Dido, a domestic brand, has long observed the needs of such user groups, and has also launched several smart watches designed specifically for elderly users, which are closer to the needs of the elderly in functional design, and many products have also obtained the second-class medical device certification. Recently, I was fortunate enough to receive a Dido E40Pro air pump pressurized blood pressure monitoring watch through the gold evaluation, and gave it to my mother just to make up for the previous Mother's Day gift.
The packaging adopts the classic world box structure, with pure black backing, and the words dido are printed on the top of the box cover by bronzing process.
The sticker at the bottom of the box lists the technical parameters and manufacturer information of this watch.
Open the package, the watch is displayed on the left, supported by the foam mold, and other accessories are stored in the independent accessory box on the right.
Share a group of family photos, including Dido E40Pro smart sphygmomanometer, inflatable blood pressure wristband, magnetic charging cable, two pairs of rubber plugs to replace the inflatable area, and paper documents such as instruction manual and blood pressure test method card.
From the appearance alone, this watch conforms to the temperament of middle-aged and elderly users, and the circular dial design is more in line with people's impression of traditional watches, which is easier for the previous generation to accept. The dial shell is made of metal, and the surface is supplemented by black matte texture, which gives a low-key and introverted impression visually. No matter what style of clothes you convey, attend different scenes, and put on Dido E40Pro, you won't feel disobedient.
A 1.3 inch round IPS screen is embedded in the front of the dial, with a resolution of 240 240 pixels, and the display effect is good. Scale marks similar to traditional watches are added around the screen for decoration. The screen is designed to tilt excessively to one side of the dial to reduce the sense of separation.
There are two physical keys on the right side of the dial. The buttons above are used to turn on, turn off and return to the previous menu, and the buttons below are shortcut keys for blood pressure test function. By default, these two buttons are pressed. Although they can rotate like crowns, they have no substantive function.
The back of the dial is covered with a complete metal cover, a temperature sensor and a heart rate photoelectric sensor are embedded in the raised circular area in the middle, and two metal charging contacts are located on the right. Uncover the dust-proof rubber plug below. The rightmost tubule is used to inflate the blood pressure wristband, and the two tubules on the left are used to fix the wristband.
The default strap is made of silicone, which is thinner and softer, and the strap is wider and fits well. The outer side of the strap adopts a slightly rough matte texture design, which is more wear-resistant for daily wear; The inside is delicate and skin-friendly, and the anti-slip and sweat-proof effect is better.
The connection between the strap and the dial adopts quick-release design, and the strap can be removed by pulling the fixed small buckle aside, which makes it easier to clean the strap after wearing it for a period of time. I hope dido will introduce a variety of straps for users to choose from, such as mainstream fabrics, leather materials and so on.
The dial area of Dido E40Pro is relatively large, and the measured width is about 4.5cm. Parents at home are thinner and their wrists are thinner, which will make the watch stand out. However, for middle-aged and elderly people, the small-sized dial looks stingy and it is good to get used to it. Fortunately, there are many buttonholes on the strap, which can adapt to wrists of different thicknesses.
As a smart watch, although some of its functions can be used independently, I strongly recommend it to be paired with the mobile APP, so that it can not only play all its functions, but also send some important health information to the children's mobile phones remotely through the APP, so that we can always know the physical condition of our parents when we are working hard in the field.
The supporting APP is called SmartHealth, which has covered two mainstream platforms, iOS and Android. Download and install the APP, register the login account, click the watch icon in the upper right corner of the home page to enter the search interface, and the watch will release the Bluetooth hotspot when it is turned on. After finding the corresponding watch, click the name to complete the pairing. After pairing, the time and language information will be synchronized to the watch.
The watch dial supports touch, and with the two physical buttons on the right, the interaction logic is clear. The bright screen displays the dialing interface, and slides down from the top to bring up the shortcut menu, showing the time, power and shortcut function entry, which is somewhat similar to the mobile phone operating system.
Slide the dial left and right to enter the function interface in turn. For sliding to the left, exercise information, blood pressure measurement, body temperature test, heart rate test, blood oxygen saturation test, breathing frequency test, exercise mode options and weather are in turn, while sliding to the right appears in the opposite order.
Slide up from the bottom of the dial or click the button on the upper right to bring up the menu interface. It lists all the function items and displays three function icons on each page. Continue to slide up and down to turn pages.
In addition, the preset dial of the system is a black style close to the traditional sports watch style, but in order to meet the personalized needs of users, other dial styles can also be replaced in the "theme" option in the APP, and there are currently 8 styles to choose from. I also hope that dido can open a dial design platform to allow players to design and upload dials freely, which not only enriches the dial library, but also reduces the pressure on official designers.
In order to view the information conveniently, the wrist lifting function is turned on by default, and the wrist lifting action is monitored by the built-in motion sensor, and the screen will automatically light up. After the actual test, the accuracy and response speed of motion recognition are not bad.
As mentioned at the beginning of the article, parents pay more attention to health function when using smart watches, which is also the original intention of Dido E40Pro project design. It is very important for the older generation that we can monitor all kinds of health data on our wrists and get a general understanding of our physical condition without leaving home, which also makes us children feel at ease when running around.
First of all, let's talk about the blood pressure monitoring of the air pump featured by Dido E40Pro. In fact, this watch provides two blood pressure monitoring methods, one is rapid measurement and the other is accurate measurement. You can enter the blood pressure measurement function with one button at the lower right of the fuselage.
Fast measurement is faster and more convenient to use. You only need to wear the watch on your wrist normally to start the test, and the preliminary test data can be given in about 15 seconds, and then you will continue to monitor and correct the data until the user voluntarily quits the blood pressure test interface. However, the accuracy of rapid measurement is slightly worse than that of accurate measurement.
