@brennyn@DoctorOW, I keep losing me socks cause I’m so careless that I don’t keep’um together, but just fn throw them here & there, but mostly there… unless I take me pain meds!!
@erthian, or Heart Rate? It seems they would advertise d🩸 Blood Pressure feature, since all you have to do to check your HR is to properly hold your wrist, count your pulse for 30 sec & Xs 2!! Duh! Plus, why does an Oxygen Rate Monitor need to be fn affixed to your index finger if you can get the oxygen read by wearing a wrist device¿? Smoke That, or Not!!
@kuntzandrew Always has been every time I looked at it when these have come up.
I have a hobby of Googling the addresses and contact details that I find for items that come up on Meh. Many, many times, they resolve to a PO Box in a UPS Store in a strip mall, lol. Example: one brand – I forget which — of drones that Meh has sold.
My investigations — Googling on my phone, really — have found that a ‘goodly number of items on Meh seem to have come to the domestic U.S. market through the following process: sourcing a product—Yay Ali Express, etc!—coming up with a brand name to market it, setting up a (Shopify) store, registering a PO Box, etc.
To be fair though, you have to give credit to the people that do that because doing all that is actually a significant amount of work — more work than I’d put in to set up such a venture!
@guybrush01 first duty in morning… Click meh!.. Next see if they are selling anything remotely interesting… Next check number of days I clicked meh!.. They just cut my morning duties by a third.
Edit. No… wait the counter is secure and my morning routine continues.
I don’t trust anything besides one of the big names for a smart watch for longevity, compatibility, and ease of use. I’d be happy to be proven wrong. Also, I’ve yet to own a smart watch, so…
@mehvid1 I’ll try to validate your feeling here. I’ve tried two of the cheaper smart watches, and only the defunct Martian had me convinced that they were worth anything. It was stylish and limited, but the customisations in vibration feedback for various notifications was fabulous before support completely died out.
Fast forward a few years and the happy middle ground for me was the FitBit Versa 2. I’d like the upgraded version with GPS, but it wasn’t yet available. The water proofing is solid, functionality is good enough for what I want, and app support is stellar. I wouldn’t recommend many pieces of hardware below this, or at least their Charge line. FitBit has their stuff fine tuned. Not as “smart” as Apple, but at a third the price, and with 4-6 days per charge, I’m happy.
@arosiriak@mehvid1 ditto, made the mistake of buying both Martian and Olio, now both are useless junk. Even had the Samsung Gear S3, didn’t think it was worth it or really ready for prime time running Tizen (OS)…
Still upset about my Olio meh watch. It looked so much better and worked just fine with basic features…and then they just pulled the software and now it’s a beautiful hunk of metal in a box.
@jmhsrv
I’m actually thinking about getting one, but your comment stopped me, as it’s the first comment to address this actual watch, as opposed to smart watches in general. Can you give me some details please?
@jmhsrv@punkynpye I got one last time they were offered here. So far I’m pleased with the purchase. It was relatively simple to get it working and the BP and oxygen level readings have been close to what I get from a BP monitor and finger pulse oximeter. I like the notification feature as I don’t always have my phone in hand. The band is comfortable (I have a fairly small wrist) and stays put. I feel that even if it only works for a year or less I’ve gotten some value for the money spent.
oxygen level readings have been close to what I get from a finger pulse oximeter.
Really!? After the Fitbit debacle where Fitbit said a certain new model/model line would have SpO2 monitoring but it didn’t for years, I had decided for myself that it seemed like it just couldn’t be done accurately on the wrist, especially because of how SpO2 monitors usually are supposed to work: shining a laser through a finger.
But then Apple did it so it appeared to me that it perhaps could be done.
But then, some reviews said the Apple Watch SpO2 measurements were pretty far off.
Bought another brand of smart watch for my dad for Christmas (more expensive), wasn’t impressed. Bought this in January for myself and it was far better than his. Swore if this ever reappeared I would buy it again for him.
The website linked to if you click $125 is janky af. Nearly the only page on the site is the one linked to – clicking on almost anything results in a 404.
And to top it off, their sole product is the watch and it costs $19.95 – although I was just able to add it to a cart – I don’t think they actually have any type of functional store.
Take my advice. If you want a descent cheap smart watch go look at android wear – they have all the gee whiz features and look better than these square POS apple watch knockoffs.
If you want a good exercise device or sleep metrics device get a Fitbit Versa 2. They’re about $125 and the sensors and software are top notch. For sleep data there’s nothing better unless you pay 8x for an iPhone and an Apple Watch.
@isaiahisaiah Second you on this, but I’d go with a Garmin rather than a Versa. The Vivoactive 3 is still a very good watch and you can find it reconditioned for ~100$. And you don’t have to pay a monthly fee for “advanced” analytics as the FitBit!
