DIZO launched the DIZO Watch D Plus, the company’s latest smartwatch in the Watch D series, a few days back, after the launch of Watch D and Watch D Talk earlier this year. It has a large 1.85-inch LCD screen, 110+ sports modes, SpO2 monitoring and promises up to 14 days of battery life. I have been using the smartwatch for a week now, and here is the review.
Box Contents
- DIZO Watch D Plus in Classic Black colour
- Charging dock
- User manual
Design and Build
The watch has the square design that is similar to most watches, and there are bezels around the 1.85-inch large screen. It measures 257 × 38 ×11.3mm and weighs 42 grams with the strap. It has a lightweight 22mm interchangeable strap that is made of skin-friendly material, and has a metal buckle. The quality of the strap is good.
The smartwatch has 3 ATM or 30 meter water resistance, compared to 5 ATM or 50 meter water resistance in the older Watch D, but this shouldn’t matter unless you want to use it for swimming. There is Accelerometer, 24h Heart Rate Monitor and SpO2 Sensor. It uses Bluetooth 5.1 to connect to Android and iOS devices.
The smartwatch has an aluminium case, and a button on the right side that just lets you turn the screen on or off or go back. Since the case has a matte finish, it doesn’t attract fingerprints.
On the back, you can see the heart rate and SpO2 sensors that glow in green when you are using it to measure heart rate and blood oxygen.
Display and features
Coming to the display, the DIZO Watch D Plus has a large 1.85-inch (240×280 pixels) 199 PPI LCD touch screen with 2.5D curved tempered glass. You can set it to turn on when you lift your hand, and the screen turns off in a few seconds to save power. The large display looks good, but the resolution is not high, so the content is not crisp.
Outdoor visibility is good since it has up to 550 nits brightness. You can adjust the brightness by swiping to the left. There are 5 levels to choose from. Level 2 is good for indoors, and you need to set it to 4 or 5 for outdoors. There is no auto brightness adjustment since it lacks an ambient light sensor. You can increase the screen time out till 30 minutes.
When you swipe from the left, you can see quick settings. This has DND, Brightness adjustment, Power saver, Raise to wake, flashlight and settings. There is also an easy notification shade when you swipe from the top. You can read them and dismiss, but can’t reply.
Swiping from the bottom shows, activity, heart rate monitoring, sleep details, Workout, alarm, weather, stop watch, timer, music controls that let you play, pause, skip tracks and also adjust volume when you play any music or any kind of content like videos or music when the watch is connected to the phone, camera controls, breathe, find my phone, mensural cycle tracking and settings.
Swiping to the right shows activity data, sleep, heart rate data and tracking, weather and music controls.
Software
The Watch D Plus uses Dizo companion app on Android and iPhone. It shows all the important details on the Home. Then there is Exercise tab. Inside the ‘Me’ tab, you can select camera controls, notifications from the preferred apps, call reminders, health reminders such as 24-hour HR monitoring, and more.
The dial center shows different types of watch faces. There are a lot of watch faces to choose from.
Fitness and Sleep tracking
The DIZO Watch D Plus has 110+ workout modes with the main workouts being running, walking, cycling, gymnastics, yoga, hiking, crossfit, dancing, karate, taekwondo, horse riding and disc sports. You can choose the preferred workout from the settings and sync it with the watch.
For outdoor activities, you get all the details such as distance, calories burnt, average heart rate, average speed, average pace, cadence and duration. It has assisted GPS support from the phone, so you need to carry the phone with you for outdoor activities, if you need the GPS data. Gathering GPS data from the phone takes a few seconds. You can press the side button to pause a workout in the middle.
Compared to tracking apps like Strava running on mobile, or other GPS watches, there is a minor difference in GPS tracking of few meters. This is common in budget watches without GPS. You can share the workout data as an image, but doesn’t have an option to sync your data to third party services.
Sleep tracking shows light and deep sleep, awake time, but doesn’t show REM sleep. Tracking is good and accurate.
Heart rate and SpO2 monitoring
The smartwatch uses LED lights and photo-diodes to illuminate the blood vessel for a while and monitors the heart rate and SpO2 or blood oxygen monitoring via the change of green light absorbed. You can’t say this is 100% accurate. Heart rate recordings show average, maximum and minium rates, and SpO2 readings are decent compared to oximeter. It doesn’t show stress data.
Battery life
The smartwatch has a 300mAh battery, and the company promises up to 14 days of battery life with typical. I used it for daily run tracking for about 40 minutes, set brightness to 4 during day and 2 during night, have notifications for some apps, and calls. It lasted me for slightly over a week. I have enabled 24 x 7 heart rate tracking.
Battery life might vary depending on frequent use of the display with increased brightness, use of heart rate monitor during workouts, calling and all the notifications turned on.
Conclusion
The DIZO Watch D Plus is just another smartwatch if you need a watch with a large screen and an aluminium build in the budget. The battery life is also good. Hope the company adds third-party workout sync to DIZO app, which is available in the realme Link app.
The smartwatch is available at an introductory price of Rs. 1999 (MRP Rs. 3499) from Flipkart starting today, November 15th.