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1.0 out of 5 starsI was - very happy with the new model - no longer. The watch is unusable.
Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2018
Update Feb 24 2019: In terms of functionality, the watch was great. The battery life was long enough and the features worked, BUT the watch started irritating my wrist around a month ago. I cleaned the back and swapped wrists, with the same result. I contacted the company, and they replaced the watch with a new one under Warranty (that took a while). The new watch finally arrived yesterday. I charged it up, configured it, and started wearing it about 5 pm yesterday. I was woken up in the night by my wrist, which was itching badly, and took off the watch. This morning, there is a big red mark on my wrist from under the watch. The new watch is unwearable.
I have worn watches of all sorts for most of my life, and I have never had a skin reaction to any watch material. I don't have a sensitivity to any metals, normal to I have any other form of contact dermatitis. There is something odd in the materials used for this watch. Now I am stuck with a $250 watch that I can't wear. I have to go back to my Ticwatch E (which I can wear without problems, but which lacks the longer battery life).
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I have had a number of smart watches, staring with the Timex series (non-Bluetooth), then Pebble, and this is my third Android-based one. It is certainly the best. I loved the Ticwatch E, but found that the battery life was not quite long enough to last 24 hours. I charge when I wake up every morning - most times there would be 10-30% after 24 hours, but some days the battery died overnight -even though I set it to "Theater mode" (dark display) when I go to bed. So far, with a week's use, the Pro shows around 50-70% when I wake up (even without enabling theater mode), so it will reliably get me through the day. I also like the better charging cradle - the Ticwatch E would sometimes fail to charge because it shifted off the charging pins, but the new cradle helps maintain contact.
Update: Yesterday lunchtime, I looked down at the LCD display and saw only 2 bars at the bottom, indicating that the charge was close to 40%. I then realized that I had forgotten to charge it in the morning. I decided to let it go, without charging, and was pleased to see it was at about 10% this morning - it had gone a full 48 hours with my normal use. To me, that is great - if I can reliably get 24 to 36 hours, then my normal habit of charging once a day (when first waking up, so it charges while I shower, etc.) should mean that I don't have to worry about battery life.
