Sekonda 39mm Motion Pro GPS Smart Watch in Black with Black Silicone Strap

Impressive smart watch!
Having been a user of an Apple Watch for many years I was keen to give this a try. It’s currently priced at under £100 meaning it is significantly cheaper. The setup is done through the mobile app. This does ask for rather a lot of permissions, including for accessing your notifications and messages etc – this is so that it can display them on the watch. It has a number of watch faces and customizable watch elements to choose from. It also features a heart rate and oxygen sats monitor which I did find to be accurate. It was able to track workouts well including indoor exercise like treadmill running and cycling and was able to give you your distance travelled and calories burned. The screen looks great and it has an always on feature meaning it always displays the clock hands even when the watch isn’t ‘active’. Considering the price I was very impressed with the feature set and the quality of the watch, strap and screen.

Fantastic GPS watch
Absolutely thrilled with this Motion Pro! The GPS locks on quickly, the battery easily lasts five days, and the fitness metrics (steps, distance, heart rate) have been spot-on. It looks smart with its black case and strap, and the touchscreen is responsive. Ideal for daily wear and weekend workouts—highly recommend!

Other brands do it better
This isn’t going to outperform most sport tracking smartwatches. This isn’t even going to outperform most other basic watches in this price range. And it’s hard to recommend it.In terms of functions, you get what you get. There’s no options to add further functionality by installing apps. You can tell the time/date, see the weather for the next few hours and collect some basic health data like steps and heart rate. There’s gps to track activities but no options to load a predefined course. Thankfully, there is the option to sync to google fit and even strava. I wasn’t expecting Strava/Google sync, and I think it’s a great feature to have. Means you arent limited to having your data inside the sekonda app only.I tracked a 40min run using both my Garmin Instinct 2 and this. The average pace was similar, as were the distances. But you could definitely see the Garmin plotting a more accurate path. Also, the tracked heart rate on this watch wasn’t very good, and didn’t perform well. Using the gps for 40 minutes also drained the battery a good chunk too, so you’ll have to charge it after even short gps usage.It wouldn’t be my first choice for a cheap sports tracker. But as a basic day to day watch that shows notifications, It could be worse. The screen is bright enough in sunlight and there’s decent, albeit limited, selection of watch faces. It has a built in mic for talking to Alexa, and will even let you accept/make calls from your wrist. You can controll music playing on your phone and can even use it as a remote phone camera shutter. It would have been nice to have more of the basics, like more detailed data screens (you only get the last few hours of data for each metric). Or see some activity stats without need to go into the app. Overall,the user experiance just feels super bare-bones.For the price, it’s hard to recommend with how many better alternatives there are in this price range. For around 30 quid more you can get the Garmin Forerunner 55 (on sale at time of review), which beats this in everyway. And for ~£95 you can get the Huawei watch fit 3. Which again, beats this in everyway. Better screen, better health data screens, better gps and even an aluminium construction (this is plastic).So I just feel like there are better ways to spend £99. There’s so many good activity trackers in this price range these days. I’d recommend going for something else, to be honest.