Traditional Outer Garment Core, Activité Steel Smart Watch Experience

For the proposition that the highest value of the smart watch, there have always been people willing to argue endlessly (Swiss watch manufacturers laugh without words). However, both the manufacturers themselves and the consumers, they have high ratings for the Withings series of watches, and they can't wait to place the highest value watch on Withings. Indeed, Withings's pursuit of product design is like the French people's dedication to romanticism, and this perseverance also affects each Withings product.

Withings insists on disguising a smart watch like a traditional watch. Hearing this way lurks in the crowd, humans will be more receptive. Looks more elegant than the average quartz watch, follow the Bauhaus design philosophy, simple yet practical. The Withings Activité Steel, which I experienced in this experience, has continued the style of the company’s product design that has just been acquired by Nokia.

From the box, we can see many design elements similar to the product, all black paper packaging, wrapped in a transparent plastic box in the Activité Steel, it stood quietly in the box, etc. The owner unseal it. Looking through the box inside the Activité Steel, a small glimpse of it, still a round dial, looked like there was no obvious difference from the Activité Pop.

After opening the box, it is not as simple as you would like to take out the Activité Steel. To keep the Activité Steel in a longer box, Withings uses a novelty buckle design for the packaging. The two ends are respectively embedded in the paper on the back. One end is pulled out and the other end is unbuckled. This will remove the Activité Steel. The strap is fine!

The Activité Steel with a dial diameter of only 36.3 mm, with a slender strap, looks more coordinated, but this design is doomed to certain obstacles for tough men. My wrists are relatively thin, but it's also obvious that wearing Activité Steel is small on my wrist. Not to mention the more lenient boys, the picture must be beautiful and I can't imagine it.

You can see the Withings Activité Steel initial time is set at 10:10, not the current time, because Withings wants the user to directly set the time when pairing Activité Steel, and at the same time, you can see the Activité Steel's The hands are turning according to the adjustment. This process is still quite interesting.


The user can obtain two information through the dial: time & motion track, which helps the user to filter the information in the design, lift the wrist, sweep it, and at the same time can basically take the current time and movement situation in one second. Understand that there are no excessive elements that cause disturbances. This has to be praised. This is also the innermost OS of most people who like the Withings smart watch: I don't need too much functionality, just show me time and exercise is enough.

The Activité Steel table frame is made of stainless steel and the dial surface is made of mineral glass. The wear resistance should still be good. After two weeks of wearing time, no scratches appeared on the surface; the strap was made of soft silicone material, which felt comfortable and there was no discomfort. Looking sideways Activité Steel seems to be thick, but the visual thickness is not reflected in the wear, but it is precisely this thickness that will increase the entire dial, people first focus on the Activité Steel. Um, I really have a hard time.

After finishing the hardware and talking about the software, Withings has not only wearable devices, but also smart scales and so on, so all of them integrate into one application and save energy, so its application name is Health Mate, a health partner. There are two meanings. Another meaning is that Withings's products can help you maintain your health.

The pairing process is relatively smooth and simple. However, Bluetooth and location must be turned on when synchronizing data. I can understand the requirement to turn on Bluetooth, but why must I open it? Well, it says how to do it. I will do it. After opening the position, Activité Steel will start synchronizing with Health Mate. The background will start to show the progress of the synchronization. But why is the speed of each synchronization is so slow, basically It takes about 3 minutes to complete the synchronization.

My guess is: Because Withings in order to guarantee that Activité Steel has extraordinary life time (officially claimed 8 months of battery life, can not be charged), the selected Bluetooth components must also be relatively power-efficient, and accordingly the efficiency of synchronization will be compromised. It is slower to transmit motion data.

Now that we have talked about the life of the Activité Steel, let's start talking about it. Normally, electricity is only supplied to the sensor module, clock module and Bluetooth module. However, Activité Steel supports alarm reminding that vibration reminding will inevitably reduce the battery life. Although the vibration of the Activité Steel is not strong, it is enough to wake an adult from his sleep.

Activité Steel has eight months of battery life. The first thing I can think of is: I finally took off my watch and charged it at night (yes, that's you AW). This is a good thing, plus it has underwater water resistance of 50 meters, of course, wearing it will not cause any trouble, the wrist watch can stay where it should be.

In the process of my wearing, due to my sensitive skin, irritation occurs during the wearing of Activité Steel and the skin is red and swollen. Personally think that the silicone material is not airtight, plus I wear it in the shower, residual moisture attached to the wrist. If you are allergic to skin like me, please note this, try not to wear it all day.

Do not look Activité Steel size is so small, or use the button battery to see its function, it is also able to monitor sleep for the user, but this part of the function is still a problem, I wear it to sleep about 4 days 5 days, but no one night's data can roughly reflect my sleep, if according to it, I only have an average of 4 hours of sleep per day (manual smiling face); the total sleep time is already problematic. Don't worry about deep sleep time and more.

Health Mate As Activité Steel's data center, users can see all the data and charts in this client, it will help you analyze weekly exercise/sleep conditions, and even measure heart rate, but the measurement method is more “traditional” The use of a mobile phone camera measurement solution that appeared a few years ago. Although this method has a relatively large error, it still has some usefulness.

The data generated by the motion tracking is accurate. Although you cannot see the exact number of steps on the watch, you can see the percentage of the current number of steps and the ideal value you set. When the number of steps exceeds 100%, the number of laps will be renewed. Remember. Raising your hand will probably give you an idea of ​​how many steps you take today. Sometimes people do not need too precise figures.

In my dictionary, I will define Activité Steel as a "smart traditional watch" instead of a simple wearable device. It has all the features, but it is not very satisfactory. It is more like a traditional watch with a good look, but the inner intelligence around it makes it a little bit more competitive with "different" such as Apple Watch.

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