Withings - ScanWatch 2 - Heart Health Hybrid Smartwatch - 38mm - Black/Silver

With such a high saturation of smart watches in the market, it's rare to see a new player that's not one of the three major tech companies. At first glance, the watch looks like a typical analog watch. Then as you get a closer look, you see a small circle at the top of the watch face, and that's the digital component. I'll be honest, I thought the whole watch face would be digital, so to see an actual analog watch face was somewhat of a surprise. The watch itself has a nice build quality to it, and a nice finish to the material. The only moving part on the watch is the crown, which allows the control of the digital screen. The only cheap feeling part are the two straps. The straps are that soft silicone that I'm not a big fan of. I've had this type of strap with my other smart watches, and when you sweat, it starts to feel slightly rough. I looked through the box hoping for another pair of straps but to no avail. In order to fully get the most out of the watch, you'll need to download the app. You'll need to create an account for the app, and once everything is verified, then coming the pairing between the app and watch, and finally the update. The app itself is robust. Which is a good and bad thing. It's almost too cluttered. I wish the app had a more cleaner interface. It's weird to say, but it just has too much information. You have three sections at the bottom where you can see your main home screen, a measurement (Body), and an achieve screen. The achieve screen is mostly a marketing screen for their paid withings+ sub. The app overall has a lot of the functions as you would see in most other modern smart watches such as steps, oxygen, heart rate, ECG, and workout. I do find the sleep monitoring really interesting. Ultimately it's disappointing that a good number of the app benefits are behind a sub wall. All in all, it's a nice watch that has a nice old timey feeling. It's a weird niche that Withings is trying to tackle. It's more a health watch than a full blown smart watch. The bands are cheap feeling, and it's hard to convince myself to not wear my normal smart watch and wear this health watch on a permanent basis. It's a nice attempt, but a combination of a niche device with a sub wall, and no real other "smart features," it's something I can't see a lot of people being interested in... unless they don't own any type of smart watch.

Regarding health monitoring, we can either rely on "afterthought features" on a traditional smartwatch or depend on a watch that is a health monitor first, and the clock is the "afterthought feature." That's where Withings separates itself from other brands. Some have this device with an Apple Watch, Pixel Watch, Samsung watch, or many other traditional smartwatches. If you order this watch expecting it to be close to one, you'll be disappointed (as some of these reviews suggest). Withings has been my favorite health device company I've used. I have their SmartWatch Light as well (for my wife), their Body Scan scale (weight scale), Thermo (digital thermostat), and their Sleep (sleep pad tracker). Every one of these devices carries the quality Withings is known for. These are elite health metric devices; you can trust their consistency trickles down throughout their entire line-up. I also have a Pixel Watch 2 that I use often. That device scratches my traditional smartwatch itch, where I can customize it to fit the style I'm going for, but it needs to be more accurate and thoroughly thought through as the Withings health watches. For one, the battery life on the Withings SmartWatch 2 is unbelievable when compared to any other smart watch out there. There are many reasons, mainly because the SmartWatch 2 is a partial digital watch. It's a hybrid. I can't tell you how nice it is to have a battery listed at 720 hours! Yes, you read that right! That's 30 days of battery life. Very impressive! This device is outstanding as a health monitor. It's not only accurate in its readings, but it's very detailed in them as well. The app associated with the watch (which also connects to the rest of your Withings devices) is one of the most well-thought-out apps I regularly use. Best of all, a subscription is optional in many cases. The Body Scan scale is the only device that benefits the most from a subscription. As far as the watch goes, you do not need a subscription to get full benefits. As a watch, this thing is super classy. I love the look of it compared to my Pixel Watch 2. Yes, I love my Pixel Watch, but the ScanWatch 2 gives me a classier look and escapes from another "smart" screen to scroll through. I love interchanging these two watches. I use this watch when I work out or know I'll be super active. When I'm working, I use the Pixel Watch. I still get notifications on this SmartWatch 2, but again, it's meant to be something other than an extension of your phone like a traditional smart watch is. What I love about this watch is that it's as minimal as you want. You can choose what apps on your phone you want to receive as notifications on your watch. For $350, I'd like to this watch have more customization. When comparing apples to apples with other smartwatches, $350 is not a price that will get many people to purchase (outside of Withings fans).Getting one of these on sale would be a better value for most of us. However, for someone who has a Pixel Watch 2 and this ScanWatch 2, I adore them for different reasons. I stay up on my health metrics, and this watch helps me confidently do that.

