[Other SmartWatches] bandario:
Here's my quick review: This watch is an absolute piece of ****.

All of the functions on mine work as intended from the factory (I have the newer version with all of the app spaces full), but it just does a half-ass job at all of them.

My main gripes summarised:

1) it turns the screen on by itself constantly - I have read about a feature where the screen is to light up if you make a motion of looking at your watch. Well, either it doesn't work or it is so painfully delayed that it just activates when your hand is in a flat neutral position. This is a huge drain on battery life and bloody annoying and there seems to be no way to configure this either from the smartwatch or from the app.

2)Music play control - this is the most infuriating part for me. I expected to be able to control the audio playback of my phone from the watch....which I can. Unfortunately, this means that audio must then play THROUGH THE WATCH. Why the hell would I want my audio to play back through this tiny, ****ty speaker? If I disable phone audio and leave call audio enabled in bluetooth settings of my phone, then the music control feature is disabled. This is ridiculous. The company has taken shortcuts such that the 'smart'watch is set up as a bluetooth audio device, like a pair of headphones or some other piece of audio hardware.

3) Heart rate sensor. Yes it works. Yes, you have to open the app and specifically request to see your current heart rate at that point in time. What a waste of time. I can take my own heart rate at a set moment with less time and effort, and I certainly won't be doing that in the middle of a run. No data can be collected in the long term, nor fed to any external app. What's more, I can't even activate this feature from the app, I have to do it on the watch itself. Absolute waste of time.

4)The interface, oh my god, the interface. Where do I begin to tear this piece of **** to shreds. This is like a throwback to 2004, before we had open source android, when Chinese manufacturers had to cook up their own terrible firmware for every cheap piece of plastic to hit the market. Remember buying a chinese mp3 player or early chinaphone and having to deal with the backwards, clunky interface built from a spare pile of foibles that they had sitting around? Yeah? Well this is just like that, only worse, because by now they should know better.

75% of the stuff on the main menus shouldn't be on the main menus at all, they should be BURIED within the settings menu. Once your watch it set up, you shouldn't have to touch 75% of this stuff ever again, yet here we are, with 3 pages of apps that could easily have been 1. You will constantly be entering setup menus that you don't need because they are insanely placed among the useable 'apps' on this device with no descriptor, just some insane, half-related picture to let you know you are about to change the langue or shift from metric to imperial or enable power saving mode. These function are literally spread across all 3 screen on the device.

Watch faces: The analogue face looks pretty sharp. The digital face looks like you just bought a cheap chinese piece of crap, and it is now strapped to your wrist because you are an idiot.

Other: I will give credit where it's due, but unfortunately not much is due here. The form factor is impressive, it is small enough to get away with wearing it and it actually looks ok on the wrist. But you know what? So does a cheap casio, and telling the time is about all this thing excels at. This smartwatch tries very hard to be a jack of all trades but it truly is a master of none, and it's toolkit is made of plastic.

It pains me to think about the fact that I paid about 50% of the price of a pebble or something else useful for this thing, but as the adage goes: A fool and his money are soon parted, and I am a fool. I bought into the CGI mokups and manufacturer description and I deserve everything I got.