I read an analysis post written by a car enthusiast about how to buy a car the other day, There is a sentence in it that I think it is very necessary to share with you "If a model is produced and updated in an orderly and uninterrupted manner, such as Honda Accord and Toyota Camry, these models have been produced and sold for eight or nine generations at present, then these models must be very excellent in terms of reputation, quality, durability, and residual value of used cars." At first glance, this sentence may have nothing to do with today's experience of Xiaohei 3, but you should find it very reasonable after carefully tasting it. Looking back on the various electrical appliances, digital devices and other products that have been updated in a very orderly way are now popular with consumers, and of course, it is also the first choice for consumers to recommend others to buy. Taking smart watches as an example, the first two years were the outbreak of smart bracelets and watches in China. Many brands that had never heard of were competing to launch smart bracelets and watches based on the strong communication ability of the Internet. This is less than two years ago. If you can go back to look for smart bracelets and watch brands in the last two years, you will be surprised to find that there are only a few brands that are still changing. At the beginning, many brands that boasted about how excellent their products were and how gorgeous their appearance were mostly disappeared, All that remains is to complain about doorless consumption or products that are put in drawers to eat ashes.

The author said so much nonsense just to remind everyone not to be impulsive when buying any product (especially new products). It is not too late to buy these products after a year of market reflection and public praise. After all, everyone buys something to make it fun or convenient for them. It is not good to buy a product carelessly and feel angry when you come back. Speaking of which, today's protagonist, Xiao Hei 3, should not introduce its history too much. After all, the above nonsense is not worth mentioning. Next, we will directly enter the experience link.

brief introduction

Xiaohei 3 is the third generation product of Weile brand smart watch, which mainly continues the four characteristics of the previous two generations of products: high endurance, high waterproof, constantly bright screen and excellent adaptability stability. At the same time, it adds color screen, touch control operation, competition level heart rate measurement and more superior endurance (40 days). In terms of the screen, it is the previously acclaimed 1.28 inch Sharp Memory LCD screen with 176 × 176 resolution, but this time it is replaced by a color version. The battery capacity is 270 mAh, and the battery life can reach an amazing 40 days with the very power-saving Memory LCD screen. The body size is 46.21 × 35.66 × 10.85mm, and the weight is 36g. In terms of function, the small black 3 also retains the 5ATM waterproof of the previous two generations of products; Call and SMS alerts; Mobile application (WeChat, QQ, etc.) reminders; Sleep monitoring; Kinescope; Loss prevention and other functions, while adding touch color screen, heart rate detection, color dial and other new functions. In terms of appearance, the Xiaohei 3 has changed the disadvantage that the previous two generations of products have a strong sense of plastic and are too similar to electronic watches. A circle of DLC type carbon drilling film metal case is added around the dial, which makes the Xiaohei 3 look more calm and generous.

Packaging and appearance

The packing box is still the all black matte paper box as always. Since the Xiaohei 3 is a color memory LCD screen, this time the WeLoop logo of the Xiaohei 3 features red, yellow and blue color bars to emphasize this feature.

Netizens who often pay attention to Weile should find such details. Their packaging design will always surprise people on some small details. After opening the lid of the small black 3 box, the first thing that came into sight was a hollowed out WELOOP envelope. Although the packaging design would not bring any improvement to the product in terms of function, it could make users feel full of sincerity.

One watch body; One special charging case; One micro USB charging line; One manual and one quality assurance card; A pair of standard watch bands.

Every user of Xiaohei will sigh that because Xiaohei's battery life is too long, he often forgets where to put the charging seat, which may be a pleasant worry. The charging socket on the Xiaohei 3 is not universal with the previous two generations. I hope the manufacturer can improve this as soon as possible. After all, it is really troublesome to only use the dedicated charging socket for each generation of products. Weile is only equipped with a charging stand for the Xiaohei 3. The micro USB charging line and charging head can be used with ordinary 5V mobile phone charging lines and devices.

In terms of watchband, the Xiaohei 3 still adopts the standard width of 20mm, which can be adapted to the watchband of ordinary watches, and is also common with the watchbands of the previous two generations. The sliding buckle type watch strap disassembly mode can not only ensure good fixation of the watch strap, but also take into account the convenience of changing the watch strap.

