Fire-Boltt Phoenix Ultra Review: Got the Looks, but What About the Rest?

In a oversea of fund smartwatches, Fire-Boltt's Phoenix Ultra stands out. This is chiefly because of 2 factors — its value and design. The smartwatch is presently disposable successful India astatine Rs. 2,199 makes it 1 of nan astir affordable smartwatches to athletics a classical watch creation and metallic body, which feels acquainted and appears much for illustration a accepted timepiece than a smartwatch. I was a spot excited to spot really it was imaginable to present specified a instrumentality astatine this value point, but aft a mates of weeks of use, I deliberation cognize really it pulled it off.

Fire-Boltt Phoenix Ultra price, creation and specifications

The Fire-Boltt Phoenix Ultra is presently disposable successful azygous action which is officially priced astatine Rs. 2,999, but tin beryllium purchased for arsenic debased arsenic Rs. 2,199 from online retailers. Fire-Boltt provides nan smartwatch pinch a silicon strap, an other magnetic metallic loop strap, and a two-pin magnetic charger successful nan box.

The smartwatch is disposable successful 3 lawsuit finishes – steel, achromatic and gold. These finishes travel pinch various strap combinations successful nan box. I received nan alloy vanished lawsuit pinch a magnetic bluish metallic strap and soft grey silicone strap.

The Fire-Boltt Phoenix Ultra has a metallic lawsuit and a 3D-curved show glass

At a glance, nan alloy decorativeness of nan 44mm lawsuit judge looks prestigious and very akin to accepted timepieces. For an entry-level smartwatch, nan decorativeness of this metallic lawsuit is amazingly bully and devoid of immoderate crisp aliases unsmooth edges. The backmost of nan lawsuit is made of integrative pinch nan sensor laid retired dead-centre and nan metallic charging contacts person to nan separator supra it. The Fire-Boltt Phoenix Ultra weighs 55g without nan strap and besides has an IP67 standing for particulate and h2o resistance.

The Fire-Boltt Phoenix Ultra pinch some metallic and silicon straps is rather comfortable and does not consciousness heavy. The 22mm silicone strap has a speedy merchandise system for attaching itself to nan case. The metallic loop strap has a beardown magnet to clasp nan watch successful place. During nan reappraisal period, nan watch ne'er came undone nary matter which strap I used.

Fire-Boltt besides offers an other magnetic metallic loop strap successful nan box

The Fire-Boltt Phoenix Ultra has a alternatively basal 1.39 inches LCD show pinch a solution of 240 × 240 pixels and a modular 60Hz refresh rate. It is surrounded by immoderate really chunky bezels and nan show successful my portion seemed misaligned arsenic nan bottommost bezel was a batch thicker than nan rest.

The smartwatch has only 1 fastener and pressing it either wakes nan show and shows nan watch look aliases turns nan show off. If you are successful immoderate different paper aliases app successful nan watch interface, pressing nan fastener gets you backmost to nan watch look directly.

Fire-Boltt Phoenix Ultra package and performance

The Fire-Boltt Phoenix Ultra offers a very basal package interface. While it lacks immoderate support for third-party apps, moreover nan basics aren't covered here. For example, there's nary measurement to group nan show timeout connected nan watch, which is group to 5 seconds by default. There's nary basal calculator app either. I could not moreover cheque nan charging position of nan watch.

The Fire-Boltt Phoenix Ultra needs to beryllium disconnected from nan charger successful bid to position nan watch face, which is nan only spot that displays nan artillery status. Setting an alarm, timer aliases stopwatch requires 1 to participate nan settings menu, which is simply a furniture down from nan main menu.

The show connected nan Fire-Boltt Phoenix Ultra seems to beryllium misaligned

Navigating this elemental package interface is rather easy utilizing swipe gestures, which is why nan usefulness of nan crown is reduced to simply powering nan show connected aliases disconnected arsenic nan flick-to-wake motion besides useful conscionable fine.

Moving to nan companion app, it's arsenic basal arsenic nan smartwatch's UI and is disposable for some iOS and Android smartphones. The Da Fit app has 3 main sections — Today, instrumentality settings and My (which is fundamentally nan user's profile). Setting up nan app utilizing an Android smartphone was a reasonably easy experience, its conscionable that you person to support nan app locked successful nan phone's Recents paper to support receiving notifications connected nan watch.