I hasitated getting away from a brand that I use for my laptop, phone and watch but decided to trade in my watch of that brand which I got tired of charging every day especially since I exercise a lot. So the selling point of having to charge the ScanWatch 2 every 30 days was a crazy idea! And intriguing too. First off I had the app already loaded as I use the blood pressure cuff which I love and have used a scale too so Withings is familiar BUT not the watch. So let me tell you my FIRST DAY experience. It was very pretty. Easy to set up, the app just noticed it on my apple phone and said would you like to add… At this point it updates asks you some basic questions like which wrist to wear it on, and you get introduced to ecg heart rate temperature etc. I recommend not to rush it here what I did is I set my watch to charge until 100%. Was at 29% initially. Now here is a tip! Go into the app where it shows devices (on top right side) click on watch and start configuring! I set up to track everything all the time! Temperature while I sleep, what apps will alert you by vibrating and a message scrolling on the screen, and also gps always on for the exercise and what type of exercises. It’s a lot of things to configure but so worth it! I set everything up to always on which the phone app warned me that might drain my battery faster… Again my older phone would need charging every day so I didn’t care! After it reached 100% I ran a 10K to see with everything on at the supposed most drain and giving me crazy info like variation of temperature that I’ve never had a watch do I checked to see the drain… After 10K over 1 hour of running it had gone from 100% to 99%… umm… WOW! Not charging a watch after a 10K? Not in my world lol. So this is sweet! As far as the workout it gave incredible detail on pace run all kinds of info and worked flawlessly with Strava uploading right away (see picture). I am so impressed and can’t wait how it tracks my sleep, I set it up to let me know if sleep disturbances (not sure yet how that works). I love it! Looks amazing does things simply but beautifully. And when running all you do is find the workout click the little button once and it starts. Click it and hold it and it pauses (crossing heavy traffic roads etc) click and hold until the little graphic shows that it’s released and you see time elapsed back counting. Stopping your run you pause same as above and then scroll down on the button and long press. So simple without a need for instructions. This was impressive i do not miss my other watch at all.

The Withings ScanWatch 2 (I will call it SW2 going forward) is a tech device that hits close to home for me since I have dealt with atrial fibrillation for more than ten years. After you have enough emergency room visits and electrocardiograms (ECG) you begin to develop a new appreciation for a device that can monitor your heart rate and alert you when certain parameters deviate from normal. While electronic watches that do things other than simply tell time often get labeled with the name “smartwatch”, Withings refers to their SW2 as a “hybrid smartwatch” which makes sense as it is more of a health tracking device that tells time rather than a full-featured smartwatch that can make phone calls and work on email in a pinch. The SW2 while having heart rate and ECG monitoring capabilities, has a whole list of health-related functions that include body temperature tracking, reading blood oxygen level, detecting breathing disturbances, reporting sleep quality, assessing menstrual health, and analyzing workout & recovery metrics. Withings has a whole line of health related tech besides hybrid smartwatches, including blood pressure monitors, bathroom scales, a body temperature thermometer, and a sleep tracking mat for your bed. All of these devices interact with the Withings app for your smartphone. In addition to the free app, there is a subscription option called Withings+ ($10/month or $100/year) that gives you exclusive content and has features designed to help you meet fitness and wellness objectives. I did not activate this feature, so I cannot speak of the content from personal experience. Set up of the watch and its interaction with the phone app were probably smoother than 90 percent of the things I have dealt with in the past few years. The design of the app is pleasing to the eye and lays out information in an easy to comprehend form with little to no “head scratching”. As someone who has worn a watch 24 hours a day for years, I found this Withings product with the included band to be very comfortable, even when having the band cinched up as needed for the sensors on the back of the watch case to work properly. Withings offers five varieties of bands, and although I can find no documentation, it appears this model of SW2 comes with the mid-level “Premium Sport Band”. The other bands are available as accessories and come in a wide variety of colors, materials, and finishes so that it is easy for anyone to meet their fashion wants and needs. The 38mm SW2 is a design that can be worn by both males and females with some case, dial, and band color combos more appealing to one gender or the other. It weighs in at what I would consider an average weight of 54 grams when comparing