heartbeat monitor - which cannot even do that properly, otherwise I guess it would be able to detect if I'm sleeping or not.
Any comments from the product team? Are you feeling happy when you're reading through your community forum? Is this what you had in mind when designing and developing your product?
To be honest, I maybe have come to this with a bias because of my expectations and because I already own another smart watch that runs Wear OS. And don't get me wrong, I'm all for competing technologies and products, heck, that's why I'm wearing two smart watches right now. Also, my Wear OS watch, I don't like to use it for doing exercise because I fear for it, I don't want to damage or break the display or the leather band, 'cause though it looks beautiful, it's not that durable -- different materials for different use-case. But it can do every single one of those items above (if not natively then through a downloadable app), except the SPO2 measurements, but hey, guess what?!, it turns out that the Charge 3 cannot do that either!
I mean I could've just bought a display protector and a silicon wrist band for my Wear OS watch and use Google Fit, it would have basically beat this lightweight and durable disappointment of a fitness tracker.
Daniel
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