VT3 Plus smartwatch continuously tracks your body status and provides comprehensive analysis via the “VIRMEE” APP
It records your health data and real-time exercise data for 18 exercise modes
IP68 waterproof design
Receive calls, message notifications, and calendar alerts instantly
Hang up incoming phone calls easily with your watch
Release your stress with guided breathing exercises and 4 optional breathing guidance modes
Activity tracking is automatically enabled after a 30-minute exercise like running or ball games so you’ll never miss tracking a workout when in typical mode
Collects sleep data from different stages (light, deep, REM) and provides you a detailed insight into your overall sleep performance
Measures your blood oxygen levels with built-in Sp02 sensors
Sensors: Accelerometer, Magnetometer, PPG, etc.
This device is not designed to be a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. All data and measurements should be used for personal reference only
What’s Included?
1x Virmee Tempo VT3 Plus Smart Watch (in Black OR Silver)
What if this watch is smarter than me?? I’ve heard about Artificial Intelligence. Could it take over my brain? Maybe it would make me smarter??? But then it’s coming from meh. Could meh set it up such that I wouldn’t be able to resist their great sale items if I use this device? That I would be inundated with all types of meh stock?? Ok, meh, I see through you and what you’re attempting to do. So, I’m going to resist buying…
For twenty bucks, sure. For the list of $50, nah, I’d just bite the bullet and get a $200 Apple Watch that this thing is so completely copying. I don’t need one myself, but can’t go wrong with this deal, even if just to see if you like using a smart watch. (I really enjoy the Apple Watch I have.)
@notrobocop I got the one on sale a few months ago. works great as a watch, aside from it not always turning on when I lift my wrist. Fitness stuff is ok, but I’m not really tracking it. I like getting phone notifications. None of the extras like coupons in the packaging are working anymore. No support. but still worth the price to me.
Actually good reviews at Walmart…I know it’sWalmart, but a 4.5 / 5. For $19 it might be worth talking a flyer on this one if you’re wanting to try a smartwatch.
@TimW You convinced me. Took the flyer just to see. I’m not a fan of my new Fitbit, I can’t read the notifications. We’ll see if this is too big for my wrist.
/giphy maddening-pathetic-harmony
@Fuzzalini@TimW
Same here. I’ve paid more for less value before this. Like VMP fees + tax (which is BS and tax fraud by Meh, but since the state gets a cut, they’re complicit in looking the other way)
@Commonwealth109
Not on services and other non-tangible goods, like membership fees. The lawyers (who are almost all of the legislative politicians) make sure that their fees for services are not taxed, just like doctors, and accountants. Neither are Sam’s, Costco, BJs, WalmartPlus, and golf club memberships. Neither are prepaid cards and dollar-value discounts because you pay taxes when you “spend” them - on tangible, taxable goods.
VMP and Mehmbership is clearly not any sort of tangible good, on a month-to-month basis, and it is tax fraud for Meh to improperly collect taxes on non-tangible goods, memberships, and services (like shipping - remember when Best Buy was charging sales tax on shipping and the feds cracked down on them?). There is no sales tax to be collected or authorized by the state to do so.
But since the state is a beneficiary to Meh’s illegal tax collection scheme, the state won’t give a shit. Just like private for-profit prison corporations (GEO) using prisoners for slave labor.
Meh knows it’s wrong, so they’re either intentionally overcollecting taxes to profit (albeit a small portion, it is not ZERO) or they’re incompetent at coding their tax software to exclude taxes from memberships. Either way, Meh’s excuse for charging sales tax on VMP and mehmbership is pure, unadulterated horseshit.
From the CA tax code… I imagine it is now boilerplate for other states.
Regulation 1584. Membership Fees.
Reference: Sections 6011.1, 6012, and 6012.1, Revenue and Taxation Code.
(a) Application of Tax.
(1) In General. Membership fees related to the anticipated retail sale of tangible personal property are includible in taxable gross receipts when either
(A) the retailer sells its products only to members and the membership fee exceeds a nominal amount,
or
(B) regardless of the amount of the membership fee, the retailer sells its products for a lower price to a person who has paid the membership fee than to a person who has not paid the fee.
(2) The membership fees described in subdivision (a)(1)(A) or (a)(1)(B) are part of the gross receipts of the person selling tangible personal property to a member. It is immaterial that the person who sold the membership is not the person who sells the tangible personal property to a member. Any sale of a membership described in subdivision (a)(1)(A) or (a)(1)(B) is regarded as related to the retail sale by the retailer selling tangible personal property to a member, not by the person selling the membership, measured by the amounts received by the person selling the membership.
