After two years of development, wearable smart devices have gone from "obscurity" to "popularity". Whether entrepreneurs or well-known manufacturers have "come here", many of them have excellent products, and even some have been recognized by consumers.
In such a big environment, the release of the GEAK Watch 2 has attracted many people's attention. In addition to the round dial design and the disappearing "black chin", GEAK Watch 2 also uses its own OS, integrating smart phones, traditional watches and smart bracelets.
Three months after the launch of the GEAK Watch 2, the GEAK Watch 2 has also been sold for a long time, but is it like the legendary domestic first round watch? Let's have a look.
The appearance of traditional screen is amazing
The first impression of GEAK Watch 2 can be described in two words: big, like
Large: the surface diameter of the intelligent round watch with a fruit shell has reached 45mm. In addition to the peripheral area of the dial and the male landmark wrist strap, the GEAK Watch 2 is more suitable for men to wear. In the third dimension, The 17.5mm thickness has indeed damaged the aesthetic feeling of the design to a certain extent, but behind the sacrifice of beautiful things is the powerful function and endurance guarantee.
For example, the round watch circle and square watch body have always been the landmark design of the old Italian factory Peinahai. The intelligent round watch of the fruit shell has indeed drawn on this point. The official of the fruit shell has not avoided this, but it is fair and aboveboard. In fact, the author believes that you can't surpass a beautiful design just because someone else has used it, you have to choose an ugly thing to replace it? This kind of thinking is a bit anti human.
There are three entity keys on the right side of the table body, from top to bottom, which are the return key, the HOME key/power key, and the setting key. The buttons are prominent and easy to operate. However, because the aperture of the surface seems to be too large, the buttons shake slightly.
The power button is very similar to the winding button of a mechanical watch, but it only stays in the visual sense. In fact, it cannot be turned or pulled out, and can only be pressed. Users should also pay attention during use.
On the strap, the shell uses a standard 24mm strap interface, which is convenient for users to change.
The watch uses a 1.26-inch screen, made of TF Screen material, and the PPI has reached the Retina level. The biggest charm of TF screen is that the electronic ink screen and the true color ultra fine screen can be switched at will, and the whole screen is bright in color, grainy... no grainy feeling.
The periphery of the display screen is a raised metal watch ring. The official said that its surface has been specially treated, and it is really not easy to leave fingerprints after actual measurement. However, "it can withstand the tempering of years, and is excellent and consistent" needs later research.
As for the frame of the shell round watch, many websites commented that it was made of metal, but according to the touch, heat conduction speed and weight of the author, I personally concluded that it was made of plastic and seemed to have a special coating on the outside.
Exclusive Geak Watch OS， Humanized interaction
Instead of choosing the hottest Android Wear platform at present, GearWatch 2 is equipped with its own in-depth customized GearWatch OS based on Android 4.3. It has three buttons of dial+body, and its operation logic is very similar to that of Android phones. Connect the watch to the computer, and the mobile phone management software will recognize it as an Android device. Therefore, the screenshots below are all completed through the mobile phone management software without taking pictures.
After use, The UI logic of Geak Watch 2 is very simple. I believe that small white users can operate it skillfully in a short time after they get started, and finally know why the manual is so simple. If it is necessary to make a summary of the UI, the "+" symbol is the most complex. By default, the main interface of the watch is time display, with weather on the top, notification and application market on the bottom, and disable management and settings on the left and right respectively.
The first page of the dashboard supports up to 7 different card applications. The middle card is limited to the dashboard. In addition, the top and bottom three cards can be changed freely. But this "+" sub pattern will not change.
Because the screen is sagging and the edge operation is limited, the shell round table adopts sliding and card UI interaction. The transition animation is the rolling of two switching interfaces, and the animation effect is very dynamic.
TF display screen supports random switching between electronic ink screen and true color ultra fine screen. At the same time, Fruit Shell Technology has customized a dedicated electronic ink screen for each dial.
A variety of dials of different styles are built in the nutshell round watch, which can meet the needs of different users later. This also adheres to the most basic requirements of an intelligent device.
