Best Kogan Smart Watches / Fitness Trackers

Great value for money, but some GPS frustrations – Bought this watch a few weeks ago as I wanted an inexpensive watch to record some workouts and runs and some HR monitoring. Pros: Great value for… Read more

money - they have crammed everything that I need in a smartwatch, especially GPS, as I wanted to track my running. HR monitor appears to be accurate, SpO2, resp rate, sleep tracking, all great features to have. Battery life seems very good and touch screen is reasonably responsive. Taking calls works well, speaker is very reasonable and mic is good, notification dismissal and quick replying is handy as well.

Cons: the Veryfit app is the only app you can sync with, and it constantly bugs you to re-enable location services on your phone to "get the most out of the app", but I've been fine with all the features of the app with my phone location off. It does not sync well to other apps. Ie. the sleep tracking does not sync to the main sleep app I use, and when it syncs my runs to Strava, the software confuses my starting HR with my average HR, so it looks like I completed a 15 min run with an average HR of 66 (I wish!). When you log a 'traditional workout' (or similar), the info it sends to Strava comes across as a run, and so it looks like I move as a pace of 3 hrs 27 min per Km (which my friends all have a good laugh at!) When the GPS function works, it is fantastic, but the trouble is that sometimes it just fails to connect. Often, it will take ~2-5 minutes to connect to GPS, so you'll have to hang around and wait before your walk/ride/run/etc, sometimes longer as it fails and you need to tell it to retry. Today, I just finished a 30 Min walk and had to retry 5 times and eventually gave up trying to connect the GPS because my walk was finished. A small con is that on the quick-access menu, the clock option is 'alarm', and there is no option to swap it for stopwatch or timer. You can always access these through the main menu, but again, a few extra steps.

Overall, it is ok. It is definitely a case of "you get what you pay for". For $75-80, it is great, but I would be lying if I didnt say the GPS issue wasnt very frustrating.