(3) Incidental Sales. Charges for membership fees not related to anticipated retail transactions are not subject to tax. For example, when a country club or similar organization charges fees (dues) to members and provides substantial service benefits, e.g., the use of golfing, tennis and swimming facilities, the membership fees are not related to sales even though the organization may establish minimum meal and drink purchase requirements for its members.
(4) Consumer Cooperatives. Initial or periodic membership fees received by consumer cooperatives, as defined in sections 6011.1 and 6012.1 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, are not subject to tax
@chienfou VMPs and mehmbers do not pay a lower price than other customers. Shipping (which is not taxed, as an intangible service) is waived.
We are offered exclusive items, however, since other customers are unable to purchase said items, VMPs and Mehmbers pay a higher price than other customers.
So again, Meh is improperly collecting sales tax when they shouldn’t.
Lastly, even if such hypothetical offerings were intermittent, because the membership is very clearly defined as month-to-month, and charged as such, any months in which such offerings that might potentially be considered as taxable would not affect the taxable status of any other independent membership fee for any other unrelated month’s membership.
Lastly, that’s California, and the laws of California have no bearing on the laws of any other state.
Meh can certainly keep track of the appropriate locality tax rates, so they can certainly keep track of exempting VMP and Mehmbership fees.
I stand by my claim they are knowingly conspiring with state tax authorities to illegally and improperly assess and collect unuathorized sales tax on non-taxable mehership fees for profit or do so out of willful ignorance, or are incompetent at configuring or programming their sales system to do so.
And if you want to claim a discount code is offering a lower price, then why does the tax assessed exclude the discount, as it does for every other e-tailer and checkout system on the planet? i.e. when I present a $10 off coupon in purchasing an otherwise $20 item, I pay taxes on $10, not $20. When I buy-one-get-one-free, I pay taxes on only one item. When I use a 10% off coupon, I pay taxes on the post-discounted price, not on the full price I didn’t actually pay.
This is also why we don’t pay sales tax on Amazon Prime or Netflix fees. Although the latter has become taxable in places due to legislation explicitly taxing streaming service/membership fees as an alternative to the previous (declining) cable entertainment telecommunications taxes.
@kus if you go through the referenced online review you’ll find two things: Though it supports iOS(10.0 above), you won’t get all the features as it is not fully compatible with Apple smartphones.
AND it doesn’t let you control music (!)
@yakkoTDI To me, TNG, DS9 & Voyager are ”comfort food"—you always know what to expect, which makes for stress-free viewing, and we could all do with some stress-reduction these days.
Those pictures remind me of fast food advertisement. If you were to buy the watch, you’d go back to look at the pictures and go “Wait a minute, it doesn’t look anything like this in real life”
I have a cheap $20 smartwatch (the Soundpeats Watch One) that’s very similar to the one on sale here. It’s definitely pretty basic, with kind of a barebones interface and mobile app, but it absolutely does a lot of the things you’d expect every smartwatch to do: it gets time, weather, notifications, and message data from the phone, sends fitness data back, and can accept/reject calls. It doesn’t have a mic/speaker so you can’t use it to handle calls directly from the watch, but not every high-end smartwatch can do that either.
For $20, it’s definitely worth it, either as your first smartwatch, or as the cheap one that you take along when you don’t want your expensive one to get dinged up. (For example, I’ll wear this thing when I’m working on the car.)
The most useful thing about a cheap smartwatch like this, for me, is receiving and displaying notifications so I don’t have to take out my phone every time (and you can glance at the watch without even touching anything, which is especially important when I’m working in a clean room.) Being able to see who’s calling/messaging is worth a lot more than the asking price, and the only complaint here is that, inexplicably, on a more recent smartphone running Android 11, the smartphone’s companion app doesn’t have the ability to display notifications from as many apps as it did on an older phone (running Android 7.) I’m not sure if the OS version is the culprit, but it might very well be considering permissions and access rules have changed significantly over the past several Android versions. Other than that though, it mostly displays the notifications that I want it to.
@tsveggie
From photos of the charging cable it uses, I have to say that it doesn"t. The charging dock sticks on with a magnet, but it appears to use phtsical contacts like a Fitbit.
tl;dr: If you have an Android phone, this is worth a try imo.
I agree with @Atomizer and can speak from the perspective on an owner of this watch (wearing mine now). I even bought a spare Virmee watch ready to take over when I (expectedly) destroy the one I am wearing through rough handling. I paid $25 for each of my Virmee watches.
I am a fan of basic, cheap smart watches. I don’t care if it tell me my heart rate or blood pressure or reads my Tarot, though the Virmee does at least the first 2, and I regularly use the stopwatch function. I want a smart watch to tell me who’s calling, give me the basics of texts I receive, tell me when I have a calendar reminder, and of course tell the time, date and day.
This watch does all of that acceptably well.
