[Other SmartWatches] mahnameisjaime1:
just got my watch today! pretty fast shipping, only took 8 days from china to texas/new mexico so pretty happy with that.

So heres my review or impressions and stuff, still going to mess with it some more and then make a video in a week. (I know it’s a lot of text but I tried to post a lot of things that weren’t answered in this thread or the elegance u8 watch thread or any youtube videos. I also tried to keep it organized but its kind of hard lol)

first impressions:

appearance:

-the watch strap is pretty bad, i dont like it at all. it does an alright job but its so soft and floppy it's a little weird and thin.

-its not too big, it looks big when i hold it in my hand but then i put it on and it looks decently sized. I used to wear a 6th gen ipod nano on my wrist as a watch and u8 pro watch is barely any bigger than the nano.

-its funny because many of the design elements seem to be taken from the ipod nano + tiktok watch combo. the alan key bolts to hold the strap on, even the watch faces were taken straight from the ipod nano and the way you navigate through the menus on the u8 pro watch is almost the same way you navigate through the menus on the ipod nano. very interesting.

-i was expecting plastic on the screen but its glass, at least if feels like glass, it's cool to the touch and it doesnt rainbow like a plastic screen would. the viewing angles of the screen are also very good so maybe the screen really is an IPS display. the screen on the u8 pro watch is the same size as the 6th gen ipod nano but actually seems to be better. the resolution seems to be better and the color saturation and contrast is way better than the ipod nano. it's a very great looking screen.

-navigating on the main menu kind of lags, and the screen loads in sections, a little of an annoyance at first but you get used to it after an hour or so.

-the watch face is in 24 hour/military time, not a big deal but it’s a slight inconvenience

Notifications:

-any app that sends push notifications works on the watch, even things you dont want such as the media scan that your phone does when it starts up, like when it scans your sd card and you get a notification for each percentage but you can block all these apps and only get notifications from the apps you want. so all facebook notifications, even facebook messenger notifications. i havent tested whatsapp but i assume it works as well.

-there isn’t a quick way to get rid of notifications, you have to long hold a notification and then click delete and then confirm it, you can also get rid of all notifications by clicking the “empty” option and then confirming. I would have liked an option to slide away the notification but oh well.

- another thing i just notices is that i cant reply to texts, when i long hold on a text i get the option to forward it, delete it, or show the details but theres no reply option. if i click forward, i can forward the text to someone else but its not the same as replying. i can of course compose a new messsage to the person i want to reply to but that requires more button pushes.

-i was hesitant about typing on this watch but its surprisingly easy, the "smart abc" keyboard does a good job at predicting what words you're trying to type, i just have to get used to what letters are on what keys.

Phone calls:

-audio comes out of the watch when a call is answered on the watch and audio comes out of the phone when the call is answered on the phone

-the phonebook will only sync contacts you have entered, so contacts that were synced to your phone from facebook and other apps wont appear on the watch’s phonebook.

Other observations:

-i tried messing around with having the watch and my bluetooth headphones connected but it didnt seem to work. it seems like the app (im using the mediatek smartdevice app) gets confused and just doesnt connect to the watch. i can pair both the headphones and the watch at the same time but the app doesnt connect to the watch.

-the pedometer app does have a switch that allows you to turn on the screen when you raise your hand up. It works pretty well, it basically turns on the screen when the watch goes from a downward position (like when you’re hands are at your sides) to an upwards position (where the screen is facing up). I tried getting it to run on while running and doing other tasks and it didn’t work so that’s a really awesome feature but it does burn up battery life but I think its worth it.

-With the mediatek smartdevice app doesn’t work with the “find my phone” app, the anti lost app does work but not the “find my phone”

edit:heres some images of the watch next to an ipod nano watch for comparison

http://imgur.com/a/i6rnu

UPDATE:

-so i uninstalled mediatek smartdevice and found that the u pro btnotification app works a little better.

-mediatek has a nicer UI but remote capture doesnt work.

-U pro btnotifcation has the option to only send notifications to the watch when the device is locked which is really nice because sometimes you get a text while looking at your phone and your watch will still go off.

-with the btnotification app, i can now use my bluetooth headphones and the u8 pro at the same time. I guess the btntotification app know's which device it needs to talk to where as the mediatek app was guessing and so when both headphones and watch were connected it would get confused.

-download the U pro version of the btnotification app here: http://chrsz.com/Files/Download/u%20pro%e8%93%9d%e7%89%99%e9%80%9a%e7%9f%a5.apk

if you have any questions please ask!