hi everyone welcome back to wesknows tech news and reviews today we'll be talking about the
myths legends and other marketing crap with how big brands are trying to reel you in
to buy their fitness trackers smart watches and so forth so without further ado let's get into it
if you're new to wes knows tech news and reviews we talk about the latest tech news we do brutally
honest reviews and share hacks and tricks along the way so marketing smoke screens they work
great don't they these big marketing campaigns are used to basically grab your attention show
you something that you should be fighting for or should spend your dosh on and then they basically
throw in that fishing rod and they really you win cashing in on your money so let's look at
some of the biggest culprits in the smartwatch market today and what they actually offer to you
and they say that it's only them offering it while actually pretty much every other brand out there
of the fitness trackers and smartwatches offers the same thing so let's start off with number one
the apple watch well actually we've just recently had the apple watch series 6 44 millimeters
gps and lte version so you can see that i've actually left a link to it at the end of the video
so with this particular watch we know that the apple watch is marketed as the watch that has an
always-on display it's got a ton of downloadable faces and apps that you can download at any time
well yeah but the apple watch series 6 the one that i had on review that cost me 530
pounds or that's around 650 bucks that's a lot of money to pay for gps lte connection
always on display downloadable faces and apps that you can download but anyway it's marketed
for those particular things but let's talk about the downsides of that particular watch that
nobody really tells you about and you only find out about them when you actually get the watch
but unless you've used other smart watches you wouldn't know that it's a problem so first of all
the apple watch will last for two days that's max also always on displays well you've got them in
pretty much any smartwatch today smartwatch not fitness trackers the fitness trackers are a bit
more budget but when we talk about smartwatches look at that you've got the amazon gts mini 59
pounds 60 bucks yep you get an always on display let's look at the honor oh let's look at the who
are we watching let's look at the garmin watches they have always on displays full stop they don't
switch off and the battery lasts for a week for two weeks for three weeks you've got some
smart watches like the amazon gts2e as well as the gtr2i which have beautiful amoled displays
with the same resolution as the apple watches but their battery lasts for up to one month
if you want to download apps well you've got the samsung watch alternative which is quite expensive
but it's cheaper than the apple watch and also what about the huawei gt2 pro so currently it's
priced at 180 pounds or just under 200 bucks and and yes on it you can also download apps
number two is inbuilt gps now this is a huge culprit
because we have so many smartwatches saying well this thing here has inbuilt gps well yeah but
it's not just a premium brand you don't have to overpay and pay a crapload of money just to get
gps or inbuilt gps you can get it in budget smart watches as well of course the quality
of the gps sensor might be off but we have tested absolutely tens and tens of smart watches
and fitness trackers with gps on board and we have found it's not always the brand or the brand
quality that qualifies for great gps sensor accuracy
we've been testing the gps accuracy on garments on polars we've tested it on the huawei's on the
honors on the apple watch we've actually tested it on many smartwatches and the fact of the matter is
just because you're paying a lot of money for your smartwatch with onboard gps it does not mean
in any sense that it will be a high quality gps sensor because if you do want to get great gps
accuracy you're better off using connected gps via smartphone but of course if you are a runner or a
cycler and you do not want to take your smartphone with you you do need onboard gps but here is this
very important point when you have onboard gps but no allocated storage to actually keep your music
what is the point most likely if you are going out for a run for let's say an hour or an hour
and a half you're not going to be running there in silence well you would probably want to listen to
some kind of music or some medium streams while you're exercising now just because a smartwatch
has inbuilt gps you would still be carrying a smartphone to listen to the music so
unless your smartwatch has inbuilt gps and allocated storage the purpose of that gps
sensor on its own is pretty much useless anyway let's keep going with number three
spo2 otherwise known as blood oxygen saturation now in today's world where respiratory diseases
are quite common and it is a danger to the public we need to be able to monitor how our respiratory
system is functioning and one of the easiest ways to pick up any sort of problems with a respiratory
system is by having a pulse oximeter or an spo2 monitor which is your blood oxygen saturation
monitor now a lot of the smart watches fitness trackers out there are basically marketing the
fact that they've got an spo2 monitor on board that's great and mostly they are quite accurate
but we have to remember something that the most accurate spo2 readings are actually done at
times of rest so when you're actually sleeping so but you can't take an spo2 reading when it's just
spot or on demand readings so you press a button and you get the reading you can't do that while
you're asleep for obvious reasons because you are sleeping so what that means is that
