Smartwatch

No.1 D5+ Smartwatch in box

   Thank you Gearbest for giving me a chance to review the No.1 D5+ smartwatch, my experience with the watch has been very great. This post will be a summary of my own personal experience after using the D5+ for 3 weeks now. It will include both the pros and cons of the watch too. The No.1 D5+ smart watch is popular because it very cheap, it is also a full android smartwatch which means, you can download New apps from the Google play store without any restrictions.

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• Note:
• This review is only based on my personal experience only, other users experience may be different.

General Information And Features About This Watch:

No.1 D5+ Smartwatch_box

No.1 D5+ Smartwatch package

Below are my Honest Review and personal experience with the smartwatch:

The Charging problem issues and the Four Golden pins:  

   Starting from the day the package was delivered to me, i have been having some issues with the D5+ magnetic charging dock, which is made out of plastic and rubber, it feels comfortable on a flat surface, but the issues with the charging dock is that if i don’t open up the watch strap i will have to put the watch face down on a flat surface which can led to scratches quickly, especially the bezel near the display.

   Most of the time, the micro USB cable will always disconnect from the charging dock, i will have to press the cable tightly using my fingers in other to start charging again. The charging time is also up to 3hrs depending on the usage, most times i will have to power off the smartwatch in other to charge faster.

No.1 D5+ Smartwatch sim slot

   For you to insert your sim card, you will have to unscrew the smartwatch and this is where you need to be very careful. After you unscrew the watch you can’t see the battery, it is hidden under the motherboard. But you will notice Four golden pins at the right side as seen in the image above. Be very careful because the Golden pins are very fragile and can break easily, if that happens your D5+ may stop charging entirely or face charger disconnection problems.

No Upgrade and little customization Available:

No.1 D5+ Smartwatch interface

   Even though this smartwatch runs on a fully featured android OS, it is not easy to upgrade and customize.For example i can’t change the background wallpaper or use a third party lunchers, unlike real smartphones which have unlimited tweaks. This smartwatch is also not compatible with most of the android apps in the store due to it small screen size. The fact that their is high probability that the d5+ will be stuck on Android 5.0 lollipop forever is not a good one.

Water proof but Do not go swimming with it:

   Inside the D5 plus there is no real seal or protection, as you have seen in the image above. It only has an IP65 RATED waterproof protection, that means you can’t take this watch on a shower or swim with it, otherwise water will get into it and you will end up with a dead smartwatch.

Application and connection:

   In other to connect the watch to your smartphone you will need to download the watch helper application. it is both available for iOS and Android and you can easily install it by scanning the bar-code on the smartwatch. It need to connect using your Bluetooth and it works perfectly fine, no connections issues. After a successful connection you can: Read incoming SMS, missed calls, incoming calls and notification from app message.

Speakers Location:

No.1 D5+ Smartwatch back view

   The loud speaker is very loud, but it is located at the back of the smartwatch which is a very bad thing. If you are wearing the watch on your wrist it will cover up the speaker, the result is low and distorted sounds. Apart from this the call quality is very good and the speaker is loud enough.

Typing and Chatting is not easy:

No.1 D5+ Smartwatch_Typing

   If you are someone with a fat or big fingers, you will have some typing issues with this smartwatch. The keyboard is too tiny and the spaces in the keyboard are not really optimize for the watch round face, you might have a really bad time typing and making a lot of mistakes. You can also download a new keyboard from the Google play-store if you don’t like the pre-installed one, but i doubt if this will help at all.

Display:

   The display is really bright for indoor use, but i find the outdoor display not really bright enough most especially when you are in direct sunlight. The watch face style you use can also determine the visibility and readability outdoors. Using a dark watch face design can make things really difficult to see in direct sunlight, so i prefer using white watch face style design as you can see in the image below. The overall display experience for me is pretty good, but i will advice you to always turn down the brightness in other to safe your battery.

Mobile connection:

The mobile and WiFi connection for me is always dropping a lot, most especially when am downloading files. I hope the No.1 will help fix this connection issues with a software update soon, it is really very annoying.

