KALINCO Smart Watch, Fitness Tracker with Heart Rate Monitor, Blood Pressure, Blood Oxygen Tracking, 1.4 Inch Touch Screen Smartwatch Fitness Watch for Women Men Compatible with iOS Android

Good Starter Smart Watch……Update January 4, 2024 Sleep Function Problem Discovered
Today, 1/4/2024, I believe I finally discovered why my sleep function would come and go overthe past year. Since my last update, nearly 6 months ago, I have had a couple of additional “No Data” experiences, when trying to determine how well I slept the previous night. I tried everything, even moved the watch to my other wrist and still the problem. I did clear the cache memory again for this app on my phone and was about to hit the reset button which would have erased all my exercise and sleep history, when it occurred to me.It was a simple problem which had nothing to do with the app or the watch itself. About 5 months ago the wrist band strap, which prevents the wrist band itself from flapping at the end, had broken. I replaced it with an older wrist band strap, from another watch, which stopped the flapping, but it was still loose up and down the band. I compensated by tightening the watch band 1 or 2 notch holes. This prevented the flapping but it apparently was too tight for the sensor to monitor my circulation sleep data at night. When I returned to the original notch hole position, sure enough…..sleep data this morning. Pretty sure this was the problem. I will use a tighter watch band strap. So I am changing my review to 5 stars today…….excellent value and information for a $30 starter smart watch. Just don’t squeeze it too tight around your wrist.********************************************************************************Today, 6/18, the Sleep Function data from last night showed up this morning. I am not sure why. This is the first Sleep Data that got to my HerobandIII app since 5/14/23.The only thing I did last night was charge the watch up to a full 100%. I will now give it a 4* rating.********************************************************************I never thought I would need or want a smart watch. However, as I got older, I wanted something to keep track of my health functions, especially sleep, HR, BP, and exercise data, walking 3-5 times per week. So I found this $30 Kalinko, and figured why not give it a try. I knew it wouldn’t be as accurate against standard monitors or other smart watches ,but at least is was mobile. So my expectations were very low to begin with. If it was junk, so be it, and I would spend a little more to get a watch that would give me a higher level of performanceI now have read many of the other reviews, especially the 1 or 2 stars to find out what others have been upset about compared to the one and only problem I have had so far.First, some facts I learned along the way and data to do a level set:1. I purchased my Kalinko P22 in late December, 20222. The basic HR, BP, and O2 measurements are not accurate (10-20% lower) because the accelerometer the Chinese manufacturer uses is very basic in order to improve their profit margin for inexpensive retail price you pay. However, THIS IS NOT IMPORTANT, believe it or not. What is important are the measurement changes you see in the history log. The differences will give you a trend line against previous measurements. Don’t compare it to other more accurate devices like BP monitors and cuffs or other instruments at the doctor’s office. Even those only give you single data points, and no trend lines good or bad.3. I believe the Steps function is not a measurement of your walking or physical steps with your feet. Think of it as an “Activity” monitor. It measures movement of your right or left wrist, even at night , when you toss and turn in your sleep or get up to do normal functions that wake you up. I set daily goal steps to 10,000 steps, which is just about right for my age and activity level.4. Don’t expect and help from this Chinese manufacturer. No phone or email and expect poor english if you do get a hold of someone. Most Chinese products have little help available as I found out with their remote cameras and other products. The best you can do is download their User Guide which is still substandard but better than nothing. Also, the included setup guide is so small (font size 1 or 2) you can’t read it.. I had to copy it to my printer and increase the copy size by 50%.5. Don’t buy this watch for yourself or someone that is not good with IT. If you want the full function bluetooth hookup with the HerobandIII App on your smart phone, you must have a smart phone and understand QR codes to perform the link. Otherwise you will just get the watch functions with no exercise or sleep data history which is kept on the phone6. Keep this watch on most of the time unless you are taking a shower, swimming, or in water. If you have a regular watch, keep the Kalinko, on your other wrist, hopefully on the hand you use the most. You will get use to it. The rubber band is basic. Still have my original but you can get fancier ones if you want.7. The battery is good and lasts me normally around 7 days before I charge it up at 20%. The magnetic contacts are a little weird and it’s easy to lose contact with the watch. Look for the dashed green lights that indicate “charging” and finally “charging complete” and 100% Don’t move the watch while charging. Normally takes about 2-3 hours for me with the USB plugged into one of my computer ports.8. The night light Torch function. An unexpected surprise at night or dark places is the single watch button turns on a very bright face light to find things and places without a flashlight or light switch. It gives you about 5 seconds to locate anything within 5 feet.9. Don’t care about other functions like weather or remote control for camera shots or messages or music. The Find Phone option might be helpful if you misplace it nearby. ItSo, why just 3 stars?1. It’s a beginner smart watch for $30. It’s ok, and I might just keep it until I find a more accurate or reliable one for $200 or more.2. I am an avid walker and hiker. The Exercise function has never failed me for this type of exercise. I can go back to December 2022 history on the watch and get information as to how much I have progressed on the same walks and hikes showing, HR, miles, and how they rate for my age on standard, weight loss, aerobic, and anaerobic functions. This gets a 5 * rating and worth the $30 all by itself.3. The Sleep Function is the most important function for me. It is the only function which you don not have to manually start and stop with the watch. It depends on the quality and accuracy of the accelerometer on you wrist. It worked perfectly for 137 nights from December until mid-May. It gave me good info on total sleep time, deep sleep, and times I woke up during the night. Even a sleep quality score. Then nothing with a “No Data” message when I woke up on the 138th morning. The User Guide says it is possible that individual sleep apps can lose data if you don’t clear the cache memory on the HerobandIII app on the smart watch. This had to be it, I thought. So I cleared the cache of the 7.8 mb, which should have cleared the problem. However, it didn’t and I still have all the sleep history on a calendar going back to December, but No Data for the past 2 weeks. The only other option would be to clear the data or reset the watch which defeats the history I want to keep. Not sure what else I can do, and no response from their “helpdesk” email address, or even their app developer. So a 1* for me on this watch on this aspect.Final Summary.Unless the Sleep Function “No Data” can be restored, no more Kalinko $30 specials for me. I willonly use this watch for Exercise History, Health Trend, and the torch function for seeing in darkareas at night. If anyone else has solved the Sleep Function “No Data” problem. Please document.Thanks.

