[Other SmartWatches] Gordofordo:
Just received my R5 Smart watch

I ordered the R5 in the beginning of January and just received it in the mail yesterday. Thought I would share my experiences setting it up after charging the watch for an hour or so.

1) My phone is a Moto G running Android 4.4.4

2) I downloaded and installed the APK from Google play. Search for "smartwatchbt4".

Once installed there did seem to be the option to upgrade the software, which I chose. It downloaded then asked if I wanted to install, then failed to install. Tried it 3 times no luck.

3) Don't bother downloading the APK in the owners manual it is not for BT 4.0. I tried it didn't work with BT.

4) Phone and watch linked up with no issues via BT. Some set up needed on the phone side to set what you want pushed to phone. Everything on your phone is checked by default. You can play with it over time I guess if you get sick of your watch buzzing every few minutes. At least having so many notifications at first helps confirm it is working OK with your phone. Right now I get Gmail headers, SMS (with ability to directly call sender), Google Now (way too frequent).

5) not sure yet what I think of the setup needed for the "Sports" mode. It wants cell phone number and password setup....not sure what is being done with it. One item that causes a crash is during the "Sports" user setup. Name, gender, height, weight save fine but if you try to enter your DOB it crashes the software. Tried it 4 times, always same result.

6) I connect the watch with phone camera OK but only if you have already launched the camera app. It seems that you need to swipe from the right on the watch to take a pic. It makes all the right shutter noises on the watch but nothing seems to happen on the phone. Hmmm.

7) I can make and receive cell phone calls on the watch no issues. Like it! Speaker sounds pretty good. The caller on the other end said it did sound slightly strange but not really an issue to them. I spoke into watch from 8"-10" away which felt pretty natural.

8) I can control my MP3 player on the phone, but same as camera you must launch the player and choose your music on the phone first. Then the watch can control play/pause forward/back and volume. Again, speaker actually sounds OK for what you have on your wrist! No headphone jack in case you wondered.

9) Tried the "Find the phone" app, seemed to work but would love to change the file it uses to say "I'm here".

10) Played with the clock face types as well as the menus style. It does what it says.

11) took me a while to figure out how to set an alarm. Thought I would just plug in 10 minutes or 20 minutes or whatever amount of time I want to pass before I heard the alarm. But that is NOT how it works. You actually have to set what time you want the alarm to go off. For example if it is 10am and you want an alarm in 15 minutes you must enter 1015 and then turn alarm "ON". It gets a bit more challenging because it seems to use the 24hr clock. So..........setting alarm to go off at 5:15 pm is actually 1715. Didn't see any instructions in the manual on this. The alarm ringer, wish I could change that too!

That's it for now. No complaints for the price. Seems to do what it says it does and lets me walk around the house without carrying my phone everywhere. PS I drive an old 1984 Mercedes diesel with basic am/fm radio. Didn't want the hassle of changing over the radio to support handsfree calling. This was 50% of why I wanted to give this watch a try, so far feeling pretty good about it.

Hope this was useful to people. Can't find much info yet on this watch so thought I would pitch in for the cause.

Take care!