it to other watches in our household, and is way lighter on the wrist than the 119 gram auto-winding mechanical watch I have worn for the past six years. Functions on the watch are controlled by a single crown located at the typical 3 o’clock position. Pushing in on the crown will light up the grayscale OLED display and show the time and day/date in the circular window just below the 12 o’clock marker, and will also allow you to rotate the crown to change between available functions. This small display is deceiving clever in the easily legible and smoothly scrolling text that it is capable of displaying. While the watch hands and hour markers have luminous detailing, they are weak at best and virtually useless in the dark. Luckily a simple push on the crown will illuminate the time on the OLED display. The watch can also be set so that the display will light up when you lift your arm (called “Quicklook”) to view it so you don’t need both hands to see the time in low light conditions. An alarm, stopwatch, and timer functions are also available in the clock features. The OLED display will alert you to incoming texts and emails by vibrating to get your attention, then showing the sender and some detail of the incoming communication on the display by scrolling the information. Withings touts up to 30 days of battery life on a charge, but after five days of testing, my battery level had dropped to 61% after being fully charged before I started wearing it. Granted, I have maybe been playing around with its functions more than I would with normal wearing, but I don’t think it is any more use than would be given by a typical active lifestyle user in tracking a variety of workouts and activities. My guess would be that a typical user would get about 15 days of use between charges rather than 30. This is still WAY more time than the most popular smartwatch can provide between charges. The charging connection isn’t as elegant as a magnetic one, but it works well. The USB cable attached to the charging dock is 30 inches long, and the watch does not come with a charging adapter in accordance with what is typical with so many products nowadays. Besides heart rate tracking, I was most intrigued with the monitoring of sleep quality using a few different parameters such as length of light and deep sleep, awake interruptions, and regularity of bed and rise times. I did have one problem with this functionality in that a few nights there were periods of missing data. I suspect, based on time of night, that this might have been due to my iPhone performing automatic updates, so I turned off that feature and the next night there was no missing data. I need to experiment more with this before I can confirm this was the reason. The watch also has a pedometer function, and while this seems pretty rudimentary, it makes more sense having this in a watch rather than your phone, because you probably don’t carry your phone on you all day. The display shows both steps and miles (but curiously does not have you calibrate your stride length), and it also gives you the number of flights of stairs you have negotiated. Most days I would see 1 or 2 “floors” displayed even though our house has zero steps in it, even between the house and garage. I’m not sure how it is collecting this data, but it is incorrect since I was also not in any other buildings with multiple floors during these days. There were also some differences between the SW2 and the pedometer app on my phone for number of steps during these days. Withings seems to put some emphasis on the pedometer function as the watch face contains a dial just above the 6 o’clock marker that has a single hand that tracks your daily progress in meeting the step goal you have set for yourself. This daily goal can be set and changed by the user, and the hand on the small watch face dial will make one complete revolution when this goal is reached. It allows you to monitor your progress throughout the day in relation to your goal with a quick glance to the watch without having to push the crown. One feature I am still amused by is how the hands of the analog watch will move and get out of the way when you press the crown to view information if they are partially obstructing clear view of the OLED display. They then revert back to where they should be when the display fades out. This function can be turned off if you would like to. Another nice feature is that you never have to set the time of the analog hands as they get their input of correct time from the smartphone the watch is connected to. All in all I have to say I am mightily impressed with the amount of worthwhile and useful functionality Withings has compressed into the ScanWatch 2 while keeping it looking like a traditional analog timepiece. Not everyone wants to spend the day with a small computer on their wrist with a cartoon-looking watch face on it. This makes me want to get a Withings bathroom scale to complete the health data trifecta I get from the ScanWatch2 and the BPM Connect blood pressure monitor that we also have. I think anyone that is being treated medically by a physician for certain heart rhythm conditions would find one of Withings heart monitoring devices a much welcomed addition to their arsenal of medical equipment.

