Realme Watch S Review- A Much Needed Improvement
hey guys so real me recently launched
two smart watches the real me watch s
and the watches pro and the one i have
with me right now is the real me watch s
which is the cheaper of the two uh well
looking at the specs this one definitely
seems like an upgrade from the last gen
realme watch
both in terms of looks and
functionalities so um having used it for
around two weeks now i am going to be
sharing with you all my experiences with
it in this video
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real me watch the real me watch s sees a
big improvement in terms of its design
you get a circular form factor with a
watch dial at the top that
does not rotate obviously but unlike the
plastic material on the real me watch
this one has an aluminium alloy finish
which does not feel cheap
the tpu strap is soft and comfortable
and it's available in a couple of color
options
sadly for me i have this black one and
there aren't other color variations
available in nepal
but in
markets like europe other
colorful straps will be available
shortly as well
anyway you get two buttons on the right
side of the realme watch s
the top one functions as a home slash
back button
and also launches the menu screen while
the one at the bottom is a shortcut to
the exercise
menu and i like the fact that these
buttons have fairly good feedback
especially coming from the rearmi watch
similarly compared to the measly 240x240
pixels of its predecessor
the watch s has a 1.3 inches lcd screen
with a 360 by 360 pixel count making for
a sharper and a more pleasant
display to look at the contents do not
look pixelated here and the colors look
really good too
it's not as good as the amoled screen on
the watches pro but
good enough for the price to say at the
least the company has also improved on
the brightness aspect and added an auto
brightness feature here which is great
likewise the number of available
built-in watch faces has increased and i
have to say that some of the options are
really appealing
likewise you also have the option to
customize your own watch face if you'd
like
but one thing that still bugs me is how
the screen response is still a bit slow
it's not unknowingly slow but it takes
some time to register
your touch
maybe it's because of the entry level
chipset or it is
a software thing but i hope that the
company can overcome that in the future
now functionality wise the watch s is
still a simple and basic smartwatch like
its predecessor
so operating it is really really easy
swiping down from the home screen takes
you to the notifications while swiping
up from the bottom opens up the shortcut
for all the functions
likewise swiping left or right from the
home screen takes you to the quick
toggle menu and health
stats
all right now general information aside
this time realme has added a few more
options for exercise and now there are
16 in total
i am not that big of a fitness freak so
i only have tested a few of the
exercises like walking running skipping
which i do on a daily basis but other
than that you can track quite a lot of
things
including basketball football aerobics
meditation breathing etc
and by the way just like it was with the
real me watch all your exercise stats
can be viewed on your realme link app
the app is basically the same as before
and i am a little disappointed that this
generation of real me watch still does
not have
ios compatibility
thus i had to pair it with my samsung
phone which i've been using as my
secondary device
but seeing how the more premium watch as
pro supports ios platform
i am hopeful that the standard watch s
will see apple compatibility in the
coming days
now talking about the app itself it's a
basic one and nothing extra
you can view all your health stats on
the home page itself while all the other
setting
like reminders notifications
watch faces etc
can be accessed by going to the settings
option that is available on the top
right of the app
to adequately differentiate between the
realme watch s and the watches pro the
company has not included an inbuilt gps
on this watch
so if you wish to track your trails or
your exercises you will have to use your
phone's gps
now about other health related features
well it is the same as before
um you get a heart rate monitor a step
and calorie counter a sleep tracker
and an spo2 monitor now like always i
compared these functions with the galaxy
watch active 2
and found that the sleep tracking and
step counting are pretty accurate
while i got slight variations in the
blood oxygen data and heart rate stats
the difference however is not that huge
so it should not be that big of a deal i
guess
moving on just like its predecessor you
don't get a microphone in here still the
most you can do
is dismiss calls from this watch also
the notifications that appear here are
non-actionable but
that is to be expected i guess also the
watch s does not support
automatic detection of exercises like it
is with other
high-end smart watches and
you will have to do it manually in here
which is always a bit less convenient
okay among everything else this watch
certainly impresses with its battery
life
it's 390 milliamp hour cell is very very
promising
the company advertises saying that it
can last full 15 days with the heart
rate monitor turned on
in my usage it lasted me for 12 days
with all my fitness and health tracking
which is still fantastic
by the way i have enabled heart rate
monitoring option to run every five
minutes and i always use the watch in
the fourth level of brightness
okay charging the rear view watch s is
possible with this magnetic two pin
circular charger and it takes more than
two
hours to juice up fully
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all in all i have to say that the real
me watch s is a very good budget fitness
tracking option and definitely an
upgrade over the last generation realme
watch although the
upgrades are not of very big magnitude
but
my concern regarding displaced
pixelation and the design have been
addressed
as a result i am very
happy with what
we've got here
having said that i still wish for the
real me link app to be available on ios
devices all the while being a little
more feature packed as well
um also maybe realme could focus a
little more on core fitness tracking by
uh maybe providing a automatic workout
detection option or such
so that was all for our review of the
newly launched realme watch s what do
you think about this product do let us
know in the comments below
till then i'm shuabham nd i'll
see you in the next one
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