{"id":1143,"date":"2017-12-19T10:53:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T10:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2017-12-19T10:53:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T10:53:29","slug":"withings-activite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookywook.co.uk\/blog\/withings-activite\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Withings Activit\u00e9 Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yup, it’s another wearable review! But this one’s actually a good one, I promise.<\/p>\n

After not getting on very well with shocking wristbands<\/a>\u00a0and posture correctors<\/a>, I may have finally found something good – the Withings Activit\u00e9 watch.<\/p>\n

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What is it? Well, it’s basically just a normal watch.<\/p>\n

OK THANKS FOR READING THE REVIEW EVERYONE GOODBYE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nah, it’s a little bit more than just a watch. Not so much more that it falls into another category though. It’s not a Jawbone or Fitbit – one of those so-called ‘activity trackers’. But it’s also not\u00a0so<\/em> advanced that you could call it a smart watch either. It’s just an activity tracking watch<\/span>, a watch that does activity tracking. And it’s this simplicity that I find really refreshing.<\/p>\n

Years ago I had a Jawbone Up. A horrible orange thing on my wrist that I had to charge every day and ended up breaking. But the list of things it could do was endless! It could track your movements, track your sleep, track your heart rate, track your eating (if you told it), track your mood (if you told it), just track your whole goddam life. It was kind of overwhelming, and ultimately… kind of useless. Worse still, even with all that you still had to wear a watch anyway if you wanted to know the time. So yeah, it was kind of dumb.<\/p>\n

I don’t know what kind of wizardry is going on inside the Withings Activit\u00e9, but here’s what it can do:<\/p>\n