Have been using this for a couple of weeks now and have had no significant issues. I also purchased an XIEMIN wireless charger based on other comments about having to remove watch face to charge. I also recommend the charger.I originally purchased this for the sole purpose of monitoring my heart rate during daily 5+ mile "exercise" walks (brisk walks intended to get my heart rate up). I'd been using an iphone and MapMyWalk to monitor distance and pace and an iPod to play music (easier to clip an iPod to my shirt so I could change songs quickly than wrestle the iPhone out of my pocket each time) but didn't want to have to wear a chest strap for heart rate.Bottom line: I would recommend for walkers but only if you do NOT rely on the watch exercise function for distance if distance is important. The route tracker in the FitBit app seems to work, but the distance tracker on the watch is off. I like MapMyWalk but the FitBit app seems to be OK.Pros:+ Heart rate is accurate when I am not moving measured by taking my pulse manually and matching the pulse on the watch. Watch is accurate in this case. Since I cannot take my pulse while moving (how do you take your pulse & monitor a timer while both arms are swinging back and forth?), my *assumption* is that the arm swinging movement during brisk walking is not enough to cause the heart rate to vary that much. Please note this is my assumption.+ I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to control my music. Before I used my iPod which worked fine, but very hard to see in bright light. The watch is easy to use, easier to see and allowed me to ditch one device. I now play music through my iPhone and control it with my watch.+ I have used the sleep tracker function. Seems to work well. I am a fitful sleeper who also suffers from marked insomnia so being able to see how much (or in my case, how little) sleep I'm getting is an added bonus.+ I am the original "Princess and the Pea" - easily annoyed by the smallest pebble in my shoe, tag in the collar of a shirt, even wrinkles in my sheets drive me batty. I have *not* had issues wearing the watch. I don't notice it - that's a pretty big deal for me.+ Some have mentioned having trouble getting it to activate when raising the wrist. This is not a problem. You just have to learn to raise your arm with "deliberate" movement.+ Easy to read even in bright sun.Cons:+ The watch itself is consistently short changing me by about .25 of a mile for a 5 mile walk. But what is truly weird is the watch does not match what’s in the FitBit app. E.g., today I launched the Blaze exercise walk function on the watch, and the FitBit app Track Exercise function & MapMyWalk on my iphone – all started together at the same time while standing still at my front door. At the end of the walk, MapMyWalk had 5.0 miles, the FitBit app 4.95 - but my watch said 4.8. I could tell the FitBit app was lagging a bit by mile 2 (I could hear the mileage being marked through my phone for both MapMyWalk and FitBit and FitBit was slightly behind). While 5.0 vs 4.95 is not a big deal, how can the watch and the FitBit app not be in sync? The FitBit app route was correct and showed the same level of detail as MapMyWalk (crossing streets, taking off-road trails, detour into neighborhood park to dump doggy poop bag).

I was SO IMPRESSED by this perfect little pulse oximeter that I felt compelled to share my opinion of it.I was hesitant to purchase any device, especially something for my wife, because I've been so unimpressed by convoluted user interfaces and difficult-to-use IoT gadgets in the past. But this little device is a true joy to use.The device itself has just one touch-button which simply lights up the screen to show its current readings. Its illumination can be set (by its apps) to low, normal or bright, and I recommend bright if you'll be viewing it outside or low if you'll be viewing it at night. Its clock and calendar will be set the first time it's connected to its apps. Again... the little device has no user interface other than an illumination button. That's all it does, since that's all that's needed.There's no on or off or anything else. You slip this onto a finger, it senses that it's being worn, so it turns on. If you take it off quickly, it resets and shuts down. If you keep wearing it, it begins logging once it's sure that you mean it. If, while it's logging, you take it off, it displays a short countdown from 10 to 0, giving you time to move it to a different finger, change your mind, or whatever. If you put it back on, the interval is ignored and logging continues. If you allow the countdown to expire, that session is ended.The device retains data for the most recent previous four (4) sessions. When you record a 5th session the oldest one will be replaced with the newest one. The device should "live" on its power cord. In other words, take it off and plug it in... so that it will always be fully charged whenever it's needed. You should think of it as a single charge per use. The battery is stated as 12-16 hours, so a full night's sleep will take it well down. So just be in the habit of keeping it plugged in.The mobile app for iOS is slick and perfect (and I assume that they did the same for Android). You do not "pair" the device's Bluetooth with your phone. Rather, the mobile app finds it and links to it. A single app can be used to collect the data from multiple devices if you wish. When the linkage occurs, any newly recorded sessions that the app hasn't already downloaded and stored will be obtained.The Windows desktop app works equally well. Using the included USB-A style interconnecting cord (you must use the one they provide for PC data retrieval) your device will be found and, as with the mobile app, any data that has not yet been downloaded, will be.Both mobile and desktop apps can show current and historical data and can dump to CSV (comma-separated value) or PDF report formats. And the use of one does not "take the data away" from the other. Each obtains any available session data that it hasn't already obtained.Having seen how well this works for my wife, I purchased a second device for myself so that we can use them at the same time. In one day she learned some very valuable information about the state of her respiration.Anyway, that's it. Five thumbs up for this little gizmo. It probably deserves your purchase. And if you think that this review was helpful and deserves to be seen by others, please take a moment to click that this was helpful to you. Thanks!

