Sports Brand Puma Also Produces Smart Watches, But Its Performance Is Not Satisfactory.

As the third largest sportswear manufacturer in the world, Puma is a big brand. Puma Smartwatch, for short, is the company's first involvement in smart watches. The Puma Smartwatch produced by Fossil Group has a familiar parameter specification and runs Google's Wear OS.

Puma monitored the watch's movement element design and customized a deeper fitness function than the conventional Wear OS watch. But it is also one of the slowest and most comprehensive fitness functions we have ever tested, and it is very expensive.

　 Design and comfort

The appearance of Puma Smartwatch is worth praising. It is both fashionable and light, and the contrast between black and sunlight yellow has produced striking effect. This is a smart watch which is hard to ignore. It can easily remind people of Fossil Sport, but it has only one crown and no flank button on Fossil smart watch.

The smooth and rounded watch frame appears to be made of aluminum alloy, and there is a black border around the outside of the main body of the watch. It extends from the ear and cuts off parts on both sides, forming a double color appearance that attracts the eyes. And the crown is yellow, with Puma Logo on it.

The Puma Smartwatch silicone strap has a black latch, and at the end you can see the relief shape of Puma Logo. Because Puma Smartwatch is fashionable and lightweight, it can slide easily into the cuffs, and it will hardly be jammed, which may be a problem for super large watches like Diesel On Axial.

At the same time, we can see that the color matching of sunlight yellow makes it impossible to mix and match. Puma Smartwatch is not compatible with button shirts worn in the office environment, or even casual wear in bars, because this is a smart watch you want to take to run in the gym.

I hope that the silicone strap and light weight can make it more comfortable and even forget it when it is put on. But in practical use, I find that Puma Smartwatch is not very comfortable. The silicone watch with its slightly texture is harder than other silicone strap.

From the front, it tightly holds your wrist, and the wide strap ensures that it will not loose even during intense exercise. Although it is easy to change the watchband, it is easy to find a comfortable watch strap. Puma has designed four dial styles for replacement, but all of them are dull. Their design in terms of color and appearance is not superfluous, except for ubiquitous Puma signs.

And the 1.19 inch AMOLED display looks good in the shell of 44mm, which is still clear, bright and easy to read under most lighting conditions.

Puma Smartwatch has a unique appearance that matches the brand, but this appearance gives people a cheap feeling and it doesn't fit in the non sports environment. In some markets, due to the lack of choice of platinum, rosy gold, or black and grey, some styles of versatile nature may be provided.

　　 Software and performance

Although Wear OS looks good, the result is not ideal. It can be seen from some Wear OS watches. But the situation of Puma Smartwatch looks even worse. When using this smart watch, I often encounter the phenomenon of carton. When I slide the screen, its response often lags behind, and it is slow and slow when loading the application.

Puma Smartwatch is indeed equipped with the latest Qualcomm Xiaolong Wear 3100 processor, but what is puzzling is that it uses 512MB memory instead of 1GB. This makes it quite different from the Wear OS smart watch with 1GB memory recently tested by me. So the use of Puma Smartwatch is not satisfying, it is really slow, and even needs multiple reset to ensure smooth.

However, the rotating crown of the table is good, which is the best design for fine control when trying to slide up or down the list. You can also install a large number of applications from Google Play store, from shopping list to music control, and then to various fitness options. But even with more choices than before, the overall level of its adaptation and functionality still can not impress people. It is still inferior to the Apple Watch App Store.

Puma Smartwatch is also equipped with a microphone, so we can use Google's voice assistant, but because there is no speaker, all responses appear in text. It also supports Google Pay, so wrist payment can be achieved.

Moreover, Puma uses 4GB's storage space to meet general music and application downloads, and the latest Fossil watches have 8GB storage space.

　　 GPS and application compatibility

As a good sports equipment, Puma Smartwatch must shine in the fitness section, and indeed it is. It integrates Google Fit for basic motion tracking, and also has heart rate monitoring, with built-in GPS and 5ATM waterproofing.

Although Google Fit is enough for casual sportsmen to record their progress every day, more stringent athletes may want to try PUMATRAC applications installed on Puma Smartwatch, though they also need to install corresponding supporting applications on smart phones. PUMATRAC allows you to leave your cell phone at home, and only let Puma Smartwatch track your heart rate, distance, pace, altitude and calories consumed. It can also help exercise, such as setting up fitness training schedule, and even providing coaching mode.

In the process of use, Puma Smartwatch can usually perform good fitness tracking, but occasionally GPS failure occurs, and sometimes it can not synchronize with Google Fit on mobile phones.

　 Endurance

I am surprised that Puma official optimistic estimate that users can get 24 hours of life from their smart watches, but in actual use, it can really use the whole day, but at night switching to power saving mode. If it is used lightly, it can still insist on wearing it when it goes to bed. If you want to monitor your heart rate in real time and receive a lot of notification and use of the application, the power will probably only support the evening.

Its matching charging seat has magnetic contacts, which can be well positioned during charging. The charging time takes about one hour, but I believe many of us will spend the night.

　 conclusion

Puma Smartwatch is similar to the Fossil series Wear OS device, but its memory even compared with the ordinary Wear OS watch is still too small, so that the watch can not run smoothly, and its battery life performance is not excellent. It looks very athletic and has a variety of fitness tracking functions, but the price is too expensive. At the same price, I prefer Samsung's Galaxy Watch Active 2. If you want to buy a better smart watch, Apple Watch is the best choice.