Hi this is Phil from Make Tech Easier and welcome to our review of the Number 1
G6 smart watch. Smart watches, smart bands, exercise helpers of all other kinds of
wrist wearable tech is very hot right now. Most tech manufacturers by this
point make at least one smart watch. There are also various standards to
which certain makers adhere; the Apple watch of course, the Android watch and
then there are a variety of OEM or Original Equipment Manufacturer watches,
most of which seem to use the MTK2502 platform, or similar. The G6 is one of
these. Now then the point of a Smart Watch is on some level or other to be a sensor
bundle on your wrist, which talks to a phone or a computer to collect and
analyze your data. The watches collect steps, heart rate
and a handful of other metrics. They are also sometimes a half-decent watch!
Sometimes they also act as a remote for your phone and camera. Now good
smart watches are very expensive, over $100 and sometimes more like 400. But the
G6 is very reasonably priced in the range from about 38 - 40 dollars. At
this price it's easy to assume that the device will be cheap and not very useful.
But let's find out . . . What you get. In the Box is the watch, an
instruction book and a cable for charging the watch. The build quality of
the watch is pretty good it feels quite heavy and solid in the hand and the unit
supplied to us had a very soft but durable silicone wristband in a two-tone
red and black. The watch is available in with a range of different bands both
silicon and metal. The screen is a circular color LCD and there are two
control buttons on the right hand side. Before using the unit you need to charge
the watch to make sure it has a full charge. When charged you can press the
bottom button on the side to turn the unit on. Press the button a long time
and the watch will vibrate when it turns on.
G6 in use. Cosmetically the watch is quite stylish and simple. It's about the
same size as a regular watch, which is good because sometimes budget electronic
watches are bit thick and clunky not very wearable. This is fine. It fits up a
sleeve and you don't keep catching it on things all the time because the case is
smooth. The case is metal with the back of the watch being a acrylic or glass.
We're guessing this is part of the heart rate sensor package. The face of the
watch is a touch screen and swiping left or right shows you screens or four icons for
the various features, six screens in all. All the usual settings like language,
find your phone (by having it make a noise),
dialler for your phone, SMS messaging, Bluetooth, camera remote shutter,
notifications, alarm, calculator, stopwatch and calendar. These are all handy things
to have on your wrist. You also have the health functions of pedometer (to count
your steps), a heart rate monitor, a sleep monitor (to check how much you move
around) and a sedentary reminder to sound an alarm if you sit still for a period
of time, which you can set to different times. The heart rate monitor uses a
green LED on the back of the watch pressed against your skin. This allows
the heart rate to be sensed through your skin and relate to the screen. To tell
the time on the watch you can either press the bottom button on the side, or
set the flip to wake feature which makes the watch wake up when you flip your wrist
up to read it. A kind of hidden feature is that you can actually add three
custom faces to the watch in the phones native VXP
app format. If you know how you can even make your own. We haven't got time to
talk about this now so we'll cover the making and installing of custom faces in
a future video. Conclusion. Considering the budget price of this device this is
a pretty decent SmartWatch. Okay it's screen is only 240 x 240, the touch
screen can be a little fiddly especially if you have big hands and it isn't an
all-purpose computer on your wrist like an Apple watch. However if you want a
decent modern watch with smart connections to your phone and the
ability to customize the face then for the price you literally can't go wrong.
Should you buy it? Well it's obviously not a serious computing tool, more of an
entertainment, but it is very entertaining. It's not expensive so
getting it for fun or for kids is not entirely out of the question. The
rating for this item is 8 out of 10. Here are the pros: it's inexpensive and yet is
good build quality and it tells time perfectly. The phone link features seems
to work quite well and it's an excellent camera trigger and phone dial. The heart
rate and pedometer features work well with the phone app, giving you a good
basis to measure your weightloss. It's very stylish, not big or clunky
and looks like a regular watch. You can install up to 3 custom faces using
the external software. And now for the cons: screen resolution is only 240 x
240, the alerts can be quite annoying unless a) you like being interrupted all
the time, or b) you go to the trouble to turn them all off. You can only install
3 custom faces and you can only install the faces using the Android
version of the app. The iOS versions of the app are not as good. Ok that's it for
now. If you enjoyed this video why not like, subscribe and add your comments
below. See you next time!
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