I started years ago on <$25 smart watches with the Martian Notifier from Meh and have had to move on since they discontinued support for it and mine died. The Notifier had the absolutely best vibrate mode - it would wake me from a sound sleep. Nothing since has compared, though when I am not snoring, I notice the Virmee just fine.
What I like most about the Virmee is the granularity of the apps on my Android phone that it can pass along alerts from - virtually all of them can be selected/deselected. Not so with the Martian or other cheap smart watches I have tried.
The battery life is acceptable at about 5 days between charges (try that with your Apple watch), and the magnetic charge connector is excellent.
The wrist strap is replaceable by any standard pin type band, but the one they include is long enough to fit quite comfortably around the arm of even the most inactive American out there. The thing I appreciate about the wrist strap on this one is that the loop that holds the loose end stays in place, while with the other <$25 watches I have owned, it would slide around and the loose end would pop out annoyingly. Not the Virmee.
At under $25 per watch, I can buy 8 of these before I spend what I would on a Samsung, though I have considered it just to see what the difference might be.
Nah.
Yes, I’d like to have a smartwatch that I can break without bruising myself with a high-speed facepalm. And I’ll graciously share this freedom with my spouse
In for 2 in time for the holidays
~ SszZ
@mike808 Oh, ok. Good to know. Through stick-and-stay I’ll learn today… Thanks muchly mike808 (ps–is that an area code reference or are you down with one of the dopest drum kits ever??)
I bought one of these here not long ago, and so far so good. The only problem I’ve had is getting used to wearing a watch again.
Everything seems to work. It doesn’t seem to log naps, only overnight sleeps. It doesn’t allow customizing the face, but it has twelve to choose from.
The iOS app doesn’t load data until i launch it, and i don’t see any way to export the data.
It has the ability to turn on the display when I rotate my wrist, but that can be disabled for certain hours so it doesn’t do it all night.
For me the weak link is the proprietary charging cable with no obvious way to buy a replacement. There are many that look similar. I took a chance on one from Amazon, and it worked.
I think I’ll buy this to have a backup watch and cable.
@joebuddah VMPs (“V” badge) and Mehmbers (“” badge) can use a “slash command” to purchase that day’s deal in the forums. mediocrebot also posts a reply with an image of your order number.
I ordered one because I’ve never tried any smart watch (and also have a couple extra cool Apple watch bands I’ve bought for my sons in the past). And being an Android user sounds like a plus too, as this seems to get higher reviews from Samsung users than from iOS users. From some previous comments it sounds like it will at least tell me enough to know if I will like smart watches or not (and then can get a better one if necessary). I’ve never wanted to spend “real” money on one, because I can see me using it twice & then never again lol.
@Commonwealth109
same here. It will be weird wearing two watches because I’m still a big fan of my trusty old analog timex I’ve had and worn for at least the last 3 decades. I guess I’ll call the new one my “side piece”.
/image timex expedition green
@mike808 if you like cool but non-fancy, affordable watches & want to try a digital one (not a smart watch), check out the Rockwell Coliseum. They have tons of cool looks in it too. I’ve got a couple & they have been great at just over a hundred bucks.
@Commonwealth109 Oh, I’m not interested in a digital watch. Thats the point of having the Expedition. I have the white face so you don’t need the Indiglo (backlighting) in low light settings.
Unfortunately, analog watches don’t have “smart” features. So I’ll either wear two watches or see if this one has a “simulated analog visual interpretation” feature. For $20, I can find a giftee who will want it and not feel bad about the purchase if it doesn’t work out for me.
Can anyone who has this please tell me how the blood pressure monitor is? I know a lot of these cheaper watches (or maybe all of them for all I know. I don’t ever look into those ones! Lol), they say that the readings are wayyyyy off. Much appreciated!
@GirlPleeeeze Sorry, I said earlier that this one measured BP. It does NOT. I don’t care as I don’t depend on it for that, so I didn’t think to check to see if it did.
My Zeblaze watches do, but they do not give the same readings as my upper arm cuff BP monitor does, so there’s two strikes against depending on these types of watches for that.
The heart rate on this watch is spot on, however. If you leave it on to track continuously, it’ll run the battery down. Fast. Like in 2 days. I don’t do that.
This watch tracks several kinds of activity and sleep. None of which I care about.
I have two others and in both cases the online site dissappeared so they are no off time. I use for time and counting steps ( think this does) Have Iphone and Pad but don’t care if it links. worried about the charge cable. Does it use USB or a regular outlet.
Post-receipt initial impression: So far, nothing to dislike, and it actually has features that my Fitbit lacks - among them the ability to turn off tracking of things that don’t matter to me. It’s early days yet.
I’ve only gotten up from my desk a couple of times today and just to get a drink. It says I’ve walked 4,000 steps. At least it makes me feel good about myself.
