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I fully expect this to be an “I don’t think there’s any good replacement” scenario, but I’d love to hear some options. I also know that this isn’t a good time to really make expensive purchases, and I don’t plan to make the purchase, but I’d like to hear people’s thoughts and bits of knowledge on smartwatches, or fitness-tracking watches / wearables.

So what’s your non-US, non-CN (yeah I have more than just a non-US constraint) option? Anything good out there?

I know there might be a revive of the Pebble but it’s not great for fitness tracking, and there’s no plan to go in that direction for now. And it might still be a US product.

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

Oh and the activity tracking is great. The model I got (vertical) has about 2 months of battery, which is vastly better than most watches.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks for sharing! 2 months of battery life sounds amazing!

It’s a bit unfortunate that 28% of their products are manufactured in China, and, I haven’t checked, idk how transparent are they wrt this info on their product. But I will keep an eye out!

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

Oof, the privacy on the Suuntos isn’t great apparently, or at least their privacy policy isn’t. Your health data gets sent all the way to China it seems. If I assume Suunto Oy is still Finnish (it does have a Finnish address), all their affiliates listed in their privacy policy are Chinese.

Digging further, they’ve apparently been sold to Liesheng in 2022. Liesheng used to be known as “Blue Mi”, ie a subsidiary of XiaoMi, which was created to focus on vital tracking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Oooooh. Thank you for sharing that. I was not aware of that.