Looks Nice
I am fairly happy with this watch. I like the pink band even though they say it can be changed. The first main reason I ordered this one is because I have a tiny wrist, and it was the smallest I could find. But on the other hand, I’m older and wanted a large face. So it’s okay.It was easy to set up. I have an iPhone — downloaded the App, HeroBandIII, and everything fell into place. You do have to make sure it has permission to connect for certain things, but it tells you to go to Settings if necessary. I had to search a bit to figure out how to change from C to F and KM to Miles and all that.. but nothing worse than usual. Just keep pressing on stuff. It’s easy and fairly quick to download different watch faces if you want. Mostly not usable for me. Getting messages is nice, but I don’t care that I can’t answer them from the watch.To get it to turn on/light up, I have to twist my wrist several times, and sometimes I just give up and press the side button. I don’t know if this is common with these watches or not. Not the worst thing–even though when on a bike it would be more convenient to have that work better.The battery certainly lasts. And I like knowing my steps for the day–and the temperature, even though that disconnected a couple of times for whatever reason.. but not a real issue.I don’t expect a smart watch (especially at this price) to be perfect, but I can’t figure out how to get my cycling info to register on the app—although it registers my walking just fine. It shows a lot of info that is helpful.And that is the other main reason I got this watch– so I could register my activities, of which biking is a main one.. so that’s kind of disappointing. If I can’t figure it out, I will use this more as a daily watch and my more “sporty” plain black watch for biking.The Kalinko manual is useless. No details. I messaged them twice, (no answer) But, while searching online, I saw that a few other people with “fancy” smart watches were mentioning this same issue of them registering walking info, but not biking. Someone said to disconnect the watch, and I’m not sure what that means but will try to figure it out.

This is a very nice watch for the price. The ‘metal’ band fits perfectly and feels very soft. I like the size because l have a small wrist, and it doesn’t look too big. It’s also fun being able to upload any of my favourite photos onto the watch face, and the process was not too technical. The only thing it doesn’t have is phone capability, but that’s not really important to me. The app lets you see the battery life, which is helpful. I really like this watch.

Me encantó, se ve muy lindo el color lila.Cuenta mis pasos preciso, lo que pasa es que mientras esté contando, aún te pares en alguna tienda, sigue contando.Igual la presión y el oxígeno los mide muy bien, no sé por qué dicen que no es exacto, a mi me ha medido exacto.Ya lleva más de una semana y sigue la batería casi con el 80%, y me llegan los mensajes de WhatsApp y los SMS del celular.Muchas gracias, me encantó.