Speaking of smart wearable devices, they have gradually been accepted by more and more users in recent years, and even different styles of smart watches and bracelets have appeared on the wrists of parents and grandparents. Our generation relies more on the information push and exercise statistics functions of smart watches, while the previous generation used smart watches mainly to measure heart rate, blood oxygen saturation and blood pressure, just like a health companion who is always by their side. .
Domestic brand dido has long observed the needs of this type of user group, and has successively launched several smart watches designed for elderly users. The functional design is closer to the needs of the elderly, and many products have also obtained Category II certification. Medical device certification. Recently, I was lucky enough to receive a dido E40s Pro air pump pressurized blood pressure monitoring watch through a gold review. Giving it to my mother just made up for the previous Mother’s Day gift.
Packaging and unboxing
The packaging adopts the classic heaven and earth box structure, with a pure black base, and the top of the box lid is printed with the word dido using hot stamping technology .
The self-adhesive label at the bottom of the box lists the technical parameters, manufacturer information and other contents of this watch.
Open the package, the watch is displayed on the left, supported by a foam mold, and other accessories are stored in an independent accessory box on the right.
shared a set of family photos, including dido E40s Pro smart blood pressure watch, inflatable blood pressure wristband, magnetic charging cable, two pairs of replacement rubber stoppers in the inflatable area, as well as paper documents such as instruction manuals and blood pressure test method cards.
Design and Wearing
From the appearance alone, this watch is very in line with the temperament of middle-aged and elderly users. The round dial design is more in line with people’s impression of traditional watches, making it easier for the previous generation to accept it. The dial shell is made of metal, and the surface is supplemented by a black matte texture, visually giving a low-key and restrained impression. No matter what style of clothes you convey, or you attend different scenes, wearing dido E40s Pro will not feel out of place.
The front of the dial is inlaid with a 1.3-inch circular IPS screen with a resolution of 240×240 pixels and a fairly fine display. Scale marks similar to traditional watches are added around the screen, which plays a decorative role. The screen is designed to tilt excessively toward the side of the dial to reduce the feeling of fragmentation.
There are two physical buttons on the right side of the dial. The upper button is used to turn on and off the phone and return to the previous menu. The lower button is a shortcut key for the blood pressure test function. The two buttons are pressed by default. Although they can be rotated like a crown, they have no substantial function.
The back of the dial is covered with a complete metal cover. The raised circular area in the middle is inlaid with a temperature sensor and a heart rate photoelectric sensor. On the right side are two metal charging contacts. Uncover the dust-proof rubber plug below. The thin tube on the far right is used to inflate the blood pressure wristband, and the two thin tubes on the left are used to fix the wristband.
The default strap is made of silicone, which is relatively thin and soft in texture. In addition, the strap is relatively wide and fits well when worn. The outer side of watch strap is designed with a slightly rough matte texture, which is more wear-resistant for daily wear; the inner side is designed with a delicate skin-friendly texture, which is better anti-slip and anti-sweat.
The connection between the strap and the dial adopts a quick-release design. The strap can be removed by flipping the small fixed buckle to one side, which is more convenient to clean the strap after wearing it for a period of time. I hope dido will launch a variety of watch straps for users to choose from in the future, such as mainstream fabrics, leather materials, etc.
dido The dial area of the E40s Pro is relatively large, with the measured width being about 4.5cm. My parents are both thin and have thin wrists, so the watch will appear to stand out when worn. However, for middle-aged and elderly people, the small-sized dial seems stingy, and you can get used to it slowly. Fortunately, there are more buttonholes on the strap, which can adapt to wrists of different thicknesses.
Pairing and interaction
As a smart watch, although some of its functions can be used independently, I still strongly recommend pairing it with the mobile APP. Not only can it exert all its functions, but some important health information can also be remotely accessed through the APP. Send it to your children's mobile phones, so that we who are working hard in other cities can understand the physical condition of our parents at any time.
The supporting APP is called SmartHealth, and it currently covers the two major platforms of iOS and Android. Download and install the APP, register and log in to your account, click the watch icon in the upper right corner of the homepage to enter the search interface. When the watch is turned on, it will release the Bluetooth hotspot. After discovering the corresponding watch, click on the name to complete the pairing. After pairing, the time, language information, etc. will be synchronized to the watch.
watch dial supports touch control, and with the two physical buttons on the right side, the interaction logic is relatively clear. The screen lights up to display the dial interface, and swiping down from the top brings up the shortcut menu, which displays the time, battery, and shortcut function entry, which is somewhat similar to the mobile operating system.