Are there other, better, apps that work with this watch or are FitCloud and FitCloudPro the only options? *Also, I have an Olio sitting around too. I really want someone to figure out a way to raise that thing from the dead because it’s such a shame! All shiny and useless…
A shame one no longer sees remaindered Pebble Times on the discount sites as a $35 Pebble was the shit. Hell, you can pick up a good quality and sometimes even a new Pebble on eBay and it’s a million times better than this. For a defunct product, Pebble has a remarkably active and supportive user community which has been keeping its code up to date. It doesn’t come close to what an Apple Watch will do, but it’s got a great set of features (alas no blood pressure) and the price can’t be beat.
All I want to know is if it can take my heart rate while I’m exercising. I bought some other fitband from here about a year ago and the damn thing made you stay completely still before it would take the heart rate.
Hello, had this watch for about a month. It works decent. Time functions, timer work great. The b.p. measurements I am sure are not accurate, the steps counted seem to be close. For 25 bucks I am happy with my purchase. As mentioned before you can pay more and get more, but for basic stuff its ok in my book.
I have this empower fit pro from a few months back. It is great for the price if you mainly need the time, notifications, steps etc. I also bought a Amazefit for a bit more on sale and it is even better. BB has them on sale today if anyone is interested. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/promo/smartwatches-and-wearable-tech-20171022
@thisguy69 +1 For AmazeFit. They have good value-priced smart watches with a large following. Not to mention many of their models run 7 to 30 days on a single charge!
@chienfou 1. date, who from, whole text 2. no, mine comes on when I tap it and can be configured for wrist flip. 3. Stays on until I’m done with whatever function I’m using. 4. Mine lasts about 4 days on a charge but if I’m not wearing it to sleep it is sitting in the charger 5.yes, there are a couple analog faces w/second hand you can choose
@chienfou Not that I am aware of. The company website is down now so not sure what is going on. Hopefully they keep the app up. I ran into that with the Striiv. It was a great watch, support stopped and the watch became totally useless!!
@readnj
Yeah. I loved my Martian watch but buggered it up trying to change the analog watch battery… Using a hand me down Tic watch from my son but still liked the Martian better.
Guess I’ll try to find a backup source once I get the watch and can see the interface…
It was a nice smart watch while it lasted. I put it through the test it passes then out of nowhere display no longer lights up. Stem seems to turn on and off w vibration. Good price 30 ttl , 3wks ago Shame. Mr. R
Specs
App integration:
What’s in the Box?
Price Comparison
$129.99 at Empower
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, Mar 1 - Thursday, Mar 4
Watch me!
@yakkoTDI nay nay?
@yakkoTDI Watt
4?¿?
I’ll be honest, all I’ve done with a smartwatch is lose it. Not a fit individual over here.
@DoctorOW Same except I keep losing my shoes.
@brennyn @DoctorOW, I keep losing me socks
cause I’m so careless that I don’t keep’um together, but just fn throw them here & there, but mostly there… unless I take me pain 
meds!!
GPS?
@erthian, or Heart Rate
? It seems they would advertise d🩸 Blood Pressure feature, since all you have to do to check your HR is to properly hold your wrist, count your pulse for 30 sec & Xs 2!! Duh! Plus, why does an Oxygen
Rate Monitor need to be fn affixed to your index 
finger if you can get the oxygen 
read by wearing a wrist device¿? Smoke That, or 
Not!!
That empower website is on the fritz! I know it’s unbelievable but that website is more wonky than meh… That’s hard to do!
@kuntzandrew Always has been every time I looked at it when these have come up.
I have a hobby of Googling the addresses and contact details that I find for items that come up on Meh. Many, many times, they resolve to a PO Box in a UPS Store in a strip mall, lol. Example: one brand – I forget which — of drones that Meh has sold.
My investigations — Googling on my phone, really — have found that a ‘goodly number of items on Meh seem to have come to the domestic U.S. market through the following process: sourcing a product—Yay Ali Express, etc!—coming up with a brand name to market it, setting up a (Shopify) store, registering a PO Box, etc.
To be fair though, you have to give credit to the people that do that because doing all that is actually a significant amount of work — more work than I’d put in to set up such a venture!
@kuntzandrew Doesn’t give any confidence at all in the product when the website is defunct
To be honest? Kinda glad they stopped showing the meh click calendar if you miss a day.
There isn’t anything even worth paying attention for sale lately. Hell, the only reason I even show up for the meh-rethon is for the chance at an IRK.
Might as well be Woot! at this point. @Snapster, time for you to do something different.
@guybrush01 first duty in morning… Click meh!.. Next see if they are selling anything remotely interesting… Next check number of days I clicked meh!.. They just cut my morning duties by a third.