The addition of heart rate detection is the biggest upgrade item of Xiaohei 3. With the advantages of Hei Weile in motion data algorithm, Xiaohei 3 can bring competition level heart rate measurement to users. From the side image, it can be seen that the sensor has two bulges, and the top bulge should be the wearing sensor. If the sensor does not detect that there is an object covered, the heart rate detection will not work. The purpose of this must be to save electricity.

The addition of a circle of DLC diamond carbon film metal case around the dial and 2.5D super wear-resistant curved glass gives the appearance of the small black 3 a sense of fashion, which may be more acceptable to users of the previous two generations. However, users who are used to seeing smart watches with avant-garde shapes such as motorcycle 360 may still complain about the appearance of the small black 3. Although radish and cabbage have their own preferences, if you have really experienced the endurance and stability of the Little Black 3, the appearance of the watch will no longer be the first condition for you to buy a smart watch.

The logo on the front of the dial is also the place where the previous two generations of users complained a lot. This time, Xiaohei 3 made the logo very hidden. If it was not observed deliberately, no one would have noticed the WeLoop logo below the dial.

The small black 3 has added touch function, but it still has a physical button on the left and right of the body. When I first got the Xiaohei 3, I had a question about why the physical keys should be added since there is a touch function. After a few days of actual experience, I finally realized the role of the physical keys. First, when the operating fingers have sweat or water and the main body of the Xiaohei 3 is wet, the touch function will be confused or invalid in this state, At this time, the role of entity keys is played incisively and exquisitely. It can be seen that Weile's engineers are definitely not a group of ordinary designers sitting in the office doing design. Only designers who have actually experienced the user's feelings can make such humanized designs.

At present, the watchband on sale is only the standard black hard silicone watchband that we have experienced this time. From the promotional pictures provided by the official Weile, the following Xiaohei 3 will also add a variety of color or other styles of watch bands to meet the needs of different occasions and people. The inside of the standard watchband is designed with a sweat slot with a deeper scale. However, from the current experience, the addition of the sweat slot has not greatly helped the wearing experience. In fact, the standard watchband gives people an uncomfortable feeling of hard material and excessive rotation friction when wearing, which is slightly serious after the exercise. Hopes that similar situations will not occur with other watchbands in the future.

Although the wearing experience of the standard watch band is slightly poor, the anti cocking buckle design at the tail of the watch band has to be commended. Such details have not appeared in many ordinary or smart watches, but Weile has already added them to Xiaohei 2. Such a seemingly dispensable watch buckle will prevent users from having the trouble of unnecessary watch strap cocking up and blocking when wearing the small black 3.

Watch end interface

The watch end interface has two operation logics. The first is to directly slide up and down on the time display interface to view the time, weather and movement of the day.

Another logic is that you need to press the entity key on the right side to enter the function menu interface when the time interface is in the state of lifting the hand to unlock. In this interface, you can select the interface by sliding the left and right screens and by using the left and right entity keys. However, you can only click the screen to confirm the options. The icons of the function interface need a little time to adapt to the first contact users. The function interface includes previous message viewing, heart rate detection, running or riding mode selection and recording, stopwatch and countdown, music control, downloaded dial selection, phone search and system settings. In a word, the operation interface of the Xiaohei 3 watch is simple, intuitive, highly logical, non repetitive and wordy.

Mobile APP

Corresponding to the introduction interface of Xiaohei 3 watch terminal, the APP terminal interface has details in the brief. The whole interface looks simple at first, but in the simple interface, you can continue to click details to see more detailed data or content. The main interface consists of four parts: target, sport, equipment and individual.

The "target" interface mainly makes overall statistics of the overall movement data and time-sharing movement status of a day. In addition, it can view the movement data of any day through the calendar table. In addition, it can also view the weekly, monthly and annual data statistics through the APP data sorting by clicking the bar button in the upper right corner.

The "Sport" interface records the detailed data of running and riding status separately initiated by the watch end.

The "Device" interface can set various settings for Xiaohei 3, such as which messages to push, alarm clock settings, and downloading dials.

The "personal" interface looks similar to the target interface data, but this interface mainly expresses the official statistics and explanation of Weile on the user's movement.

