Diesel On Full Guard 2.5 Men’s Touchscreen Smartwatch
The Diesel On Men’s Full Guard 2.5 Touchscreen Smartwatch is a stylish Wear OS powered smart watch.
- Heart rate tracking, smartphone notifications, NFC payments, GPS, rapid charging, touchscreen functionality, microphone and Google Assistant, music storage & controls, customizable watch faces, custom goal & alarm settings, multiple time zones
- Rapid charger included; estimated 24 hour battery life, based on usage; imported; swimproof
- Case size: 48mm; Band size: 24mm
- Powered with Wear OS by Google; compatible with Android OS 4.4+,AndroidOS 4.3+,iOS 7+ / iPhone 4s +,iOS 8+ / iPhone 5 +,iPhone 5/iOS 8.2+,iPhone 5/iOS 9.0+ smartphones; Bluetooth 4.1 Low Energy and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n; supported features may vary between platforms
- Water resistant to 50m (165ft: in general, suitable for short periods of recreational swimming, but not diving or snorkeling; Water Resistance: 5 ATM)
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Jason Luse –
I paid $325 for this watch I’d say is worth about 50 total garbage first day the battery lasted about 3 hours second day barely used it battery lasted about eight hours had nothing but problems with the charger from day one third day I decided I had enough the charger would have been great if it actually worked just didn’t seem to be a way of getting it on the back of the watch right it’s just around ring stuck on the back like a magnet
Mish Mo –
-First, the watch I got came in a box that looked like it had already been opened and the watch looked like it had at least been tried on someone else. I decided to overlook it and set up the watch.-I wish I had believed the other reviews about the battery life. I set it up, put a few apps on it, and charged it. Fully charged it. I put it on the next morning, wore it for about 2 hours and the battery was already down to 78%. I did not constantly use it (though for the price, I should be able to without losing too much battery charge). I am not unfamiliar with how smart watches work. I have an Apple Watch and have had various Fitbits. The Apple Watch has to be charged daily (which I knew when I bought it) and it lasts all day. Based on the initial loss of battery life with this Diesel watch, I would estimate barely 8 hours of use per charge. I certainly have a longer than 8 hour day – more like 16 hours in an average day of mine. This Diesel would have to be charged at least twice daily if I wanted a full day’s use out of it. That is not practical or helpful as a smart watch.-Also, to note, it is bigger and heavier than I expected, though it would not have bothered me if the watch’s battery life lasted longer.-Another note for people with larger wrists, it does not come with extra links to expand it, so you need to call customer service to get the links – which I did, before I knew the battery life was going to be horrible. Now I am out the shipping cost of the links and I will have no use for them.
Jim Dangler –
I bought this watch to replace my garmin mainly due to the NFC payment this watch has. It’s a decent watch, but has a few problems. Battery life is as you’d expect from something like this. Lasts a day. Maybe a day and a half.It’s slow. Very slow. I’ll have to move my wrist 3-4 times to get it to wake up. Touching the watch to access something I’ll have touch, wait a few seconds, then it’ll respond. Queue this every time you watch to access something. Makes it tough to do anything.I’ve had it almost a week. It’s already become completely unresponsive once. You could still lift your arm to view watch but that’s all it would do. No amount of tapping or button pushing would do anything. I had to wait until the battery died to get it to turn off. Once charged it worked fine.The NFC doesn’t work. At all. I’ve tried few times and 9-10 different stores. It’s never once worked. Disappointing because that’s why I bought it.Overall not really worth the cost since it either doesn’t work or has a lot of issues. I like diesel but I’d pass on this watch if I could.
Prateek Shrivastava –
This is my 2nd Diesel watch and my 4th Smartwatch and this is probably my favorite.One of the only things I didn’t like was that I mistakenly downloaded the DieselGo app instead of the Google Wear app which led me to waste a good bit of time. in any case, follow the instructions on the watch, not the packaging.The installation was quick and painless. Unlike a few other apps, this one puts a good bit of effort into security which I was very pleased with. After walking through the install it walks you through how to use it.The watch face has different designs. You can use voice commands, but there is also a keyboard (but it’s honestly so small I cannot use it. Maybe a stylus would help, but then you need to carry a stylus with you everywhere? It’s watching and that is not convenient.).Features include a 2.5 inch round touchscreen display. Google’s Wear OS, Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100 SoC, Heart Rate Tracking (supports Google Fit & 3rd party apps), GPS Distance Tracking: You don’t need a mobile while running or hiking. The watch will record everything using its built-in GPS, NFC enabled Payments, Assist on the Wrist: Ask questions or give commands to your Smartwatch via Google Assistant, Customizable Watch Faces, Weather Filters: Changes dial effects based on the changing weather conditions, Music Control, Water resistance up to 165 feet for short periods, Rapid Charging, and a battery life of up to 24 hours, depending on the usage. All in all, you get the abilities of a watch, a fitness watch, and a smartphone.
siddhant p. –
After 3 months of use, the display of this watch starts flickering. Though it is under 2 years of warranty, I am unable to reach the service care of Diesel. Kindly help me to run this machine again.The watch looks cool, apart from that all other things are pretty average.
jrunell –
I bought this watch as an upgrade to my Apple Watch series 1. I purchased the model with the brown leather strap when it was on sale for $199. I was a little skeptical at first due to all the negative reviews about battery life, but the great looks of the watch combined with the low price drew me in regardless. Turns out the battery is fine. I wore the watch all day at work. After 13 hrs, I still had 48% battery life. It was projected to last another 11 hrs for a total of 24 hrs. I had Bluetooth and WiFi turned on along with all the default notifications. I imagine if I deactivated some of the features, I could stretch the battery life to a couple of days. I downloaded and installed the latest software and I’m running Wear OS version 2.6. This may have something to do with the improved battery life. I noticed others were posting screen shots of their battery life and showed that Bluetooth accounted for 99% of their battery consumption. Not the case with my watch. Bluetooth only accounted for 12% of battery consumption for me. I attached a screenshot of the battery health graph for my watch that shows it would have gone a full 24 hrs.Compared to the Apple Watch series 1, the battery life is slightly less however. I could get a day and a half out of the Apple Watch when it was new. The Diesel On Full Guard 2.5 its much more fun to use though. It is more customizable, has better watch faces, looks better, and the two buttons above and below the dial can be used as shortcuts for whatever apps you want. The performance is probably only slightly better than the Apple Watch series 1 which is odd since series 1 technology is a few years old now. Either way, I’m extremely satisfied so far.
Michael G –
So I’ve read all those reviews and I thought – it doesn’t matter. So what if it’s a crappy battery life, so what if it’s slow, so what if it has limited features with iOS. As long as it’s designed by Diesel and looking as it’s designed by Diesel- nothing else matters. I was wrong…Lucky me – this watch failed apart after less then a week of gentle use, its bottom part just fallen off one morning, no falls, no hits, not even shakes. Lucky because it happened well in 30 days return period otherwise I would be much more angrier.
Todd M Wilson –
I’ve had this watch for several days now and the battery life seems to be getting better. Maybe because I’ve learned what not to use and how to limit the notifications. I can get a full days use out of it which is fine with me. I read it has a mic and a speaker, I can’t say if it has a speaker because it’s not made a sound, just vibrates for notifying. But it does have a mic, I’ve used voice to text. Overall, it’s a great looking watch and I like it so far. Yes, if the battery lasted a couple of days it would get 5 stars but it’s not terrible either. The one thing I don’t like is ease of use. There are no detailed instructions on how to use all the features, just trial and error. Edit. The back just came off and I cannot get it to go back on. Only had this watch 5 months.