Cookoo smart watch review (MyBroadband)

While this particular watch might not seem to be great in terms of ergonomics, i do think the reviewer did seem to miss the point of these "smartwatches". The Pebble , which is basically being released about now too, is the same thing and one of the main reasons these things are getting popular is not because we are too "lazy" to pull out our phones.

Phones like the Samsung Note 2 and even S3 are pretty large phones. Alot of us actually do use these phones for music, GPS tracking and all kinds of things while we are busy driving,running or working. Trust me, pulling out a phone in your pocket, the size of the Note II , only to change the song while driving, is a disaster waiting to happen. I listen to audiobooks while driving and often have to pause or play (or rewind) while driving, not a great experience if you don't have some sort of bluetooth interface on your steering wheel.

I cycle with my phone in my backpack, inside a waterproof bag....need i say more why a watch with the ability to interact with my tablet sized phone is actually quite a useful thing to have? (and thus not us being "lazy" or "facebook obsessed" ).

So yea, while sitting in a meeting and screening phone calls via my watch sounds more professional than constantly fiddling with your phone , there's a ton more to this than people think.

Personally, i'd still probably only go for this type of device when it actually runs an OS (i.e. Android or iOS) and can literally "remote" into your phone via Apps. Therefore allowing interaction with the phone without the watch itself being a phone.

I'm sure we're not far off from that, i've already seen Apple doing it with the iPod Nano (the square one) with a wristband accessory and an app that simply shows analog time. Again, ergonomics of that setup isn't too appealing and it's not as waterproof/outdoor proof as a normal watch. Battery life and all that also becomes an issue. No one wants a watch that needs to be charged every day either.
 
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Mmmm. A "local" website selling the product with only a cellphone number and "cloud" e-mail as a contact and no further information about the seller. Also very little info about the registered domain name in the registry.

Ding ding ding. My "beware-o-meter" is going off the chart...
 
Pairing up the Cookoo watch with the Cookoo app on your spartphone will allow the time-piece you to receive “beep” notifications for the following:
Calendar reminders;
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I'm not sure if I understand this correctly.

Does the watch only beep and light up some calendar icon on the watch when a paired iPhone/iPad tells the watch to do so and then the user has to go to their phone/tablet for details)?

Does the watch have no way of displaying a description of the calendar event it is beeping you about? (for those of use who have the memory of a goldfish and who don't always have their smartphone pocketed)

Does the watch have no way of caching calendar events and notifying the burdened user when the countdown to a reminder has reached zero? (without the involvement of an iPhone/iPad control freak device playing puppeteer to the watch)
 
I am personally waiting for the second generation of smart watches. I agree that this particular model is a reasonably good choice for someone who wants a more traditional looking watch but the size and weight also put me off it.
 
Does this watch have a quartz or automatic movement? Not really clear as it just says Japanese analog
 
With those kind of functions, I wonder if you have to recharge the battery

And I will wait for the 2nd Gen of Smart watches too
 
Yeah, I'll wait on the pebble and see how that goes. With any luck it won't be plagued with the same issues as this one.

44 days and counting...
 
Kkkurupt said:
With those kind of functions, I wonder if you have to recharge the battery

And I will wait for the 2nd Gen of Smart watches too
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It's not a rechargable battery - the watch uses disposable batteries. We only had the watch for 10 days, and it never died, but the user guide says the battery can last up to 3 years (presumably if you only use the analogue watch features and nothing else).
 
j4ck455 said:
I'm not sure if I understand this correctly.

Does the watch only beep and light up some calendar icon on the watch when a paired iPhone/iPad tells the watch to do so and then the user has to go to their phone/tablet for details)?

Does the watch have no way of displaying a description of the calendar event it is beeping you about? (for those of use who have the memory of a goldfish and who don't always have their smartphone pocketed)

Does the watch have no way of caching calendar events and notifying the burdened user when the countdown to a reminder has reached zero? (without the involvement of an iPhone/iPad control freak device playing puppeteer to the watch)
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The watch ONLY beeps, and the related icon will flash. So if it's a message or email, the watch beeps and the message icon flashes. There is no description or preview feature on the display.
 
Maybe version 3 will be better.. this 1 doesn't sound promising..
 
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