Watch 44 - BT 4.0 from the FCC filing, so maybe Watch 47 has BT 5.0
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Good thinking. Still, then they need to at least clarify that the 44 is only 4.0. They are implying both watches are 5.0 and should specify if there is a difference. It still makes one wonder why they didnât submit a separate filing for the 47 if it is so different thoughâŚusually they donât need a separate filing if they are using the same components, but there is no separate filing for the 47, implying it should be the same as the 44, which FCC says is 4.0. But thatâs just logical deductionâŚ
I mostly agree with @carverofchoice â the phone is the limitation.
But for a completely different kidsâ device, a cell chip and NFC could get a lot done. Kids might only need the ability to unlock/lock doors and hit some kind of help/panic/security feature.
I would not be giving my little guy the ability to turn on and off lights. When he first discovered light switches, thatâs really all we did for months. On. Off. On. Off. ⌠On.
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Just checked, that screenshot I took of Wyze saying 5.0 was under the descriptions for the 44. The 47 also says 5.0âŚbut Wyze is saying the 44 is 5.0 and to the FCC they said it is only 4.0 and all tests showed 4.0 metrics.
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I just requested and received a cancelation on my order. The watch is nothing more than a slightly larger wyze band. No mic or speaker for alexa control. Iâll pass. I was really hoping it would be an actual smart watch , Iâd even pay quite a bit more for it but sadly, its not
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Iâm in exactly the same boat. I was totally ready to pay upward of $50 for even just a few minor differences (microphone, being able to tell it how often to check heartrate or oxygen level). I donât care if I have to charge it every day or every 2 daysâŚIâd just charge it at night while I use a band to watch my sleeping, but those issues right there stopped me cold. Weâll see if they ever make a Ver2 of this with those options. The rest of the issues I can deal with.
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Agree with others. Lack of microphone makes this a no go for me.
My wyze band can do more than the watch.
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i have zero reason to want my watch do do any of those things. i always have my phone with me. I just want the watch to tell me the time and track steps. The sleep, heart rate, etc are just bonus. The only thing i wish this wyze watch had was gps.
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will this watch sync with google fit?
will alexa work with it like the band?
when will it ship?
Does this watch have more accurate step counting than the Band? I gave up on mine.
To be honest, I think you are presenting your opinion as fact. Itâs not. A watch has a certain number of features. A smart watch has âsmartâ features. To what degree it has smart features is not a threshold characteristic. For $19.99 + shipping, this is a steal of a smartwatch. I have my opinions on why Wyze is rolling this out with less features than some would expect and why they are rolling out device after device after device, but this is a smart watch.
Like all consumer goods, if it doesnât have the features you want, buy something else. Donât poo poo on a device because it isnât exactly what you want or doesnât meet your arbitrary definitions. Donât put your opinions out into the world as if they were fact. THEY ARENâT. This is the first smartwatch from Wyze and I would expect that it will slowly develop into a more fully featured device. Now if Wyze werenât hard up for capital right now (just an educated guess about why this is going down like this), we might have seen a more powerful device, but it is what it is. Either people are going to keep buying Wyze and save them or they will have played this wrong and they will be gone within the year.
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Your Wyze Band also costs more than this watch. This is an under-featured, likely rush to market release of a device. Wyze if flailing . They are throwing spaghetti at a wall. I worry that Wyze is watering down their product line and their ethos in search of financial salvation.
With the feature race in full effect in the smartwatch market, this is not really a competitor with any of the big players. It falls short of the bare minimum functions you expect from Wyze. Itâs less powerful than a previous Wyze device that falls into a cheaper market. This appears to be a bad play.
Mark my words, Wyze is struggling and they are likely facing financial troubles that could put them under. Why else would we get such a smattering of devices, a vacuum that is barely cost competitive with similarly featured name-brands, a smartwatch that is barely in the category, a V3 camera which has missing functions; misrepresentations in the spec and no accessory support, and a sprinkler control system release in October (half the country entering a phase when sprinkler systems are blown out for the winter). We will likely see more releases as they try to turn anything even close in R&D into cash flow.
