1. Opening

In recent years, with people's attention to the topic of health and the development of intelligent electronic devices, bracelets have gradually attracted more and more people's attention. Many people pay attention to the bracelet, either because of its health functions such as step recording and sleep statistics, or because of its telephone and SMS reminding functions, or because it supports "special skills" such as card swiping and payment, like the bracelet swiping. However, according to the official data of the bracelet swiping, as of the time when the author submitted this trial report, The functions of brushing the bracelet, such as bus/subway and payment, currently only support Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. What I want to evaluate today is the non payment national universal version of brushing the bracelet's second-generation gemstone. In the process of evaluating various functions, the author will also carry a simple comparison with the other bracelets I currently have, I hope this article can provide you with a purchase reference.

▼ Evaluation environment

Mobile phone model: iPhone 6

Mobile phone system: IOS 9.3.5

Bracelet App: Brush Bracelet V6.0.0

Firmware version: 9000

During the evaluation, all available functions of the bracelet (call reminder, SMS reminder, smart alarm clock, long sitting reminder, etc.) are turned on.

2. Packaging and appearance

The following figure is the packing list of the second-generation brush bracelet. From left to right, it is the instruction manual, charger, main body of the bracelet, and packing box.

As a substitute for traditional watches, the bracelet also inherits the significance of watches as hand ornaments to some extent. Therefore, whether a bracelet is worth buying or not, the appearance of the bracelet is undoubtedly very important. The second generation jewel brush bracelet uses a round dial. The official claims that the dial surface uses diamond nano coating technology, which is anti slip and wear-resistant. However, the author has two small gouges on the dial surface during 10 days of use, although it does not affect the use.

The wrist strap of the bracelet is made of medical grade TPU material. The author wears it almost all day long during use, and has not found any skin allergy. What should be commended here is that the second-generation watch belt buckle of the brush bracelet uses two metal buckles (as shown in the figure below), which not only ensures that users can easily buckle the watch buckle, but also ensures the fastness and durability of the buckle.

▼ Round or square?

Many people will have questions when buying bracelets. Is it a round dial or a square one? There are various shapes of bracelets on the market, but they can be roughly divided into the following types: round, square, strip, and other shapes. Although Apple Watch almost leads the watch with square dial into a fashion, after all, traditional watches have always been round in people's impression, so I personally like to brush the round style of the second generation of bracelets. However, the appearance itself is radish and eggplant, and each has its own preferences. Therefore, we will not comment on the pros and cons here. You can see which shape of bracelet you prefer according to the above comparison pictures.

3. Endurance

After talking about the appearance, let's talk about the endurance of the bracelet. Why should I put the endurance in this position? In my opinion, the endurance of the bracelet should be second only to the appearance, and even the first concern. In fact, I bought a bracelet with a name beginning with F through the crowdfunding of a treasure (saying the full name may violate the rules of publishing articles, so I will only mention the initial letter). But the bracelet could only last for 1-2 days at that time. Although it was also a round dial, and although it also had the function of heart rate detection, in view of its very short duration, I decided to transfer it later.

In the era of intelligence, the life of smart phones can only last for one or two days, which we can tolerate. After all, mobile phones are a necessity. We use them every day to answer and make calls, chat on WeChat, read news, and play games. However, bracelets are different from mobile phones. They are not a necessity, but more like functional accessories, So if a bracelet can only last for 3 days, you should always remember to charge an accessory, which is absolutely unacceptable. (Of course, many users of smart watches will be indifferent to the endurance)

The endurance of the second generation of brush bracelet is officially 15 days. According to the author's test, when the bracelet is fully charged, it turns on various available functions (call reminder, SMS reminder, smart alarm clock, long sitting reminder, etc.), and finally persists for 12 days. Although this may be related to the number of calls, SMS messages and usage habits of everyone, and there is a little difference with the official 15 days, the author believes that even if it is 12 days, It is also completely within the acceptable range.

