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Masimo — the company that got the Apple Watch banned — has unveiled its new smartwatch (www.tomsguide.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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  • Masimo, the company that sued Apple over patent infringement, has unveiled its own blood oxygen monitoring smartwatch called the Masimo Freedom.
  • The Masimo Freedom is a health-focused device that can track blood oxygen levels, hydration index, respiration rate, pulse rate variability, pulse rate, steps, and detect falls.
  • The smartwatch is currently in prototype stage and will be available for sale later this year at a price of $999.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Which is odd because I do want the health stuff, but don't want the rest of that stuff that is useless to me. I don't need the texting, music, weather, or the phone stuff - my smart phone still needs to be in bluetooth range for it to work anyway.

But I do value the ability to take a pulse, blood pressure, and count steps. It has increased my self-awareness and improved my health consciousness - small changes can make big differences. And for $40US, I found a decent watch that actually works pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Take a look at Withings.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I really like Garmin for this. Lots of models to choose from to find your niche (eg, they have running focused, scuba diving focused, or just looks like a regular watch with no gps). What's cool is their ecosystem is NOT to do much smartwatch stuff. It's all about health focus. Or maybe fitness focus I guess.

Edit: oh I reread and saw you want blood pressure. They don't do this that I know of.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Garmin is also the only fitness tracker that isn't just like explicitly selling your data. But then again who's to say that won't change tomorrow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

May I ask which watch you ended up with?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I bought a FITVII smartwatch from Amazon, (the price has gone up a bit since I ordered mine), after seeing a review of smart watches on a tech website. It was rated as their "Best Budget" -YMMV- smart watch.

A word of warning - it took over 3 months to receive the watch even though it was listed as in stock with 10pcs available. In truth I forgot about it until it showed up in the mail.....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Agreed on all accounts except for weather updates. I got my watch for the health tracking and love it for it. But I have been slowly won over by the other little things that give me info about the world at a glance but don't take me out of it. Weather and directions especially.

I always tell people I wish the watch was the smart revolution instead of the phone because it augments daily life so well while our phones so easily become a distraction (though admittedly often a welcome one).