Edit. No… wait the counter is secure and my morning routine continues.
I don’t trust anything besides one of the big names for a smart watch for longevity, compatibility, and ease of use. I’d be happy to be proven wrong. Also, I’ve yet to own a smart watch, so…
@mehvid1 I’ll try to validate your feeling here. I’ve tried two of the cheaper smart watches, and only the defunct Martian had me convinced that they were worth anything. It was stylish and limited, but the customisations in vibration feedback for various notifications was fabulous before support completely died out.
Fast forward a few years and the happy middle ground for me was the FitBit Versa 2. I’d like the upgraded version with GPS, but it wasn’t yet available. The water proofing is solid, functionality is good enough for what I want, and app support is stellar. I wouldn’t recommend many pieces of hardware below this, or at least their Charge line. FitBit has their stuff fine tuned. Not as “smart” as Apple, but at a third the price, and with 4-6 days per charge, I’m happy.
@arosiriak @mehvid1 ditto, made the mistake of buying both Martian and Olio, now both are useless junk. Even had the Samsung Gear S3, didn’t think it was worth it or really ready for prime time running Tizen (OS)…
@arosiriak @robson thanks for the feedback, y’all.
You get what you pay for with smart watches
@iPatrick which means, after you pay for whatever, if you don’t pay
enough, you get B
S!!
@iPatrick Sometimes even less.
Still upset about my Olio meh watch. It looked so much better and worked just fine with basic features…and then they just pulled the software and now it’s a beautiful hunk of metal in a box.
@Ebrake Have you been following the thread?
https://meh.com/forum/topics/olio-model-one-smartwatch
It sounds like they’re close to getting them back in working order circa 2017 functionality.
@Ebrake @mike808 yeah, like by the 1st of never…
Got one of these in an IRK - wonky wonky wonky
@jmhsrv
I’m actually thinking about getting one, but your comment stopped me, as it’s the first comment to address this actual watch, as opposed to smart watches in general. Can you give me some details please?
@jmhsrv @punkynpye I got one last time they were offered here. So far I’m pleased with the purchase. It was relatively simple to get it working and the BP and oxygen level readings have been close to what I get from a BP monitor and finger pulse oximeter. I like the notification feature as I don’t always have my phone in hand. The band is comfortable (I have a fairly small wrist) and stays put. I feel that even if it only works for a year or less I’ve gotten some value for the money spent.
@punkynpye no instructions can’t set up
@jmhsrv @punkynpye @steeltoesenator
Really!? After the Fitbit debacle where Fitbit said a certain new model/model line would have SpO2 monitoring but it didn’t for years, I had decided for myself that it seemed like it just couldn’t be done accurately on the wrist, especially because of how SpO2 monitors usually are supposed to work: shining a laser through a finger.
But then Apple did it so it appeared to me that it perhaps could be done.
But then, some reviews said the Apple Watch SpO2 measurements were pretty far off.
/image “roller coaster of emotions”
It is cheaper at the empower link above:
Smart Watch
IN DETAILS
$19.99
@drmarble OK this is just hilarious. Wow.
@drmarble but then you fall under the ‘You Get What You Pay For’
umbrella!
I got my husband and daughter one of these a while back and they work great!
@jnicholson0619, That IS Actually & Literally What She Said!!
Bought another brand of smart watch for my dad for Christmas (more expensive), wasn’t impressed. Bought this in January for myself and it was far better than his. Swore if this ever reappeared I would buy it again for him.
/image pink-restricted-tarzan
The website linked to if you click $125 is janky af. Nearly the only page on the site is the one linked to – clicking on almost anything results in a 404.
– I don’t think they actually have any type of functional store.
And to top it off, their sole product is the watch and it costs $19.95 – although I was just able to add it to a cart
Take my advice. If you want a descent cheap smart watch go look at android wear – they have all the gee whiz features and look better than these square POS apple watch knockoffs.
If you want a good exercise device or sleep metrics device get a Fitbit Versa 2. They’re about $125 and the sensors and software are top notch. For sleep data there’s nothing better unless you pay 8x for an iPhone and an Apple Watch.
@isaiahisaiah Second you on this, but I’d go with a Garmin rather than a Versa. The Vivoactive 3 is still a very good watch and you can find it reconditioned for ~100$. And you don’t have to pay a monthly fee for “advanced” analytics as the FitBit!
@isaiahisaiah it just an empty template without any real reviews. I would worry that it’s selling your data as you use it.
Are there other, better, apps that work with this watch or are FitCloud and FitCloudPro the only options? *Also, I have an Olio sitting around too. I really want someone to figure out a way to raise that thing from the dead because it’s such a shame! All shiny and useless…
Watch This!!
