[Ornate TrueSmart] chedderbeef:
iMacwear v ZGPAX S8

I received my Macwear yesterday. I have managed to access my emails, I downloaded yahoo mail from the app store. Additionally I downloaded Runkeeper in preperation of going out for a run today to test it out (i have used runkeeper before on previous mobile phones and know its a great running app). To put the sim card in you have to unscrew x2 small screws to take this small panel/strip off the side, this I imagine has been put in place to try and make the watch more water resistant/proof as possible. My wife called me soon after setting it up and I was surprised and how clear I could hear her and how well she could hear me,I guess I was expecting less quality, but it is great so far.

iMacwear v ZGPAX ..the main differences that I can see

iMacwear

more expensive around £110-£120 ebay (i got mine on ebay £105 best offer)

1GHz dual core

600 mAh battery

water resistant/water proof IP67

android 4.4.2 (i was expecting 4.2 however it arrived with 4.4.2 android version) :)

weight 118g

to charge you have to put the charger unit around the phone and then connect the lead, so no charger port on the side of the phone only on the charger cradle thing that comes with the phone.

ZGPAX

cheaper at around £80 ebay

1.2 GHz dual core

470 mAh battery

not waterproof

android 4.4

weight 75g

charger port on the side of the watch phone making it easier to charge

so i guess between the two, I have to go for the M7 because I will be going out running in the rain & need water proof/resistant watch phone and I would prefer a better battery life however I would have liked to have had the android 4.4 and better charging port and lighter watch like the ZGPAX. Seeing that they are close in specification I guess it depends on which features you want more and of course the look of the phone/watch. I will be testing it out more today. I have a garmin 405 forerunner gps watch and intend on comparing the watch phone to this to make sure the miles covered are close because the garmin is top quality for running. I main intention is to use the watch phone M7 to play music through my bluetooth headphones when out running whilst being able to track my run and be able to make/recieve calls if I need to but obviously this might be a test to the watch phones battery.

please note that I dont think there is a way to get call forwarding from another mobile phone to this watch unless anyone else knows. With Samsung gear s you need a sim card in both your samsung gear s and in a samung mobile phone and then if you leave your main phone behind you can do call forwarding to your watch phone or have someone ring you off your other number on your watch because you will have two numbers with samsung and two contracts. Also if you have the samsung gear s and dont have a compatible samsung main phone it wont work. After all these considerations I went for the iMacwear M7 because if i go out for a run or fancy going for a pint with my mates I can just transfer my one and only sim from my main mobile and put it in the watch, but the annoyance with this is that I have to unscrew them two little screws on the side of the watch to change the sim. If I went with the ZGPAX i wouldn't have this issue but it isn't waterproof. The M7 comes with x2 scews extra as spare and a mini srewdriver. My M7 has its name etc underneath the watch phone - mentioning this as some sites suggest they dont and there appears to be this same watch (M7) selling under different names. I have gone for the iMacwear choice for this watch and the quality appears very good,I cannot say for the same watch under different company names,maybe more people can say.

apparently the ipod nano 6 has the same size screen as the iMacwear M7, so I have ordered x6 screen protectors on Ebay for the nano with the intention of putting it on my M7,hopefully they will fit perfectly. only costs around £1-2 on Ebay