I have been wearing the Ticwatch Pro 3 GPS for about a week now and I am overall very satisfied with it. I have used fitness trackers and smart watches over the years, starting with the Nike Fuel Band, and eventually upgrading to a Fitbit, then Apple Watch, and several Android Wear devices, but Mobvoi’s Ticwatch has been my go to device for the past few years including my last Ticwatch Pro 4G/LTE.The Ticwatch Pro 3 GPS is the first smartwatch to feature Qualcomm’s new Wear 4100 processor and I could instantly tell the difference in the responsiveness of the watch. The battery life is also amazing. Without making any tweaks and just using the watch as much as I want to I can easily get 2-3 days between charges, which means I can wear it to bed for sleep tracking.Mobvoi also introduced a lot of new health features in this watch, which for me is a huge plus. TIcHealth, TicExercise, TicPulse, and TicSleep are all still there, but now we get TicZen, TicBreathe, TicOxygen, and TicHearing included which syncs nicely with the Mobvoi App. There is also an included Voice Memo app which I found really handy. TicSleep is as expected. It tracks when you are asleep and gives you an overview. TicZen is pretty awesome since it lets you know your stress level throughout the day, and includes the TicBreath app to help you relax. TicHearing also gives you an insight to how noisy it is in your environment which may surprise you. TicOxygen is something I never thought about but it gives you a good reading of your blood oxygen level.I have always used Google Fit in conjunction with TicHealth and will probably still do so, but the Tic Health apps add a lot more to the fitness game than before, and it syncs easily with Google Fit as other apps do, for an overall health status and history. The Mobvoi app on the phone actually shows much better individual and overall statistics than Google Fit for health information collected from the Ticwatch Pro 3 GPS. Ticwatch also added more exercises including Outdoor Run, Outdoor Walk, Indoor Run, Indoor Cycling, Free Style, Rowing Machine, Elliptical Machine, Body Mechanics, Trail Running, Mountaineering, Yoga, and Pool Swim (which also drains your speakers when done swimming) so yes you can swim with this watch. Also in the phone app you can listen to your voice memos, and even convert them to text. There is also a watch face center, and you can invoke a screenshot on your watch from the phone app.Physically the TIcwatch Pro 3 GPS just feels good on my wrist. The screen is a little bigger than previous versions and very easy to read, and the watch is also thinner and lighter. The included black band with orange stitches matches the watch perfectly and feels great, so I don’t even need to get a custom band, but I could if I wanted to. The dual display has alway been my favorite feature of Tic Watches and now I noticed that there is a more refined setting for brightness and double clicking the top right button increased brightness to 100% briefly which is really handy. GPS for outdoor running and walking - check. NFC for Google Pay - check.I would highly recommend the Ticwatch Pro 3 GPS for anyone looking for an Android Wear OS smart watch that provides smarts plus top of the line health tracking.p.s. While writing this review my Ticwatch Pro 3 GPS reminded me that it was time to take a quick walk to meet my hourly steps goal which I think is awesome because I need all the motivation I can get.