The battery life is poor:

No.1 D5+ Smartwatch battery usage

   The battery life is isn’t very good i must confess, but consider the fact you are having a little round smartphone on your wrist is worth the sacrifice. With heavy usage i get like 3 hours of onscreen time, and that is with WiFi connection and web browsing. The standby time is about 2 days when the mobile network is offline and you will get a 1 day standby time with mobile 3G network turned on.

That means you will always have to charge your D5+ smartwatch every day, this is one of the reasons i love my Xiaomi MI Band 2 smart wristband i can go about 3 weeks without charging it. I will advice you to always turn on the power saving mode when not in use, it will help to solve the battery drain.

Pros and Cons Of the No.1 D5+ Smartwatch

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•  Pros

• What i really like about this smartwatch:
  • Google Playstore support
  • 1GB RAM and 8GB internal memory
  • Independent 3G and wifi Network
  • Nice design with stainless steel
  • Affordable price Tag
  • Loud sound output
  • Fast and stable performance
  • Full android 5.1 Operating System

•  Cons

• What i dislike about this watch:
  • No upgrade and customization available
  • Difficult when Typing or using the keyboard
  • Poor mobile Network and WiFi connection
  • Poor battery Life
  • No SDcard support
  • Difficult to insert sim card
  • No camera
  • Speaker location not Good 

   

• Price and Availability

•  The is No.1 D5+ smart watch is  available on gearbest.com at a retail flash price of only $99. Check out the official sales page: [Sales Page ##shopping-cart##]

Conclusion:

   The No.1 D5+ is one of the cheapest smartwatch today with great specifications and features. You can buy this smartwatch on Gearbest.com for a price of $99 as at the time of this Review. The fact that is has a fully featured android 5.0 lolipop is amazing, it is just like having a smartphone on your wrist. The D5plus is also not perfect either, apart from the cons above and the short battery life which is my own personal experience using this Smartwatch. It is an amazing watch which i will always recommend for everyday.
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   You can check out more information about this smartwatch in the sales page here on Gearbest.com. i will be adding more update on this watch very soon and you can ask your questions in the comment section below and i will reply you.

Bye guys. it time for me to make a call with my smartwatch!

   This is my personal experience after using the U watch U8 pro smartwatch for 3 weeks. I will be telling you about the features, cons and my own personal opinion. I always thought using a smartwatch was silly, until i nearly lost my brand new Bluboo Maya Max smartphone. It happens that i forgot it in a public cab (taxi), the driver of the cab been an honest person, fortunately returned it to me after 2 days.

   You can’t imagine the confusion and the panic i faced. So i started thinking about how this will not happen to me again. I started by searching for the available smartwatches on Gearbest.com online store, most especially i will prefer a watch with the anti-loss alarm feature.

   I found so many smartwatch on Gearbest online store, another issue is the price. Spending about $100-$200 on a watch is just too expensive and i am not willing to pay that kind of a price. After searching for a long time i found one for only $27 to me this is an affordable price, as long as i can check the time and it also has the anti loss feature.

Buy the  U8 Pro Smartwatch For only $9 on Gearbest (Sim Version)
Buy the U watch Pro Smartwatch  For $27 on Gearbest (Bluetooth Version)

About the 1.55 “TFT LCD Capacitive Touch Screen display:

   The LCD screen is wide enough, unless you have a very small wrist you will not have problems using it. The screen is tactile, so you may have a problem using it in winter if you wear gloves. Luckily, it has a button on the right side that you can also press to see the time. At first it feel a bit “weird”, because to save battery the screen will always turn off after a few seconds and  you have to press the button again. But i get used to it after using it for a few days.

Sim card. Can be used as a stand-alone phone:

   Well, I’ve tried it with my sim card and it works well. Am not sure if it will work with all sim or networks. But i don’t have a spare sim card, so i normally don’t use my sim-card with it.

Answer or make calls from your wrist (hands-free):

   It works as if am connected with a hands-free using my phone Bluetooth. I don’t really like this, because when your phone rings, the watch will starts to ring and vibrate with it, this can be very embarrassing sometimes most especially when am in a public place, it sometimes draw some unusual attention to me. The name of the caller appears on the watch display (only if you have it in your contact list) and you can answer or reject the call from the watch. But this can be very useful, especially when driving.

