Very honest review K88H - wearable for $ 40
Devices / / December 19, 2019
Activity wearable manufacturers began to decline, but buyers are still interested in these devices. And really, who does not want to get a stylish wrist device that can display the time, consider steps to notify about new calls and messages, time to wake up and be reminded of the dangers of sedentary life? Especially if the device is hero of this review, it is worth just a little more $ 40.
Appearance and equipment
K88H delivered in strict black cardboard box. Her gold-stamped image of the clock and the name that appears too strict and even pathetic. Inside a thick padded with suede located the watch itself. Besides them, the box has a charging cable and a short instruction.
I hasten to say that K88H look great. Black case with a leather strap of the same color looks restrained and stylish. There are also watches with a light body. The straps are not only leather, but also metal.
As in conventional mechanical watch, on the side of the wheel has K88H. However, here it plays the role of the function button to enable or disable the device. 1.2 dyuyma screen size (240 × 240) is quite bright and easy to read even in the sun. He is framed by a thick black border, which, however, does not spoil the appearance of the clock. At the bottom is a touch button to return to the previous screen or cancel the action.
In general, the design hours have no complaints. K88H look good on your arm, bright screen that is sensitive to even light touch. These hours would be a pleasure to use. Why subjunctive? More about this later.
Clock
Let us not forget that the main function of even the most intelligent of hours - it's still the time display. And with this task K88H cope perfectly well. The watch has several interchangeable dials, through which can completely change the appearance of the device.
In the setting device can choose an appropriate level of brightness and display time indications. There is also a very useful feature that allows you to automatically switch the clock to a time when you raise your hand, and off when lowered. And the most amazing thing is that this feature is clearly working well and allows to save battery power. His way, enough for 1,5-2 days of quiet use.
When connecting to a smartphone are able to automatically synchronize the clock time, so that their accuracy can be no doubt.
Communicate with your smartphone
K88H equipped with Bluetooth 4.0 module for communication with the gadget running Android or iOS device. After pairing the device to the owner watches new opportunities. However, not all of them are equally useful.
Get a notification of incoming messages and calls is one of the most requested features in these gadgets. It can K88H. Each new notification shall be accompanied by vibration and beep, depending on your settings. You can see the program name, the sender's name, and even the first line of the message. It is possible to respond to the SMS with several predefined profiles.
But the calls is not so rosy. Yes, the clock notified of incoming allow or reject the call lift the handset to dial directly, but... will have to strictly talk through them. Doing this damn uncomfortable, and from everything looks like something strange.
Among minor, but useful features hours mention more ability to control music playback on the smartphone. This can be useful joggers or fitness, when you need to switch the tracks, and the phone is in the belt purse or backpack.
Who needs hours to operate the camera, I can not imagine. Perhaps only the extreme fans selfie.
Fitness function
If you are planning to use K88H as a sports gadget, we can disappoint you. In this regard, everything here is very bad. No, all the declared features are present, but their implementation does not hold water.
The pedometer counts steps. However, the accuracy of counting the poor. The problem lies in the inability of the program to recognize the walking. Therefore, when driving a car or underground clock may well be you count a couple of hundred extra steps.
Even more strange is arranged sleep tracking. K88H not able to determine when you fall asleep or wake up. So you have to manually enable this feature in the evening and off in the morning. As a reward you get a sleep analysis, consisting of just one word: "Poor" when tossed, and "OK" if the sleeping baby sleep. Overt and shameless trash.
And the final verdict of all attempts to use these as a smartwatch fitness gadget It was their terrible integration with the mobile app. Rather, its absence. In the Google Play catalog has several programs to work with K88H, but none of them managed to scratch out of hours information about sleep or the number of steps. So what about the journal physical activity, sleep and beautiful charts smart alarm clocks should be easy to forget.
Additional functions
K88H clock can boast of having a built-in calculator, calendar, stopwatch, alarm clock, and a voice assistant. And best of all, that all these functions are working properly. It is clear that the calculator and alarm our readers will be surprised. But here's the voice assistant - it's interesting.
I tested this feature in Android. With it you can command the clock to send, for example, a message or call someone. They transmit orders to your smartphone, and that everything is clear and quickly performs. It looks almost magical. That's just not very clear whether you want it to someone in real life.
conclusions
Impression hours left ambiguous. On the one hand, there are obvious advantages: design, assembly, screen responsiveness, speed and even autonomy. On the other - there is so obvious shortcomings, it is not impossible to notice them:
- Forced redirection of calls at the clock.
- Problem tracking activity and sleep.
- Low accuracy of the heart rate monitor.
- Done raw program for Android (I will not say anything about iOS, but do not think that the situation is better).
Whether to buy or any K88H other Chinese smartwatch in this price range?
Worth. But do not do it under the influence of mood, the beautiful pictures on the website of the manufacturer or price. This category of gadgets can give you any surprises, so you need to come to buy responsibly. Read reviews on forums, try to contact the owners, find out the real features and characteristics of the device. Make sure that all the functionality you need work in this way, how do you imagine that. And only then take a final decision.
The author expresses his gratitude to the store GearBest for providing the test sample.