The pursuit of data control: from the millet bracelet 1 generation light sense version to GARMIN Garmin HR+ smart bracelet

First, original intention

1.1) Old love

The original intention of buying the millet bracelet was merely for step counting. Usually the work is too busy for exercise, because there is no napping habits, walking after lunch has become a daily fitness pastime. Taking a 35-kilometer walk at noon every day, and occasionally taking a step back from work, plus the time of commuting, can also occupy a position in the rankings of the WeChat campaign in full swing that year. However, walking with mobile phone APP is a matter of power consumption. It does not matter how hot it is during an hour. It often exits with missing data due to an abnormality in memory. (Walk out well, take a picture of Auntie and listen to a song and watch a video. Occasionally open a Keep can make better use of fragmentation time ah), as a data control, how willing to let the sports data without traces, so start a mass of people like to hear the millet 1 generation bracelet light version (do not you? Because there was no 2 ah).

The problem with the next step is solved. Walking does not require an app. Bracelet took more than six months, I feel that the accuracy of step counting can be accepted, and several hundred errors measured are within ten steps; others' arms swinging accounting step does not appear, there is an elliptical machine at home, there are times to wear hands The ring is stepped on 10 kilometers, and the number of steps is close to zero; it is a step counting error when doing some heavy manual work such as picking up the floor to pull the cable. (Do not ask the landlord's sex worker, don't ask for the landlord's migrant worker occupation. ).

With the bracelet, running should be ah, a generation of light version of the millet than the original generation of more than a cool feature, that is, heart rate test ah, this time, sister running is also a person with heart rate data. It's a pity that every time you have to run with a mobile phone, you can only record the heart rate data by connecting it to the GPS recording path of your phone.

As a migrant worker who is overloaded, the sport can only race against the seconds, each time he trots 3 kilometers, and ran intermittently for several months. Looking back at a statistic, the word heart rate is high, even if the heart rate is high. The heart rate hasn't changed significantly since it dropped to 7 minutes. This is just the rhythm of the heart rate. Is heart rate so high and heart load bear? Can you continue to run? With a series of unprofessional questions, I talked with a colleague for a while and turned the internet around. The conclusion is: Maybe the heart rate of the millet bracelet is not accurate? So the idea of ​​a slightly more professional equipment emerged.

1.2) New Love

As an amateur-grade silk reel, the equipment must not be high-end, so the wristband Garmin vivosmart HR+ and watch Garmin forerunner 235 entered the waiting list. My request is very simple: 1, continuous real-time heart rate; 2, GPS, running without a mobile phone; other are icing on the cake. (Hey, do you say that you don't use the heart rate belt to be more accurate? Hey, is it okay to go to work with a heart rate belt? Anyway, I don't want it... Keke, amateur, not too true.) With the trend of smart, hands The boundaries between the ring and the watch have become increasingly blurred. After reading the experience of the out-of-box evaluation of the great Gods of this site, HR+ and 235 functions roughly in my eyes, mainly leaving only the differences in appearance and price.

I asked me to answer 20 questions about the GARMIN Garmin Forerunner 235 watch


The site of the first sun GARMIN Garmin vivosmart HR+ smart bracelet the fastest out of the box


In Zhang Aunt’s work, she smashed a month and finally couldn't hold her back. She wanted to take a business trip in October. When she was on a business trip, she was able to run for a while. At that time, I thought that my wife was too naive to run. It turned out my wife was so naive. In the koala 1219 won the HR+. Consider the following: 1, cheap (can not get rid of the reeling heart); 2, the screen is small (my hand is small). Facts have proved that special fares are too far away from the double eleven, this is not just less than ten days to start, the price in Central Asia has reached a historical low of 1080, silently distressed hard-earned money 100 times, the difference can buy multiple millet 2 ... ...

Second, out of the box

Followed by a wave of unpacking.

2.1) Simple Packaging

2.2) Simple Accessories

(Oh, it's the equivalent of having no accessories...) There was also an episode that kicked out with my colleagues and my co-workers studied smoothly and put the charging cord off his desk. I couldn't find the charging cable everywhere. Nervously ran to the koala to ask customer service is not missed a return can not be returned, Shun Baidu a bunch of Garmin is not a leaking accessories precedent cough cough ... ...

Make up a charging line

2.3) The screen has a protective film

2.4) Get started (think if you're buying 235 I don't know how to wear a shirt? A giant is outside?)

2.5) The thickness is slightly thicker, and there is still space in my hand (One-handed shooting, please ignore the photo quality)

3, trial

3.1) Connection

Open the Bluetooth mobile phone, download Garmin's Connect software, select “Garmin Device” -> “Add Device” on the left menu bar, select the corresponding model, and automatically perform search pairing every 30 seconds. The first time, the failure; the second time, or the failure... It hasn't been connected after half an hour of trials, and it is almost doubtful that life is ready to find customer service...