Swipe the left and right sides of the dial to enter the function interface in sequence. Swipe to the left, for example, there are exercise information, blood pressure measurement, body temperature test, heart rate test, blood oxygen saturation test, respiration rate test, sports mode options and weather. Swipe to the right. Side swipes occur in the reverse order.
Swipe up from the bottom of the dial or click the button on the upper right to call out the menu interface. All function entries are listed in it. Each page displays 3 function icons. Continue to slide up and down to turn pages.
In addition, the system’s default dial is a black style close to that of a traditional sports watch. However, in order to meet the user’s personalized needs, other dial styles can also be changed in the “Theme” option in the APP. Currently, 8 are provided style. We also hope that dido can open a dial design platform so that players can freely design and upload dials, which will not only enrich the dial library but also reduce the pressure on official designers.
In order to facilitate daily viewing of information, the watch turns on the function of raising the wrist to turn on the screen by default. The built-in motion sensor detects the movement of raising the wrist, and the screen will automatically light up. After actual testing, the accuracy and response speed of action recognition are pretty good.
Health and Sports
As mentioned at the beginning of the article, the parents’ generation pays more attention to health functions when using smart watches. This is also the original intention of the dido E40s Pro project design. Through precision sensors, various physical health data can be monitored on the wrist, and you can have a general understanding of your physical condition without leaving home. This is very important for the older generation, and it also allows us as children to I feel more at ease when running around.
Let’s first talk about the pump-type blood pressure monitoring that dido E40s Pro features. In fact, this watch provides two blood pressure monitoring methods, one is quick measurement, and the other is accurate measurement. You can enter blood pressure measurement with one click through the button on the lower right side of the fuselage. Function.
fast measurement is faster and more convenient to use. You only need to wear the watch normally on your wrist to start the test. It will give preliminary test data in about 15 seconds, and then it will continue to monitor and continuously correct the data. Until the user actively exits the blood pressure test interface. But compared to precise measurement, the accuracy of fast measurement is slightly worse.
For accurate measurement, you need to use the included airbag pressure strap. Remove the rubber plug on the back of the watch, and then insert the raised small round hole of the airbag strap into the inflation hole and positioning hole on the back of the fuselage. , and fixed. The air bag strap is somewhat similar to the ruler I used when I was a child. It can be bent along with the strap to fit firmly on the wrist.
Lift your wrist to the level of your heart and turn on the precise measurement mode. The air bag on the strap will automatically inflate and pressurize, making it fit the arm more tightly. It is consistent with the inflation principle of the traditional blood pressure monitor . After the measurement is completed, the test result is displayed on the dial screen, and the strap is automatically deflated. After testing, it was found that there were some discrepancies between the data of quick measurement and precise measurement. However, combined with the comparison of data tested with a professional blood pressure monitor, the data of the precise mode test was closer.
Next is heart rate detection, which is also a standard feature of most smart watches. The dido E40s Pro is equipped with the OSRAM2730 photoelectric chip. Through the innovative optical path structure design and the AI intelligent heart rate algorithm, it can achieve all-weather heart rate detection and excessive heart rate warning, and evaluate the wearer's heart status in real time.
If you need to manually test the heart rate, wear the watch normally and enter the heart rate test interface, and the test data will be given in just a moment. Compared with the test data of Xiaomi Mi Band 3, the two data are basically consistent.
The new coronavirus will affect the body’s blood oxygen saturation, so blood oxygen saturation detection has become an essential function of smart watches in recent years. Dido E40s Pro uses the pulse wave time difference method for blood oxygen detection, which can also achieve the same 24-hour detection as heart rate. If manual detection is required, just wear the watch normally and enter the blood oxygen test interface. Keep your wrist still and the test results will be given in a moment.
In addition, dido E40s Pro also innovatively added body temperature testing and respiratory rate testing functions. To put it simply, body temperature monitoring is to obtain the temperature of the arm surface through the temperature sensing pole piece on the back of the watch. Generally, the accuracy is higher when the watch is tested after wearing it for 10 minutes. The data measured each time will be statistics in the form of a line chart, which can more intuitively reflect the changes in body temperature over a period of time.
