Product Description
Introducing CZ Smart YouQ, the smarter smartwatch. Citizen CZ Smart Casual 41mm smartwatch is designed to help you be the best version of yourself throughout the day, every day. Inspired by the rich design of Citizen's iconic sport technical timepieces, CZ Smart marries cutting-edge science and technology with the style and quality you expect from Citizen. CZ Smart YouQ leverages AI Models built with IBM Watson Studio and research pioneered by NASA Ames Research Center to power features within the proprietary YouQ application. CZ Smart YouQ helps you anticipate patterns of fatigue and alertness and offers highly personalized insights and suggested actions to help you improve alertness and promote the building of better habits, readying you to meet whatever the day may bring. Compatible with both iPhone and Android, CZ Smart YouQ features Wear OS by Google. The versatile, customizable menu of dials, designed exclusively for CZ Smart, gives you all the information you need at your fingertips. With a range of interchangeable 22mm bands available for all CZ Smart watches in bracelet, mesh, leather, and silicone, you can dress your CZ Smart watch for any occasion and make the most out of every moment. The Smarter Smartwatch: CZ Smart features the new proprietary wellness app YouQ built using research pioneered by NASA's Ames Research Center and AI Models built with IBM Watson Studio. YouQ helps wearers maximize their daily potential by learning the wearer's unique Chronotype and rhythms. YouQ computes HR, SP02, fitness activity, sleep data, and alert scores to offer the wearer a personalized 24-hour forecast of alertness. Aggregating data over time will enable CZ Smart YouQ to cater to wearers personally allowing them to understand their body's natural rhythms. Meet your self-care advisor: CZ Smart YouQ provides the wearer a daily, brief, and gamified Alert Monitor, designed based on NASA's PVT+ (Psychomotor Vigilance Task Test), a test used by astronauts to measure alertness. Only CZ Smart YouQ uses Alert Monitor scores and sleep data to identify the wearer's distinct Chronotype (are you a morning go-getter, steady achiever, high-energy hustler?). CZ Smart YouQ helps you stay on track with an Hourly Power Score, an indicator of your cognitive and physical energy at a particular moment and offers Power Fixes to mitigate the effects of fatigue and improve alertness so the user can optimize themselves for what's ahead. You may have a napuccino or liquid energy in your future. Preloaded and ready-to-go: Citizen Connected works with phones running on the latest version of Android (excluding Go Edition and phones without Google Play Store) or iOS. Applications available via the Play Store include CZ Smart YouQ App, Google Fit, Strava, Spotify, YouTube Music, and Amazon Alexa. CZ Smart features 24+ hour battery life (varies based on usage) and achieves a full charge in just 40-minutes. Connections include Bluetooth (connect your headphones), Wi-Fi, GPS (head out for a run or hike and leave your phone behind), and NFC (make contactless payments). Sensors include Gyroscope, altimeter, barometer, accelerometer, heart rate sensor, SP02, ambient light sensor, so that you can track activity goals, heart rate monitor, cardio fitness tracking, steps, sleep, and more. Personalization, notifications, and more: The uniquely designed CZ Smart dials give hundreds of options to fully customize your watch face and receive the information you find most important. Stay focused all day while getting notifications on your watch for incoming calls, texts, emails and calendar notifications. The built-in speaker enables you to conveniently answer a call from your smartwatch. With Amazon Alexa built-in, CZ Smart makes it easy to tackle your daily tasks and organization. CZ Smart next generation: Citizen Connected works with phones running on the latest version of Android (excluding Go Edition and phones without Google Play Store) or iOS, 24+ hour battery life, Qualcomm 4100+ chipset, offering the user a seamless connection and quick response and screen changes.
Dimension
Product Height : 1.61 inches
Product Width :1.61 inches
Product Depth :0.61 inches
Product Weight :8 ounces
Features
Smarter Smart Watch CZ Smart YouQ a proprietary wellness app built using research by NASA Ames Center and AI Models with IBM Watson Studio helps wearers maximize their daily potential by learning the wearer’s unique Chronotype and daily rhythms and computes HR, SP02, fitness activity and sleep.
Self-care Advisor YouQ uses a gamified Alert Monitor, based on NASA’s PVT+ which uses scores and sleep data to identify the wearer’s Chronotype, a morning go-getter, steady achiever, high-energy hustler so you stay on track and know your cognitive and physical energy at a particular moment.
Preloaded Apps Wear OS by Google compatible with iPhone and Android. Applications available include CZ Smart YouQ App, Google Fit, Strava, Spotify, YouTube Music, Amazon Alexa and features 24+ hour battery life (varies based on usage). Connects to Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, and NFC.
