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Ok, so like I said on the last post, I forgot to post this here, so lets fix that.
I loves me some gadgets, what can I say. So, last year, last summer, in fact near to about a year ago, I got a Zeblaze Blitz, a 3G watch phone. Yep, put a SIM in it, and you have yourself a cell phone. Neat little gadget, but way too little memory, so you can't add much apps, and you can't remove the crappy built in apps (a calendar app that merely displays a month view of a calendar for example). Still, I used it until AT&T swore it was a 2G only device and they were turning off the 2G service, at which point I switched to the LG K10 they sent me for free.
Back in March, I picked up a Lemfo LES1. Software wise, a few differences here and there, but aside from a lot more watch faces, and a lot of better ones, not that different from the Blitz. It was however thinner and lighter, which is nice. Plus it had four times the memory which actually makes it a useful device, since with a sub 2 inch screen, you're not going to use it for as much as you would a regular cell phone. Unfortunately after a month or so it proved to have a defective battery with charge times that were all over the places, 100% could mean 9 hours of battery, or 1. So, back to Lemfo it went for repair or replacement. Early this morn I picked up its replacement from the Post Office, and its all good, in fact I finished putting all my software and settings on it a couple hours ago.
Oh but the story doesn't stop there, at the end of June I bought yet another watch phone. Unlike the first one which I bought hoping it would be a usable and neat phone (wasn't really) or the LES1 which I expected great things from (lots more memory which was the deal breaker on the Blitz), this was more a toy. A TenFifteen X9A Plus, a watch for which there's a fair number of reviews, but the company doesn't exist. No website, Facebook, nothing. Weird product too, but neat at the same time. And this one died too, it wouldn't charge.
So, where's the real blues here?
Well, that would be that at roughly the same time, none of them could be charged. Really. Lets see, the Blitz is prolly the strangest, apparently my sweat ate two of the contacts off the back of the watch. No, seriously, one's so chewed up that the pin that connects it to the mother board won't make a proper connection. After some headaches, I've managed to order a new back panel and just have to wait for it to come in.
And of course the LES1, we covered that, defective battery, new one sent to me and received. So what about the X9A? Well, that turned out to be a defective dock. The charge pins are spring loaded, and something wrong with the hole that the positive pin sits in resulted in the pin going down, but not coming back up. Noticed this while going back and forth with GearBest about the warranty. Good news is that they're supposed to be sending me a new dock, and in the meantime, I've jerry-rigged the current one so that it'll usually charge. With a little nail polish, I may be able to make that almost all the time. Still, it'll be nice to get a working dock for it.
Of course the blues couldn't stop there. We tried out Family Mobile from WalMart which rides on T-Mobile. Problem was that I was only getting 2G service, but that didn't worry me much as Chinese phones are known for having trouble with T-Mobile. So, today I dug up a spare AT&T SIM since my current live SIM is too small, went to the online chat and tried to set it up. Remember what I said about AT&T and 2G? Yeah, well, that's relavent here, because despite the advertising and all, apparently the 2G thing wasn't because of T-Mobile problems, its because this watch is only capable of 2G service. Hmmm, Ok, not sure what I'm going to do about that, maybe leave it as a WiFi device, maybe use it as a 2G device, dunno. Shame too, because its one of the most interesting watches I've had, its essentially a generic Chinese Android phone, just really small and with a watchband, unlike the others which run a heavily modified watch centric version of Android.
I loves me some gadgets, what can I say. So, last year, last summer, in fact near to about a year ago, I got a Zeblaze Blitz, a 3G watch phone. Yep, put a SIM in it, and you have yourself a cell phone. Neat little gadget, but way too little memory, so you can't add much apps, and you can't remove the crappy built in apps (a calendar app that merely displays a month view of a calendar for example). Still, I used it until AT&T swore it was a 2G only device and they were turning off the 2G service, at which point I switched to the LG K10 they sent me for free.
Back in March, I picked up a Lemfo LES1. Software wise, a few differences here and there, but aside from a lot more watch faces, and a lot of better ones, not that different from the Blitz. It was however thinner and lighter, which is nice. Plus it had four times the memory which actually makes it a useful device, since with a sub 2 inch screen, you're not going to use it for as much as you would a regular cell phone. Unfortunately after a month or so it proved to have a defective battery with charge times that were all over the places, 100% could mean 9 hours of battery, or 1. So, back to Lemfo it went for repair or replacement. Early this morn I picked up its replacement from the Post Office, and its all good, in fact I finished putting all my software and settings on it a couple hours ago.
Oh but the story doesn't stop there, at the end of June I bought yet another watch phone. Unlike the first one which I bought hoping it would be a usable and neat phone (wasn't really) or the LES1 which I expected great things from (lots more memory which was the deal breaker on the Blitz), this was more a toy. A TenFifteen X9A Plus, a watch for which there's a fair number of reviews, but the company doesn't exist. No website, Facebook, nothing. Weird product too, but neat at the same time. And this one died too, it wouldn't charge.
So, where's the real blues here?
Well, that would be that at roughly the same time, none of them could be charged. Really. Lets see, the Blitz is prolly the strangest, apparently my sweat ate two of the contacts off the back of the watch. No, seriously, one's so chewed up that the pin that connects it to the mother board won't make a proper connection. After some headaches, I've managed to order a new back panel and just have to wait for it to come in.
And of course the LES1, we covered that, defective battery, new one sent to me and received. So what about the X9A? Well, that turned out to be a defective dock. The charge pins are spring loaded, and something wrong with the hole that the positive pin sits in resulted in the pin going down, but not coming back up. Noticed this while going back and forth with GearBest about the warranty. Good news is that they're supposed to be sending me a new dock, and in the meantime, I've jerry-rigged the current one so that it'll usually charge. With a little nail polish, I may be able to make that almost all the time. Still, it'll be nice to get a working dock for it.
Of course the blues couldn't stop there. We tried out Family Mobile from WalMart which rides on T-Mobile. Problem was that I was only getting 2G service, but that didn't worry me much as Chinese phones are known for having trouble with T-Mobile. So, today I dug up a spare AT&T SIM since my current live SIM is too small, went to the online chat and tried to set it up. Remember what I said about AT&T and 2G? Yeah, well, that's relavent here, because despite the advertising and all, apparently the 2G thing wasn't because of T-Mobile problems, its because this watch is only capable of 2G service. Hmmm, Ok, not sure what I'm going to do about that, maybe leave it as a WiFi device, maybe use it as a 2G device, dunno. Shame too, because its one of the most interesting watches I've had, its essentially a generic Chinese Android phone, just really small and with a watchband, unlike the others which run a heavily modified watch centric version of Android.