The ScanWatch 2 from Withings pulls from well established pedigree of previous Withings hybrid smart watches, but it is much less impressive than my ScanWatch Horizon. I’m not really sure what Withings is going for with the ScanWatch 2, it is light and discreet, so maybe its for a more casual minimalist look that goes well with business casual, but to me it looks a bit effeminate and boring on the wrist (as a man). My ScanWatch Horizon on the other hand looks and feels amazing, it actually looks like the Omega Seamaster Diver and swaps between a metal bracelet and heavy duty silicone band quickly. The ScanWatch 2 on the other hand is very, very light and the band is much flimsier. It also looks much less impressive but as mentioned it is very lightweight on the wrist. One of the biggest advantages of the ScanWatch is amazing battery life, you can go weeks without having to charge these watches because they don’t have to illuminate the screen the entire time. The charging mechanism is also not as slick as the magnet on the Apple Watch, but it is more sturdy than the ScanWatch Horizon. Lastly, the ScanWatch 2 has all of the major health related features like ECG, pulse ox, sleep tracking and step counting. The fact it can go weeks without charging makes this feature excellent as I use the sleep tracking feature pretty heavily to show pulse ox levels and sleep quality over a given month. This is a decent hybrid Smart Watch but honestly I would consider the Apple Watch for a more visual appealing device, but the real choice for a minimalist but attractive hybrid smart watch with great battery life and health tracking is the ScanWatch Horizon.

The sleek and stylish hybrid design of the Scanwatch 2 is an attractive and comfortable alternative to my bland utilitarian looking smartwatch. The primary mechanical arms accurately stay in sync with the time of my smartphone and conveniently move out of the way whenever I need to view the OLED screen on the dial. A second dial at the bottom is used to track step goals. The soft silicone band is comfortable and has plenty of holes providing good adjustability for any arm size without requiring separate large or small bands.   To set up the watch, I had to download the Withings app, create an account, set app permissions on my phone, and pair the watch to the app/phone. The watch wakes by pressing the crown, which is also used for navigation. The crown was one of the first cons I personally encountered with the watch. It’s small and hard to grasp, especially with large fingers or long nails. It also frequently spins a little too much before advancing to the next menu item, requires multiple presses, and doesn’t feel as responsive as my other smartwatches. Battery life is phenomenal and easily one of the best features of the watch. The Scanwatch 2 is designed to run 30 days between charges. After a week of continuous use day and night, it’s nowhere close to needing a charge yet. This is a welcome relief from the daily or every other day charging I typically perform with other watches. Certain features that I use, like sleep blood oxygen tracking, can shorten battery life, but it is still excellent even with the feature enabled.   The SW2 can receive notifications for calls, texts, email, and other apps. Incoming notifications cause the watch to vibrate and an alert to flash on the OLED screen. The subject (if applicable) and body text of messages and/or email scroll across the OLED screen. Alerts and caller ID info for incoming calls also scrolls across the screen but calls must be answered on the handset. The scrolling text works well in most instances, but it can be a little fast to read in lengthier messages and I cannot reply directly from the watch. Despite these limitations, the notifications are still handy for alerting purposes. I seldom answer calls or reply to texts and email from my watch anyhow, even while wearing watches capable of doing so. Wellness features are my primary interest in a smartwatch and the Scanwatch 2 offers a bevy of useful wellness features that all work reliably. The step counter, mileage, and elevation tracking seem fairly accurate and reveal no major discrepancies when compared to my other devices. The heart rate monitor is also seemingly accurate, displaying the same pulse as other devices I used to confirm accuracy. The Withings app workout tracking is more in-depth than the standard fitness tracking options on my phone and other smartwatch. It provides a ton of useful data, including body temperature changes during workouts. One sore spot for me is that there is no built-in GPS tracking for running or hiking. The watch relies on the nearby phone for GPS tracking.   Here are my thoughts on the features I use most on the Scanwatch 2:   ECG: The ECG is my primary feature of interest in any smartwatch. The ECG function in the Scanwatch 2 is a little cumbersome initially. It requires covering the entire dial with my hand, so I don’t see any real-time countdown or pulse frequency.  