Functional experience

Screen effect

For Xiaohei 3, the color Memory LCD screen is what I most expect. The actual experience is as follows:

1. Brightness:

First of all, the viewing effect in the sun and at night is as excellent as that of the previous two generations of products, and the effect is not affected by the color screen at all. The stronger the light in the daytime, the clearer it will be. The effect is also clear after adding backlight at night.

2. Granularity:

When I didn't get Xiaohei 3, I was always worried that the pixels would increase in theory because it uses a color screen. However, after actually getting the product, I found that there was a slight improvement compared with the previous generation of products. However, this improvement was only based on the contrast of Xiaohei 2, which may only be described as greater graininess for users who first contact Xiaohei series products.

3. Color screen effect:

Everyone likes things with color, and the author is no exception. The addition of color really makes the content displayed by Xiaohei 3 more vivid and interesting. However, because the official Weile has not yet opened a custom dial, the color screen has not yet played its full role.

Waterproof effect

The 5ATM waterproof effect of Xiaohei 3 is the most reassuring one of the smartwatches that the author has ever used. When most other smartwatches only dare to claim IP (waterproof and dust-proof electronic products) waterproof, Weile's various products have already entered the professional 5ATM (waterproof against 50 meter diving) waterproof. This waterproof ability can ensure that 100% water will not enter into daily life, According to the performance of the author who has used Xiaohei 2 for a year, if he wants to get into the water, he must win the lottery first.

heart rate

At present, the products with heart rate detection in the field of smart bracelets and watches are seriously polarized. The price of Jiaming, a professional sports watch brand, is often expensive, and the price of thousands of yuan at every turn makes many ordinary users who only monitor their heart rate daily fail, The data measured by the products of other domestic brands at the hundred yuan level are ironic. The care and price control of Xiaohei 3 in heart rate detection obviously taught other brands a lesson. Xiaohei 3 provides two testing methods: resting heart rate and dynamic heart rate. In combination with Weile's professional exercise heart rate algorithm, it can be roughly judged from the actual test data curve that the reliability and accuracy of Xiaohei 3's test data are extremely high. Of course, since the accuracy of the data measured by the green light method is closely related to whether the wearing method is correct or not, we need to make the heart rate sensor press the surface of the arm to obtain more accurate test data.

clock dial

At present, a more important aspect of the application of color screen is the dial with richer colors. However, it is still the problem that users have complained about for a long time. So far, the official has not opened the function of self-made dials, and most of the dials and watches given by the official are only about 50 models. The number of such dials is obviously not enough for people who want to pursue individuality. In addition, due to the low memory of. 5MB, the Xiaohei 3 watch can only store a personalized dial other than the standard dial at one time. If other dials need to be replaced, they can only be downloaded through the mobile phone APP and then replaced to the watch.

Exercise and sleep data

Unlike the simple step counting function before Xiaohei 2, Xiaohei 3 has added a more detailed running and cycling mode. After this function is turned on at the watch end, Xiaohei 3 can record the user's heart rate, total mileage, time, average speed, burning heat and other practical data in detail according to the mobile phone GPS and its own gesture recognition sensor. Although these data may be slightly different from the data measured by professional medical equipment, it is still very helpful for ordinary users to monitor their exercise.

Message Reminder

There are still a lot of smart bracelets and watches with message reminding function in the market, but it is rare for such products as Xiaohei series to make the connection between watches and mobile phones so stable. The manufacturer's good intentions can also be seen from the models of mobile phones provided by the official Weile. At present, the mainstream mobile phone models of the mainstream mobile phone brands in the market have been adapted by the official Weile. If your mobile phone is not in the above models, the official Weile will also provide a very humanized return standard. If there is a compatibility problem, Users can return goods without reason within 7 days when the packaging and products are in good condition.

summary

Careful friends should find that the price of Xiaohei series products is getting higher and higher, and the function, stability and practicability of the products are getting better and better. The endurance time is gradually optimized from about 20 days of Xiaohei 1 to 40 days of Xiaohei 3; From Xiaohei 1 to Xiaohei 3, you can only simply count steps, record running or riding data in detail and perform professional processing, and then evolve to add heart rate function; From the black and white screen of Little Black 1 to the color screen of Little Black 3, these step by step iterations are just like the words at the beginning of the article, "Only products that are constantly and steadily iterative can bring excellent experience effects to users in terms of product quality, stability, etc.".

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