Withings Activité Sapphire - Activity and Sleep Tracking Watch - US $128.50 + US $6.96 Shipping (AU $176.85) @ Amazon US

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shorewalker on 13/05/2018 - 20:55 amazon.com (855 clicks)
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This is easily the lowest price I've seen for the Withings/Nokia flagship smartwatch (or "hybrid smartwatch"). As well as displaying the time, this device tracks activity during the day and in sleep. Progress towards your daily activity goal is displayed along with the time on the watch face.

This is the sort of watch you'll be interested in if you want a classy-looking, uncluttered, modern analogue-dial watch, but you also want to track your steps - and you don't want to charge your watch every night. The Activité range uses a standard watch battery that lasts eight months and syncs with an app on your Android or iOS phone. This makes it an alternative to the Apple Watch and Wear OS approach.

Amazon's offer is only for the black-face-and-band combination. This model has traditionally retailed around $500 and is currently selling on Amazon.com.au for $A486.

• It has a stainless steel body and a sapphire glass face, the toughest type of glass commonly used in watches. Other Activité watches have a cheaper glass.
• It's a smaller-sized man's watch (36mm) that works well on the average woman's wrist as well. It's close to dress watch style, and dress watches are traditionally smaller. I'm 184cm and not skinny, and it works nicely for me. Then again, I am used to a 38mm watch.
• It comes with both a very comfortable leather strap and a silicone alternative, both with a quick-release feature that works.
• It will take any 18mm replacement strap.
• It has an alarm function that vibrates to wake you up.
• It lacks the heart-rate monitoring of the more recent Activité Steel HR.
• It's more legible than the rest of the Activité models, which have unaccountably hard-to-read hour markers.
• It's Swiss-made, if you care about that.
• The Withings/Nokia app is nicely organised and provides good graphs, and you can also sync the data to Google Fit.

I resisted posting this until I had seen the watch in the flesh. It's nicely put together, elegant, highly desirable … and a gift for my wife. Tragically, she likes it a lot.

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  CyberMurning on 13/05/2018 - 21:02

  resisted posting this until I had seen the watch in the flesh..

  And where did you see it?

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    shorewalker on 13/05/2018 - 21:17

    Bought it for my wife as a family Mother's Day gift, so it was only opened today.

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  CyberMurning on 13/05/2018 - 21:04

  The Activité range uses a standard watch battery that lasts eight months

  If only we can recharge that battery…

  Once every 8 months charging would be heaven….

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    shorewalker on 13/05/2018 - 22:01

    It turns out that rechargeable 2032 batteries are a thing. Who knew?! They are called LIR2032 rather than CR2032. See the Battery Mart site

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  mskeggs on 13/05/2018 - 21:06

  +1

  Well overpriced at $400+, but this looks like a very good deal.
  I think I like the white face better, but not $300 better!
  I can't buy it, though, as it has no date display. I look at my wrist for the date almost as often as I look at the time.

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  asa79 on 13/05/2018 - 22:44

  Cant see how it can be smart and last 8 months

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    Spazzwan on 14/05/2018 - 01:25

    Seems like a normal watch with a 'smart pedometer' built in. I assume the time doesnt sync with phone?

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      singhdeals on 14/05/2018 - 01:48

      +1

      You are assuming wrong my friend. It syncs with phone via app and there are no mechanical buttons/adjustments. And it's sort of semi-smart (i.e. premium feel watch with built-in activity tracker)

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  singhdeals on 14/05/2018 - 01:43

  These are amazing. I'm using this for couple of years now and wear this 24x7x365. It's fully waterproof (shower/swimming etc.), has long-lasting battery, very accurate sleep and steps tracking, good Android/iOS app to compliment. Best purchase ever!

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  asa79 on 14/05/2018 - 06:54

  How does it compare to fitbit charge 2 hr

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  chutibuti on 14/05/2018 - 07:03

  I have this watch in my hand 24x7 since last November, no issues so far, doing well, cant comment on the pricing as i got this as a gift, $500 may be not but ~$200 its worth

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  Captain Hindsight on 14/05/2018 - 07:33

  Wonder how it compares to Lenovo watch 9?

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    shorewalker on 14/05/2018 - 10:51

    The same sort of thing, with the rider that the Withings product exists and the Watch 9 seems quite likely to be a fake - it doesn't appear on the Lenovo site, and a $30 watch with sapphire glass is either a game-changing technological breakthrough or a scam. See instructive video review here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajSejhPIQnY

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      shorewalker on 14/05/2018 - 13:42

      Update: The Watch 9 does appear on Lenovo's China site. No idea what Lenovo is doing claiming that a $40 watch has "sapphire glass", when it cannot possibly have it. That stuff is just too costly to make and buy.