Chinese Smart watches...

[dontpanicbobby]

Super cheap and work with Android. I bought one last week for $12.00 USD plus tax and it's amazingly cool!

Anybody else?

You can even put in your SIMCARD and make calls! Add a MicroSD card makes it a full fledged smartphone on your wrist for under 20 dollars!
Not counting carrier charges if you put in a sim.

 

[lunatic59]

got links?

I'd be interested to see what's out there.

 

[Deleted User]

That's cheap. Let us know in 3 months if it's still working

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Watch this. I bought the one without the speaker grill. Just to be clear these are not Wear OS watches.

 

[Unforgiven]

I may grab one for curiosity.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Try the one with the speaker grill. $15USD or so from Amazon @Unforgiven. I wouldn't let that resemblance to IOS bother me usually but my Supervisor likes Android too so I didn't want to confuse him. He actually figured out more to do with the cheaper one than me and he's not considered a gadget guru.

 

[lunatic59]

I agree with the reviewer ... how is that only $12?

If I can load it up with pictures of dinosaurs, my grandson would love it!

 

[Deleted User]

I agree with the reviewer ... how is that only $12?

If I can load it up with pictures of dinosaurs, my grandson would love it!

Unbelievable! $12, how is that possible?
So the verdict is, it doesn't suck.

 

[lunatic59]

Maybe the Chinese govt. is subsidizing these things to track the daily habits of cheapskates.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

I'll let you know in September.

 

[psionandy]

Of course... Some of them will leak data like a seive .... And they will never be patched to fix it.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Yeah. I doubt there will ever be an OS update to what I bought.
Does the PRC care who I call?
I'm just a guy, you know?

 

[psionandy]

https://boingboing.net/2017/10/21/remote-listening-device.html

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Once I got to prisoners I stopped reading.

Prisoners have Smart Watches? WTF!

 

[dontpanicbobby]

So it seems there are secret codes using the dialer to get you to a Game Store that will let you download a Galaga clone.

I'd have to take my working simcard out my phone and install it and a MicroSD card to make this trick work. One of the videos said it doesn't work with Sprint but I'm using AT&T so if I can find a simcard removal tool I'm gonna try it.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Still looking for one of my many SIM removal tools.
One of my other supervisers from Taiwan read the Chinglish instructions that came with this watch and he agrees they were junk.
You really have to watch YouTube for tips on what this watch can do.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

1/2 month. Working great.

 

[wuyiL]

I bought Wear24 from Verizon and it was less than $50.

 

[mikedt]

I bought Wear24 from Verizon and it was less than $50.

Only $50? Is that subsidized by Verizon, subject to contract and monthly payments?

 

[dontpanicbobby]

I use the time and the pedometer on my cheap one. What do you use on the Andoid Wear one?

I don't think we've interacted before...

Hi! Welcome to the forums years late.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

@wuyiL

The appstore for Wear is so much bigger and easier to access on your watch than my knockoff.
How do your calls sound?

 

[codesplice]

I bought Wear24 from Verizon and it was less than $50.

$50 made that ho-hum Wear OS device look really appealing.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

What ate you looking for in a Wesr OS device @codesplice?

 

[codesplice]

What ate you looking for in a Wesr OS device @codesplice?

Battery life to get me through the day, slim enough to fit under the cuff of a dress shirt, fully-round LED display, automatic brightness, interchangeable bands, NFC for Google Wallet, heart rate sensor (with support for background monitoring in Google Fit), scrolling crown button, additional hardware buttons for shortcuts. Oh, and it needs to have an SoC not based on a 5-year-old 28nm manufacturing process - which rules out every currently-available smart watch.

What do I not want? LTE.

I'm looking forward to Qualcomm's SoC announcement next month and the rumored Pixel Watch after that.

 

[Davdi]

I really can't see the point of smartwatches, there's no killer app that I can see.