[Other SmartWatches] sebba16:
Hi everyone and thanks again for your interest.

I am sorry to report I have some rather disappointing news. We will not be carrying on with this project and if truth be told have been left EXTREMELY disappointed by the watch.

Here is why:

1) We were sent 5 samples (all different colours) at a cost of £400. We have opened three of them so far. The red one broke almost immediately, the watch rim coming off in my hand. We then fully used an orange one all day, inserting a sim and using it for everyday wear. The battery showed around 50 per cent last night. All of a sudden it just died. It won't charge, won't power on, nothing. The black one seems ok but has had minimal testing because we were trying the orange one. However, we conclude that for 2 out of the 3 watches to break within 24 hours is not good. When we contacted the supplier, we were told that testing of the watch is still ongoing, and they welcome any feedback. This is not how we do business I fully expected to be sold a fully finished watch that was ready for market. If anything when we have been sent samples of products in the past, they are even better than usual because the supplier wants to impress the product on you for a big order. For the products seemingly not to have been thoroughly tested is bizarre.

2) Watch functionality. We would actually say that the watch functionality is pretty good. However there were two or three pretty catastrophic issues that we found with our limited testing. a) typing into the watch was awful. Some of the time you couldn't see what you were typing. The user was able to alternate between a "full" circle screen and a "small" square screen, but this limited the size of the app and also meant a lot of toing and fro-ing between screens.

The Google voice commands were actually very accurate and well received, but simple things like map views were restricted by the sreen size.

The pedometer function was awful. We expected the pedometer to work all day every day, especially as there is a section on the 'home' watchface where it counts your steps. This stayed on zero. We couldn't work out how to fix it. With regards the heart rate monitor this wasn't constant either, despite again having its own section on the home screen. It only told the last recorded reading, not current rate.

The main issue we found was that the watch did not seem to want to function when not connected to wifi. We were expecting that with the use of a data sim we would be able to do everything that we could do when connected to wifi but this wasn't the case.

The battery life seemed ok, and when the watch was resting the battery hardly declined at all. We did find the section where the watch was able to tell you how long it was likely to last for based on current usage very useful.

We could go on, but our basic conclusion is this: The ZGPAX S99 is a very nice looking watch and no doubt has some very good features. However, it has been let down by its build quality and the fact that some functions that are standard on current smartwatches do not function as they should on this watch. Given that to make any money on this watch we were looking to retail for £150 or $200, we feel that this would be charging too much for an essentially unbranded model. We also feel that given if one in ten watches failed for the end user we would lose money, that based on a 66 per cent failure rate so far, we could not justifiably persue this model.

I would like to thank everyone that has helped and offered an opinion, and welcome any further feedback, suggestions etc,

Thanks,

Seb, Superspot