4. Functional experience

First, look at the display screen of the bracelet. Although the appearance of the bracelet is round, the real display screen of the bracelet is actually a 0.66-inch square display screen. There are three interfaces in the bracelet screen, respectively displaying time, date and steps. Touch the bottom of the bracelet screen to cycle between the three interfaces.

However, it should be noted that the display effect of the bracelet is OK in the indoor or other dark light conditions after the author's trial. In the outdoor strong light environment, the information displayed on the bracelet is almost invisible. This problem is also common to almost all electronic displays at present. Now there are some bracelets with Memory LCD displays on the market, which can still be clearly displayed in strong light, and this screen will not consume too much power even if it is always on.

▼ Call display

When a phone call comes in, the bracelet will synchronously display the caller's name, and in the App, you can set a delay reminder time of 3 seconds to 30 seconds.

▼ SMS reminder

As can be seen from the figure below, the actual display screen of the bracelet is not large, so when reminding by SMS, only the name of the sender of the SMS can be displayed, but not the specific content of the SMS.

▼ Reminding of sitting for a long time

Brushing bracelet also supports long sitting reminder, and in mobile app, long sitting reminder can not only set repetition date, start time, end time, but also set interval time.

▼ Alarm clock

The alarm clock function of the bracelet is often useful for people with children at home. They are afraid of being late for work in the morning, and they are afraid that the mobile phone alarm will wake up the children, so they can use the alarm clock function of the bracelet.

▼ Reminders from WeChat and other applications?

At present, brushing the bracelet only supports calls and SMS alerts for the time being, and does not support WeChat QQ、 Even other mobile phone applications remind us whether the official support will be given later.

▼ Stability of Bluetooth connection

Since most of the bracelets on the market are connected by Bluetooth and mobile phones, the stability of Bluetooth connection is directly related to the feeling of using the bracelet. The author has used another bracelet before, and the connection effect with the mobile phone is very poor. It is often disconnected, and after disconnection, it often does not automatically connect. As a result, every time I see the connection disconnected, I have to touch the bracelet to connect, which makes me feel very bad.

But after the author's test, The Bluetooth stability of brushing the bracelet is very good. Every time the bracelet is disconnected from the mobile phone due to a long distance, when the normal distance is restored, the bracelet can be automatically connected. The user does not care about the disconnection of the bracelet at all, and can give 9.8 points if scoring;

▼ Step recording

God horse? How can I say the step recording function of the bracelet now?

In fact, the reason why we put the function of step recording and sleep at the end of this section is because in my opinion, the function of step recording and sleep is not practical for most people. Most of the time, we just have a symbolic look, oh, how many steps I have taken today. Oh, how long did I sleep yesterday. Or just to rank the steps in QQ and WeChat.

As for the accuracy of step recording, the author also briefly tested the brush bracelet, and the result is:

● For normal walking, the bracelet can basically record steps accurately. Although there will be some differences in the number of steps, they are within the acceptable error range.

● For the arm swinging movement when walking is simulated in a static state, the bracelet will be mistaken for walking, resulting in step recording (in fact, most of the bracelets on the market have this problem, because it is an artificial intentional writing after all, I think most people will not do this kind of action every day, so this problem can be ignored temporarily).

● In a sitting state, such as sitting in front of a desk during normal work, the arm may be just tapping the keyboard and holding things, but in this case, brushing the bracelet will expose a problem, which will produce many steps, and there is no good recognition of arm movements. In this case, many good bracelet brands on the market will not have this problem, Therefore, I hope the official can update and improve this later.

▼ Sleep statistics

Sleep statistics was once one of the core functions of the bracelet. First, it should be pointed out that the sleep statistics function of the second generation of brushing bracelet is automatic, and the user's sleep time can be automatically counted without other operations on the bracelet or in the App. And the author has indeed met the bracelet that needs manual operation, or the Fitband F4 bracelet mentioned above. Before going to bed every day, users need to click Start Sleep on the bracelet or App, and then click End Sleep after waking up, so that the bracelet can count the sleep status of the previous night. Of course, Fitband F4 is not the only one that needs such manual operation. At present, some bracelets on the market also need similar manual operation.

