CMF 1.96’’ Watch Pro Smartwatch for Men Women Answer Calls IP68 Waterproof GPS Fitness Sports Tracker Watch with Heart Rate Monitor,Healthy Sleep Monitor for iOS/Android(Ash Grey)

First off, I was a huge Pebble fan and support what NOTHING is doing with their products as well. Yes, there are some bugs to work out. But, the watch has incredible potential for an affordable price. It’s comfortable and awesome looking too. The battery life and screen are insane for a “budget” watch. All and all, I’m sold and look forward to updates and growth of this company.

So let me be clear here, this is a 70 DOLLAR watch, a 10th of the price of a Apple watch, that was newly introduced into the market by Nothing Tech, so being critical in my opinion, for value sake, isn't warranted. I will point out key flaws with the watch and address my concerns throughout this review, and point out quality control matters.Packaging: Very simple, everything can be recycled or reused to store the watch, nothing fancy there, not a lot of plastic waste like Apples shrink wrapped boxes for everything they use, and they are fairly compact, though not as compact as a Samsung watch box.Comfort: I'd give it a 8 out of 10, its not bad with the original strap, but its better with a higher quality strap, these watches mount a 22mm watch strap, a common size, even the Samsung Gear S3 used this size, so I had some spare straps sitting about I wasn't using, added some comfort to the watch.Build Quality: This thing is light, for a watch of its size, it makes the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 feel heavy, same for the Gear 3 Frontier, granted these are flagship watches of their time, but you can still buy them today for maybe 20 USD more for a used one, or 200+ for a new one, and they will have more features.Continuing the build quality note, the watch band is crap, replace it right away, or get one when you buy the watch, the notch on the buckle is stamped in, not molded so it looks uneven up close, far away it isn't a issue. The backing of the watch is plastic and the shell is what I can tell is metal. I question the durability of both the shell and the glass, which I hope that someone would build a case for this watch soon, and I do not trust this glass.Screen: The OLED screen is nice, despite the massive borders around the edges, you can see them plain as day if light was to shine on the watch, but other than that, the colors are crisp, bright, and the screen is easy to read.Performance: The watch boots fast, but struggles with its own apps, sluggish at times when scrolling though the apps, or looking between them on the home screen. It doesn't bother me but it may bother someone else. The Heart rate sensor and O2 sensor are decent, accurate, and fairly fast.Hardware: Apparently this thing supports BT 5.3, 13 days of average battery life with its 340mAh battery, There isn't much information on the watch from CMF's website. But on other sites you can find more on the watch, but the only thing I found so far is that It features a 410x502 screen, GPS, and Accelerometer.It does lack NFC and Cellular data, and other features that you would see on flagship watches, so features like google pay or apple pay (unlikely to have apple pay anyways as that is proprietary) are not present, you can make phone calls but the microphone is somewhere, but require your phone to do so. It also lacks a light sensor behind the screen, the screen will not adjust based on lighting conditions.Software and OS: I question the watch's security as it has its own Custom OS, its not like Google wear or IOS, as this causes other issue, the fact that it would need to rely on its own source for watch faces and applications so you are limited. Even the App that is on the phone is very rough in keeping track of what notifications you want to track, if I wanted to track Emails, it would check that box, leave that screen, only to come back to see it unchecked, so the App is unfinished and presents it's issues, even with proper permissions and app permission to run in the background when on standby. Granted this is a new watch, its going to have its new issues.The OS of the watch has me more concerned, this is a device connected to your phone, what Security, if any, are they running, and what assurance do I have that data wouldn't fall into the wrong hands. This is a Bluetooth device after all, and I haven't seen much on security from CMF, or on the watch itself, nor the App. So if you are running sensitive data, or giving this to a child, might not be recommended. The watch does have a feature to take pictures, but it is more of a macro setting that defines the key press as a volume down, to take a photo, it doesn't directly control the camera which honestly is a relief.Will I recommend? Depends on CMF, for now 70$ is decent price for the watch, but Nothing has a tendency to drop support on their Legacy hardware. I do like their build quality and their design, but their approach to keeping things supported and the idea of saying that they are carbon neutral, yet not keeping support to older devices has me personally thinking that isn't the case. To reduce waste, either have a means to take the device back, or continue support. Granted that these devices are cheap, inexpensive, and simple, but what is the environmental impact in the long term? What is the lifespan of these devices before they reach the bin? Or worse put into the ocean?For now I would kind of recommend, as they haven't done anything significant with CMF to put people off, but don't expect support for the long term, nor the device to last or be durable. I fear that the devices that they are making is contributing to an already growing problem to E-waste unless they can prove otherwise, ill stick with that. Make devices repairable and you'll solve about 80% of that.

Great value and easy to use

PURCHASE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! You might get a working watch or you might not. It’s basically Russian roulette with this product & this company.So I purchased this watch a few days before prime day & it worked so good & was so accurate on step tracking I loved it! That’s originally why I purchased it, I wanted to track my steps better without having to carry an actual pedometer & risk looking like I’m walking around with a pager.When prime day came around I saw the watch was $10 cheaper so I mistakenly returned my watch & ordered a new one so it would be cheaper. The new watch I received was INCREDIBLY inaccurate compared to the first one. It was not accurately tracking my sleeping or my steps at all so I didn’t trust it was tracking anything else accurately either.So I ordered a replacement, the replacement sucks just as bad as the 2nd one. With the first watch I was able to walk in place & it would track my steps. With the next two I walk in place & it still says I’ve walked 0 steps. I was just outside walking & running & the watch says I have zero activity, have burned zero kcals, & only walked 188 steps which is incredibly frustrating considering the first watch worked so well. Now I’m RETURNING IT FOR A THIRD TIME!!!! & have to continue my search for a different brand watch that can accurately track my steps. Save your money & more importantly your time & DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT.The company also reached out to me & offered to help but how can you help with an inaccurate watch? You can’t. So they offered a refund which I already went through Amazon so they were absolutely NO HELP AT ALL. Overall a terrible experience with this product. Their Apologies don’t make anything better.& to top it all off in order to return it they changed my options & I can’t just drop it off. I have to box it label it & everything & ups ONLY when kohls is closer to me. Like I said OVERALL A TERRIBLEEEEEEEEEE HORRIBLEEEEEE experience with this company. Everything is an inconvenience with them.

I love this device and the hardware is excellent quality. The battery life is as good as advertised (I charge about once every 10 days), it hasn't gotten scratched or scuffed even when I accidentally hit the screen off of something hard, and the *on-device* software is good. So from the device side of thigs, this is a great smart watch.However, the App associated with this device is absolutely horrible. It's buggy and loses connection to the watch randomly, it's slow, and by far worst of all - it is unable to display any data collected from the watch. The watch can display the data and if you zoom out (instead of heart rate per day you do per month) it *might* render the data. But it really blows a hole in the way I want to use this product.I want to be able to see my heart rate over time on a larger screen, or my blood o2, or anything and I can't. I can only view this on the watch and that can only show me this day's data.I have had the device now for maybe 6-8 weeks and I was hopeful the development team would fix the app but that hasn't happened. It's very frustrating.I'll probably continue wearing it for the time being hoping they fix it, but without that feature available, there's simply less utility with this device.