Tried out the sleep mode. Pretty cool. The heart health (not diagnostic!) was interesting. For the money, worth it as my entry into smartwatches.
I still like my dumb analog watch. I like that there is a dumb analog watch face it can display to make me feel not so bad about cheating on the watch I’ve worn for over 30 years.
We bought two of these here, not too long ago. It was a double pack, so was a sweet deal. I’m gonna post my impressions now, since I didn’t last time. Of course, I will add a…
TL;DR: The Virmee Tempo V3 Smartwatch is a great little device, and I recommend looking into purchasing one for yourself, or maybe your kids. The price point is excellent, and I’ve found that this device has very good value to me.
My experience with the Virmee Tempo V3 Smartwatch is overall quite good, and I’ll rate it 7.75 out of 10. That’s an odd percentage, I know, because I wanted to give it an 8 except for a few things. The best thing it does is to simply record some metrics that I like to pay attention to. For instance, the step counter is the primary reason I wanted a smartwatch. This Virmee watch does that very well.
I want to clarify that I’m satisfied with the device and it meets my basic needs and expectations. The native Android app is average, imo, and not very deep with features. Nevertheless the device syncs data to a couple of different platforms on my phone, such as Google Fit and Samsung Health. It records everything pretty well but I think it’s kind of shallow. I don’t get any SMS or phone call sync though and that’s frustrating. I imagine my situation is some kind of operator headspace. But it almost works with my Google Voice app. I will say that the SMS and phone sync works just fine on the Virmee smartwatch that I gave to my partner; so there’s that as a plus. Another feature that I have trouble with is the O2 sensor. I have not gotten an O2 reading yet. And yet again, this feature works well on my partner’s device. Unfortunately, the instructions that came with the watch is also kind of shallow, and didn’t help me out much. Perhaps with more tweaking settings I can get it to work.
Next I want to talk about a couple of the embedded apps on the watch. One of my favorite is the mindfulness feature, called “Breath Training.” It is a simple breathing counter and I think it’s great…precisely because it is so simple! I can focus on that timer and truly relax my mind by following that basic instruction about when to breathe. I’ve also used the Countdown Timer and the Stopwatch features. I don’t vibe with the Countdown function, mostly because it isn’t very loud when it alarms. The Stopwatch is pretty cool though, and it’s very easy to access. It’s pretty much go, lap, and stop. But a lot of the time, that’s all I really need at the drop of a hat. Oh and I forgot to mention the Compass, and that seems to work well also.
I’m going to mention the build, feel, and fit of the Virmee Tempo V3 Smartwatch. I think that it meets my expectation in that regard. There’s nothing extravagant about the watch, and that includes the band. It’s made out of some kind of silicone blend (?), so it’s easy to fit the device around my arm snugly, and yet with the flexy comfort I expected. The build is sufficiently tough to be a solid choice to wear in any situation, on any given day. I’ve dropped mine many times and so far, so good. It is also favorable because I could break my way through, say, maybe a dozen of these devices for the same price as buying one of the fancier smartwatches. I bought mine on closeout website, so the cost was much lower. That seems like a good thing to me.
Overall, it is easy to choose this watch as a daily go-to, and easy to wear it all day. That said, I will close this by talking about my positive impression of the battery life. It seems pretty good. There is a setting to make the battery last longer, which I leave enabled. With this on, I generally get seven days of use from the device. I don’t have any personal experience with other smartwatches, so this seems reasonable to me.
Well folks, thanks for reading and I hope my experiences can help someone else. Take good care :))
~SszZ~
[prior sale order ID…]
/giphy glowing-barefoot-derby
Specs
This device is not designed to be a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. All data and measurements should be used for personal reference only
What’s Included?
Price Comparison
$49.99 at Walmart
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, Nov 22 - Friday, Nov 26
Fastest click on meh ever. MEH. See you tomorrow.
@sstaver congratulations?
@sstaver @ybmuG
/giphy auf Wiedersehen
@sstaver @stinks That was fun - I was afraid you were going to leave Honey BooBoo…
Doesn’t a smart watch have to be smart to be called a smart watch?
@hchavers
Smart hardware almost always turns out to be dumb in fact.
@hchavers, i don’t think so. My cell phone is called a smart phone, but it’s dumber than an fn empty can of
peaches.
@hchavers I have doubts about how smart this watch could be - not one of the product photos shows the correct date or time!
@hchavers @macromeh
“Even a broken watch is right twice a day.”
@chienfou @hchavers @macromeh
Which is better than one that’s slow or fast.
I almost bought it for the watch alone, the smarts are icing at this price.
No thanks, sticking with my Fossil Hybrid HR.
@alose Right. I’m sure they’re devastated, and thought owners of $200 watches would swap out to a $20 Meh close out special.