As for the accuracy of sleep time statistics, the author tested that if a user wears a bracelet all day, the bracelet can generally calculate a sleep time, which is quite accurate, basically the time when he wakes up in the morning and the time when he sleeps the night before. However, under certain circumstances, the bracelet may also have statistical errors. For example, if you put the bracelet on the table after 10 p.m. and put it on when you go to bed at 12 p.m., the bracelet will show that you have fallen asleep by 10 p.m. Of course, for these special cases, in fact, there are inaccuracies in the statistics of all major bracelets, so we don't have to worry too much. After all, the sleep time counted by bracelets can only provide us with a simple data more often, and no one will really use it as accurate medical data.

▼ Turn the wrist to light the screen

I don't know whether it is to save money or other technical reasons. At present, the second generation of brushing bracelets does not support turning the wrist to light the screen. If users want to light the screen, they need to touch the touch area a little lower in the middle of the screen. If the bracelet is worn in the left hand, and it is inconvenient to touch things in the right hand, it will be a bit awkward to see the time on the bracelet. Here is a small suggestion. I hope the official can add the function of turning the wrist to light the screen, and provide a switch in the app to allow users to turn this function on or off. Further, you can add a time period for turning the wrist to light the screen.

The above figure is the picture in the official introduction, just to show you the location of the touch point. What needs to be added is that the four interfaces switch on the payment version bracelet, while the non payment national version only has the first three interfaces.

▼ WeChat sports/QQ health binding

Currently, brushing the bracelet supports the data binding function of WeChat Sports and QQ Health. Click the user's avatar icon in the main interface of the app, and select WeChat Sports or QQ Health from the menu that slides out on the left, then you can synchronize the steps recorded by the bracelet to WeChat and QQ. However, the function of writing Apple Health is not supported at present. I hope you can consider adding it later.

5. About payment, bus/subway

This time, the author got the non payment national version of the second-generation bracelet, which is simply the version without payment function. Therefore, in the above functional experience and the following APP experience, no experience evaluation will be conducted on the bracelet payment, recharge and other links.

6. Mobile APP experience

Just a few days before the author submitted this trial report, Brush Bracelet officially released the V6.0.0 App for the IOS system. The interface of the new App is much more neat and beautiful than that of the previous version. Let's briefly introduce the main interface and functions of the App.

To open the app for the first time, you need to register an account with your mobile phone number or use WeChat to log in.

Then click Settings in "Service" → "Device Management" to bind the bracelet. After the bracelet is bound, you can set some bracelets in "Service" → "Device Management", such as call reminder, alarm clock, long sitting reminder, SMS reminder and other functions.

Now let's take a look at the main interface of the App. There are three navigation buttons below the main interface, corresponding to three main function pages, namely: My/Discovery/Service.

● Under the "My" page, slide your finger downward to synchronize the bracelet data, synchronize the data in the bracelet to the App, and the system will have a synchronization interface to inform the user of the synchronization progress. This is explained separately because most bracelets provide a similar synchronization progress interface to tell users the specific progress of synchronization. The only one of the four bracelets is the Evian i7, which has no synchronization progress function. If users want to view the steps and sleep time, they often need to click in and out repeatedly for many times before the final synchronized data can be displayed in the App, which is really unacceptable.

Click the three horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the screen to pop up the menus of "Bus Query", "Health Report" and "Share". These specific functions will not be repeated here.

● On the "Discovery" page, there are mainly some official health, challenge, reward and other activities. Users can participate according to their preferences.

● On the "Service" page, the functions related to the bracelet, including the above mentioned binding/unbinding bracelet, message reminder settings, etc.