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I am betting that $19.99 is the price. You arenât getting a discount by preordering. You are simply providing cash flow for Wyze, a company that appears to be flailing (in a financial sense). The Band is $24.99 and this smartwatch lacks some of the hardware capabilities found in the Band. My guess is that Wyze was developing these two options in parallel and due to their financial troubles have decided to release this device as a low-level smartwatch, hoping people will buy it more than they have the Band.
Weird that you canât watch any of your feeds on the watch. Seems like a key feature for a company built on cameras. Will this be a possible future feature? @UserCustomerGwen
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Yes, if one wants to play semantics then technically a person or company can choose to call any mobile device with a touchscreen display that you can wear on your wrist a âsmartwatchâ. You are fully correct on that, and it is a very valid use of the term.
That can also be very misleading. If a company provides a watch that only shows the time when you touch the display, nobody would call it a smartwatch, even though it would be a technically appropriate use of the term. If a product is missing key features that 1-2 standard deviations of similar products using that name include, then it most professionals would not put it in the same category anymore.
This is why most fitness band companies donât stoop to that level of technically true deception, even when their display has a touch screen. If they called it a smart watch, it would be misleading. They know what people believe something means when a thing is called a âsmart watchâ and so they would be misleading people to believe it has features that it does not.
Go look in forums such as slick deals or reddit and read all the people who bought this âsmartwatchâ only to find out that it doesnât have a bunch of the functionality that term has come to mean to everyone as a base standardâŚonly to find out later that this watch canât do all those things that most âsmartwatchesâ can do. Thatâs the standard Iâm usingâŚhow most people use the term, what they believe it implies, based on what the majority of other âsmartwatchesâ offer (there are low quality exceptions of course). But in the end, yes, if youâre basing off âtouchscreen display that goes on the wristâ then this is a smartwatch. When I say smartchwatch and fitness band I am using it based on the normative use in the industryâŚand now we each understand what each other means when we personally use the words. Both are fully appropriate uses of the term. I respect your interpretation, but Iâd expect Wyze to be a little more clear for all the consumers who bought this believing it had a lot of functionality 90% of society expects the word âsmartwatchâ to mean. I am just helping people understand they should more accurately view it as an entry level fitness band with a bigger display. That instantly makes a lot of sense to people as to what the difference is between this and other smart watches.
Words should mean what 90% of the people who use them colloquially believe them to mean. Thatâs all I was getting at. Not playing technical semantics, but how itâs used in actual practice and standardized assumptions.
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I think everyone here, including yourself, is expressing opinions. Businesses actually pay to hear peopleâs opinions so they can learn about what people wish to buy. Weâre giving feedback to Wyze based on the device they rolled out. When consumers tell you what they want and how much they are willing to pay for it, itâs called priceless market research. How to Do Market Research, Types, and Example.
[The] degree it has smart features is not a threshold characteristic
The industry has set the norm and there are countless articles talking about the differences between smartwatches and fitness bands. What Wyze has put out today is much more in line with fitness bands. I think it will be a pretty good fitness band and is a screaming deal at this price point. But, given their tendency to smash expectations, I and others were really hoping they would drop a device that competes with other smartwatches. Amusingly, your next comment points out that this device is âunder-featuredâ and âis not really a competitor with any of the big players.â
Either people are going to keep buying Wyze and save them or they will have played this wrong and they will be gone within the year.
Another fine opinion. Based on the fact that they claim to have sold 100% of inventory on this device and past device sales have gone very well, Iâd say they are playing it just fine.
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Yep, when I saw âsmart watchâ I very naively assumed it ran Android WearOS (or whatever Google renamed it this month) and was in fact a real smart watch, could load apps, etc. Thatâs not what this is at all.
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I would like to see a notification and a screen shot from the cam or doorbell. Would that be possible?
Actually, they are labeling it as a âsmart watchâ according to the email I got. " Wyze Watch is Here
An aluminum smart watch that tracks your health metrics and controls your Wyze smart devices"
Donât get me wrong, I am in the process of getting one. But they are using the term.
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