There is an included User Guide, but the print is so small you almost need a magnifying glass to read it. BUT, if you click on the QR code near the bottom of the first page it takes you to the online manual - which is a lot easier to read and includes much more information! You need to do this if you want to understand the full features of the watch. You should also download the GloryFit app, which displays more information than the watch and enables you to choose different watch faces.This is my first smart watch, so I can't compare it to others - just how it works for me.Steps/Miles walked - I tested this on a treadmill since it's too cold now to walk outside on a track. Apparently, the swinging of the arms affects the measurement. When running and freely swinging the arms, the watch distance matched the treadmill distance. When walking with less arm swing or holding a railing, the watch under-reported the distance by about 20%. But I suspect other watches may perform similarly.Sleep - I wore the watch for 3 nights but I was disappointed with the accuracy and reporting of the data. One night I was asleep for a couple hours before the watch recognized this. Several times I woke up in the middle of the night and it took me an hour or more to get back to sleep, but the watch reported these periods as light sleep. The sleep graph on the GloryFit app isn't easy to read and only includes start and end times so if you want to know when you woke up or when you had deep sleep, you can only roughly estimate the time. You can connect the app to your iPhone, but only sleep time is reported with no detail about deep sleep, light sleep, or awake.Watch faces - There are many faces you can choose on the app. Some have more data than others. Data included may be: Time, date, day of week, heart rate, steps, distance, outside temp and forecast, battery %, and calories burned. You can also choose your own background, but that option only shows time, date, day of week and steps. It would be nice if you could choose what data you want to display or choose a face that includes the data you want and then replace the background. On the My dial(s) page, you can delete dials by clicking Edit, choosing the dial and clicking Completed at the page bottom - that should say 'Delete' not Completed. If you like the default face, I don't know any way of returning to that after you've chosen another one other than resetting the device.Heart rate and blood oxygen - I assume these are fairly accurate but didn't test them. My blood oxygen went into mild hypoxia a few times at night, which is expected since I have mild sleep apnea. It's also interesting to see how low my heart rate gets at night. But it takes a while for the watch to show your true heart rate if you just wake it up - you can watch the rate go up or down over a period of maybe 10 seconds until it stabilizes.Miscellaneous - You wake up the watch by pressing the button on the right side of the watch or raising your arm (I turn the latter off) - this might be inconvenient for anyone wearing the watch on their right arm.Watch is large, probably too large for many women. Battery life is fairly good. You can sync this with your iPhone so it displays messages. If you long press and scroll left on the watch there are many functions including Timer and Stopwatch.Overall, it's a decent entry level smartwatch, but I'm disappointed with the Sleep function and the Custom face options. The app has a few glitches and sometimes it's not clear how to navigate or what to do and things are mislabeled.

there are a million options for bluetooth in ear headphones. these are the absolute best.ignore reviews that say it is missing this or that functionality. Why? because bose and sony sell other models with all of the functionality you could wish for! want noise cancelling? just buy that version!adding better controls, noise cancelling, all the stuff these don't have costs more and makes the products bigger and the cases bigger and brings a ton of issues of their own. with noise-cancelling earbuds you'll hear a wind noise etc or it won't work right.Personally I only care about sound quality and comfort, and these are the perfect balance. they feel great in your ears, so much so that you can wear them all day.the soft fins make it so it is really hard for them to come out accidentally.bluetooth connection is PERFECT not only that the buds know when you take them out and disconnect.I read a critical review that hinged on having to have the case to reconnect. I've had this experience only if I fumble around with them and put them in and out of the case really quickly. the big complaint was that they were running without the case and couldn't re-link it. this seems silly to me since the case is so small it is not a big issue to carry it if you feel like it. also the connection / reconnection thing works totally flawlessly.the battery life is amazing! the reviews and description don't give a good sense of how great it is. the headphones yes have 5-8 hour battery life, but the case also has a battery, so when you set them in the phones recharge. this creates kind of a loop so that the phones charge off the case constantly. I never notice the battery going down and I have to charge the case something like once a week. they wouldn't say that in the description but it is something like 7 days of continuous use!Personally I think noise cancelling in in-ear headphones is kind of stupid. It can't be as good, uses more power, and do you really want that in a sport earphone? I like to be a little bit aware when I'm running so I can hear cars. having it in your ear blocks a ton of sound anyway.the silicon tips are reason enough to buy these. they have a wide flange so they aren't intrusively stuck deep into your ears. in-ear always grosses me out because they collect earwax but since these rest on a wider surface they don't go far into the ear canal and make a soft seal so you don't have that problem. the wingtips are silky smooth and won't hurt your ears at all. If you like to listen to music while you work or work out these are perfect. plus they are waterproof and discreet. I love wearing just one and listening to podcasts, it is totally hidden by my hair and makes it way easier to talk on the phone.seriously don't listen to people complaining about these and read the complaints carefully. do you really want noise cancelling and phone controls on both buds? go ahead and buy that model. It is way bigger, not waterproof, and noise cancelling is annoying. If you want the perfect earbud for working out and daily use you found it.