What if this watch is smarter than me?? I’ve heard about Artificial Intelligence. Could it take over my brain? Maybe it would make me smarter??? But then it’s coming from meh. Could meh set it up such that I wouldn’t be able to resist their great sale items if I use this device? That I would be inundated with all types of meh stock?? Ok, meh, I see through you and what you’re attempting to do. So, I’m going to resist buying…
@eeterrific, I was essentially thinking the same thing, but I’m now wondering what does ‘essentially’ even mean¿?
For twenty bucks, sure. For the list of $50, nah, I’d just bite the bullet and get a $200 Apple Watch that this thing is so completely copying. I don’t need one myself, but can’t go wrong with this deal, even if just to see if you like using a smart watch. (I really enjoy the Apple Watch I have.)
Almost want to buy one just out of curiosity to see how well a $20 smart watch could possibly work. Almost, but not quite.
@notrobocop Worth the $20 to satisfy my curiosity. Waiting for it to tell me “It’s time to move your lazy ass. Do something!”
@notrobocop I got the one on sale a few months ago. works great as a watch, aside from it not always turning on when I lift my wrist. Fitness stuff is ok, but I’m not really tracking it. I like getting phone notifications. None of the extras like coupons in the packaging are working anymore. No support. but still worth the price to me.
Actually good reviews at Walmart…I know it’sWalmart, but a 4.5 / 5. For $19 it might be worth talking a flyer on this one if you’re wanting to try a smartwatch.
@TimW You convinced me. Took the flyer just to see. I’m not a fan of my new Fitbit, I can’t read the notifications. We’ll see if this is too big for my wrist.
/giphy maddening-pathetic-harmony
@Fuzzalini @TimW
Same here. I’ve paid more for less value before this. Like VMP fees + tax (which is BS and tax fraud by Meh, but since the state gets a cut, they’re complicit in looking the other way)
@mike808 Some states (KY in my case) charges sales tax on everything now i think.
@Commonwealth109
Not on services and other non-tangible goods, like membership fees. The lawyers (who are almost all of the legislative politicians) make sure that their fees for services are not taxed, just like doctors, and accountants. Neither are Sam’s, Costco, BJs, WalmartPlus, and golf club memberships. Neither are prepaid cards and dollar-value discounts because you pay taxes when you “spend” them - on tangible, taxable goods.
VMP and Mehmbership is clearly not any sort of tangible good, on a month-to-month basis, and it is tax fraud for Meh to improperly collect taxes on non-tangible goods, memberships, and services (like shipping - remember when Best Buy was charging sales tax on shipping and the feds cracked down on them?). There is no sales tax to be collected or authorized by the state to do so.
But since the state is a beneficiary to Meh’s illegal tax collection scheme, the state won’t give a shit. Just like private for-profit prison corporations (GEO) using prisoners for slave labor.
Meh knows it’s wrong, so they’re either intentionally overcollecting taxes to profit (albeit a small portion, it is not ZERO) or they’re incompetent at coding their tax software to exclude taxes from memberships. Either way, Meh’s excuse for charging sales tax on VMP and mehmbership is pure, unadulterated horseshit.
@TimW Same as above, thanks for the pointer. Got a few - even if I don’t like it, cheap enough to be an above average looking stocking stuffer.
“rabid-appealing-cream” - seems risky but…
/giphy rabid-appealing-cream
@mike808
From the CA tax code… I imagine it is now boilerplate for other states.
Regulation 1584. Membership Fees.
Reference: Sections 6011.1, 6012, and 6012.1, Revenue and Taxation Code.
(a) Application of Tax.
(1) In General. Membership fees related to the anticipated retail sale of tangible personal property are includible in taxable gross receipts when either
(A) the retailer sells its products only to members and the membership fee exceeds a nominal amount,
or
(B) regardless of the amount of the membership fee, the retailer sells its products for a lower price to a person who has paid the membership fee than to a person who has not paid the fee.
(2) The membership fees described in subdivision (a)(1)(A) or (a)(1)(B) are part of the gross receipts of the person selling tangible personal property to a member. It is immaterial that the person who sold the membership is not the person who sells the tangible personal property to a member. Any sale of a membership described in subdivision (a)(1)(A) or (a)(1)(B) is regarded as related to the retail sale by the retailer selling tangible personal property to a member, not by the person selling the membership, measured by the amounts received by the person selling the membership.
(3) Incidental Sales. Charges for membership fees not related to anticipated retail transactions are not subject to tax. For example, when a country club or similar organization charges fees (dues) to members and provides substantial service benefits, e.g., the use of golfing, tennis and swimming facilities, the membership fees are not related to sales even though the organization may establish minimum meal and drink purchase requirements for its members.
