I had lot of hopes and high expectation on the functioning of the Watch, but it disappointed me a lot.
The Good:
Looks & Build quality are very good.
The OS is buttery smooth and fast to access
Display is bright and crisp
Raise to wake is working good
Watch faces are fashionable to flaunt
The silicon straps are of great quality, but it is not comfortable to wear for longer time as the straps are wider and thicker than normal. But they are Durable.
Bluetooth connectivity looks stable.
Heartrate seems to be close to accurate
The BAD:
I thought of using this as my daily fitness tracker, but it failed me. I walk 5Km on threadmill regularly and step count is way off. The watch shows 500+ step counts lesser which is a big difference for those who workout regularly. After my 5K walk on threadmill, the watch shows the distance as 2.5Km appx which is half the actual distance. This difference when aggregated for over a month, it will make a huge difference for those who uses the watch as fitness tracker. For manual adjustment, you can adjust the distance by max 1Km. So, I can never capture my actual records of activity in the companion App. So, both step count and indoor walk measurements are inaccurate by a huge margin. I was using Huawei Band 5 fitness tracker before from 4 years and that gives much better results.
The watch faces that are available tends to be me more fashionable and less informative. Most of the watch faces just shows only time and step count. I wanted to display Time, Day, Date, Month, Year, Battery %, Steps, Calories burnt. There are hardly 2 such watch faces that provides more information as such. The sleep monitor is not even close to accurate. The companion app has very limited functionality at the moment and is not very useful. The crown keep getting pressed often when I bend my wrist backward and it is activating exercises unknowingly. The auto detection of workout activity takes ages to recognize the workout automatically. My 4 year old Honor Band 5 takes only 3min to detect the workout activity automatically. The Huawei/Honor health companion app has a ton of features and it is unbeatable in the industry.
I hope CMF provide some software updates to make the watch produce better fitness tracking results. Until then I go back to my old Huawei Band 5