Accurate measurement needs to use the attached airbag 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 fix it. The airbag belt is a bit like the ruler I used when I was a child. It can be bent with the strap to fit the wrist firmly.
Raise your wrist to the same height as your heart, and turn on the precise measurement mode. The airbag on the strap will automatically inflate and pressurize, and stick to your arm more closely, which is consistent with the inflation principle of the traditional sphygmomanometer. After the measurement, the dial screen gives the test results, and then the strap automatically deflates. After testing, it is found that there are some differences between the data of rapid measurement and accurate measurement, but combined with the data comparison of professional sphygmomanometer test, the data of accurate mode test is closer.
Then there is heart rate detection, which is also the standard function of most smart watches. Dido E40Pro is equipped with OSRAM2730 photoelectric chip. Through innovative optical structure design and AI intelligent heart rate algorithm, all-weather heart rate detection and early warning of high heart rate can be realized, and the wearer's heart state can be evaluated in real time.
If you need to test your heart rate manually, wear your watch normally and enter the heart rate test interface, and the test data will be given later. Compared with the test data of mi band 3, the two data are basically the same.
COVID-19 will affect the blood oxygen saturation of human body, so in recent years, blood oxygen saturation detection has become an essential function of smart watches. Dido E40Pro adopts pulse wave time difference method in blood oxygen detection, and can also realize 24-hour all-weather detection like heart rate. If manual testing is needed, just wear a watch normally and enter the blood oxygen test interface, keep your wrist still and give the test results for a moment.
In addition, Dido E40Pro has innovatively added the functions of temperature test and respiration rate test. Simply put, body temperature monitoring is to obtain the surface temperature of the arm through the temperature-sensing pole piece on the back of the watch. In general, the test is more accurate after wearing 10 minutes. The data of each measurement will be counted in the form of line chart, which can reflect the temperature change in a period of time more intuitively.
Breathing rate data refers to the number of breaths per minute, and the fluctuation of chest represents one breath. Wear the watch normally, enter the respiratory rate test interface, keep breathing normally, and the test data can be given in about 1 minute.
When sleeping at night, Dido E40Pro will also monitor the user's sleep status in a silent state, including sleep quality and sleep breathing quality, and give a complete sleep quality report the next morning to help users with sleep disorders understand the problem, so as to better improve their sleep problems. This function is not only practical for my parents' generation, but also just needed by me.
In addition to the above health functions, dido E40s Pro also supports a wealth of sports functions, namely sports data statistics. Watches support seven sports modes: running, cycling, fitness, badminton, table tennis, basketball and skipping rope. Most of them are often used by some elderly people, and parents can use them when they do morning exercises or go out to exercise at night.
As mentioned earlier in the article, the dido E40s Pro watch needs to be matched with the SmartHealth application to achieve a more complete experience. App interface design is relatively simple, mainly in refreshing green and white, in line with the theme color of healthy sports. The home page is mainly information aggregation, and the number of exercise steps of the day is displayed in the form of a circle, with calorie consumption data, exercise kilometers and exercise time attached. Blood pressure, heart rate, sleep, blood oxygen, respiratory rate, body temperature and other data are displayed in a modular form below, which is convenient for users to intuitively understand their physical condition.
The tabs at the top of the sports interface contain seven preset sports modes. After selecting any mode, the weather information of the current city will be displayed at the top of the page to help users judge whether it is suitable for outdoor sports. After selecting any mode, click the "Start" button to enter statistics. In the new interface, the user's current position is marked in the form of a map, and various sports data are displayed at the bottom.
The caring function is the sharing of health information mentioned at the beginning of the article. Add the child's account to the parent's mobile APP as relatives and friends, and then log in to the relatives and friends' account on the child's mobile phone to learn about the parents' health and sports information.
The final setting options include some personalized settings of the watch. Click on the watch name column to enter the secondary menu, which provides richer setting options, so I won't go into details here. Interested friends can find out for themselves.
The watch itself also supports the notification reminder function. For example, a sedentary reminder can be set for a period of time (usually about an hour). When the time is up, a vibration reminder will be issued to inform the user that it is necessary to get up and walk. In addition, you can also choose to turn on temperature warning and heart rate warning. Take precautions before they happen. For office workers, you can also open notifications and reminders of third-party apps on mobile phones through watches, such as WeChat and QQ. To avoid missing important information.
The battery life of smart watches is also a concern of many users. After all, no one can stand such a thing as Apple Watch. Dido E40Pro smart watch is equipped with a 200mAh lithium battery. According to the actual experience, it can last about 7 days in a fully charged state, and it does not need to be recharged within one week if it is used moderately.
In terms of charging, the Dido E40Pro watch adopts a magnetic charging interface. Compared with plug-in interfaces such as Micro USB or Type C, the fuselage is more integrated and more convenient to use and operate. Just put the metal contact of the charger close to the contact on the back of the fuselage, and it will automatically adsorb. However, the contact position on the back of the fuselage is not pressed down, which makes it difficult to find the correct position at one end of the charging cable plug. Suggest an improvement.
My mother experienced it at home for about a week, and the evaluation of this watch is not bad. It can easily detect blood pressure, blood oxygen, heart rate, respiratory rate and sleep state, so that the elderly themselves and I, who work far away in the city, can always know the physical condition of their elders. Especially in the aspect of blood pressure measurement, the same measurement method as the professional sphygmomanometer is realized by cooperating with the airbag pressure belt, and the obtained data is more accurate and more referential. At the same time, Dido E40Pro also supports seven exercise modes to obtain exercise data and heart rate in the corresponding exercise state.
As far as the design of watches 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, which can be well matched with different styles of clothing. Generally speaking, Dido E40Pro is more inclined to middle-aged and elderly users in functional design, putting health management and sports management first, which is very suitable for parents' generation.