This time, I will explain about something that was really bad exactly like what this person showed clearly in this particular video about the device itself, despite it was clearly a scam that pretended to be the real deal of it... Speaking about that cheapo device that he "reviewed" there, I also used to have one of those too, but it was under a different shape yet it also had the exact same cheap operating system as well like that one that he clearly showed there. Without further ado about it, let me take a look of my story about it, yet how I completely gave up using it anymore.
1. First glance of it...
Back in somewhere in 2018, my mom just told me about the "smart" watch itself that I planned to buy it online. At first glance, I thought I was like, "Oh... I can't wait to get an Android Wear for such a cheap price!" or some sentences that sounded quite similarly like that. So, I decided to buy it for roughly few bucks for it from a somewhere else online (which wasn't from any legit local online marketplace whatsoever). I waited it for probably 2 weeks for shipping for it, until I got a mail from a courier that contained the "smart" watch itself. So, I decided to open it straight away, until some sudden disappointment about it just hit really hard on my face during upon I unboxed the mail that contained the box of it.
2. Appearance
By the look of it, it was exactly what I suddenly disappointed into, which the box itself looked so cheap and bashed, until I decided to open it to reveal even more sudden disappointments of the device itself that I bought. It contained the "smart" watch itself, short microUSB cable, and instructions that was written in both Chinese and broken English... Yep, my disappointment about it was getting worse upon I turned it on (even when it only showed the battery icon during it's charging), but of course I had to charge it for at least 5 minutes for very first time to gave it some juice for it (if I guessed that statement right).
Anyway, back to the thing itself. It felt exactly similar to that guy who reviewed there, cheap and nasty crap, and both of it's own straps were also felt quite cheap too, but it did it's job just okay. Even though the one that I got had different shape, but it was basically the same thing like what he reviewed on that video there as well.
3. Usage and results
First off, you probably think if that thing would work exactly like what he reviewed there, but NO! It performed way worse as you may expect. Sometimes if I accidently drop it (but not too high), or I accidently tap it quite hard (but not too hard), it just simply shuts the thing itself off. It occurred just almost every single time if I did either the former or the latter, it kept shutting the thing itself off for unknown reasons. Maybe because the thing itself wasn't supposed to be shock-proof? Or device was naturally defective from the factory? Probably the latter, to be honest.
For the cheap operating system itself, of course I always felt annoying by that tune every time I turned it on or off, but I did able to disable it though settings that leaded to it, so. For the rest of the "apps" and functions of the watch itself, here are the results about them:
- First off, the key function about it was obviously the clock itself. It did work just okay as it was, but of course if I removed it's own battery then I put it back in, it kept resetting it's own date and time in very early of 2017.
- I didn't bother to send messages through it because not only the fact it was kind of obsolete in general these days, it was PAINFULLY difficult to type texts on that tiny touchscreen. That also occurred during I tried to do certain other things that involved typing texts on it too.
- Using it as a remote Bluetooth media player through an app from my smartphone's app just worked decently. Even though it's own tiny speakers didn't sound that great, it did it's job just reasonably so.
- Unlike the "smart" watch that he reviewed in that particular video, it had a built-in camera. The quality of the pictures that were taken by it was potato as you expect, yet slightly lower quality than that Nokia phone that my mom used to have in around 2006 to 2007.
- Using it as a remote camera also worked just okay, yet also using the same app that functions it as a remote Bluetooth media player for it.
Even though it had those features, it also had another flaws besides that one major flaw that I mentioned earlier. So, here are some flaws for it:
- Even though it had a camera, it didn't had a feature to record a video. Probably because the system itself was way too poor to implement it (unlike those old typical Chinese phones [e.g. my old D-ONE]), but I obviously don't know.
- No default wallpaper on it's own watch face home screen, just plain pitch black.
- It obviously didn't support any pictures or images that had larger file sizes. That also applied to the certain music files and their certain file formats of the same size traits too.
- Some dud (false option) apps like Facebook, Twitter, and even Whatsapp that were present on it. I tried to open any of them, but none of them would do so.
- No Wi-Fi, just some obsolete GPRS and WAP connections.
- No headphone jack.
4. Final times with it...
With all of it's own features and flaws that it had, it did it's job just okay for certain things, such as remote Bluetooth media player (albeit it's own speakers sounded so tiny), pedometer (which I didn't think if that actually worked), and some other basic stuffs that I could do with it. Until at the end of the day with it, I was having a bad day about why that thing always malfunctioning like so, yet that made it even better because one of it's own straps broke off... During that time I decided to end it's life because how obviously crap it was, I was really mad about how it kept malfunctioning again and again, especially for that one major flaw where it still kept shutting the thing itself off by any certain hits to it, even with one of it's own straps broke off. Well, because of that still existed, I decided to do it even harder by simply drowning it into the saltwater first, but of course I had to rescue the SIM card (if I ever used it to send SMS or other communication stuffs that involved it, otherwise it was so painfully pointless) and the 2 GB microSD card that I used for it, so... After I drowned into the saltwater, the screen suddenly went all white, but for some reason, it didn't shut off if I dropped it or tapped it hard. It also made the thing itself felt a bit warm too during that occurred... Then, I hit the screen really hard until the protective glass got shattered, yet the crappy LCD itself also broken too, even though I obviously couldn't see anything from it anymore because it was shorted with the screen still went white... Finally, I finished the rest of it off by smashing the whole thing into a lot of small pieces yet I burned it too. And that was it, even though I rescued some of what's left from the "stupid" watch itself, I actually kept it's own battery for some reason until it got swollen by itself, which I ended up "hauling" it off later on.
Well, there you have it for my experience with that cheapo "stupid" watch. Exactly what the title of this post says, this was obviously the worst experience of using it, not only the fact it's way too obsolete, it also because it was utterly painful for using it as a sub-daily driver device... This was also definitely the scam almost similarly like what he discovered in that particular there (but under different reason), because I thought it was some sort of cheap Android Wear watch that looked quite unique, but it turned out that was one of those cheapo generic "smart" watch with their own cheap operating systems that they embedded them into that, which didn't work that well... I think that's pretty much it from what I could say to that cheapo crap that I already got rid of, and hope you can pay full attention about what I experienced with that, or even other cheap techs that you may feel often disappointing with any of them, so.