The Da Fit companion app has a elemental interface

The Today page display's readings from nan Fire-Boltt Phoenix Ultra which includes measurement count, sleep, bosom rate, humor oxygen levels, on pinch workout records. The instrumentality settings conception lets you alteration nan watch face, set notifications, group alarms etc. There is an important conception called Others buried heavy successful present that fto maine group nan clip format, portion system, DnD timings, continuous bosom complaint mounting intervals, and astir important of all, nan auto-lock aliases show slumber setting, which is not accessible connected nan watch.

One tin usage GPS connected exercises for illustration outdoor runs aliases walks only via nan Da Fit mobile app arsenic nan Fire-Boltt Phoenix Ultra does not person built-in GPS. What I did find overseas is that nan watch will ne'er sync information to nan app unless you participate nan mobile app and swipe down to refresh nan information successful nan Today section.

The watch look assemblage has a fistful of preinstalled watch faces (including 1 of Mahendra Singh Dhoni), but opening up nan online assemblage utilizing nan mobile app gave maine entree to plentifulness much downloadable ones, which appeared a batch much interesting. However, I did not negociate to download and instal a watch look moreover though these were hardly 159kb successful size. During this time, neither smartwatch nor nan app is accessible, which tin get frustrating.

It's difficult to show which app a notification comes from connected the Fire-Boltt Phoenix Ultra

Notifications from nan smartwatch are truncated. But it's difficult to show which app they're coming from arsenic location is nary clear iconography to bespeak nan same. Setting a timer connected nan smartphone will besides push changeless notifications for each passing second, filling up nan notifications paper connected nan smartwatch.

Health search is different logic why astir users spell successful for a smartwatch these days. Sadly my acquisition pinch nan Fire-Boltt Phoenix Ultra was acold from great. To statesman pinch nan watch only offers 2 automated wellness monitoring features. The first 1 is slumber monitoring, which attempts to present elaborate slumber shape information aliases reports for illustration heavy sleep, ray sleep, REM slumber and more.

However, I recovered this information to beryllium acold from meticulous arsenic nan watch often counted my clip resting successful furniture (before falling asleep) arsenic clip spent sleeping owed to which nan resulting information turned retired inaccurate. Continuous bosom complaint monitoring was different automated health-tracking characteristic and it is customisable letting you take nan interval.

Regular bosom complaint measurements were inaccurate, inconsistent and rather unreliable erstwhile compared to nan measurements provided by a standalone oximeter. SpO2 readings were a spot much reliable but still not consistent.

The Fire-Boltt Phoenix Ultra offers up to 123 fittingness search athletics modes. I tried retired nan basal measurement search characteristic utilizing nan Walking workout mode and nan watch managed to observe 505 alternatively of 500 steps, which seemed good for a smartwatch astatine this value point. However, this is not a smartwatch I would take for wellness and fittingness tracking.

The Bluetooth calling characteristic useful arsenic expected and mounting up nan characteristic did not require maine to brace nan watch doubly pinch nan Android smartphone either. The caller could beryllium heard large and clear and wasn't capable to show that I was calling from a smartwatch.

The magnetic charger fits snuggly successful spot while charging nan Fire-Boltt Phoenix Ultra

In position of artillery life, I recovered that nan Fire-Boltt Phoenix Ultra could present connected its claimed artillery life of 7 days. This is imaginable chiefly because nan watch hardly offers immoderate auto-health search features since a mostly of them person to beryllium activated manually. Even information syncing does not return spot automatically. Day to time artillery drain was astir 15-20 percent which included 1 short workout regular and slumber tracking. The automated bosom complaint monitoring, contempt throwing up a warning, did not look to impact artillery life drastically provided I group it to 30 infinitesimal intervals. Charging nan Fire-Boltt Phoenix Ultra does return a while. When connected to a 33W charger, it took astir 2 hours.

Verdict

It is difficult to hit nan Fire-Boltt Phoenix Ultra erstwhile it comes to looks astatine this price, and that is sadly nan only logic why could see one. For everything else, location are overmuch amended options successful nan market.

If you are looking for meticulous health-tracking features successful a wearable, past nan basal fittingness set for illustration nan Amazfit Band 7 (Review) is decidedly a much reliable action (at a little price). Those looking for thing fancier aliases person to a smartwatch (with features for illustration a larger display, Bluetooth calling and automated wellness search features), will find nan caller Redmi Watch 3 Active, a overmuch amended prime astatine Rs. 2,999. If you are looking for a premium-looking smartwatch, nan OnePlus Nord Watch (Review) surely seems for illustration a amended prime astatine Rs. 4,999.

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