The Altafit af28 smartwatches have been recalled, according to a press release Thursday from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The problem? The watches can overheat on their chargers and even ignite into flames.<\/p>\n
The smartwatches were sold on the Home Shopping Network from March 2025 to May 2025 for $50, marked down from $100. There have been 39 reports of the watches melting, burning, and catching fire with at least six reports of consumers\u2019 hands being burned along with property damage. And it\u2019s all attributed to the smartwatch\u2019s wireless charging pad.<\/p>\n
The watches were manufactured in China and imported into the U.S. by Deale International LLC, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Altafit af28 was sold on HSN.com as a smartwatch that looked like a piece of jewelry while having all the latest smartwatch features.<\/p>\n
\u201cConsumers should immediately unplug the smartwatch\u2019s charging pad and stop charging the recalled smartwatch,\u201d the CPSC said in a statement posted online<\/a>. \u201cConsumers can contact Deale International for instructions on how to receive a free replacement. Consumers will be asked to cut the unplugged charging pad\u2019s power cable and email a photo of the charging pad with the cut cable to [email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n The screen measures 1.68 inches and the watch came with two bands, bejeweled and mesh. The versatility of having something that wasn\u2019t \u201ctoo sporty\u201d for \u201can evening out\u201d was a major part of the marketing pitch, according to promotional videos posted to YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cThis is one that\u2019s going to do all the things we want a smart watch to do,\u201d the HSN host says in a video. \u201cEven reads your oxygen levels, your sleep, your heart rate, all the different sports modes that we love from running to yoga to cycling, and you can get credit for them all.<\/p>\n The host went on to explain the watch is \u201cIP67 water resistant rated, and you can even receive your phone calls, your texts, you get app notifications, and that\u2019s kind of just the beginning of it.\u201d The watch was billed as being able to measure blood pressure, though smartwatches are notoriously bad at that<\/a>.<\/p>\n The watch wasn\u2019t really on Gizmodo\u2019s radar until we saw the recall notice, and it looks like the company only sold about 2,900 of them. But now we\u2019re curious how it performed. Did you have an Altafit af28? How did it work? Here\u2019s hoping that if you do own one it didn\u2019t catch on fire and you can get your refund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Altafit af28 smartwatches have been recalled, according to a press release Thursday from the U.S. Consumer Product…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[30056,30057,786,30058,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-54902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-altafit","9":"tag-deale","10":"tag-gadgets","11":"tag-recalls","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}