Hi everyone welcome back to wesknows tech news and reviews today we've got an exciting
new entrant to the under 50 fitness tracker market so this is the umidigi you watch 3 gps
now that name is quite a mouthful but the main point about the name is the last three letters gps
yes this tracker here costs 30 quid or 35 bucks and it does have inbuilt
gps so you can track your runs your walks and you can actually do open water swimming in this cheap
tracker in this initial impressions review i will be telling you everything that you need to know
or there is to know about this particular tracker so let's kick off let's talk about the design the
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if we start off with the design so this is quite a plain tracker so it is it does have a plastic case
and it does look a lot like the mass fit bipu so it's almost square in shape it's all plastic case
but what i do like is that it has a two color or bi-color accent so you've got the silver on top
and black on the underside now the straps are the tpu rubber straps this is not silicon
it's the classic wash type clasp now it is plastic as the lugs are but what did we really expect in
the under 50 dollar segments you will notice that there is a single button on the right side of the
watch case and what i love about it is that it is metal so that accent that it's chrome it's dark
but it is steel does make it look just a little bit more premium and a little bit more stylish
if we talk about the dimensions um it's a bit on the thick side so it does sit 11.6 millimeters
high on your wrist so that's not much but if we consider for example the honor band 6 which is
just 10.8 millimeters so this one millimeter which is added it doesn't seem much but when you look on
the side of the watch it does feel a bit bulkish so a bit thicker than you would like it to be
but it's not a deal breaker in regards to weight with the straps it's 39 grams and
now let's get into the display specs the display is kind of standard for this kind of price range
so we're looking at a 240 by 240 pixel lcd tft display there's only three brightness options
there's no auto brightness here you can store up to three faces uh on the actual watch to choose
from you can choose more faces from the app before we get into the features and functions i really
want to touch upon operations and navigation of this watch because it is slightly different to
what we're generally used to let's have a look at it okay so firstly we need to understand what the
button on the right hand side does okay so when you actually tap the button it has two functions
you can either switch the screen off or on as well as go back so with uh trackers from other brands
we're used to swiping to the right and that will get us to the previous screen you can't do that on
the you watch three you actually need to click into the button so let's say here's the screen
clicking it on let's uh let's go into the sport app as an example here we are so i'm going to
click on it and it's going to take me back to home screen click it again it's going to take
you to the main home screen so that's a bit of a strange one but again it's easy to get used to
another point to mention is the suppression motion of the button
it's quite heavy and very unlikely that you're going to be pushing that button with the sleeve of
your shirt or your sweatshirt and that's a benefit let's get back to the operations and navigation i
think we're used to the operations when you swipe down from the home screen you get to your shortcut
screen well that's not the case with the you watch three you actually have to swipe right and on
there you will see the following shortcuts so you have your auto heart rate sensor you've got your
lift to light or lift to wake up your watch then of course you've got your dnd mode which you can
switch on and find your phone options if you go back to home when we actually do swipe down
from the top screen we get to our text messages or basically any messages it's all your notifications
and alerts uh from emails texts calls etc now the positive is that you can see quite a few rows
of text the negative is that it's strange almost every tracker watch we've ever looked at you swipe
up from the home screen you get to the text here it's the opposite something to get used to but
again it's not a major it's not a biggie but it's just there if we swipe up from the bottom of the
screen we get to your daily stats so you see your steps so number of steps then you see the actual
plot down the bottom next screen is your distance now this is not your gps distance this is the
distance based on your stride length multiplied by the number of steps you've taken during the day
let's go further down you've got your calories and then you've got your weekly total so your
weekly total of steps distance calories and time exercised by swiping left from the home screen
gets you to the apps and the widget screen so i think we're done with the operations now we know
how to operate and navigate to watch let's get into the features and functions let's see what the
u watch 3 gps has to offer i think we really need to kick off with the sport profiles with the sport
modes and basically all the sporty functionality that this watch has so if you click onto the sport
widget you will see that on the watch face you can store up to eight sport profiles there are a total
of 14 available and you choose which ones you want to see on your watch face from the connected app
also on every sport modes in the top right corner you're gonna see a tag whether it's a gps activity
or not a gps activity so something like an outdoor walk out a run will have the gps tag
on it now that's very handy considering that this particular tracker for only 35 bucks
does get your inbuilt gps another positive here is that it is 580m water resistant so technically it
is water resistant up to 50 meters so that will allow you to go swimming in it so obviously you
do have the pool swim uh sport profile in here but also you will see that there is an open water
swim profile available and that is really awesome so if you are into that sort of thing if you do
