Review on Pyle Sports Fitness Tracker Watch - Heart Rate Monitor Healthy Wristband Pedometer Activity Tracker Steps Counter Stop Watch Alarm Water Resistant Calorie Counter Target Zones - Silver (PHRM38SL) by David Rhodes

I only bought this product to count calories during my workout so I can apply the number to my total daily calories in an Excel spreadsheet. This is very important to keep track of how many calories I'm consuming per day and how much I'm burning during exercise. This is the best way for me to lose weight. However, Pyle's calorie counting feature is useless. First, this device only measures in kilocalories, which = 1000 calories per 1 kcal. This calorie resolution is totally useless for someone like me who needs a higher (accurate) calorie count, i.e. 478 calories burned versus 0 kcal. Second, counting calories is terribly wrong. Walking around my house for just a few minutes, he claimed I'd burned over 4,000 calories. So even if you don't care about bad resolution, it's inaccurate even in kilocalories! Third, Pyle only asks about age and weight, and anyone who knows anything about calorie burning knows that gender is EXTREMELY important. The difference in calories burned between a man and a woman can mean a difference of several hundred calories per session. The way it counts calories should be somewhere in between, which would be wrong for both a man and a woman. In addition, it does not ask for growth, which is also important for accurately determining a person's calorie consumption. You must restart the timer. Therefore, real-time calorie tracking is not possible and will affect accurate calorie readings if you regularly stop and start the timer just to check calories burned during an active workout. Otherwise it worked correctly. I didn't even have to wet the sensors, it immediately read my pulse accurately. The strap is a little uncomfortable but I'm quite a tall person. The instructions were clear enough, but they may require some serious work as it seems there are many problems translating from Chinese to English. Another thing to note is that the date on the watch is in a European/Chinese format (2012-07-16) and there doesn't seem to be a way to convert it to the American date format (7-16-2012) to change. . I'm very disappointed as HRM alone can meet many people's needs, but if you want accurate calorie counting with decent resolution, look elsewhere.