I tried using analog smart watch "Withings Activité Pop" for about 2 months in order to keep on a diet and a healthy life

Because I got a result that was not very good at medical examination, I decided to record my daily activities while restricting my diet and restricting my diet while restraining my health by somehow regaining a healthy body. There are many types of smart watches and activity meters for recording activities, but the result of narrowing down to three of "charging unnecessary", "waterproof" and "design"Withings Activité PopI arrived at an analog type smart watch. I tried to track every action with about 2 months using Withings Activité Pop which has a battery for about 8 months, 5 ATM water resistant, smart watch and unusual analog dial for activity meter.

Withings Activité Pop
https://www.withings.com/jp/ja/products/activite-pop

◆ Appearance review
Activité Pop's Elegant Sand has arrived at the editorial department. Elegant Sand has a color close to beige.


Opened by pulling out a transparent case.


Inside contains Activité Pop body, warranty card, quick start guide.


Since the quick start guide is also described in Japanese, it is safe.


Elegant Sand of Activité Pop is a casual design, and the characters of Activité Pop printed in azuki appear on a light gray face.


There are a few tips to take out, pull out while raising the white box upward. It is slightly stiff, so it is easy to take out by pulling strongly.


The whole appearance of the Activité Pop that appeared.


The band is made of silicon.


The fastening part is engraved with "Withings".


The appearance is rounded mineral glass. A meter is displayed on the analog dial, which is a pedometer. If you set the target number of steps per day, you can check the degree of achievement with the meter.


The case is made of stainless steel and PVD processing is applied.


The back pig is like this.


Activité Pop is made in China differently from Swiss made Withings Activité.


As you see from the side, I'm curious that it's a bit thick.


I will compare the size with Apple Watch of the same smart watch.


Compared with square Apple Watch, Activité Pop is compact.


Because Apple Watch has a heart rate sensor on the back pig, the smallness of Activité Pop is more prominent.


From the side, you can see that Activité Pop is considerably thinner by the absence of a heart rate sensor.


Actually putting on the arm, Elegant Sand fits well with the skin.


This is Activité Pop's Shark Gray. Shark Gray will suit suit as well.


In addition, setup can check details from the following "Withings Activite" review article.

Operate with no charge for up to 8 months & Report smart watch "Withings Activite" to record daily activities and work with smartphones - GIGAZINE


◆ I actually used it for 2 months
Activité Pop automatically tracks you are four walking, running, swimming, sleeping. Everyone just wearing Activité Pop records data in an application called "Health Mate by Withings".


· Automatic activity tracking
To check the tracking data with Health Mate, it is possible mainly from the application timeline. In the "activity level" of the timeline, you can check "step count" and "target reach". In addition, data that recorded weight, sleeping time, step count, etc. are displayed in card format, and you can check the card for each day by scrolling down the screen. Tap the orange part on the top of the screen to see the details of the activity amount.


The number of steps per day is displayed as a bar graph, and you can check the time you are walking in the evening from morning. "Step count" "Goal achievement degree (target set to 10,000 steps)" "Movement distance" "Calorie consumption" is displayed under the graph.


By scrolling down the screen, you can check "distance", "travel time" and "calorie expenditure" of activity for each hour. For example, the top card is the data when you moved from home to get on the train at work.


You can also see the amount of activity for one week instead of every day. The number of steps from February 29 to March 6 arrived at 10,000 steps on a Wednesday and approx. 20 thousand steps on Saturdays. Other days of the week are less than 10 thousand steps a row, and after reviewing again later, various points of reflection will be visible. The total number of steps in this week is 58,829 steps, the goal achievement number is 2 times. The total distance traveled was 49.9 km.


A week when we were not conscious of exercise so much. I remember being conscious of walking out trying to get back the number of steps on Sunday this week.


The following are the days when I got out of the house. The number of steps is increasing in the graph when it went to a convenience store and a supermarket. The number of steps is 2753 steps, the distance traveled is only 2.19 km. Sometimes such a day is sometimes, and on the next day I was motivated to say "I will walk a lot!"


The data of the day when I walked a lot is the image below. I have been walking from early morning till evening, the number of steps is 19,299 steps. It was about 20 thousand steps a little more. The distance traveled was 15.8 km and the calorie consumption was 524 kcal. I was very tired, but I checked the data and smiled before going to bed.


It is extremely useful to track data automatically without doing anything like this. Also, reviewing with the application later also helped to keep motivation of exercise.


What is worrisome here is the tracking accuracy of Activité Pop. From the house at work to the nearest station (at the time of getting on a train), the number of steps and distance traveled will not change so much as it goes through the same route everyday. It is 0.6 km with the following image card.


This is 0.7 km.


This is also 0.7 km. I felt that the tracking accuracy was rather high ... ...


It was 0.3 km on this day. I do not know the reason, but as I confirmed all the data, the distance traveled was obviously less frequently about once a week, somewhat disappointing.


Activité Pop automatically tracked running and tracking the data as "running" instead of "walking", so I went running for about 40 minutes of exercise.


After jogging for 40 minutes and checking the application, there is a part that is red in the graph and I was pleased that "I can measure properly!"


While watching the card, "Walking" card is supposed to have been running ... .... On the card, we only had to repeat walking for 10 minutes twice and it fell considerably.