(4) Consumer Cooperatives. Initial or periodic membership fees received by consumer cooperatives, as defined in sections 6011.1 and 6012.1 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, are not subject to tax
@chienfou VMPs and mehmbers do not pay a lower price than other customers. Shipping (which is not taxed, as an intangible service) is waived.
We are offered exclusive items, however, since other customers are unable to purchase said items, VMPs and Mehmbers pay a higher price than other customers.
So again, Meh is improperly collecting sales tax when they shouldn’t.
Lastly, even if such hypothetical offerings were intermittent, because the membership is very clearly defined as month-to-month, and charged as such, any months in which such offerings that might potentially be considered as taxable would not affect the taxable status of any other independent membership fee for any other unrelated month’s membership.
Lastly, that’s California, and the laws of California have no bearing on the laws of any other state.
Meh can certainly keep track of the appropriate locality tax rates, so they can certainly keep track of exempting VMP and Mehmbership fees.
I stand by my claim they are knowingly conspiring with state tax authorities to illegally and improperly assess and collect unuathorized sales tax on non-taxable mehership fees for profit or do so out of willful ignorance, or are incompetent at configuring or programming their sales system to do so.
And if you want to claim a discount code is offering a lower price, then why does the tax assessed exclude the discount, as it does for every other e-tailer and checkout system on the planet? i.e. when I present a $10 off coupon in purchasing an otherwise $20 item, I pay taxes on $10, not $20. When I buy-one-get-one-free, I pay taxes on only one item. When I use a 10% off coupon, I pay taxes on the post-discounted price, not on the full price I didn’t actually pay.
This is also why we don’t pay sales tax on Amazon Prime or Netflix fees. Although the latter has become taxable in places due to legislation explicitly taxing streaming service/membership fees as an alternative to the previous (declining) cable entertainment telecommunications taxes.
Does it sync with Apple Health?
@kus good question
@kus if you go through the referenced online review you’ll find two things: Though it supports iOS(10.0 above), you won’t get all the features as it is not fully compatible with Apple smartphones.
AND it doesn’t let you control music (!)
“Your watch is smart, can it make us go?”
@Kerig3 nice one!
@tsveggie I’m an “ancient” here, so I’m thrilled to see some did get my lame attempt at humor, thanks.
@Kerig3 I am going through the series again and I just watched this episode last week.
@yakkoTDI To me, TNG, DS9 & Voyager are ”comfort food"—you always know what to expect, which makes for stress-free viewing, and we could all do with some stress-reduction these days.
Those pictures remind me of fast food advertisement. If you were to buy the watch, you’d go back to look at the pictures and go “Wait a minute, it doesn’t look anything like this in real life”
here’s a more detailed review with 2 videos - https://smartwatchcrunch.com/virmee-vt3-plus-smartwatch-review/
I have a cheap $20 smartwatch (the Soundpeats Watch One) that’s very similar to the one on sale here. It’s definitely pretty basic, with kind of a barebones interface and mobile app, but it absolutely does a lot of the things you’d expect every smartwatch to do: it gets time, weather, notifications, and message data from the phone, sends fitness data back, and can accept/reject calls. It doesn’t have a mic/speaker so you can’t use it to handle calls directly from the watch, but not every high-end smartwatch can do that either.
For $20, it’s definitely worth it, either as your first smartwatch, or as the cheap one that you take along when you don’t want your expensive one to get dinged up. (For example, I’ll wear this thing when I’m working on the car.)
The most useful thing about a cheap smartwatch like this, for me, is receiving and displaying notifications so I don’t have to take out my phone every time (and you can glance at the watch without even touching anything, which is especially important when I’m working in a clean room.) Being able to see who’s calling/messaging is worth a lot more than the asking price, and the only complaint here is that, inexplicably, on a more recent smartphone running Android 11, the smartphone’s companion app doesn’t have the ability to display notifications from as many apps as it did on an older phone (running Android 7.) I’m not sure if the OS version is the culprit, but it might very well be considering permissions and access rules have changed significantly over the past several Android versions. Other than that though, it mostly displays the notifications that I want it to.
@Atomizer Tempted. Will sleep on it. If they sell out, it was not meant to be.
Meh. It’s just $20.
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idk… seems like the screen is too small to be able to focus ones eyesight while tugging one out
Yes. For the old fart contingent (I’m a member), small type poses problems, & I wonder whether I could decipher messages on this.
I need to know how it charges?
If it’s by the magnetic method apple used, I’m in
My wife has an Apple Watch will this one use the same charge cable?
@tsveggie
From photos of the charging cable it uses, I have to say that it doesn"t. The charging dock sticks on with a magnet, but it appears to use phtsical contacts like a Fitbit.
tl;dr: If you have an Android phone, this is worth a try imo.
