Motorola Moto Watch 100 Smartwatch – 42mm Smartwatch with GPS for Men & Women, Up to 14 Day Battery, 24/7 Heart Rate, SpO2, 5ATM Water Resistant,…

This watch replaces a Pebble Steel that has been in use since 2016. After six years the battery in the Pebble Steel is waning. The main features I was looking for were similar water resistance, at least one week of battery life and phone media control. As for the later, the Moto 100 only provides media controls for play/pause, previous and next. The Moto Watch does not show active media from the connected mobile device. The Pebble Steel does the later as well as providing volume control. The Amazon listing for the Moto 100 says it will skip tracks or turn up the volume without needing easy access to your phone. This statement is inaccurate.

The aluminum case and overall build quality appear quite nice. The battery life is about one week and it charges in about an hour.

The PulseOx measurement system is inaccurate in a hypoxemia situation [holding your breath; pulse ox <= 90 %] when the watch reading is compared to a conventional finger style pulse ox device. The Wyze Watch 47 watch has the same deficiency.

Here are several other noteworthy items.
The magnetic coupling of the charging cable to the watch should be stronger. The cable easily becomes detached if the watch is moved. The cable will not stay connected under its own weight.
Unlike the Pebble Steel, the stopwatch will quit timing if one leaves the screen to do something else. The same holds true for the timers.
The 10 second duration of the vibration related to the alarm functionality isn’t long enough to wake me up.
The short, usually one word or partial word notifications, for example from emails, provided on large LCD touch screen isn’t detailed enough to be readily identifiable.

After six weeks of use, the lights associated with the heart rate and PulseOx measurements quit. As a result, the related dynamic health functions fail to work. The next day the watch failed completely and no longer powers up. The product has a two-year warranty. See the photo for the likely culprit.

The Motowatch support team requests numerous “quick” videos related to the watch functionality when simple photos suffice. There is nothing quick about the process of sending a 25 MB, 10 second video, [link] via email! The support team should be more considerate of the customers’ time.

After more than a week of answering emails from Motowatch and providing needless videos, the watch was replaced by eBuyNow LTD. The replacement lacks any ability to control media playback on the connected smartphone. It’s also worth noting that the magnetic attraction between the charging cable and the watch is much better on the replacement compared to the watch originally received. It’s unclear why there is such variability between presumably identical products.

I ultimately received a RMA and returned the product. It took weeks and additional emails before I finally received the promised refund from eBuyNow LTD via PayPal. During this process, eBuyNow LTD customer support claimed more than once being overwhelmed with “logistical problems”. Overall, this entire experience with the seller was very frustrating and time consuming.

I went on to purchase an Amazefit GTR 3 Pro LTD which has an OS like the Moto 100, only far better implemented. Except for the PulseOx accuracy, it has none of the faults noted here of the Moto 100.

Si lo que buscas es un smartwatch barato, de una marca reconocida, que te notifique los MSM, WhatsApp, correos, llamadas, registre tu ubicación, monitoreé tu sueño y funciones vitales aceptablemente y no deseas pagar 300 o 400 dólares por un smartwatch; este es el indicado.

Fueron muchos los comentarios negativos que leí sobre este reloj pero debo decir que hasta ahora cumplió mis expectativas salvo algunos detalles menores.

Muchos de esos comentarios negativos fueron especialmente sobre la conectividad y la sincronización con la app, se perdían las notificaciones de MMS, WhatsApp y llamadas; yo tengo un Galaxy S21 Plus y no he tenido mayores problemas al respecto, como todo aparato vinculado al Bluetooth si te alejas demasiado la conectividad se pierde pero este se vincula nuevamente cuando te acercas al dispositivo; con la última actualización de la app se ha corregido bastante las fallas de notificaciones.
Desafortunadamente también con la última actualización el reloj ya no tiene la función de control de música, aunque a decir verdad nunca me funcionó.

Si bien el anuncio dice que la durabilidad de la batería puede llegar hasta los 14 días, no creo que sea tan así; en mi caso lo he tenido que cargar cada 5 días, que en mi parecer es bastante.
Hasta la fecha he preferido no arriesgar en meterlo al agua así que no sé si realmente es resistente al agua.

Otra de las razones porque compré este smartwatch fueron sus 26 modos de deporte, especialmente el de fútbol; aquí si me ha decepcionado porque no registra la distancia más si el tiempo y las calorías quemadas; lo probé en modo Hike y en este caso si registró la distancia y la ubicación, supongo que debe mejorar la actualización del app.

El registro de sueño, ritmo cardíaco, saturacion de oxígeno, pasos son bastante aceptables.

Updating this on 1/28/2023:

I’ve been in touch with customer service about the Wheelchair activity. They tell me a fix is coming, but I haven’t seen any movement so far, and I haven’t seen a firmware or app update since November when I got the watch. I wouldn’t say I’ve given up hope yet, but if you’re a wheelchair user, I would strongly suggest that you weigh buying this watch based on what it can do now, rather than on any updates promised.

I got this as a birthday present.

Pros:

— Built-in GPS that seems both strong and accurate.

— Constant heart rate measurement

— Wheelchair activity*

Cons:

— Battery life is decent, but I can’t imagine what you’d have to do to get 2 weeks of use out of it. To use it outside on anything like a sunny day would mean turning it up to max brightness, and if I’m using it for 3 hours in an exercise session, it’s down to about 60%.

— Only a few watch faces available

— While it *has* a Wheelchair activity, when it logs the activity, it logs it as a Walk activity.

— The phone app is buggy. When I exercised for an hour and a half, I had to close and reopen the app multiple times to get the activity to sync with my phone. I would recommend syncing the watch with your phone at least every hour, to be safe.

— The call alert function of the watch alerts you to a call, but it doesn’t let you dismiss a call or answer it (say, if you have earbuds in).

If the syncing worked better, I would say this would *easily* outclass a Fitbit Charge 5 (except for answering or dismissing calls). The GPS is much more accurate, there are more exercises, and it gives you more features for the money. But I would say this does work *better* than the Charge 5 in the GPS function, and if they could fix the software, this would be an easy recommendation.