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3.0 out of 5 starsIt's like wearing a can of worms, or a beehive.
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2020
I use my watch when I walk my dog and that's pretty much it.
I love that it tracks and maps the route, and saves cell phone battery time (by not using my cell phone for GPS tracking purposes), and also uses actual satellite information, not cell phone tower information.
I dislike the fact that it keeps switching screens, it keeps vibrating, it keeps showing me useless screens. It will keep showing me the weather many times during my walk. It vibrates every few seconds with useless information, messages like "MOVE!" and things like that. It won't stay quiet. At some point I just want to see the time. I have to keep switching between screens upwards, downwards, to the right, to the left, until I finally find the time screen. A few seconds later it tells me to MOVE! again, it seemingly keeps switching screens in a random manner. I WANT IT TO STAY QUIET AND SHOW ME THE TIME! JUST THAT. But not, it keeps switching screens, it keeps vibrating to show me the weather again (Thanks, I saw the weather screen many times) then it goes back to the "activity" screen and stays there, then I need the time and I have to find it hidden somewhere. It's so annoying. I just take out my cell phone to see the time because the watch that it's supposed to tell the time keeps moving randomly and vibrating randomly It's like a can of worms, like a beehive.
I love the application, the map, the route, but even if I disabled all the "sports" that I won't use, I just kept enabled "walk' because it's what I do with my dog, still it tries too much. I just want to see the activity at the beginning when I start it, and at the end when I SAVE it. Meanwhile, I JUST WANT IT FIXED IN THE TIME SCREEN!
I had had a few problems syncing it with a Galaxy S10, but it works again when I restart both of them. Yes, they are very close to one another.
Probably in the future there will be a new release where you are able to keep your watch in QUIET mode and telling the time, what watches are supposed to do.
Meanwhile, on the cell phone, the Connect app keeps asking me for permissions to show me texts, phone, email information on my watch. I DON'T WANT TO! I already denied the permissions, and hours later it will ask me again to enable the permissions. I don't want this watch to show me texts, emails, etc. that's why I carry my cell phone.
I see "Permission required" on my cell phone. I already said NO!!! NO!!! I don't want to grant any permissions, but it won't stop harassing me with that.