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Today we’re taking a look at the Fitpolo W13 Android based Smartwatch. This is a budget option for any of you out there who either can’t afford or simply can’t justify the premium price of the Samsung Galaxy Watches or the Apple Watch Series whatever. Fitpolo is offering the W13 smartwatch at what I think is an ultra competitive price somewhere in the $50 to $70 dollar price range depending on when you buy it. The price is awesome but, how about the features, the speed and quality of the UI, the battery life, the good stuff and the bad stuff? Well, The W13 seems to be a relatively feature rich smartwatch in my opinion, especially for the cost. The W13 is packing the standard real-time heart rate monitoring and logging, Blood Oxygen or Sp02 logging, cycle monitoring, and of course sleep analysis for light and deep sleep cycles. There is a stress level assessment tool similar to other smartwatches. The main or most important features are here in my opinion. The Galaxy Watches and Apple watches might have a few more bells and whistles but this smartwatch really focuses on the core essentials. The watch is IP68 rated which will come in handy for intense workouts or if you’re out running in the rain for example. As you might have guessed, this is strictly offered as a Bluetooth watch, no option for eSIM but that’s fine in my opinion. There’s over 100 pre-programmed fitness tracking modes, I didn’t use most of them though the walking and running modes seemed to work well. I went on a roughly 1.27mi walk with the W13 and my Galaxy watch 5 both equipped. They had nearly the same distance recorded at 1.27mi, the calories were a bit different though, 182 on the galaxy watch 5 and 250 on the W13. The galaxy watch recorded my ending heartbeat at 82bpm with the W13 clocking 72bpm. For the blood oxygen test, they were very similar at 92% on the galaxy and 95% on the W13. If you account for the variability in band tightness and my body as well as the route I took, I think these came up with remarkably similar results which is good to see. The watch also has a Smart Life Assistant function for activity tracking which is monitoring things like the pedometer, calorie estimates, distance traveled, heart rate and all of that good stuff in order to analyze these workout sessions. The Very Fit app which the watch data syncs to is relatively easy to use and keeps all of your data in a nice dashboard. The W13 does have Alexa functionality built-in which is kind of cool but I don’t use Alexa personally. The screen size is pretty good in my opinion at 1.8 inches. Moving onto the product build quality, it was surprisingly good for the price. The included bands were a softer plastic rubber material, it felt fine on my wrist. The clasping mechanism worked well, very standard. The smartwatch has one main button used in conjunction with swiping either left or right for going back or digging into sub menus. The charging was unfortunately not QI compatible. The included cable is a USB A to some smaller form factor magnetic charging connection. No QI charging is a bummer but kind of expected at this price point. As for performance, the W13 was OK. Scrolling quickly through the menus did have some noticeable lag but it wasn’t a deal breaker for me. After getting used to it, I had very few mis-clicks due to timing. It’s objectively slower than my Galaxy Watch 5 but again, not even close to fair price comparison, the W13 value kind of blows the Galaxy Watch 5 out of the water so long as it has the features you need. The battery life was surprisingly good on the W13 as well, much longer lasting than my Galaxy Watch 5. I’m assuming it comes down to a weaker processor, few hardware functions, and few apps being installed in general. For example, there’s no built in web browser or YouTube app on the W13. Summing all of this up, my testing over a few days which included a wedding and a few longer walks, I think the W13 from Fitpolo is truly a value oriented Android smartwatch. While the speed in the menus is a little bit lacking, the features, stability, and accuracy noted in my testing really helped make up for the scrolling issue. As for the software support, the W13 might receive future updates but that process is driven by end user feedback mostly. The Very Fit app is generally expected to be updated monthly. Combining all of this with the ultra competitive pricing, if you don’t want to drop a ton of extra cash on a Galaxy Watch 5 or Apple Watch series 9 million, this budget smartwatch should get the job done for the average user and I think it’s worth taking a look at if you’re on a budget.
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