I agree with @Atomizer and can speak from the perspective on an owner of this watch (wearing mine now). I even bought a spare Virmee watch ready to take over when I (expectedly) destroy the one I am wearing through rough handling. I paid $25 for each of my Virmee watches.
I am a fan of basic, cheap smart watches. I don’t care if it tell me my heart rate or blood pressure or reads my Tarot, though the Virmee does at least the first 2, and I regularly use the stopwatch function. I want a smart watch to tell me who’s calling, give me the basics of texts I receive, tell me when I have a calendar reminder, and of course tell the time, date and day.
This watch does all of that acceptably well.
I started years ago on <$25 smart watches with the Martian Notifier from Meh and have had to move on since they discontinued support for it and mine died. The Notifier had the absolutely best vibrate mode - it would wake me from a sound sleep. Nothing since has compared, though when I am not snoring, I notice the Virmee just fine.
What I like most about the Virmee is the granularity of the apps on my Android phone that it can pass along alerts from - virtually all of them can be selected/deselected. Not so with the Martian or other cheap smart watches I have tried.
The battery life is acceptable at about 5 days between charges (try that with your Apple watch), and the magnetic charge connector is excellent.
The wrist strap is replaceable by any standard pin type band, but the one they include is long enough to fit quite comfortably around the arm of even the most inactive American out there. The thing I appreciate about the wrist strap on this one is that the loop that holds the loose end stays in place, while with the other <$25 watches I have owned, it would slide around and the loose end would pop out annoyingly. Not the Virmee.
At under $25 per watch, I can buy 8 of these before I spend what I would on a Samsung, though I have considered it just to see what the difference might be.
Nah.
Yes, I’d like to have a smartwatch that I can break without bruising myself with a high-speed facepalm. And I’ll graciously share this freedom with my spouse
In for 2 in time for the holidays
~ SszZ
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@SscoootzZ Well, this Giphy made no sense at all…
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@SscoootzZ You can edit your post and get a new one. Until the edit window closes.
@SscoootzZ translation is “you are shining”, so it fits a little bit
@mike808 Oh, ok. Good to know. Through stick-and-stay I’ll learn today… Thanks muchly mike808 (ps–is that an area code reference or are you down with one of the dopest drum kits ever??)
@kjalexander Gotchas–thanks kj ^_^
@SscoootzZ
I like both.
/youtube 808 state
The greatest track ever laid down with a TR-808
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I bought one of these here not long ago, and so far so good. The only problem I’ve had is getting used to wearing a watch again.
Everything seems to work. It doesn’t seem to log naps, only overnight sleeps. It doesn’t allow customizing the face, but it has twelve to choose from.
The iOS app doesn’t load data until i launch it, and i don’t see any way to export the data.
It has the ability to turn on the display when I rotate my wrist, but that can be disabled for certain hours so it doesn’t do it all night.
For me the weak link is the proprietary charging cable with no obvious way to buy a replacement. There are many that look similar. I took a chance on one from Amazon, and it worked.
I think I’ll buy this to have a backup watch and cable.
/buy
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@craigthom @mediocrebot what kind of black magic is this
@joebuddah VMPs (“V” badge) and Mehmbers (“
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@joebuddah @mediocrebot some of us still stupidly continue to pay for VMP.
@craigthom @joebuddah
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I ordered one because I’ve never tried any smart watch (and also have a couple extra cool Apple watch bands I’ve bought for my sons in the past). And being an Android user sounds like a plus too, as this seems to get higher reviews from Samsung users than from iOS users. From some previous comments it sounds like it will at least tell me enough to know if I will like smart watches or not (and then can get a better one if necessary). I’ve never wanted to spend “real” money on one, because I can see me using it twice & then never again lol.
@Commonwealth109
same here. It will be weird wearing two watches because I’m still a big fan of my trusty old analog timex I’ve had and worn for at least the last 3 decades. I guess I’ll call the new one my “side piece”.
/image timex expedition green
@mike808 if you like cool but non-fancy, affordable watches & want to try a digital one (not a smart watch), check out the Rockwell Coliseum. They have tons of cool looks in it too. I’ve got a couple & they have been great at just over a hundred bucks.
@Commonwealth109 Oh, I’m not interested in a digital watch. Thats the point of having the Expedition. I have the white face so you don’t need the Indiglo (backlighting) in low light settings.
Unfortunately, analog watches don’t have “smart” features. So I’ll either wear two watches or see if this one has a “simulated analog visual interpretation” feature. For $20, I can find a giftee who will want it and not feel bad about the purchase if it doesn’t work out for me.
What the hell is “Kirsite”?
@HALFEEL https://www.eazall.com/kirksite
Can anyone who has this please tell me how the blood pressure monitor is? I know a lot of these cheaper watches (or maybe all of them for all I know. I don’t ever look into those ones! Lol), they say that the readings are wayyyyy off. Much appreciated!
