Withings ScanWatch Light review
The Withings ScanWatch Light is a lightweight watch that offers a pretty good range of smartwatch functions, but its small screen isn't good for notifications.
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Scores
- Design: 9.5/10
- Performance: 9/10
- Overall: 9.3/10
Pros
- Stylish, robust watch design
- Outstanding battery life
- Good health and sleep features
Cons
- Notifications are cumbersome
- Controls take getting used to
- Could use deeper health insights
After about two weeks of wearing the Withings ScanWatch Light for this review, I started manually going into the settings of the watch to check the battery life.
I’ve been wearing the Apple Watch Series 9 since it launched, and before that, the Apple Watch Series 5. Before that, I was a big advocate for Fitbit and before that, I loved my Jawbone UP24.
But none of those devices (or any of the options in our best smartwatches list, for that matter) lasted more than 10 days, and most needed to be charged daily. After two weeks, I started to get anxious that maybe I was missing the recharge notification.
I wasn’t.
The ScanWatch Light’s battery lasts for weeks. Not quite the 30 days they state, but more than three weeks.
It manages this by sacrificing some of the smartwatch features you may have come to expect. By design, this is more wristwatch than smartwatch, and it manages that balance exceptionally well.
It also does make some controls a bit more awkward than a traditional smartwatch. And notifications aren’t as useful, given the watch’s actual notification window is tiny.
This didn’t upset me, though. It actually felt good to not be bombarded with alerts that I had received a new email or that someone was at my front door.