I am not an audiophile but very into hi-fi (B&W speakers, duo subs, with Hegel amp at home, Burmester in car and Bose QC3 for travel). I watched quite a few reviews before decided on this one.Initial Impression:Just received it today, charged up to full in about an hour. (the unit might partially charged when arrival). Pairing with iPhone is easy and quick. Wearing is comfortable, but not sure I can wear it stable enough when golfing. Looks very nice, but I expect the gold rings color will fade away after some use, let's see. The speaker works much better indoor, or in a quiet place. (I might speak to the obvious here).Sound Quality- BASS is not good as I expected but improving (see update 6), and I assume other brands can be worse. But I did expect more bass out of this. All the reviews I've seen seems suggest this one is better than others (like Sony, maybe even Boss), but compare with my Boss QC3 headset, there is no bass to show. The speaker somehow does a little vibration when play bass heavy content, so it is funny that you feel it but can't hear it :) For normal content with less bass, the sound is fine. Also, the sound/bass seems shifting all the time. Other review mentioned some sort of aggressive build-in filter. I am not knowledgeable enough to comment. I haven't try equalizer app. For small, less power driven speakers like this, I might asking too much.- Mid/Highs, vocals, male and female, are great. Very clear. I guess that is as good as you can get out of any neckband speaker.- surprisingly good for Classical music. Piano sounds full and powerful. String music is nicely detailed. Even orchestra sounds satisfying. This is totally unexpected, because Piano is the most difficult to sound right!Don't have enough hours to see other aspects. Will update if something worthy comes up.Update 1 after a few days - tried the Spotify equalizer as others recommended, and the vibration is reduced, but bass is still very weak if there is any. It seems like a failed engineering where all the effort to boost bass turned into vibration of speaker, rather than low frequency sound, and damaging the mid and hi. Lowered to 3-star, and start considering return.Update 2 - tried in golf course, and it is a bad idea. It will fall off when you swing, and it can easily mess up your swing too.Update 3 - the battery died on the 7th day, average daily use is about 45min, WAY SHORT than 12 hours play time advertised.Update 4 - after the 2nd full charge to the battery, it does seem to last around 12 hours. So I assume my first charge is not really a full charge. Also, I kind of used to the weak bass now, so move the overall rating back to 4-star, and decide to keep this one. However, the problem other people reported still hold true: The bass is indeed very weak. If you don't use equalizer to turn down the bass, the other frequency sound will be affected when heavy base note hits. Equalizer will stabilize the music, but will NOT enhance the bass that is not there.Update 5 - I also agree with other reviewers that the voice command is annoying, and the startup volume is embarrassingly high. However, the overall sound quality is decent, and walking around with it is a good choice.Update 6 - using it for 5 months now, and the base seems improving and acceptable now! It seems the speaker need some break in period like the regular speakers.