@GirlPleeeeze Sorry, I said earlier that this one measured BP. It does NOT. I don’t care as I don’t depend on it for that, so I didn’t think to check to see if it did.
My Zeblaze watches do, but they do not give the same readings as my upper arm cuff BP monitor does, so there’s two strikes against depending on these types of watches for that.
The heart rate on this watch is spot on, however. If you leave it on to track continuously, it’ll run the battery down. Fast. Like in 2 days. I don’t do that.
This watch tracks several kinds of activity and sleep. None of which I care about.
Thank you so much for all of that info! Very good to know.
I have two others and in both cases the online site dissappeared so they are no off time. I use for time and counting steps ( think this does) Have Iphone and Pad but don’t care if it links. worried about the charge cable. Does it use USB or a regular outlet.
Post-receipt initial impression: So far, nothing to dislike, and it actually has features that my Fitbit lacks - among them the ability to turn off tracking of things that don’t matter to me. It’s early days yet.
Bluetooth already broke
I’ve only gotten up from my desk a couple of times today and just to get a drink. It says I’ve walked 4,000 steps. At least it makes me feel good about myself.
Tried out the sleep mode. Pretty cool. The heart health (not diagnostic!) was interesting. For the money, worth it as my entry into smartwatches.
I still like my dumb analog watch. I like that there is a dumb analog watch face it can display to make me feel not so bad about cheating on the watch I’ve worn for over 30 years.
We bought two of these here, not too long ago. It was a double pack, so was a sweet deal. I’m gonna post my impressions now, since I didn’t last time. Of course, I will add a…
TL;DR: The Virmee Tempo V3 Smartwatch is a great little device, and I recommend looking into purchasing one for yourself, or maybe your kids. The price point is excellent, and I’ve found that this device has very good value to me.
My experience with the Virmee Tempo V3 Smartwatch is overall quite good, and I’ll rate it 7.75 out of 10. That’s an odd percentage, I know, because I wanted to give it an 8 except for a few things. The best thing it does is to simply record some metrics that I like to pay attention to. For instance, the step counter is the primary reason I wanted a smartwatch. This Virmee watch does that very well.
I want to clarify that I’m satisfied with the device and it meets my basic needs and expectations. The native Android app is average, imo, and not very deep with features. Nevertheless the device syncs data to a couple of different platforms on my phone, such as Google Fit and Samsung Health. It records everything pretty well but I think it’s kind of shallow. I don’t get any SMS or phone call sync though and that’s frustrating. I imagine my situation is some kind of operator headspace. But it almost works with my Google Voice app. I will say that the SMS and phone sync works just fine on the Virmee smartwatch that I gave to my partner; so there’s that as a plus. Another feature that I have trouble with is the O2 sensor. I have not gotten an O2 reading yet. And yet again, this feature works well on my partner’s device. Unfortunately, the instructions that came with the watch is also kind of shallow, and didn’t help me out much. Perhaps with more tweaking settings I can get it to work.
Next I want to talk about a couple of the embedded apps on the watch. One of my favorite is the mindfulness feature, called “Breath Training.” It is a simple breathing counter and I think it’s great…precisely because it is so simple! I can focus on that timer and truly relax my mind by following that basic instruction about when to breathe. I’ve also used the Countdown Timer and the Stopwatch features. I don’t vibe with the Countdown function, mostly because it isn’t very loud when it alarms. The Stopwatch is pretty cool though, and it’s very easy to access. It’s pretty much go, lap, and stop. But a lot of the time, that’s all I really need at the drop of a hat. Oh and I forgot to mention the Compass, and that seems to work well also.
I’m going to mention the build, feel, and fit of the Virmee Tempo V3 Smartwatch. I think that it meets my expectation in that regard. There’s nothing extravagant about the watch, and that includes the band. It’s made out of some kind of silicone blend (?), so it’s easy to fit the device around my arm snugly, and yet with the flexy comfort I expected. The build is sufficiently tough to be a solid choice to wear in any situation, on any given day. I’ve dropped mine many times and so far, so good. It is also favorable because I could break my way through, say, maybe a dozen of these devices for the same price as buying one of the fancier smartwatches. I bought mine on closeout website, so the cost was much lower. That seems like a good thing to me.
Overall, it is easy to choose this watch as a daily go-to, and easy to wear it all day. That said, I will close this by talking about my positive impression of the battery life. It seems pretty good. There is a setting to make the battery last longer, which I leave enabled. With this on, I generally get seven days of use from the device. I don’t have any personal experience with other smartwatches, so this seems reasonable to me.
Well folks, thanks for reading and I hope my experiences can help someone else. Take good care :))
~SszZ~
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Do you still carry this smartwatch & at what price.