I wrote three articles (part one, two and three) about the Apple Watch and its competitors and at the time I found myself sticking with the Apple Watch for a variety of reasons. It became clear to me that the… Read More ›
Fitness
Customising a Garmin fenix 6 Pro bezel
The fenix 6 Pro is a decent looking fitness watch and one that does have presence on the wrist. However, if you want the pro features without spending a fortune you are left with a single colour black watch. With… Read More ›
Zepp releases the Amazfit GTR 3 Pro, GTR 3 and GTS 3
The Amazfit GTR 3 is equipped with a 1.39-inch screen, while the Amazfit GTS 3 has a 1.75-inch screen. Amazfit GTR 3 Pro’s proportion of round watch screen has been increased to 70.6%. This series of smart watches supports over… Read More ›
Apple Watch fitness rings are a pain, or are they?
But one application on the watch — the one which made the watch-wearing experience compulsively addictive — may actually drive me to give up the whole thing. I’m talking about the one-two hit of the Apple Watch and the Fitness… Read More ›
The Amazfit Stratos 3. Is it really £400 worse than the Garmin fenix 6?
The Stratos 3 has obviously been ‘inspired’ by the Garmin fenix in the same way that almost every laptop we see today was inspired by the MacBook and how every phone appears to look like almost every other phone. In… Read More ›
The charge 5 actually looks good
Meet our most advanced fitness & health tracker with tools like an on-wrist ECG app for heart health,** EDA Scan app for stress management and more. Get a 6-month membership of Fitbit Premium™*** and optimize your routine with Daily Readiness… Read More ›
The HUAWEI Band 6 is surprisingly good
The large, high screen-to-body ratio display not only looks good, it also gives you more of the data you want. Bigger photos, more exercise stats, and constant heart rate monitoring can be shown in stunning detail. And have more freedom… Read More ›
Smartwatch Wars Part One: Garmin Instinct Solar vs Apple Watch series 6
The Garmin Instinct Solar is everything the Apple Watch series 6 is not and vice versa. I can think of no two products so different that technically do the same core thing, but the gap between the two is gigantic…. Read More ›
Our understanding of “long COVID”
For this preliminary entry to the long COVID discourse, researchers in the JAMA study isolated 875 subjects from the health monitor-wearing database (all of whom wear Fitbits), and compared those who had tested positive with COVID to those who had… Read More ›
Apple doesn’t always know what we want
Apple is famous for not using focus groups of following the trend for what users want and this has paid dividends. The ability to impress consumers can only come from offering something people either believed was not possible or that… Read More ›
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