[Wear OS Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alvanyap:
i'm at malaysia and yes my region have google services, my opinion on watch, in comparison to zenwatch first gen (my first android wear):

hardware:

1. the transflective display is superb(ignore the low resolution problem)! can stick to minimum brightness all the time (although it will turn to black & white under direct sunlight)

2. nice design! (it's better than zenwatch & lg watch urbane in terms of design)

3. hardware spec u get what u paid, on par with current mainstream smartwatch

4. standard watchband is basically a rubbish, but it's standard 22mm watch band means you can swipe it on your demand

5. Qi wireless charging

software:

1. It's OS, ticwear is basically useless outside mainland china: it only understand chinese for voice recognition.

2. it's core function eg call for taxi, navigation & etc all only serve in china

3. it get notification like android wear do, but not exactly same, example wechat will be same like you get from android wear if you turned on android wear compatible mode, but that's not for whatsapp, in android wear the whatsapp notification, you swipe left then you can c the chat history & swipe again will allow you to reply in voice for draw emoji or simple predefine reply, as for ticwear, the you only can c the latest message and reply with voice (of course in chinese) or predefine reply, here's the different, if you get more than 1 message then you wont able to view it

4. by using adb sideload (by wifi),it's possible to sideload app to watch as mentioned by previous post, but not all them function, for example google maps cant work in this (will keep force close on watch), endomondo will run but the force close screen will keep on appear on watch which meaningless if you want view your workout status on watch, watchmaker pro will work flawless, but not watchmaster (another watchface app)

5. wrist gesture totally different from android wear, in android wear you can flick your wrist to move from 1 notification to next notification, but in ticwear it only allow you to answer call (yes it can call on watch) or activate the voice recognition screen (again only listen to chinese)

6. the screenshot is handy, just double press the watch crown button

7. build in fitness apps require registration which only accept china phone number (and the tracking map is base on baidu map, a china exclusive maps)

8. the always on mode is a rubbish feature (it will finish your watch battery in less than 5 hours), i dunno why they dont implement always on mode with backlight off like what sony smartwatch 3 does (sw3 used semi-transflective screen also), as get reply from official is saying that there's hardware limitation to implement this which i think it's BS

9. the capacitive touch stripe on side is an innovative idea (similar to samsung gear s2 rotating bezel) but when compare to gear s2's rotating bezel it's basically useless

10. app store have some apps which is actually paid app for android wear (eg watchmaker premium, pilot watch faces), but it's foc in ticwear's app store

11. almost every month have update on os, latest update get you english UI (but still the voice it only listen to chinese)

12. the pedometer quite accurate

13. the build in audio control can control stock google play music player (not function for my honor 7 which run on EMUI)

battery life:

battery life is mixed of bags, base on the hardware specification, if run on android wear theoretically it should give you a solid 1.5 days use, but that's not my case, i usually get around 14~16 hours battery life (with aw compatible mode on), it's battery life is not stable especially everytimes after a software update

so is it a good buy?well base on your requirements, i'll recommended you to get huawei watch instead if you:

1. dont know chinese at all

2. you have budget.

3. you look for round watch

you might go for it if you(and that's basically what this watch can do outside mainland china):

1. you satisfy with the limited notification push function (basically better a bit than those cheap square china smartwatch)

2. you want an elegant round watch which have dozen of watchface available online for you to change everyday

3. you not mind to side load the apps to watch (need some efforts and all apps will missing upon sync app from companion apps)