Notifications The designed CZ Smart dials give hundreds of options to customize your watch face and receive the information while getting notifications on your watch for calls, texts, emails, and calendar notifications. The built-in speaker enables you to answer a call from your smartwatch.
Citizen Connected Citizen Connected works with phones running on the latest version of Android (excluding Go Edition and phones without Google Play Store) or iOS, 24+ hour battery life and extended mode options for upto 3 days, Qualcomm 4100+ chipset.
Water Rating IPX6 water rating states impenetrable by heavy rain and can be worn during showering, working out, and minor water exposure. Not intended for swimming or total submersion.
What's Included
Smart Watch
Charger
Owner's Guide
Reviews
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A bit of a learning curve
This product has more pros than cons. Pros - Expensive appearance and sleek design. Looks great! - Customizable watch face - Customizable bands - App is user-friendly - WiFi capabilities - Provides several useful apps, but isn't overloaded with them at start-up - Has Theater Mode which turns off screen and screen wake gestures and silences alerts. - Has Do Not Disturb mode which just silences the watch. I use this one frequently when I'm about to go into a meeting. - Has Find My Phone which will allow you to call your phone from your watch to find it. I've had to use this one a couple of times. Works well. - Has multiple screen display options Cons - The buttons and gestures take a while to get used to. - There is a little bit of a learning curve when connecting to apps from your phone. I was very confused why it was telling me that I needed to use a different text messenger app than my Samsung messenger. I thought for the longest time that I wouldn't be able to use Samsung messenger but then the next day, it worked just fine. I haven't had issues with it since. - I can see notifications for certain apps like Facebook Messenger but can't read or reply. - It's large. This is the smaller version of their watch and it feel huge to me. I have a small wrist so I had to remove about 6 links on the band. - The battery doesn't last as long as I would like. I take it off the charger when I leave for work at 7am and by 7pm it's down to 30%. Not terrible, but some days I will be out until 9 or 10pm and I don't think it would last on one charge. Luckily there are notifications that will alert you and ask you to switch to a different battery mode, but it would be great if it could keep up longer than 12 hours.
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Looks great, not quite smart enough
The watch comes in a nicely branded box with an image of the product on the front and “CZ Smart” printed on the bottom. When you open the box, you find the watch, its charging cable, and the documentation for it directly under a protective piece of foam. The user manual is multilingual and it directs the user to charge the watch before using it and to download the appropriate app for setup. A power adapter is not included with the cable and watch. This particular watch can be worn by men or women. It’s 41mm in size and looks a little large on smaller wrists, but its fits comfortable. The band is a standard flexible metal band that consumers would find on wrist watches with a similar style. The links can be removed if the band is too loose, but no tool is included with the watch for these adjustments. This was a little bit of a disappointment to me because other bands i’ve gotten like this usually come with a simple adjustment tool. I really do like the look of this watch. It has a classic style and can be worn with casual or formal attire. It’s not super flashy, but definitely makes someone take notice of it. The setup is fairly straightforward - especially if you have setup a watch before. After you download the app specific to your phone brand (iOS or Google) you follow the on-screen instructions. The user has to scan a QR code that appears on the screen of the watch with your phone. This action pairs the two devices together. Then you will be asked to add a pin number. If it’s required, a software update will occur. I had to restart the watch a couple of times after it was completed before the watch was working smoothly. In addition to these set up steps, you will also be asked to create a Citizen account, which is free but does ask for some personal information. The app could have a better experience and the on-watch interface is a little confusing to navigate through. There are lots of bugs in the app and one of the pieces of data that I want to track the most - sleep - takes a long time to update. As far as general functionality goes, I ran into some common issues that others have reports. The watch would freeze and sometimes the settings were saved between the watch and my phone’s app. The battery life is not as good as I was hoping for and there is a lack of customization. I could overlook those two issues, but the connectivity between the watch and the app is really inconsistent. The watch also provides limited data in comparison to other smartwatches and it doesn’t seem to record data accurately. I compared walking and bike riding distances that were recorded by the watch and the phone and they didn’t match. One other big con I have with this watch is that it is not water resistant. In this day and age, I expect any daily-wear watch to have some water resistance, but this one clearly states that it doesn’t have any within the specs. Overall, the watch looks great but could function better. In a world where there are some amazing smartwatches that work flawlessly with their respective devices, this one falls a little flat in terms of being ‘smart.’
