Withings - ScanWatch Light - Daily Health Hybrid Smartwatch - 37mm - White/Silver

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• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  Classy analog smartwatch w/fitness and wellness

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  The Withings - ScanWatch Light - Daily Health Hybrid Smartwatch - 37mm - Black/Silver is a different kind of smartwatch. It looks and feels like a classy, elegant analog watch but once you take a closer look, it clearly has additional features only found in today’s mainstream smartwatches. The battery was about half-full so all you have to do is download the app by scanning the QR code with your phone. Once the Whithings Health Mate App is installed, follow the instructions on the screen to pair it with your watch and provide some basic information about yourself, such as weight, age, etc. One of the first things it will also do is update the watch firmware which only takes a minute or two. There are no additional apps you can install, so you’ll have to rely on syncing and getting messages and notifications from your phone. Since there is no actual touch screen, you will not be able to reply and since there is no speaker built in, you will not be able to answer phone calls from your watch, though it will notify you and vibrate when you get a message or phone call. It’s a nice looking watch, very low profile, more of a “dress watch” with activity tracking smart features. And because it does not have a fancy color display and all the other bells and whistles of true smartwatches, the battery life is unbelievable. I’ve used it for a few days since activation and battery level is still in the 95% range. It is advertised to last up to 30-days depending on usage and I totally believe that. The chagrin cradle is proprietary, so make sure you don’t lose it cause there is no other way to charge it like my other favorite Samsung watch that can be charged wirelessly. Navigating the little display is very intuitive, just scroll up and down by turning the dial and push it in to select. It does not have GPS built-in, but it will leverage your phone’s GPS for tracking workouts. Overall it is a stylish, classic looking analog watch, with very useful fitness, wellness and notification features only found in smart watches.

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  This review is from Withings - ScanWatch Light - Daily Health Hybrid Smartwatch - 37mm - Black/Silver

  Posted 1 year ago by SUHD

• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  Beautiful and Elegant like a watch should be

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  I have to say I am impressed with this Withings ScanWatch light. It is beautiful, elegant and well crafted. This watch is not like the typical touch screen smart watch you see out there, and to be honest I liked the approach. This thing looks like a traditional analog mechanical watch but with a digital signature. If you don't mention it, people wouldn't know it is a smart watch. This specific ScanWatch Light version is extremely light. So light sometimes I forget that I am wearing it. On the top of the watch where the 12 position is, there's a circle. That's the grayscale OLED display. That little screen is part of the smart features of the watch. The screen acts as the information center for settings and all the health information such as the step counts and other things. This ScanWatch can track your heart rate, step counts, and sleep. For the females it tracks the menstrual cycle as well. It has a ridiculous 30 days rechargeable battery life as per manufacturer. It comes with Gorilla glass, and it is water resistant up to 50 meters. It also has a dynamic range accelerometer and multi-wavelength PPG to track the heart rate. Setting it up is easy, download the Withings app and pair it to your phone. With the app you can view all your health activity progress similar to other health apps. One of the differences of the app is that some of the premium features require a paid membership to have access. The most important ones, like steps, heart rate, and sleep are free to access. App is easy to view and has all the health info at glance. Something they should have done was to add the watch battery life info within the home screen instead of going into my devices to view it. After wearing the watch after a few days it has performed like a champ. It seems to be very accurate with the sleep tracking and steps. I really like how it detects the auto workouts. I don't get any notification or anything, it just does it. Once you go into the app you can view the workout it detected and how you did. I did find some cycling workout that I didn’t do. Maybe it detects that during my driving. The OLED screen is pretty neat despite it being small it is actually easy to read and If you access it in a dark room the brightness is not distracting. On the screen you can view messages and phone calls. The displayed text will scroll several times on the screen giving you enough time to read it. With the crown you can view and access the menu. It is responsive but it feels a little fragile. I really like how the hands will move out of the way if they are blocking the screen when you access the menu. Once you’re done the hands will go back to the current time, that's pretty cool. The charging station is what I found a little weird. You have to place the watch into the charging dock in a certain way. It does not work like others where you let it sit and that's it. I believe they did that because the charging pins connect to the crown and frame of the watch. The charging station connects via USB-C and it will fully charge the watch in a little bit over an hour depending how low the battery is. I do have to question the 30 days battery life because after 10 days, the battery life was about 25%. That 30 days is variable; it all depends on how you use the watch. I calculate that the 25% will give me another week or so. I do love that I don't have to charge it every night like my other smartwatches and even charging it after a week is still good for me. Overall this smartwatch is unique on its own and it has its crowd. It is beautiful and well crafted. It works just like other smart watches but it has the traditional and elegant look like the analog. It is pretty accurate on your health tracking info and it has one or if not the best battery life than any other smartwatch out there. I honestly like this watch so much that I’m considering getting the bigger version. In the box you get the watch, charging station and cable, and some manuals.

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  This review is from Withings - ScanWatch Light - Daily Health Hybrid Smartwatch - 37mm - Black/Silver

  Posted 1 year ago by Wishkid

• Rated 1 out of 5 stars

  Disappointed

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  I'm giving this 1 star because I was sent a used watch and not a new watch. I did not order a used watch. I opened shipping box and knew right away the watch was used as the box the watch was in was opened and the watch was scratched. I have ordered many items from Best Buy and this is the first time this has happened. I don't know if it was shipped by Best Buy or if it came from a different company but it was very disappointing.

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  Posted 10 months ago by chuck