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The Withings Activité is a high-end, Swiss-made watch featuring sapphire glass and a calf leather band. Looking at this device, you'd never guess it was anything more than an elegant timepiece. And that's exactly what makes it stand out. This fitness gadg...
Easy to set up, Counts steps accurately, Looks like a watch, not a fitness gadget, Has 8-month battery life...
Device only displays progress bar towards goal (other metrics require Withings app), No heart rate monitor...
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Some fitness bands look like chunky rubber bracelets with tiny screens that flash numbers at you. They're purely utilitarian. On the other end of the spectrum, there are activity trackers masked as pieces of jewelry. They don't track much beyond your dail...
Affordably stylish, Great app that gathers activity, sleep patterns, and calorie logs in one central place...
Band isn't the highest quality, May be too small for some wrists...
The Withings Activité Steel is a sleek fitness tracker masquerading as an analog watch, but could use more band options...
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More importantly though- they look like elegant timepieces. They were really the first of the traditional activity tracker companies to bridge into that realm. The higher priced Activité is officially a ‘Swiss-made Watch' while the less expensive Activit...
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Withings Activité review: Withings l atest activity trackers adopt an alternative approach to design and functionality and the Activité is the perfect embodiment of this.For some the idea of a fitness tracker or a smartwatch seems more appealing than the...
Elegant design, Best-in-class battery life, Swiss Made...
Expensive, Limited trackable activities...
As was said at the beginning, the Withings Activité is something of a rare breed, but based on the approach the company has taken to designing such a distinctive activity tracker, it has the potential to appeal to an impressively broad range of users.If t...
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Wearable fitness trackers, for the most part, don't differentiate too much from each other when it comes to their designs. The majority of them, in fact, favor sporty styles meant to be worn around the wrist – much like the stuff from Fitbit, Jawbone, Mi...
Elegant watch design first, fitness tracker second...
450 cost is just obnoxiously expensive for a fitness tracker, Tracks steps and sleep only, Watch face is limited to showing the time and progress...
Ultimately, it boils down to whether or not you like the styling of the Withings Activité – by far the most discrete and unconventional looking fitness tracker. It absolutely breaks the mold when it comes to the visual design of a fitness tracker, but it...
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Forget notifications, forget apps, forget all of the noisy little distractions masquerading as help -- sometimes a wearable is at its best when it stays out of your way. As it turns out, that's just what French hardware house Withings had in mind when it...
Beautiful design and materials, Step counter works well, Easy-to-understand user interface...
Hefty price tag, Companion app lacks polish, Limited functionality...
Don't be fooled its the lower price tag: There's nothing the premium Activité can do that the less expensive Pop can't. There aren't any high-end materials here, but the end result is a wearable that looks great, tracks steps with ease and won't make you...
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Even the best activity trackers are not all that fashionable, acting like watches by parading around as sports bands. Withings is pushing the fashion agenda with fitness trackers by releasing two devices that, from a distance, would easily be mi...
High-end analog watch with an understated activity-tracking dial. Water-resistant to 50 meters. Ships with two wristband options. Built with high quality materials.
Lacks an informative display. Requires mobile app for all interaction. App is slightly clunky and slow to sync. Can't revise incorrectly recorded activities. Sleep recordings were inaccurate in testing...
At $450, the Withings Activité is a premium watch, one that has the added bonus of being an activity and sleep tracker. If you think of it as a tracker first, however, you'll be sorely disappointed. But as a watch, it's classy and unassuming...
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Up until this point, all fitness watches have been fitness first, watch second. The Withings Activité flips that on its head. It’s an elegant timepiece that just happens to track your steps and your sleep, and deliver that information in the most subtle o...
Very stylis, Ligh, Tracks slee, Works as alarm clock...
Shows only one fitness measurement on watc, No diet trackin, Expensive...
A recent NPD study showed that 42 percent of people stop wearing activity trackers after six months. By positioning itself as much as a watch — and a really stylish one at that — as a fitness device, the Withings Activité promises to have a much longer...
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It might not be your next watch, but it's a lot like itWhenever I'm wearing some new gadget on my wrist, people ask about it. Co-workers are idly curious about which smartwatch or fitness band that is; my girlfriend asks why it's so ugly and when I'll tak...
Seriously beautiful, Built to last, Fantastic battery life...
Expensive, Occasional software quirks, The only size option won't fit everyone...
More times than not, the Verge score is based on the average of the subscores below. However, since this is a non-weighted average, we reserve the right to tweak the overall score if we feel it doesn't reflect our overall assessment and price of the produ...
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The Activité is in many ways like any other activity monitor. It'll track steps using an accelerometer inside the unit, which is then transmitted to your phone continuously using Bluetooth Smart. Which, in retrospect is probably the first time you've ever...
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