Martian mVoice Smartwatch w/ Alexa Price: $69.99 Shipping Options:: $5 Standard (Free with Prime) Shipping Estimates: Ships in 3-5 business days (Wednesday, Mar 14 to Monday, Mar 19) + transit Condition: New
I am having a hard time figuring out how this watch is smart.
I think a Gear S2 would be where I’d dip my toes into the market for cheap.
Are people really out there making calls from there watches(which this one doesn’t)? I’ve had a Gear S3 a long while and have made 0 calls except to see that it works.
I have the original Notifier, and still use it with both iOS and Android. I can’t speak to the mVoice, but they’ve pretty much worked bugs out of the phone app and it doesn’t really require any on-line services for core functionality. I’m not expecting updates, but so far I haven’t really needed any.
If it were a phone, I might have more concern about an end-of-life product (if the mVoice is, which isn’t clear). For these, as someone else said, it’s an affordable chance to investigate how one might live with a smart watch.
As an aside, I also like how they have managed power budgets on their watches. The hybrid design isn’t as flexible as a rendered face from a user interface perspective but there is something to be said for having a physical place on which to paint “lume” that lets one tell time without having to light up a display and drain battery.
I don’t know if the mVoice app uses the same notification management UX as the Notifier app, but I believe it does. For Android users in particular, their first app allows pretty easy unique assignment of vibration codes to particular applications and notifications. I have found that useful because notification overload on Android is real.