As compared with other bracelets, the bracelet features bus/subway and card payment, so the bracelet app also provides some auxiliary functions related to transportation. For example, "Bus Query", "Bus Coming" and other functions (actually, "Bus Query" is a sub function of "Bus Coming").

Through the author's practical operation experience, the route planning, as well as the query of specific bus lines and stations in "Here Comes a Car" are very useful. When users input related words, the system will automatically list the names related to the words for users to choose, which is very convenient. The "Nearby Line" function is used to remind the arrival time and the last/next stop of the nearby bus lines. Unfortunately, during my experience, I found that the system may not support the bus lines in Xi'an at present, and all of them are in the "not yet open" status.

In addition, the bracelet also has functions such as reading and hot news.

In the main interface, click the round avatar in the upper left corner to enter the user interface, and then click "Settings" in the lower left corner of the user interface to enter the setting interface.

▼ App power consumption

Why mention the power consumption of the app separately? Because the author has worn a bracelet before, one version of it has a very serious power consumption, such as running the app in the background for one day, and checking the power consumption of the past 24 hours in the mobile phone the next day. The mobile app of that bracelet actually accounts for about 50% of the power consumption, which is a bit scary.

However, according to the author's test, the power consumption of the bracelet app does not show this phenomenon. It is completely within the normal range. After running the bracelet app in the background for a long time, the 24-hour power consumption is basically about 3%.

7. Waterproof

The official said that the waterproof level of the second-generation brush bracelet is IP67, which means to prevent short-term immersion. Although the official said that it can be worn when swimming, the author still suggested that those who really bought the bracelet should not wear it when bathing or swimming, because many electronic products are actually not waterproof to the extent claimed, If you really wear the bracelet when bathing and swimming, you will lose more than you gain.

8. Charging

The charging of the brush bracelet is clip in charging. Just aim the bracelet and put it into the charging base in the form of clip. The author has tried several times, and can basically find the right charging position at one time.

9. Summary

Through the use of the second generation non paid national version of the brush bracelet, it was found that the bracelet was beautiful and light in appearance, and its various functions were relatively stable, without obvious problems affecting the use, The app has a clean interface and detailed functions. At present, no problems have been found with the app. However, during the evaluation process, some areas need to be improved. Here are the advantages and disadvantages of the bracelet:

▼ Advantages

● Bluetooth connection is relatively stable and can be automatically connected after disconnection.

● The round dial is made of glass, and I feel that the appearance is very high.

● The functions such as message reminder and the functions in the supporting mobile phone app are relatively stable, and there is no obvious problem affecting the use.

▼ Disadvantages

● You can also take steps when sitting still.

● The non payment national version has a slightly single feeling function.

▼ Suggestions

● It is hoped that the data of the bracelet can be synchronized to Apple Health in the future.

● It is hoped that the function of turning the wrist to light the screen can be added, and a switch to turn this function on/off can be added in the App, and it is better to add another time period.

▼ Is it recommended to buy?

My advice on whether to recommend buying the second-generation brush bracelet is as follows:

● If you are in one of the cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, then I highly recommend you to buy it. After all, the bracelet has stable functions, and it also has special functions such as bus/subway, card payment, etc. It is convenient to recharge, get on and off the bus/subway;

● If you are not in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, but also have a strong preference for round dials, you are still recommended to buy this non payment national universal version. After all, the round dials at this price are not so stable in function;

● If you are not in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and you are not so obsessed with the round dial, I suggest you consider making a decision later, because as of the time when the author submitted this test report, the official store of Brush Bracelet has no offer for the "non payment national universal version", and the price will be available in the future. If you refer to the price again, will you think that the non payment version has some single functions, Then decide whether to buy.

Finally, I would like to thank you for reading my trial report in your busy schedule. I am the first time to issue a report on evaluation, and I hope you can put forward your noble opinions on the problems.