Can't connect from connect, but can see the apparatus from the bluetooth that the mobile phone brings out, explain the bluetooth of the bracelet is no problem, judgement should be the question of the software interface. In the end, the Dead Horse was a live horse doctor and unloaded the APP to reinstall it. Tearful……

After the first connection was successful, I haven’t seen the data, I haven’t seen the data for a long time until I found out that I’m doing the software update. I waited for most of the day (the middle exit will be interrupted for the next time). After the software update is completed, the data will be read quickly. . Each time you turn on the Bluetooth sync data every time within 30 seconds, within an acceptable range. (Come along with Tucao about millet, the previous versions of the APP, Bluetooth connection is always a failure, to repeatedly connect with more than ten times in order to synchronize the successful data, sometimes inexplicably half an hour passed. Fortunately, the latest versions seem to be relatively easy Connected.)

3.2) Interface

On the left is the menu bar. Excerpts are what I often use to say: "snapshot" is "my day" and lists the summary information of the day; "calendar" can view the achievements of each day; "activity statistics" is the number of steps floor exercise Statistics like this; "health statistics" are mainly heart rate sleep data.

a) My day, every detail can be seen

b) calendar, different colors represent different data, such as blue is the number of steps, green is activity, purple is sleep, red is heart rate, it is worth mentioning is the gray Move IQ event, automatically identify the current activity content, accuracy Not low, this is fun.

c) The number of steps, the goal of the number of steps per day is automatically set according to the individual's latest steps, and it is also a smart algorithm. Statistics have a one-week, one-month, and one-year interface. Tap into daily records, and you can also see time-sharing details on that day.

d) Floor, built-in barometric altimeter, which can record the number of stairs climbed on a daily basis. The landlord's homes and units are stair towers. The accuracy of the two-week walk is still quite high, and there is no error in other evaluations. . The floor of the elevator is smart and will not be counted. The only error is when the child is taking the stairs. Because the speed is too slow, those layers will be ignored. -_-

e) Sleep data

f) The heart rate data records the average resting heart rate and the maximum heart rate per day. Although not necessarily accurate, the approximate trend is still somewhat of a reference value.

g) Notification settings


Fourth, PK

Is 1x price comparable to 10x price? Or speak with data.

4.1) First of all, an incomplete functional comparison chart, in addition to price and life time, HR + spike 1 + ah Well (nonsense ...)

4.2) Steps PK

Judging from the number of steps, these three days of monitoring have slightly more meters than HR+, and accuracy is within an acceptable range.

From the interface and the amount of information, millet APP has detailed data on the number of steps, slightly better.

4.3) Sleep data PK

From the interface, the amount of data information is quite considerable. Individuals prefer the simple interface of Xiaomi APP.

In terms of accuracy, the rice 1+ judgment is more accurate. Although it is waterproof, I am still accustomed to bathing in my hands. When the bracelet is not worn on the hand, the meter 1+ will not misjudge, but the HR+ will misjudge the sleep time. (Heart rate data will be empty during this period of time, so it should not be a data reading problem, but Software algorithm problem). In terms of this algorithm, Xiaomi is better and Garmin still has room for improvement.

4.4) Running data PK

The highlight is always the finale.

a) Movement trajectory and data overview. The meter 1+ is connected to the HTC GPS. The trajectory is relatively smooth and should be handled. The accuracy of the HR+'s own GPS is acceptable, which means that it is not as good as the millet. As for the error of pace and distance, it is due to the error of the start and end time of the two (think of how difficult it is to operate with two wristbands and one mobile phone at the same time). The accuracy should still be roughly equivalent.

b) Running details information, each has its own strengths.

c) The most important thing is! Running real-time heart rate comparison: The curve of the beginning and ending of rice 1+ is too abrupt, while the heart rate curve of HR+ is visually more realistic. However, the key point is that the average heart rate is still 170+ ah (tears!)... It seems that millet's light heart rate is not worse than HR+autonomous optical heart rate meter. (Well, I heard that Garmin 225's MIO optical heart rate May be better? Data control expressed that it would like to compare). Well? Do you say that the light heart rate is not accurate? I still find a weekend without overtime, go to the hospital and do it. One. Inspection. check. . It. . .

V. Conclusion

The comparison of a 100+ bracelet and a 1000+ bracelet is a little unscientific. But from the results, this 10 times the difference, more gains are functional, is the hardware gap (built-in GPS, continuous heart rate, barometric altimeter, etc.), low-end, such as millet, step sensor and heart rate sensor accuracy Degree is also acceptable, APP's interface friendliness has also been improving, conscience products ah! Do not mind running with a mobile phone, children shoes that are not interested in continuous heart rate, millet bracelet is waving to you (not to mention millet 2 now has a display, just look at what the number of steps, you can not even mobile phones, more convenient )).