if you're anything like me you've probably been pretty frustrated by the state of the smartwatch market over the
last five years but withings reached out and sponsored this video to show off
their scan watch horizon which is a very different kind of smartwatch it's
different in that most of it i'd say a solid 80 of it really isn't that smart
nice by the way the one on my wrist is the scan watch and i've been using that for a few weeks
but the one that we're going to talk about today is the scan watch horizon
whose claims to fame are several actually it's validated to double the
depth of water resistance compared to the regular scan watch it's larger and
much more premium looking and feeling i actually got a lot of comments on the
blue one when i was wearing it for i guess yeah i had it for a couple of
weeks and thanks to its metal band it has a much sort of heavier feel on the
wrist that i know a lot of people prefer uh the green one oh wait i thought you
told me the blue one was the one that was sized to my wrist i thought so two
well the blue one was the one i was wearing i know that for a fact but the green one actually fits
really well oh you know what my right and my left wrist are extremely
different you can actually see the whole ARM is very different that's badminton
arms for you right on that subject let's talk about
what makes a within scan watch really special they've got a clinically
validated spo2 sensor as well as a clinically validated ecg sensor at a
moment's notice we can take an ecg let's go ahead and set that up we've got
to activate this feature before we can use it but the wizard includes some really valuable information about what
the ecg sensor can and cannot do so what
it does do is detect whether or not your heart rhythm is normal which can be an
indicator of underlying medical conditions and can be an important tool
in your toolkit to monitor your general cardiac health and not detect heart
attacks and other medical conditions so what they're saying is it only does
what they say it does don't read too much into it and as always consult a
medical professional whenever there's anything concerning an important organ
like say for example your heart i'm not in a state so i guess uh let's
pick a cool state how about nebraska
what why you hating on nebraska nebraskans are you going to take that
sorry first let's take your ecg the interface
is super easy to use by the way one button and a scrolling wheel and that's
pretty much it by the way you don't have to say that you're starting a workout
it'll actually detect your workouts with a reasonable level of accuracy it
managed to confuse go-karting with riding a bike at one point but overall
it's actually been pretty solid
and that's it 30 seconds later they've collected the data they need after 24 to
48 hours where it gets reviewed it will be sent back and will be available
within the app oh the other big one is the ability to check your blood oxygen
saturation level basically just put your hand on it 30 seconds
brb you could also just have it monitor it during your sleep which is a lot more
convenient it does a nice little buzz
when you're done 98 yes honestly speaking though for my part
the cooler features of the smartwatch are things that help me day to day like
the fact that the battery life is a month like that's one of my big problems
with every freaking smart watch out there is that you end up charging these
things every day or in many cases running out of battery on the same day i
remember i had a watch that i was wearing for quite some time and i didn't
even have it connected to a phone because i don't use that brand of phone
and i would still have the battery run out during the day sometimes i'm sitting here going it's not even connected via
bluetooth what is what is happening here i also love being able to well i've got
my heart rate up it's getting all elevated right now uh i also really appreciate going up
even higher i also really appreciate being able to tell the time anytime i
want now you can configure the scan watch to use a gesture in order to
activate the display you can press a button to activate the display or if
you're a super smart boy or lady then you can just read the analog time wow
amazing right what an innovation setting the time on it is super easy that's kind
of cool i'm not going to show it because that's something that i did before the
video but basically you just set up the app
the watch hands just all point to 12 on
their own like kind of creepy magical and then you're like yup it's pointed at
12 and then if it doesn't work which it didn't on the blue one when i first set
it up then you can say no it's not pointed at 12. you turn the dial pointed
at 12 and then it like aligns and then it goes to exactly the
right time this one honestly i think looks better
personally oh i guess we can talk about their app a little bit you can select
which applications you want to receive notifications from you can see summaries
of your workouts as well as your daily steps
uh you can see my my trends i've been doing i've been doing pretty darn well
on my steps lately which is pretty sick my workouts too i've been moving so
that's why basically every day i'm doing something that counts as a workout yes
go Linus you can log your food intake man now you
guys got all this information about me best day 15 000 freaking steps what did
i do on monday may 16th basically there's lots of useful little things in
here and i like that it doesn't bother you a ton you know unless you tell it to
it's not gonna just be like breathe yes
i'm breathing now isn't a good time the kind of thing
that just for me personally absolutely drives me up the wall well
couple little things i didn't mention the
outer bezel rotates if you're into that sort of thing and the hands are glow in
the dark which they are not on the regular scan watch it syncs with major health apps
like google fit samsung health strava oh and the glasses sapphire glass which i
have not been successful at scratching yet so that's definitely a good thing as
well i think the selling points here are pretty straightforward you've got the clinically validated spo2 and ecg
sensors you've got the very traditional looking watch that actually functions
like a freaking watch but also has smart functionality i think
a lot of people just want that alone even if it didn't have any kind of
health monitoring features and of course the actually very robust and useful app
so what are you waiting for the scan watch horizon is available on amazon.com
withings.com we're going to have that link down below so guys go ahead and
check it out thanks willings for sponsoring this video thanks you for watching go ahead and get subscribed