Playing music on my watch:

   This feature is not useful for me. First: i don’t feel comfortable listening to music on the U8 pro speaker, especially when i can easily use an  earpiece with my phone. Second: I  have to connect it with the multimedia audio of the Bluetooth of my phone, which means that ALL the notification alert of my phone will also sound on the smartwatch: When i get a Whatsapp or an Email message, i will always get a “disrupted sound effect”.
The inbuilt watch music player doesn’t allow you to control the music player on your phone, that means i cannot skip or next a song when playing music with the watch which is a major disappointment to me.

Synchronize contacts / SMS / call history (only works on Android phones):

   I don’t really use this function, considering that I will always have my phone within 10 meters. But what i really like is been able to read my sms messages and  missed calls without a need to bring out my phone from my pocket.

The Anti-lost alarm feature:

   This is one of the features that makes me buy this watch in the first place. It function is to warn you when your smartwatch loses connection with your phone Bluetooth. It works quite well, although sometimes the connection is lost for no reason and the warning alarm starts to ring. The actual range is about 5 meters, and will be much less if your phone is outside and you are in the room ( walls). The sound of the loss alarm can not be changed and there are times when it is uncomfortable to suddenly hear the sound of an ambulance from your wrist, just because you forget your cell phone in your jacket. This might sound funny, but it is better to hear a hundred false alarms than losing my cell phone.

Stopwatch, alarm, pedometer, FM radio and camera:

   You can’t really rely on those features: the camera can make a beautiful lady looks extremely ugly in 1 sec! the picture quality is bad. The Fm radio needs to have a headphones connected to the watch  and I have never use it. To make matters worse, the pedometer is unreliable.

Remote image capture:

   I think i like this. It works as your phone camera remote control, you can snap pictures and record videos using your Smartwatch without touching your Smartphone, but the photo will be taken by the phone’s camera and will be stored in the phone memory. It is okay when you want to take a picture and You can’t physically see the screen of your phone.

Sleep monitor:

   I don’t know how to use this or how it works, all i know is  that  i will have to charge my battery again every morning each time i activate it.

Find your  phone:

   In theory, you click this icon on your watch and an alarm sounds on your phone so you can easily find it.

 Car Loss:

I have no idea what this function is all about or how to use it.

Notification of incoming messages:

This option deserves special attention:
   Actually this feature has been much more useful than I thought, and i have become addicted to it. I always put my phone in the inner pocket of my jacket, or in my backpack, i can only feel my phone vibrate and hear message notification sounds, but I found it very annoying to stop and read it (pick up the phone, open the lid, unlock the screen).

   When you have incoming messages the U8 Pro smartwatch, vibrates and the screen is turned on. If you have enable the read message option, by just looking at the screen you will see the topic of your email inbox or the first lines of the message received.

But for this feature to work correctly you have to make some little changes:
1 – Forget the application recommended in the manual. You will have to Download and use Mediatek SmartDevice Here.  And do not forget to select only the applications that you want to receive notification, otherwise, you will receive notification for ALL messages on your phone and it will drain your battery.

2 – Don’t use the Gmail application, download Blue Mail instead. With the Gmail application, you receive a message on the clock that says “you have a new email”. With blue mail shows the summary of your messages.

3 – Forget the traditional Whatsapp, download Whatsapp plus. With whatsapp the same thing will happen, it will notify that “you have a new message”. You have to install whatsapp plus and activate the extended notifications in settings to see the messages received. you will only see the  3 or 4 first lines of your messages and notifications, but that is more than enough. It will also notify you of all your unread messages until you have read them.

Watch interface:

   You have 4 interface designs to choose from, 3 “Analogue” and 1 digital. I personally use the digital interface design, i can easily know the time and date. The other three watch interface are fine, but they have very little contrast between background color and the seconds and can be very difficult for me to see in direct sunlight.

   In conclusion, i have nothing more to tell you. The battery life is good and manageable too, as long as you turn it off when you get home and charge it at night.
Do you have a U8 pro Smartwatch? Tell me about your experience about this watch by commenting below!