Boult Striker Smartwatch Review | Poor design meets inaccurate health trackers

The Boult Striker smartwatch draws in potential buyers with a highly attractive price point and a durable build, but its health trackers are far from reliable.

Budget TWS maker Boult has expanded its offerings to smartwatches. We tested Boult’s Striker smartwatch to see what features it offers in this category. Here’s what we found out about the device that retails at ₹1,799 on the company’s website.

We received the Boult Striker smartwatch, a magnetic USB-D charging cable, and documentation for the device.

As soon as we unboxed the Boult Striker smartwatch, we felt it resembled a watch that might interest a teenager. The watch’s dial was large with a diameter of about 1.28 inches and has noticeable bezels. Apart from this, there is a white rim that sports the name of the watch, marks 10/20/40 second intervals and indicates where the microphone is placed. The big dial looks out of balance when compared to the strap, and hides the beauty of the device’s metallic brown finish.

The Boult Striker smartwatch offers most features that would be expected in a budget level smartwatch. It has a wide selection of watch faces and is set up to help users accept/reject calls and play music. It measures vitals such as the wearer’s heartbeat, their blood pressure, their blood oxygen level, and also keeps track of their sleep and menstrual cycle.

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However, one immediate disappointment was the clarity of the screen, which has pixelated lettering. While icons are accessible, the crumbly typeface was a strain to read.

What mainly confounded us was that the Boult Striker smartwatch not only measured heartrate and blood pressure while worn on the wrist; it was even measuring that data while it was taken off for hours on end and placed on a table. The smartwatch seemed at times unable to detect when it was off the wearer’s wrist, and continued to record completely erroneous health stats. This naturally makes a user wonder if they can take the smartwatch’s on-wrist results at face value.