Also, unlike other smartwatches and personal ECG devices, the Scanwatch 2 requires a review of my ECG results before the ECG feature is unlocked and fully activated. This supposedly varies by state. As part of the review, my name, DOB, state of residence, and first ECG reading were sent to a third-party health partner for approval. I was also given the option to provide a phone number for further discussions as well. I could take additional ECGs while awaiting the review to complete but was unable to see any ECG results until then. I submitted my ECG for approval in the evening and it was approved by the following afternoon. After approval, all ECG results were available. Like the other features, ECG results were consistent with my other devices.   Blood Oxygen: The SpO2 meter is another feature that I frequently use. Like the ECG, it requires covering the entire dial with my other hand. There is no live status displayed on the app, so I must wait for and trust the haptic feedback to indicate the start and finish of a reading. If a bad reading is measured, the watch will say try again, but I won’t know this until removing my hand to check. I tested simultaneously with a dedicated SpO2 meter on the index finger of the same arm as the watch. The results were consistent among multiple readings taken using the watch alongside two different dedicated SpO2 meters.   Sleep: Sleep tracking is solid on the Scanwatch 2 and provides comprehensive sleep data, although not quite as comprehensive as my primary sleep wearable. I wore the Scanwatch alongside that other sleep tracking wearable device to test accuracy. My other device is my go-to sleep tracker and in addition to being the most comfortable wearable device during sleep, it has also proven to be rock-solid reliable. The sleep measurements for both devices are usually close or identical in most categories. Both reflect practically the same duration, sleep stages, interruptions, and sleep quality. The nightly sleep scores for both are also typically close. Where the Scanwatch falls slightly short of the other wearable is that it doesn’t differentiate between REM sleep and deep sleep. It lumps them both together as a single category. It also doesn’t track and record breathing interruptions that may indicate possible sleep apnea or other sleep-related breathing issues. It merely records the overnight average blood oxygen level. This could still possibly help reveal a potential issue, but I prefer being alerted to actual breathing interruptions that occurred during sleep. It also doesn’t currently record heart rate variance like the other device. I’ve read that HRV is a forthcoming feature on the watch in Q4 2023, but the feature isn’t currently implemented as of the writing of this review. Although I prefer my ring wearable overall for sleep comfort, the Scanwatch 2’s svelte form factor is more comfortable and less obtrusive than my other smartwatches during sleep. It never interfered with sleep once, even when I slept with my watch clad wrist tucked underneath my head as I often do. It is the next most comfortable sleep wearable after my ring.   App: The app is where the Scanwatch 2 shines brighter than a lot of the competition. The watch does not rely on a generic shared mainstream watch app like the numerous other differently branded watches I’ve tried in the past. As a result, the Withings app offers many useful features not typically found in generic watch apps, and the watch itself works fine with the app and has so far remained free of weird glitches and some of the other issues that plagued other watches in the past. The app is laid out nicely and has an intuitive and user-friendly user interface that is easy to navigate. It is similar in layout and presentation to the health app on my phone, which gave it a familiar feel and made it easy for me to navigate right from the beginning. A Withings+ subscription unlocks many extra wellness features, but the most important features are included and unlocked at no cost. That’s the one area where the Scanwatch trounces my other sleep wearable. The other device is practically useless without a paid subscription.   Cons: I previously mentioned the dial and lack of built-in GPS, but another con is the watch having no sort of built-in tracker or locator. I misplaced the watch briefly and had a tough time finding it. Aside from these minor cons, I don’t have any major issues or shortcomings with the watch.   The stylish Withings Scanwatch 2 is a welcome departure from my bland everyday smartwatch. I like my other watch and the useful wellness features it offers, but I don’t like the bland design. The Scanwatch 2 is attractive and unobtrusive enough to wear with formal wear or other nice outfits and offers a refreshing change of styling without sacrificing notifications and recording wellness data. It still handles all my usual smartwatch needs but looks a lot more stylish while doing so.