As a product based on Android deep optimization, GEAK Watch 2 not only supports the software in GEAK App Store, but also welcomes ordinary apk files. However, the author explained that since the native app is not optimized for watches, it needs to be cautious. After installing Tencent butler, the watch does have some problems. Tencent housekeeper, red envelope reminder, conscience, there is nothing!
Compared with similar products, Geak Watch 2 has less dependence on mobile phones. Is it an Android watch? No need to provide additional phone cards; Is it a "bracelet" watch? It can be connected to WiFi independently.
In order to improve the smart watch ecosystem, Fruit Shell has its own GEAK app store, where it can download various applications suitable for watches. Taking the "On Time Alarm Clock" as an example, the app has optimized the watch, with a round UI interface and lightweight functions. Although the number of GEAK app stores is limited so far, the shell seems to attach great importance to this aspect.
Continuation of classics and innovation
It is common to implant the step counting function in smart watches. It would be surprising if there was no step counting function. Although the author is not interested in the function of counting steps, there are some loyal fans of bracelets who think that since I had the walking bracelet, I have loved walking. For those who never love sports, the appearance of counting steps will not make them enter the sports career, and counting steps is just an auxiliary means to help people improve their sports experience.
In the era of the rise of "traditional" smart watches, smart watches have embarked on the road of lightweight. Geak Watch 2 uses its own TF display to embed games in watches. Although the experience is blocked under the small screen, it cannot be denied that this way adds a lot of playability to smart watches.
Do not make do, remote input
Faced with the cruel reality of the 1.26-inch control screen, the shell official has developed and adapted two sets of input methods for the watch, "cross input method" and "remote input method". Cross Input Method The final option pops up through the secondary menu. Although the input efficiency is not as good as the traditional input method, it is not only an innovation but also a progress on such a small screen.
Innovation goes far beyond that. In order to adapt to the pleasure brought by large screen input, Geak Watch 2 has grafted the input method into the Android mobile phone APP. The watch can complete all the input process in the mobile phone by clicking the text box.
Trying to get rid of mobile phone accessories
Independent connection to the network and TF display indicate that Geak Watch 2 is no longer a mobile phone accessory, but to some extent, mobile phones also provide some support for watches.
Compared with the mobile phone client of the traditional smart watch, the fruitshell 2 generation is much simpler, and can only set the weather city display and message push applications, all thanks to the relatively complete independence of the watch.
Common problems in the industry, worry about the future
Power, endurance and appearance have always been the weak points of wearable devices. The second generation of fruitshell watches introduced TF technology (Transreflective) and used low-power chips from Junzheng, which greatly reduced power consumption to a certain extent. However, after the actual experience, it was found that the normal use of the Geak Watch 2 was not officially announced for a week, and the time was about 4 days. Compared with similar products, it was not the strongest but also superior. It can be seen that smart wearable products still have a long way to go in terms of endurance.
summary
As one of the few disc design smart watches in the early days, the second generation of Guoke has really attracted a lot of attention in appearance and design; It adopts the exclusive Geak Watch OS, which combines hardware and software, keeps the operation logic close to the Android phone, and finally innovatively introduces the "card" interface and the "cross" and "remote" input methods to make the small screen operation experience more convenient.
However, the Geak Watch 2 is not perfect, and its workmanship is not perfect. For example, the stiff solid keys and the heavy body need to be improved later. In terms of price, the shell did not follow the people friendly line, and the standard version also soared to 2K, which really stopped many consumers.
Product: GEAK Watch Ⅱ Shell Smart Round Table Standard Edition
advantage
Delicate disc design, fashionable appearance
Exclusive Geak Watch OS, user-friendly interaction
Innovative introduction of "card type" interface and "remote" input method to increase operation experience
TF display screen is adopted, and electronic ink screen and color screen can be switched at will
Insufficient
Slightly rough workmanship, solid keys are stiff
Heavy surface, obvious sense of existence
The endurance needs to be improved
Computer scoring: ★★★★ (4 stars)
1 star=recycling; 2 stars=barely usable; 3 stars=in order; 4 stars=more than expected; 5 stars=strongly recommended
