I've had my Zenwatch for a month now and have these observations for anyone interested in buying or someone who owns one and may have similar opinions.
1. The battery life is abysmal the only way I can get it to last a day is the turn off "keep awake" & "tilt to wake screen" otherwise I get about 7/8 hours
2. I live in southern Spain, very sunny, it is absolutely impossible to see the watch face outside even on the watch's brightest setting.
3. I have had two heart attacks, really, when I used the heart monitor for the first time I almost called the ambulance again as it said 170! I was sat in a chair at the time not pounding up a steep hill. Since then I have only tried it a couple of times and so far out, I think it's just a gimmick to help to sales.
4. The watch has crashed several times and the only way to restart it is to hold down the small button on the back.
5. It frequently losses the Bluetooth connection even though I have gone into a room close by without my phone.
6. The vibrate function is a joke, I can feel a baby touching me with a feather better.
7. When charging at night the screen switches on and wakes me, I have to press the button on the back to turn it off.
8. The charging cradle has to be pressed very had t to start the charging process, hence unless you check the screen when connecting it to see the "charging" notice, you'll get up next morning to a flat battery and its not working, so delve in the drawer for the old Timex.
9. On the plus side ......it's the best of the bunch of smartwatches on the aesthetics side.
I hope someone from Asus reads this and maybe Zenwatch mark 2 with be better, I'm not a happy bunny owning the current version.
Any comments out there????
1. The battery life is abysmal the only way I can get it to last a day is the turn off "keep awake" & "tilt to wake screen" otherwise I get about 7/8 hours
2. I live in southern Spain, very sunny, it is absolutely impossible to see the watch face outside even on the watch's brightest setting.
3. I have had two heart attacks, really, when I used the heart monitor for the first time I almost called the ambulance again as it said 170! I was sat in a chair at the time not pounding up a steep hill. Since then I have only tried it a couple of times and so far out, I think it's just a gimmick to help to sales.
4. The watch has crashed several times and the only way to restart it is to hold down the small button on the back.
5. It frequently losses the Bluetooth connection even though I have gone into a room close by without my phone.
6. The vibrate function is a joke, I can feel a baby touching me with a feather better.
7. When charging at night the screen switches on and wakes me, I have to press the button on the back to turn it off.
8. The charging cradle has to be pressed very had t to start the charging process, hence unless you check the screen when connecting it to see the "charging" notice, you'll get up next morning to a flat battery and its not working, so delve in the drawer for the old Timex.
9. On the plus side ......it's the best of the bunch of smartwatches on the aesthetics side.
I hope someone from Asus reads this and maybe Zenwatch mark 2 with be better, I'm not a happy bunny owning the current version.
Any comments out there????