As an avid early adopter of things that interest me in tech, smartwatches always peaked my interest because I have a large collection of normal analog and digital watches, which only one other is a smartwatch in my collection, which was not my cup of tea. Keep in mind, I am pretty familiar with smartwatches. I mean my first one was the Pebble and the new models that come after it. The reason I loved them was because it did the simple things well and they improved on it. Fast forward to the present day, I have dabbled in a multitude in different types of smartwatches and some were dreadful and some were ok, but it just didn't give me what I wanted and needed in smartwatch. When the withings came out with it's second release, I had to test it out. One major factor for me was the battery life. I am a heavy user and I do not necesarily need notifications on everthing that my phone is handling, but you can choose what you want. The box is very unassuming and actually, is very minimal and I have to admit, I didn't have high hopes looking at the box. However, upon unboxing everything, especially the watch itself, it seem more and more promising. First thing I did was to set up the watch and charger and charged it to full, which really didn't take much time at all. While I was waiting, I went to my app store and downloaded the Withings App which is actually called the Withings Health Mate. There is a QR code to scan, but I wanted to see if it was hard to search for in the Google App store and it was. The icon had changed and the app name is not intuitive that it was for the Scanwatch 2. Before getting into the software, I have to mention the quality of the hardware. First the watch band you get does not seem like an afterthought. I have the 39mm version which comes with 18mm wide watch bands. I have quite a few in my collection, so I was able to simply swap out the factory band, which is not bad at all by the way. But because I am a horologist, this is what I normally do. The case is polished and the top and bottom have what is called wired lugs for your straps. I am glad they didn't go proprietary on the straps to the case, this is a great feature for me. The face of the dial is very dressy, so that would really be my critique here. I am a very casual dresser, even at work, so this kind of works, but I normally wear dive and field watches to work. The indices are polished as well and you can see that the applied indices are nicely done and plays with light very well and makes the watch scream quality, which is is for the retail price. Then you have the registers and what looks to be complications located on the 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock positions. The bottom is not a seconds or stopwatch counter that may think it would be, rather it is your step counter. The top register is the smart in the smart watch here. Next I would mention the crown is very responsive and large enough to manuver. There seems to be a speaker openings on that side as well. That is just for the alarm sounds. There is no microphone and speaker to take calls. It can notify you that calls are coming in, which is all I need really. And finally the face of the watch is covered by a sapphire glass. Which, in my opinion, suprised me, because even some watches I own have mineral crystal or acrylic. So this was a welcomed suprise. I could have stopped there and been happy with this watch. However, the fitness part of the watch really shines through. It can integrate with some health accounts that you can choose, but the Withings app is nothing to sneeze at. I mean the oxygen sensor, the EKG and sleep monitoring are well done. You can add on a ton other features if you want, which you actually get free for a few months to try out. I didn't feel the need for it at this point, so I didn't add that my daily usage. Then to top it off, the battery seems to live up to its claim so far. I took this watch with me to Vegas for almost a week and did not charge it. By the time I got home, the battery meter read 83%. And I have a lot of notifications come through, which the Withings handled very well, until it goes over a certain number of unread notifications, then it gives up lol. But I think a normal person would be fine. I am what is classified as a power user in a sense. But this watch took a bunch and works pretty well. One other thing that did not see or could not find is a back button or feature. I mean once I am in a menu, I cannot seem to go back to the main screen and I have to wait until the screen shuts off. Would I recommend it? Well it is a high price compared to the other name brands out there. However, the entire package is well worth it. I have seen on their site that there is a larger version and is a dive watch look that really looks like the part. That goes to 100mm water resistance. Where this version can only go 50m. No, this watch will not show your notfications in hi-def, but do you really need it to? It doesn't show you driving directions, change your radio or audio tracks. But it's not built for that. This is a watch that tells time and also notifys you. Then you have the great fitness features it provides, whithout paying more of a subscription. I mean if you enjoy the tools and are looking for more detailed information for your health, I am all for it. But that isn't for me. And for others it may. So yes, I would recommend this to others!

