What Android watch should i get

I bought a Chinese Android watch the other day... ZGPAX S99C for €100. 1.39" amoled screen, 1GB ram, 1.3ghz processor. Waiting to receive it. If it does what €250 plus smart watches do then I see no reason to be unhappy with it.

Ericaa wrote: »

Still using my Pebble Time as well. Servers haven't been shut down yet, they will be at the end of this month though Looking for something to replace it for when that finally happens but nothing seems to come close!

I still have a Pebble Time Steel too. Nothing comes close to the 10 day battery life. Had an email from Fitbit offering a paltry discount on one of their watches that was similar in size and shape to the Pebble, but only a max of 4 days battery life iirc.

Picked up a Xiami Amazit Bip from amazon last week - very happy with it. Gives all the notifications I need, plenty of watch faces available. Over 8 days the battery has dropped from 70% to 44%, so reports of 1 month battery life are not too far off the mark either. Can be got for about €60 from China (and possibly cheaper if you're lucky)

i bought an amazfit stratos on adverts for 100 euro, it was in chinese so had to do a bit of jiggery pokery to get it working as I wanted it.

It's exactly what I wanted, not the flashiest watch out there but fast, light, pretty and 4 days battery life per charge.
Works for most alerts and I can control my spotify playback etc.
I would recommend it.

coach22 wrote: »

I have this watch and Android Pay is not officaly supported in Ireland on Android Oreo yet. The app keeps getting disabled on the watch. To use it I have to re-enable it but then after 20 mins or so it will be gone from the watch again.

Its still far quicker just to use my mobile for payments with all the hassle of the above

For anyone affected by this, a workaround is to install payenabler from the play store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brouken.wear.payenabler

I bought an Xiaomi Amazfit 2 about a month ago for £150 on Amazon, which is a great price, particularly for what you get. It's a great looking watch, with a big round face, and an always on display. The battery is currently lasting around 4 days, that includes having the heart rate monitor on all the time, although as you'd expect when you switch on an activity that requires GPS the battery drains more quickly. I charged it to 100% on Sunday evening, walked for 4.5 hours on Monday, 4 hours on Tuesday and another 4 hours today, with GPS enabled, and have 15% life left.

It's fully waterproof, and you can do all the usual things like changing the watch faces through the app. The interface on the phone is surprisingly smooth and polished, which I didn't really expect considering it's not an Apple or Android device. The app itself is excellent, with great tracking and visualisation capabilities, although it does consume a fair bit of battery power.

The screen on the watch is very interesting. It actually works and looks much better in full sunlight compared to indoors in low light. There is the usual smartwatch thing of the backlight switching on when you flick your wrist, though I've found this a little inconsistent.

Negatives? As it's not Android or Apple, there are no apps available to install, so although the GPS is accurate, I can't use it for a round of golf, not at the moment anyway.

Overall I love the thing. It can track a very large number of activities such as running, spinning, climbing, including your altitude. The battery life, as already mentioned, is excellent, and in my opinion it looks great. Plus, at that price it's a steal!

JamboTyson wrote: »

"For anyone affected by this, a workaround is to install payenabler from the play store"


Just wondering if this workaround is still good as I read elsewhere it's based now on where card is registered? Thinking getting smartwatch and would love to be able to use google pay.

It works but overall it is quite slow to use. Using google pay on my S8 phone is far quicker and better

JamboTyson wrote: »

Have ordered the Ticwatch Pro, will post thoughts on it later this week once it arrives

Following for this. Handsome looking device, price isn't too saucy either... The only thing that would put me off is that apparently new hardware is coming for better performing watches, although apparently that's been coming for months and months already...

JamboTyson wrote: »

Got it today. Really like it so far price also dropped to £198 on Amazon. I know theres prob better coming later in the year but I imagine they'll be really expensive. Will post more details in next couple of days after some solid use

Photos too please

Phone app is 2.70.204965962 updated July 20th
Watch app is 2.70.203871638 updated 9th July. I'm running Oreo on an S8+ and Oreo on Huawei watch 2 LTE

JamboTyson wrote: »

Thanks for that my phone version matches yours but watch app is still from Feb. Not sure how to get that to update, guess I'll just have to wait and see if it auto updates soon

Try to delete pay enabler then searching for Google pay in the watch app market, clicking enable or update and enable a screen lock. Maybe even enable that first

JamboTyson wrote: »

Got it today. Really like it so far price also dropped to £198 on Amazon. I know theres prob better coming later in the year but I imagine they'll be really expensive. Will post more details in next couple of days after some solid use

Still happy with this? I'm considering ordering - can I ask if it comes with a plug or just USB cable?

JamboTyson wrote: »

Yes, I think it's great it's my first smart watch never fancied getting into them in the past because of battery times but at the moment I'm on pace to get 3 days smart use out of this and would still prob have juice for essential mode as well. That's with wrist gestures off but screen still wakes for notifications which suits me fine. I'd consider my usage normal over last 2 days, notifications flowing in, some NFC payments (with pay enabler workaround) , google assistant etc. I turn it off a night but have it in use then roughly 16 hours a day. I actually really like the LCD screen great to be able to just tell the time and steps without waking it so that's a big battery saver

It looks great as well, I went for the all black version. I have order my own strap though I'm not rally a fan of the leather look but that's just my preference.

Honesty have no major negatives at the moment. Would be a great bonus if Google pay gets sorted for here without the work around. It might be on the way as it seems to be working now for Huawei 2.


It comes with just a USB for charging, watch docks on the magnetic port

Thanks - I actually like the brown strap version, seeing it on a lot of ads but doesn't seem to be available on Amazon or the website.

griffdaddy wrote: »

I will say one thing, it's pretty slow to
load, you'd almost want it ready to go when you get to till. It is handy though, especially on the 4g watch. It means I can leave my phone or whatever in the office and everything I need, including calls and money, is forwarded through the watch.

Have you a separate sim for the watch?

Google pay definitely still disabling on my watch in any case. Updated the app, still the same.