While I did not think it was possible for Bose to improve on the design and features of the Quiet Comfort family, they managed to make significant advances. The minimalist design is both pleasing and well thought out, giving the headphones a high end feel and very comfortable to wear with controls that are easy to use; the one knock would be the power off function (more on that later). The right side has all of the touch controls integrated, honestly it did take a little fiddling around to get the exact placement down for each control but once you do it a few times the layout makes perfect sense and is easy to use and master.The overall sound is very immersive, crystal clear and true to the tracks. The noise cancellation is superb as expected; the app does give you the ability to tweak certain things to your personal preference which is nice because we all know one size doesn’t fit all. I would also add that the call quality when using the phone is great, very good at blocking the ambient noise and people on the other end have commented it sounds like I am on a landline; this is a definite plus for business travel.There is something I have always liked with Bose in particular is the implementation of Bluetooth, they have always and continue to exceed in this, the headphones are very easy to pair and have the ability to pair with multiple devices simultaneously; not many others that can do this and maintain a consistent connection without experiencing the annoying drops and reconnect. The reason I mention this is because I have tried several other big name competing headphones/earphones over the years and they always seem to have something quirky now and then with Bluetooth but I have never had a single issue with any Bose products, hats off to them for that because in my mind that sets them far apart in the market.The inclusion of Alexa, Siri & Google Assistant functions are nice to have and work very well. I was actually able to try all of them and did not encounter any issues with it pausing music and understanding the command request, never had to repeat the command and it executed flawlessly.Okay, now onto the only thing I am not crazy about but certainly not a deal killer; just something I need to use a few times to get the hang of. The headphones, from what I can tell, do not have a power off button per se’; there is a procedure you follow instead. I have researched online and from what I can tell, you press the “Bluetooth” button to turn them on and the same to turn off; however be careful. If you press and hold the button, as you would do with other headphones, you will actually erase the Bluetooth connections and have to re-pair them again (will take some getting used to as habit is to press and hold for power off).I have used the method above and it seems to work okay, just remember not to hold the button too long; there is also an “Auto Off” setting in the app that can be tweaked to your liking. I have had the issue mentioned in other reviews of “thinking” they were powered off but apparently not fully off and then going to use later and the battery is almost dead, I now check to make sure they are disconnected on the device I was using at the time and this seemed to ensure they would be powered off completely. I am fairly sure that Bose will tweak this in firmware updates because it seems to be a fairly common complaint. The battery life on the other hand is phenomenal compared to other options available.All in all, I would say the 700’s are an excellent buy and worth the upgrade from previous generations. I certainly have no real regrets as they are all around better sounding and the aesthetics are appealing, they are very sleek and streamlined and weigh nearly nothing; you can actually forget you are wearing them because they are very comfortable and fit great with butter soft ear cushions.

I'm wearing them now.It's wonderful to put them on and all the noise, all the distractions, all the chaos to go away. They're also amazing for movies, courses and calls.But they kinda suck for music.The QC 35 from which I upgraded from had a beautiful sound signature. These are still good, way better than your average $100 pair of headphones but it's a step down. So you get better ANC (I wouldn't call it far better but that's about the best one can get with current technology) but you don't get brilliant sound - just good.So I don't really use them for music.What else can I say about them?They're part made of metal and I chipped them while on a plane. That was my fault as I slept with them on against the window. And I dropped them on the ground. Fine, it's my fault entirely as I don't take care of them and I can live with chipped headphones, I don't care.The battery life is very good and it feels like it lasts forever.The touch-pad is gimmicky but it works fine. I almost never use it though, I just use the source controls from the device.The fit is fine. People are complaining they're not comfortable. I could wear them for 12 hours without any issues whatsoever and I do come from QC 35.The case is a bit bigger, I think, but feels very solid.They've moved to USB C instead of USB 3.0 as the last model. For me it means now I have to carry even another type of cable with me. I just wish everyone would adopt a standard so I don't need three different cables for my devices.ANC is very good and as always, works best with patterns of sound. So you'll get perfect results in a plane or train and good results with people talking. It's incredible when you put them on in an environment where it is so loud you can't hear your thoughts and it reduces them so much you can sleep. All that hum and background noise even feels meditative in nature, helping you sleep earlier. With music, it struggles a bit with voice but it still cuts down 15 - 20 DB. I'm in a coffee shop where the music is very loud, I can barely hear it.Connection is hit and miss. It will stay connected but sometimes it's hard to connect another device. It will either not show up in Bose Music (oh yeah, guess what? You need another app to connect it, because Bose Connect is not good enough for it - so officially Bose has three different apps just for connecting their devices - Bose Connect, Bose SleepBuds and Bose Music) or it will not disable connections properly. This is a problem only if you have more than two devices you want to use, as it can switch from one to another very easily.But if you have let's say an iPad, laptop and phone, and you want to disconnect the phone and connect the iPad, it is cumbersome. Go to the app, wait until it disconnects the phone, connect the iPad.So yeah - I like them.But of course it has many things going for it - it's $400. When most people pay $40 for a pair of headphones, at $400 you'd better get a lot of good things. Personally for me they're a life saver as I work from home and coffee shops and I love that sweet silence. They've brought me a lot more in added productivity than I've paid for them.For others - it's up to you to decide.