you do need a continuous spo2 monitor something that would measure your blood oxygen saturation
while you are at rest while you're sleeping and this is where a lot of the smart watches struggle
because there's only a few brands you can probably count these smart watches just on the fingers of
my hand there's not many out there that do continuous spo2 monitoring there's of course
some things like the garmin fenix's well they're quite expensive they're very expensive then of
course you get fitbit sense you get fitbit versa 3. excellent also very expensive smart watches
what else where else can you get the continuous spo2 reading well there are options for example
there are cheap fitness trackers that can do this for you at a fraction of the price we're
talking about like 10 of the price in some cases if you put up against the phoenix's
you're looking at like five percent of the price so for example there is an upper band which does
continuous sp2 monitoring there is the huawei band 6 which costs just 45 pounds or 50 bucks
and it also does continuous spo2 monitoring then of course you can go for something a bit better
like the huawei watch fit which also gets you continuous spo2 monitoring plus gps and that's
going back to our previous point but there's no allocated storage but there is continuous
spo2 monitoring and that then costs just 70 pounds or 70 bucks so there are options out
there so when you do hear smartwatch brands going out there and claiming that they've got
an spo2 monitor on board just make sure to find out is it a spot reading or is it continuous
because continuous over spot is just wow it's 10 times it's 50 times more useful because spot
readings do have a limit in how useful they really are anyway let's move on to point four
okay so the fitbit is going to absolutely hate me for this point the fact is many smartwatch brands
out there just scream we've got an amoled display it's bright it's crisp so with the fitbit locks
the one we've got right here well i've got the huawei band 6 here which costs a third
of the price of the fitbit uh lux and we can see that apparently it's got a very bright and crisp
display amoled display but everybody sort of forgets to mention that it's a 1.1 inch amoled
display it's tiny it's like your fingernail that's the size of that display it might be crisp and
bright but you can only see so much on such a tiny display so when you are actually exercising and
you're looking down at your tracker you want to see the values you don't want to be squinting at
it you want to see the values bright and clear on your wrist so please do make sure that you don't
just look at these catch words like amoled chris bright look at the actual display size make sure
to watch the reviews on youtube and go through a few before you make your decision and hopefully
you will get to my channel because we do say the truth we are honest in fact we're so honest
i probably should be a bit less honest because then i will get more trackers in for review
and i don't have to buy most of them but anyways let's get into the fifth miss
sleep sleep is important well of course because really if you think about life about a third of
it you spend sleeping now when you're sleeping you obviously do want to find out how is the
quality of their sleep and you might want to know recommendations on how to actually improve that
sleep quality well in order to monitor your sleep you need to ensure that you have a very strong and
high quality sleep monitor on board of your smart watch now mostly these days all of the fitness
trackers and the smart watches the premium ones at least do monitor three sleep stages so your light
your deep and rem sleep they also monitor or track when you actually went to bed and when you woke up
now based on the bands or how much you've actually had of your light sleep your deep sleep and rem
sleep the rapid eye movement stage they will actually give you a score and also the length
of the duration of your total sleep they will give you a score on how well you've slept now
more of the cheaper brands they only offer the light and the deep sleep so just two stages
now that really doesn't give you a full picture of your sleep quality so make sure when you are
looking for a smart watch or fitness tracker that you do get three sleep stages i think i've said
most of the things that i wanted to say for such a long time most of the myths that we hear about
smart watches and fitness trackers because smart gadgets are growing it's a growing market did
you know that it's actually growing at about 30 percent per year globally so everybody's getting
into it people want to monitor their health they want to improve their fitness levels they want
to be connected but you have to do it in a smart way because we really well i really don't want you
splashing out a lot of money for something that can be done cheaper better with another brand
anyway keep watching our channel because we do have a lot of the reviews make sure that you go to
our playlist we've got a heart rate playlist where we actually compare the optical heart rate sensors
on the back of the fitness trackers and smart watches we don't just compare them we actually
test them we go into the details and we test them and benchmark them against the polar h10 ecg chest
strap which i wear on my chest when i'm exercising when i'm cycling when i'm running or when i'm
doing intensive workouts in the gym also we do gps tests and of course we go through a whole
range of uh smartwatch brands so we have chorus we have polar garmin who are we honor a mass fit
and so forth a lot of it on there i think we actually had a sooner on as well anyway thank
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