want to go out swimming in a lake or a river you do have a cheaper option rather than the
polar or the garment watch that costs that will cost you hundreds of dollars you can get this
rather budget tracker it does have gps and it will allow you to do your open water swimming now most
of this was positive but because we are honest reviews i really have to point out the negatives
and i think the biggest negative in the sport profiles of the you watch three gps is the fact
that no workouts are goal based everything is just click and play that means you go into a workout
and you basically do it for as long as you need to do it but there is no goal setting so if you
want to go out on a run for an hour you're going to have to track your actual watch how
long have you run for goal-based means you can set particular objectives or goals of your workout so
it can be a timed workout or you want to burn a particular amount of calories or let's say there
is a particular distance that you want to be running or walking so goal-based is very useful
this watch unfortunately doesn't offer that okay so i think we've focused on the sport for quite a
bit let's move on so now there is a heart rate app so let's get into that so that actually gives you
a current heart rate as well as showing you the resting heart rate from the previous night's sleep
and there is a plot of your current heart rate which is kind of useful so let's get out of there
let's look at the relax app the relax app is a guided and timed breathing app you've got the
options of doing it a one minute or a two minute exercise let's have a look at the two minute so
you've got this text coming up please calm down the background is the blue sky so it is fresh it
is refreshing you've got a couple of birds flying around there's a sky and there's an infographic
telling you to inhale and exhale and you actually get a vibration or haptic vibration to tell you
when a particular step has finished so let's say you've got your eyes closed
you can actually follow through easily so in general the app looks fine but again a number of
things that i need to point out it's a very simplistic breathing app right
people breathe differently people relax differently so having a timed and guided
breathing exercise app is excellent but we need options such as slow medium and fast breathing
so that is missing here so it does look like the app is there how useful is it well it will
depend if you can actually match the breathing rate offered by this app let's keep going so
there's also the sports record app so in here we've just got the one activity that i've
actually done last night i was walking around uh wimbledon village so if we click in there
it's not going to be showing you a full screen of your data no there's going to be just one row
of data coming up with your calories burned your distance your steps your average heart rate etc
for that activity and if you want more details you will actually have to go to the app a useful
function is the music controller so you have that and on the rather large 1.3 inch display it's more
than enough space to use that comfortably there's a timer there's a weather widget and then there's
settings in settings you can't do much you can change your dial your watch face and you can
change your brightness setting now there are only three brightness settings on this watch
and no auto brightness as well because there's no ambient light sensor you can reboot the watch
you can look about to watch so everything that you would expect in the settings menu there's a
bit more features and functions available in the actual app the app does give you the option to use
female cycle tracking which is an added benefit but again it has to be done from the app the watch
doesn't actually notify you of the calendar the obvious question is who is the you watch 3 gps for
and how does it compete in today's very busy under 50 dollar market well
my honest opinion is that the u watch 3 will have a tough time because there are two types of
competition in the under fifty dollar market firstly you've got the traditional
trackers or the fitness trackers so let's think about the samsung galaxy fit too let's think about
the fitbit inspire too well that's actually not a good example that's over 50 bucks so a mass fit
band 5 xiaomi band 5. we've got the honor band 5 in there right so they're the slim line trackers
they have a lot of functions they have amoled displays they're slightly smaller but they're thin
they're small they're extra light they're usually all somewhere between 10 and 15 grams in weight
very positive now then we've got this second type of trackers in the under 50 market
from the likes of xiaomi mi watch light and mass with bipu the or something like the honor band 6
so all of these trackers are also in this 30 to 50 dollar space and they offer big screens
a lot of sport modes fine they might not offer gps but they have a lot of options
such as spo2 tracking they offer continuous stress monitoring they've got auto detected activities uh
they've got plenty of sport activities with honor band 6 it might not have the plenty of sport bows
but it's got a beautiful amoled display what i'm trying to get to is that this is a busy space and
humidity might have a strong contender with a big screen which is lcd but it does have inbuilt gps
which actually brings a lot of value to the user but there are two types of trackers
already available in the market with a couple of huge major brands playing out in that market
so marketing will be quite a challenge what i've actually done is the activity you saw
on the watch face yesterday i went out for almost an hour long walk across wimbledon
village so because it was rather chilly i was walking quickly i had the polar ecg
chest strap on me so i've tested the heart rate i've tested the gps and then overnight
i've had the amazfit zen buds in my ears to track sleep or sleep accuracy so i've actually tested
the xiaomi mi watch light as well as the um dg you watch three gps so straight after this
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