Wellograph Wireless Bluetooth Heart Rate and Activity Monitor Wellness Watch - Black Chrome

Loved it for the first couple of months but then one of the buttons on the side stopped working (unfortunately the one that syncs and enters menus etc.). I thought, 'Fine, I've only had it a couple of months and it has a year warranty!'. Not that fine unfortunately, trying to find a contact for Wellograph was hard enough on their website but after emailing, I got no response so I'm left with a nice looking but useless fitness watch. Stay away if you want a working watch for more than a couple of months!!

The media could not be loaded.  For those who just want a quick review:Pro- Premium design- Pulse tracking/monitoring- Rugged - sapphire screen and water resistant- Works with Android, iPhones and Windows mobileCons- Expensive- Isn't finished product (at time of review)- Can't export/share data- No mobile notifications- App drains mobile battery when not in useAnd now for the longer version:Kindly sent to me for review it's refreshing to see an unashamedly expensive tracker come to market when the competition produces cheaper and cheaper plastic activity trackers. Whereas low cost trackers are made from low cost materials, the Wellograph is constructed from premium material including a sapphire screen and a curved aluminium base.To clarify, the Wellness watch isn't a smart watch of the `get text messages on your wrist' variety of smart, its purely an activity tracker. This difference is important as it means the watch doesn't stay connected to your mobile via bluetooth, it just connects to your phone to synchronize data, and as such doesn't provide you with any notifications about incoming calls and messages.That synchronization process also sets the time on the watch. Bizarrely, if you switch the watch off it doesn't take into account that time has passed, so when you turn it on again it says the same time as when you switched it off and doesn't correct itself until you've synchronized it again.The synchronization process has to be manually started and this feels something of a backwards step when so many other trackers sync automatically. With background syncing missing it was surprising to learn that the Wellograph app, on Android, was slurping 13 - 15% of the mobile battery when it wasn't doing anything.Although rectangular in design the watch face is actually a small square, leaving a thick bezel that's extra large at the top. There are two buttons on the right that control the menu features. On the back is the charging point and pulse sensor.It comes with a nice brown leather strap, although several colours are available to pick from. Additional straps are available to purchase, and you're encouraged to do so if you plan on using this in a wet environment, such as swimming. This might prove hard for some to swallow given the high price tag of the watch to start with and given the focus is on measuring activity it would be fair to expect it to come with everything you need to track your aquatic workouts.Setup was very easy, although note that you may find the watch in `watch mode' when it arrives which removes some of the options needed to pair this with your mobile. If that's the case head into the settings menu to turn off watch mode and you'll then see the Bluetooth settings menu which allows you to pair the watch with your mobile.Download the app and you can configure some information (such as age) which is then pushed to the watch when you perform a synchronization. Although tested with the Android app there are apps available for iPhone and Windows mobiles.The app is fairly basic, for example you can't zoom in/out of the graphical information. There is also no way to use the data outside of the app, something that needs to be addressed as soon as possible as it really limits the usefulness of the data collected. For example, importing tracked activity into the Withings ecosystem or one of the many run tracking apps.In use the monochrome screen appeared nice and clear, testing it during the winter months means it's not been tested in direct sunlight, however there was plenty of darkness and the moment it goes dark you won't be able to see it without pressing one of the buttons, it would benefit from the Pebble `flick to light' gesture.Time can be displayed either as a digital clock or a traditional analogue clock. The digital version has the advantage of also displaying a battery indicator, date, and days activity meter along the bottom whereas the analogue version just shows the time and todays date.The watch interface takes a bit of getting use to, but is actually very simple when you get your head round it. The menu system is made up of two parts, a vertical menu and a horizontal menu.The bottom button changes the vertical menu, rotating between:ClockActivityPulseSessionSettingsThe top button changes the horizontal menu for the option you're on, so for example on the clock setting it would change from a digital watch face to an analogue watch face. As there is no touch functionality you have to scroll through the menus, and while simple to use it could be a bit frustrating navigating the settings menu, one press too far and you have to scroll through all the options to get back to the one you want.In the manual there is an extra screen mentioned: Steps/Pedometer. This wasn't present. Nor when first used was there any sign of the sleep tracking function mentioned on the website, it appears this watch is still in development as towards the end of the testing period a firmware update was pushed out adding in a beta sleep tracker. This feature is still in development and the first time it logged sleep data was during a gaming session on the Xbox One.It's very likely that the only screen you'll want to look at when you first put the watch on is the Pulse screen. This is the watch's differentiator, the reason to pick this over all other trackers: it measures your pulse in real time! It does this via a sensor on the back of the watch and it'll automatically take readings periodically throughout the day without being on 'Pulse' mode so most of the time you can forget about the watch and just leave it to collect data throughout the day.The watch is a nicely designed activity tracker, one that stands out with it's premium finish. However, it's also very expensive and, at the time of review, feels unfinished/a work in progress which is disappointing given the high asking price.

I've been looking at wearable tech for a while now as the concept of being able to track calories burned in my morning gym session wasn't essential to me but these are good statistics to track over time. Over a long hard comparison of many different brands I decided to go with the Wellograph, and here is why.Firstly, I am a Windows Phone user and the amount of supported apps for this platform is a fraction compared to iOS and Android. So when I stumbled upon the Wellograph I was pleasantly surprised to see that it had it's own supported app for Windows Phone, as well as iOS and Android. This was a massive tick on the list for me because comparing this to other leading wearable tech almost none had their own supported app for the Windows Phone platform... The app itself is very simple to use with the ability to check progress from Pulse to Sleep measured in a chart so you can monitor your health progress. You must 'sync' your Wellograph to the phone periodically to feed this information from your workout sessions back into the app via Bluetooth to able to see these results. The Wellograph does not connect your Smartphone constantly as this drains battery for both Smartphone and the Wellograph, as the Wellograph is designed to last for up to a week it needs to cut as much battery saving corners as possible. But this is not necessarily a bad thing.Which brings me to my next point. The Wellograph may be considered unworthy and costly in comparison to the sights of the new upcoming Smart Watches as the displays are LED and touchscreen. Wellograph's approach to this however is a simplistic energy saving screen with a backlight which may not be as flashy as LED touchscreens but make the device last a whole lot longer. In combination with it's user interface the Wellograph provides an easy and enjoyable experience.Unfortunately, there are some issues with the Wellograph that had disheartened me. Due to my workout routine I barely do a lot of running, so when I got to the gym ready to do some weightlifting I hit the start timer and worked away to my hearts content only to find that I hadn't burnt many calories at all... Later on that day I took part in a Spinning class as I thought to my self "this will burn loads of calories". After the 45 minute session was up I was excited to see my results, only to find that I had only burnt 55 calories... This then led me to realise that the Wellograph does not measure calories burnt my heart rate, it measures it my steps taken... Hopefully Wellograph will correct this in upcoming updates.Overall the Wellograph is a modern and beautiful looking kit with a great user interface and app. I even received many complements on how nice my "new watch" was. But even beauty has it's flaws, when it came down to the true use of the device it did fall short.

I've been using one of these since the beginning of the year (I got mine at The Consumer Electronics Show in January) and it works great. I was able to compare it to everything else out there and it was by far the most elegant and best looking watch (which is important to me) and it does all the things I need it to - for me, mainly counting my steps every day and syncing with my iphone. The heart rate functions and sleep tracking are newer for me and I am getting to know these data points since I have had access to this data as well, but the resting HR is coming down which is great to see! Charging is easy and the watch lasts sometimes longer than a week for me, and that's with me wearing it from waking to sleeping. Nice one Wellograph!