Respiration rate data refers to the number of times the human body breathes per minute. One rise and fall of the chest represents one breath. Wear the watch normally, enter the breathing rate test interface, maintain normal breathing, and the test data will be given in about 1 minute.
When sleeping at night, dido E40s Pro will also silently monitor the user's sleep status, including sleep quality and sleep breathing quality, and give a complete sleep quality report the next morning to help users with sleep disorders understand Problems, thereby better improving sleep problems. This feature is not only useful for people of my parents’ generation, but also a necessity for me.
In addition to the above-mentioned health functions, dido E40s Pro also supports rich sports functions, that is, sports data statistics. The watch supports seven sports modes: running, cycling, fitness, badminton, table tennis, basketball and skipping . Most of them are sports commonly done by the elderly. Parents can still use them when doing morning exercises or going out to exercise in the evening.
Applications and notifications
As mentioned in the article, the dido E40s Pro watch needs to be paired with the SmartHealth App to achieve a more complete experience. App interface design is relatively simple, mainly in refreshing green and white, in line with the theme colors of health and sports. The homepage is mainly an information aggregation. The top shows the number of exercise steps for the day in the form of a ring, and also comes with calorie consumption data, exercise kilometers and exercise time. The lower part displays blood pressure, heart rate, sleep, blood oxygen , respiratory rate and body temperature data in a modular form, allowing users to intuitively understand their physical condition.
The tab at the top of the sports interface contains seven preset sports modes. After selecting any mode, the current city's weather information is displayed at the top of the page to help users determine whether it is appropriate to exercise outdoors. After selecting any mode, click the "Start" button to enter statistics. The user's current location will be marked in the form of a map in the new interface, and various sports data will be displayed at the bottom.
The care function is the health information sharing mentioned at the beginning of the article. Add the children's accounts as relatives and friends in the parents' mobile phone APP, and then log in to the relatives and friends' accounts on the children's mobile phones to learn about the parents' health and exercise information.
The final setting options include some personalized settings for the watch. Click the watch name column to enter the secondary menu, which provides richer setting options. I will not go into details here. Interested friends can learn about it by themselves. .
The watch itself also supports notification reminder functions. For example, a sedentary reminder can be set for a time period (usually set for about an hour). After the time is up, a vibration reminder will be sent to inform the user that they need to get up and walk. In addition, you can also choose to turn on body temperature warning, heart rate warning, etc. to prevent problems before they occur. For office workers, the watch can also enable notification reminders from third-party mobile apps, such as WeChat, QQ, etc., to avoid missing important information.
Battery life and charging
The battery life of smart watches is also a concern of many users. After all, no one can stand the use of watches like Apple Watch every day. The dido E40s Pro smart watch is equipped with a 200mAh lithium battery. Based on actual experience, it can maintain a battery life of about 7 days when fully charged. If used moderately, it does not need to be charged within a week.
In terms of charging, the dido E40s Pro watch uses a magnetic charging interface. Compared with plug-in interfaces such as Micro USB or Type C, the body is more integrated and more convenient to use. You only need to remove the metal of the charger. The contact point will automatically adsorb when it is close to the contact point on the back of the fuselage. However, the contact position on the back of the fuselage is not recessed, making it difficult to locate the plug end of the charging cable. It is recommended to improve it.
Experience summary
My mother at home has been using it for about a week. She has a good review of this watch. It can conveniently detect blood pressure, blood oxygen, heart rate, breathing rate and sleep status, so that the old man himself and I, who work far away in the city, can keep track of it at any time. to the physical condition of the elders. Especially in terms of blood pressure measurement, by pairing it with an air bag pressure strap, the same measurement method as a professional blood pressure monitor can be achieved, and the data obtained can be more accurate and referential. At the same time, dido E40s Pro also supports seven sports modes to obtain sports data and heart rate in the corresponding sports states.
As far as the design of the watch is concerned, the black metal dial is low-key and restrained, and the round dial is more in line with people’s impression of traditional watches, and can match well with different styles of clothing. Generally speaking, the functional design of dido E40s Pro is more geared towards middle-aged and elderly users, giving top priority to health management and sports management, making it very suitable for use by parents.