When I examine it, I sell Activité PopSoftBank product page FAQThere was an answer. According to the FAQ, "Running requires continuous running for at least 40 seconds, and if the pace is too slow or not constant, it will be recognized as" walking ". In this case, perhaps the pace of running was too late.


It may be that the pace was certainly too late, but I planned to run to the limit with my physical strength. After that I tried running a couple of times, but it never displayed properly. As I looked it up, some users are tracking running properly, so it seems necessary to run at a reasonable speed instead of the speed of jogging to measure properly.

I tried running seriously for about 2 minutes at full speed which I can give in order to satisfy "running for more than 40 seconds and a certain pace". Although I opened the smartphone and confirmed the application so as to collapse, there was no character of "running" there.


A big feature of Withings is that you can track swimming automatically with 5 ATM water resistant. Since this function became a big deciding factor of purchase, I tried to actually measure ......


Wearing the wristwatch itself was forbidden in the nearby sports gym. I thought that this was a problem, and when I contacted a sports gym with a pool from one end, wearing a wrist watch on all sports gyms and municipal pools was prohibited. Wearing accessories is quite severe, and even though wedding rings can not be permitted without taping ... .... However, as there are many people who wear activity activity gauges in recent years, there was also a pool that if you are a silicone band type product you are checking for safety and allowing it only for certain products. In the future, as more users wear activity meter, it is said that we will consider measures at the sports gym and pool, but I felt the Withings Activité series of wristwatch type activity meter is a little disadvantageous. There is a place where you can wear a wrist watch in an amusement system pool with a water slider or a flowing pool.

Activité Pop tracks sleep by sensing sleep just by wearing it. In the sleeping card of the timeline, "Graph showing the depth of sleep" "Sleeping time" "Goal achievement degree (Set target to 8 hours)" is displayed. Tap the card ......


You can check details of sleep data. In the graph, the light blue color is "shallow sleep" and the deep blue is "deep sleep". On this day, sleeping time was 6 hours and 39 minutes, sleeping time was 6 hours 37 minutes, the target achievement was 83%.


Looking at the data of another day, the graph has an orange part. This is the time I was awake, probably it is time to wake up when I went to the toilet and playing with my smartphone.


Sleep data can be confirmed on a weekly basis as well as activity level. On a day with a short sleeping time, I think that "I will go to bed the next day soon!" It is interesting to see sleep after all. However, if the day with a short sleeping time continues, it will be dark feeling when you see the graph, so be careful.


Sensitivity is high enough to detect nap automatically, but it may be regarded as sleeping if time does not move at all. It is supposed that I slept for 1 hour and 41 minutes from 11:24 on the following red frame card, but this was the time I was working at PC for 2 ~ 3 hours. It certainly operated the notebook PC with a lot of unrest, so I rarely moved my arms ... .... Since this one case, if time that does not move continues for 1 hour, it got to stand up and stretch out the body, so it is OK as a result.


Among the functions of Activité Pop, I like the alarm most. The alarm is raised at the time Activité Pop set by vibration. Every morning I was surprised and irritated by the sound of the alarm of the smartphone, but Activité Pop could wake slowly with vibration and I felt stress was relieved. However, since there is no snooze function, it is better to set another alarm as insurance. This alarm function is unique to Activité Pop, which does not require charging.


Apart from the timeline where cards of various activities are displayed, you can check the amount of activity in "Dashboard". However, when I got used to the timeline, I rarely saw the dashboard. It would be good if you use one that matches either.


·Other features
Although not Activité Pop's unique function, Health Mate manages weight and heart rate manually and can synchronize meal intake calories from "MyFitnessPal" application. Tap the weight card in the timeline ......


You can check the graph of weight shift. Those with two are representing weight, and it is fun to see weight gain and decrease. Although manual input is gradually getting worse, smart scale "Withings WS-50You can synchronize automatically if you use.


This is a graph of heart rate.


Heart rate is measured by launching the camera from Health Mate and placing your fingertip on the camera of the smartphone. It is interesting to be able to measure heart rate with camera.


When you enter data with MyFitnessPal for meals, or select the menu registered in MyFitnessPal, it is synchronized with Health Mate. The "calorie consumption (1232 kcal)" of the image is the calorie ingested by meals. "Total calorie (1717 kcal)" was added to "calorie consumed in the activity (183 kcal)" to "target calorie (1534 kcal) of the day" calculated from the target weight, from which "calorie ingested by meal 1232 kcal) ", you can tell how much calorie (485 kcal) you can consume.


In addition, Health Mate praises "When you meet your goal or establish new record," congratulations! These functions have helped a lot in keeping motivation.


The impression of using Withings Activité Pop for about two months is pretty good that you can always wear without worrying about the battery. As an activity meter, there are a few difficulties in measuring the number of steps, distance traveled, and running data, but since day-to-day activities are roughly acceptable, if you want to record as data or if you use it as a guide for diet and healthy life You can use it enough. If you really want to measure accurate values, it is better to use "activity meter with heart rate sensor". However, if the heart rate sensor is installed, the battery duration will be reduced at once, so it may be a point of thinking. Walking and running tracking are sometimes improved by future updates, so I'd like to expect it.


In addition, Amazon sold at 15,109 yen at the time of article creation.

Amazon.co.jp: 【Japan Authorized Agency】 Withings Smart Watch Activite Pop (Step count / calorie consumption / travel distance / sleep / 50 m waterproof / time automatic adjustment function) Shark Gray 70080401: Home Appliances / Camera
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B010UV1M6O