The smart watch VEA Buddy, which was designed by French designers, is particularly eye-catching in its shape design and wide screen. After a brief experience, does VEA Buddy show something different from other smart watches that you can't wait to start?

In terms of appearance design, a 2-inch screen of VEA Buddy occupies most of the area. The rectangular screen design is quite innovative. The resolution of 320 * 240 is also among the best in smart watches. This 2-inch screen still uses OGS full fitting technology, which is a capacitive touch screen.

VEA Buddy has only one entity key, which is responsible for the function of returning and opening keys.

What is more interesting about VEA Buddy is that the data cable is designed together with the watch strap. Although this design makes it impossible to replace the watch strap, it is more appreciated that it can be easily charged anytime and anywhere. The interface of VEA Buddy is not only used for charging, but also has a built-in 8G storage space, so VEA Buddy is also a portable USB stick.

Although the 2-inch large screen is quite good in visual effect, it is actually weird to wear it. Due to its relatively large size and watchband, it is not comfortable to wear it. As far as the current smart watch market is concerned, I personally think it is either beautiful or mediocre. Obviously, VEA Buddy is a bit ugly.

VEA Buddy, as I defined him, is the second screen of a smart watch. It has been developed in cooperation with Today's Headlines to deeply customize relevant notifications and display optimization, as well as common call and SMS alerts and popular WeChat notifications. At least, VEA Buddy has achieved comprehensive functions. VEA Buddy synchronizes notifications through Bluetooth connection with mobile phones. During SMS and phone calls, a vibration reminder will be given.

Although the function is commendable, the system interface design of VEA Buddy is still inferior. In the first place, regardless of its relatively simple and rough interface icon design, the corresponding buttons are not well positioned when touching on the 2-inch screen, which is easy to cause misoperation. In the whole use process, it is easy to give up the idea of playing because of repeated misoperations.

In addition to the regular notification linkage function, VEA Buddy is also targeted at health sports. VEA Buddy can record relevant steps, calories consumed and other parameters according to movement parameters. VEA Buddy can run independently in the background. In the actual experience, VEA Buddy is more likely to be stuck when running in the background due to system optimization and other reasons, which makes the whole experience process more uncomfortable. In addition, although it uses a capacitive touch screen, it doesn't feel good in actual operation. VEA Buddy is prone to screen drift and error judgment.

In the short experience, VEA Buddy gave me the impression that it was an immature product. Although in terms of functions, it covers the functions of common smart watches such as notification linkage, application use and health movement. However, its appearance design did not take into account the more critical wearing comfort, even though the 2-inch screen is really eye opening. On the system UI interface that most directly affects the experience, VEA Buddy also appears to be too rough and violent, and there will not be much experience. As for the drift of the touch screen, it seems insignificant.