FITVII Slim Fitness Tracker with Health Monitoring

I waited to write this review – I purchased this watch about a month ago and have worn it daily since receiving it. My old Fitbit died and the new Fitbit required you to connect it to your Google account which I did not want to do so I purchased this watch to try it out. I am very pleased with it so far.

The watch charged quickly, and was not difficult to set up after downloading the app for my phone. The O2, heart rate and BP monitoring seem to work fine, the ability to customize the face is a nice option, the sleep function is nice and appears accurate and the battery seems to last a long time between charges. The charger snaps quickly and securely into place for charging. When I swipe to the right – a display of multiple icons is shown so you can access each available function quickly and directly. I chose the watch with the metal band – which I really do like because it is less bulky – but the band secures with a magnet. So far I have “attached it”/picked up silverware, picked up pins as well as a variety of other smaller metallic items! This is somewhat of an annoyance but I can live with it. Wish there was an option for a cloth or leather band.

My only negative comment is about the vibration option for messages and reminders. It is more of a buzz then a vibration even on the highest setting – I can barely feel the vibration and if I am somewhere with background noise I do not hear it.

The app is more than adequate and not hard to use. It even has the ability to share a screen shots of the daily charts it it creates.

All in all, this watch is a win for me – I like it, works great, has the options that I wanted, great value for the price and looks nice on my wrist! We will see how long it lasts!!

I purchased this specifically for blood pressure and heart monitoring, when checked against recognised monitors it is way off the mark. So pointless really if you want to check whilst on the move. (The whole reason for having one) when I asked to return it had come from Las Vegas, I am trying my best to send it back, but the company are VERY SLOW in responding and the documents for the return which they have sent I am unable to download. So I still have a pointless product which JUST DOES NOT DO WHAT IT HAS PROMISED. Which has cost me more than other products which are better and I need to pay postage back to the USA. What a joke this company is. Avoid, avoid, avoid.

So far, so good. I’ve only used this for a few days, but am pretty impressed! First off, I think they sent a gold colored watch face for my pink band, but it’s not that noticeable. I wondered how it could measure BP without pumping up, but apparently there is something new called pulse arrival time (PAT) that measures time and/or strength between a heartbeat and the time it reaches your wrist as a pulse. It’s seeming pretty accurate. Same with oxygen and HR. Weather measurement is off. I tried the sleep monitoring one night and that seemed pretty good too. I usually have an 1.5-hr intermission during sleep in the middle (hate it, but that’s the way it is). It picked up a 30 min awake time surrounded by light sleep instead. I’m usually watching TV during that time, so I think I was awake. No biggie. I saw that I’m getting the deep sleep required. Steps seemed spot on when going straight continually, maybe not as good when turning around. I haven’t tried the different activities’ counts, but found when I rode my exercise bike, the watch did not pick it up as steps. I’m older and not great with newer technology, but eventually did sort out most of the app and settings. Tricky for old fingers to get the band on, but I did. Then realized I needed to charge it first and couldn’t find any holes. By luck, when maneuvering it, the swinging cable attached itself to the magnets on the back of the watch. LOL. The Q&As here helped me along (thanks, fellow shoppers). I’m still getting the swiping directions down to find things on it. For those who can’t find how to change metric to imperial, you do it through the app on your phone. There are three tabs in the app at the bottom of the screen that bring up a host of selections under Home, Device, and Mine. For some things to work, you need to provide permissions. IE, I had to allow access to SMS and WhatsApp to view text messages on the screen. Tiny to read, but neat technology. It throws out Hints if you’re trying to set something up, but have not allowed specific permissions yet to do so. Now some of the things it asked permission for seemed out of bounds to me, and I refused. So I probably will never even try to put a picture on my watch, see my email there or phone calls. I did find a more pleasing face dial in their app library than the red/black or striped thing. Lastly, I can’t report on longevity, but if it fails anytime soon, I will update. I’m quite pleased right now. 3/19: Still liking the watch, but a couple issues. It can be frustrating to scroll on the watch face. Some swipes don’t seem to register. I’ve found a slow thumb moves the menu best for me to get to the correct area without opening a different one with my swipe. A couple times, the watch face has seemed to change itself- perhaps I did it accidentally. But I’ve always been able to get the one I want back. I read here that a person put it on a drinking glass and it still read a heart rate, so I tried it. Nope, mine shows blanks. When you first open a previously used function, it will display the last measurement taken, so I wonder if that was the case with the reads that person got.

Not sure how accurate it is but a good base line