Withings I will start my review with the charging port. I appreciate the forethought in this charging port, because my last watch just sat on a magnetic cube, and would often times be knocked off or not be charging. This is not the case you actually have to click in the watch to charge it, which creates a secure mounting. The look of the watch is something I’m absolutely infatuated with. I had Movado watches in the past, and this style reminds me of an elegant Mavado watch. The band not so much but they offer plenty of options to upgrade the look in style. I have a phone that will connect with this watch and I’m able to get emails text messages track my workouts alarms anything you can do with the other techie watches. So far, this is my favorite watch, and I’m pretty loyal to a very popular brand if you know what I mean. Going forward this will be my Watch of choice. The only thing I’m not a fan of is the watch hands will sometimes be in the way of the small viewing screen for my messages emails and what not but other than that i have no complaints. Oh, and the full charge 30 days I am confident that if you don’t use all of your apps to connect to your watch, you will get 30 days I am running about 3+ weeks and I’m using this phone to the full extent

The Withings ScanWatch 2 is a beautiful looking watch that is packed with smart features to help give you a base line for your health so it can help you improve it. Fit and Feel: The Withings ScanWatch 2 has a flawless build with no imperfections anywhere. One of the things that I didn’t see from the pictures or even really think about was how the roundedness of the watch gave it a smooth feel at all angles, this make it so much easier to wear in comparison to basically all smart watches. The rotary dial has a great click when pressed and works instantly without any lag. The app is perfectly designed to be helpful and give you all the information you could possibly need. Withings also can share your data across different devices/apps (google fit) to help give you a better picture of your overall health. For someone that is new to smartwatchs the Withings app has a card style layout which provides detailed information on how to better use the product and improve your health, these articles/videos made learning about the watch and its features effortless. Battery Life: This is by far one of the best things about this watch, I have had everything on (heart rate/sleep tracking/temperature/step counting/workout tracking/GPS… etc) and over the course of a week the watch has dropped roughly 2-4% a day. Now given this pace it is possible roughly 3+ weeks without charge and that is absolutely mind blowing for comparison most other smart watches give you at best 5 days. The greyscale portion of the watch allows for such extended battery life and is easily readable in the sun anywhere. Tracking: When it comes to tracking footsteps the ScanWatch 2 does a good job, as with most smart watches steps taken vary 5-10% on the actual amount which is a given since the motion of your arm is used as a way to count the steps. I did notice that the watch wasn’t easily fooled by car trips taken/golf cart/bike rides when calculating step count which was great. The sleep tracking on the ScanWatch 2 is also very nice , I wouldn’t say it’s the best but its definitely better than average. The only spot on the sleep tracking the watch falls a bit behind is when you wake up and try to/go right back to sleep, this isn’t always counted as a awake time. Heart rate tracking was the same as the step counting meaning if varied 5% from the actual numbers I got from other devices. The automatic workout feature worked really well, I was surprised that it picked up exercises which lasted less than 10 minutes. Now the watch was not able to differentiate what the activity was but sensing a workout was happening was impressive. There are many other tracking features (EGC/Blood Oxygen/Sleep Blood Oxygen/Sleep Breathing Disturbances) to give you a picture of your health and provide you with guidance on how to improve your health. Overall: The ScanWatch 2 is a great product that helps give you a great baseline for your overall health.. The ScanWatch 2 is something just keeps on going and going and from the information provided by the company it only gets better the more you use it. This is easily the only smartwatch I have ever found that I could recommend up to this point.