"However, rendered here in Motorola's Watch app, everything looks fun and easy! Motorola (and Polar, I guess) uses Apple's "close your rings" approach, with active minutes, steps, and calories. I particularly like that you can now use Polar's sleep tracking with a cheaper Android watch. Polar takes into account sleep time, solidity (whether or not your sleep was interrupted), and regeneration to give you a Nightly Recharge Status."
"I compared the sleep, heart rate, and stress measurements to my Oura Ring 4, and I found no big discrepancies. The Moto Watch tended to be a little bit more generous in my sleep and activity measurements (7 hours and 21 minutes of sleep instead of 7 hours and 13 minutes, or 3,807 steps as compared to 3,209), but that's usual for lower-end fitness trackers that have fewer and less-sensitive sensors."
"Whatever processor is in the watch (Motorola has conveniently chosen not to reveal this), it's just really slow to connect to satellites and iffy whenever it does. This isn't a huge deal when I'm just walking my dog or lifting weights in my living room, but it constantly cuts out when I'm outside and doesn't have the ability to fill in the blanks, as another, more expensive fitness tracker would do."
Motorola's Watch app adopts a rings-style presentation for active minutes, steps, and calories and integrates Polar sleep tracking to provide a Nightly Recharge Status based on sleep time, solidity, and regeneration. Sleep, heart rate, and stress measurements align closely with an Oura Ring 4, though the Moto Watch slightly overestimates sleep duration and step counts, consistent with lower-end trackers. Onboard GPS connects slowly, frequently drops satellites, and fails to fill gaps, producing incomplete activity recordings. The speaker reports connection loss during workouts, and the touchscreen and buttons are overly sensitive, sometimes unintentionally stopping recordings despite a lock option.
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