Interesting review. This is the first negative review I've read of this device; I'm surprised considering the thread that was up this past weekend was incredibly positive, with beta testers giving glowing reviews. Has anybody else had issues with the battery? With the app crashing? These seem like things that would be found in beta testing and would be pretty obvious.
I've been beta testing the WakeMate for a couple months.
The battery lasts about 2 nights, and knowing this, I recharge it every night. Since doing so, it hasn't run out of batteries during the night.
The app crashed a lot initially (I'm on Android), but that was months back and the WakeMate guys were good about using the feedback data I sent to fix the bugs. It hasn't crashed for me in weeks, since I installed their latest version.
Edit: I meant I recharge the wristband every other night, not every night.
Agreed. This honestly seems like my experience with the early beta, which did seem pretty buggy. The production version has fixed a lot of these issues, so I'm a little surprised that this version would exhibit some of these same issues. That's too bad.
Thanks for posting this. I'm glad you've had a great experience so far, and I'm glad you still use the device as much as you do. You're probably our best beta tester! :)
This shows one problem with "random" beta testers, in the fact they might not be that random and actually want to see the device succeed and thus their feedback is biased.
I would assume that any user interested in a product would want to see the device succeed. In fact I would say that if a user didn't want a product to succeed they wouldn't put the time in to help debug it, no?
Reference link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2020811
Edit: fixed the link