I got this the last time it came up. Works fine as a watch, but the step counter is way off.
A shame one no longer sees remaindered Pebble Times on the discount sites as a $35 Pebble was the shit. Hell, you can pick up a good quality and sometimes even a new Pebble on eBay and it’s a million times better than this. For a defunct product, Pebble has a remarkably active and supportive user community which has been keeping its code up to date. It doesn’t come close to what an Apple Watch will do, but it’s got a great set of features (alas no blood pressure) and the price can’t be beat.
@manhattnik And the battery life
!! I used to get a week per charge on my Pebble Time Steel.
All I want to know is if it can take my heart rate while I’m exercising. I bought some other fitband from here about a year ago and the damn thing made you stay completely still before it would take the heart rate.
Are sale items for the rest of the month going to be Meh-rathon leftovers?
@blaineg Yes. Even the VMP 20% off code over on Morningsave.com for Valentine’s Day was from last year.
Hello, had this watch for about a month. It works decent. Time functions, timer work great. The b.p. measurements I am sure are not accurate, the steps counted seem to be close. For 25 bucks I am happy with my purchase. As mentioned before you can pay more and get more, but for basic stuff its ok in my book.
@codydog65 Can it take your heart rate continuously while exercising?
@codydog65 @doctorbutts following, I’ve broken two apple watches and at this rate I just want a heart rate tracker
@codydog65 @doctorbutts
Would not a Polar BT heartrate monitor band and an phone app do the same thing?
https://www.heartratemonitorsusa.com/collections/polar-transmitters-2/products/polar-t31c
@codydog65 @doctorbutts @hilwil
How? What happened?
I have this empower fit pro from a few months back. It is great for the price if you mainly need the time, notifications, steps etc. I also bought a Amazefit for a bit more on sale and it is even better. BB has them on sale today if anyone is interested. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/promo/smartwatches-and-wearable-tech-20171022
@thisguy69 +1 For AmazeFit. They have good value-priced smart watches with a large following. Not to mention many of their models run 7 to 30 days on a single charge!
Will this fit a9 year old kid? Just need a heap “smartwatch”. Can one txt with these?
@MINUANO68 No text only notifications. It would fit a 9yo fine as the band is adjustable by virtue of it’s design.
There is an alternative to Apple/Android, I’m very happy with my Garmin Vivoactive3 Music.
I bought two. Connects to Android fine. Will not connect to iPhone. Why?
@sylvandoc Maybe can connect to only one “host” at a time. Did you try connecting one to only the iPhone after installing their app?
The image shows the heartrate in units of BMP not the normal BPM
@changeismeh It’s telling you that’s a .BMP graphic, not an actual display. Truth in advertising and all that.
@blaineg Thank you for educating me.
@changeismeh Naw, I’m just a smart alec.
Amazfit Bip—10m waterproof, notifications, 30 day battery, $63 3 yrs ago, running fine…
@cole103
+1 For the Bip!
I’d likely have a Bip if I didn’t score an Apple Watch Series 3 for $130 on Black Friday in 2019.
A few questions to those that own these
Thanks.
@chienfou 1. date, who from, whole text 2. no, mine comes on when I tap it and can be configured for wrist flip. 3. Stays on until I’m done with whatever function I’m using. 4. Mine lasts about 4 days on a charge but if I’m not wearing it to sleep it is sitting in the charger 5.yes, there are a couple analog faces w/second hand you can choose
@steeltoesenator thanks… I’m in
/giphy tired-gray-low
@thisguy69 @codydog65
A few questions to those that own these
Thanks.
Bought one for my elder mother so I can monitor her stats and send her alarms and texts. Works fine for her use.
Are extra charger cables available for these? I like to keep a separate cable with my travel gear…
@chienfou no they use a proprietary cradle which is annoying. Good watch though but I paid more last time.
@readnj can you buy extra cradles anywhere?
@chienfou Not that I am aware of. The company website is down now so not sure what is going on. Hopefully they keep the app up. I ran into that with the Striiv. It was a great watch, support stopped and the watch became totally useless!!
@readnj
Yeah. I loved my Martian watch but buggered it up trying to change the analog watch battery… Using a hand me down Tic watch from my son but still liked the Martian better.
Guess I’ll try to find a backup source once I get the watch and can see the interface…
Alright then. Got mine in the mail and set it up yesterday.
I plan to check out the range etc. later tonight if I have time and the ER is not too busy.
It was a nice smart watch while it lasted. I put it through the test it passes then out of nowhere display no longer lights up. Stem seems to turn on and off w vibration. Good price 30 ttl , 3wks ago Shame. Mr. R
have u received my return of the watch?
What to do when heart sensor goes out