Since Pebble became famous in Kickstarter, major manufacturers have flocked to smart watches and launched various smart watches with different functions, including some outstanding ones, such as Samsung GEAR series, LG G WATCH and MOTO 360 are both excellent products, and Apple's smart watch, which is still popular, has set off a wave of craze. Domestic manufacturers are also unwilling to be lonely Paick Watch and other smart watches of various brands with different functions have sprung up in large numbers. Everyone is excited when talking about watches. As a representative product of wearable smart devices, why do smart watches have such magic power?

Bug was lucky to participate in the evaluation of the cool geek Xinli eTimer 2 smart watch this time. Thank you. From the introduction, eTimer 2 The appearance is newly designed. It also uses Bluetooth connection, and has all the functions of previous generations of products. It supports voice recognition, dial-up calls, listening to music, installing weather plug-ins, etc. However, as the latest smart watch of Sinley, it adds heart rate monitoring for the first time, as well as unique constant display technology (semi reflective TFT screen), which goes further in terms of functions. No reason is needed for its fierceness, Let's take a look at the evaluation.

Unpacking

This eTimer 2 is the third smart watch released by Xinli. Through the experience accumulated in the first two smart watches, Xinli is more comfortable in the appearance design and function development of the product. However, this eTimer 2's overall strong and calm black style is more suitable for men to wear, and the product's positioning is very clear.

The overall outer package is made of transparent PVC rigid plastic, and the upper cover is fully transparent. You can see the body of the black version of the second-generation product. The inside of the box uses a black background. The yellow two character line is the only decorative pattern. The entire side has no other introductory text except the logo of TRULY and eTimer 2, and the QR code of the WeChat platform, which is a bit mysterious

All items include 1 eTimer 2 watch, 1 charging connector, 1 charging line, 1 quick guide and 1 certificate of conformity. The whole product and accessory shell are made of black plastic. The brand new watch has a protective film on the screen and the metal parts of the wrist strap connector to avoid wear during transportation. The film on the screen also shows the watch operation instructions, which is very considerate

The charging connector is of contact type, with gold plating and elastic connection to ensure charging safety. When charging, clip the connector into the card holes on both sides of the watch, and connect the Mirco USB charging cable to charge the watch. The charging speed is fast, and it only takes about 2 hours to fully charge the watch when empty

The front of eTimer 2 adopts a 1.6 inch semi transparent TFT&CTP fully fitted capacitive touch screen with a resolution of 240X240, which supports multi touch operation. The top of the screen is a silver TRULY logo, and the upper part near the strap is a power key. The metal ring process is adopted, and the key feedback strength is relatively good. A careful observation below the screen shows that three touch keys function to increase the volume, Start speech recognition and reduce the volume. For such a smart watch, the key configuration is relatively rich. If you can customize the touch keys and add shortcut operations such as long press and short press combinations, it will be even better. The triangular hole area on the lowest curved surface is the speaker, which is a bit strange

The watchband is made of rubber material, which is slightly hard. The entire outer surface is decorated with regular dot matrix. The inner surface is designed with wavy grooves, which is breathable and dry, and the actual wearing comfort is acceptable. However, the watchband cannot be replaced by itself. The buckle is a stainless steel folding type, and the buckle position can be adjusted at the buckle hole end, which is suitable for a wide range of people, TRULY's etched LOGO plays a certain decorative role and is very beautiful

The inner measuring convex part of the watch body is a heart rate monitoring sensor. There are four charging contacts on the upper side. There is a small hole above the slot of the charging head on the left side, which is the MIC of the watch. According to the general design, the speaker is on the upper side and the microphone is on the lower side. This kind of design is very special, but from the actual use, there is nothing bad

Experience

Press and hold the key to start the watch. The speed is very fast. The first time you enter the watch system, there will be an operation guide, which briefly introduces the operation and functions of the watch. It is a bit like the APP guide page, very intuitive

After entering the system, the main interface is four grid icons, which can also be changed to one grid in the setting. Through page up and page down switching, a total of five pages are displayed circularly. The quality of the screen is good, the operation is smooth, and the functions are rich. Seeing this screen interface, I actually think of the mobile phone interface several years ago. At that time, the keyboard screen was not large, The resolution is not much higher than that of eTimer 2, which makes us believe that smart watches can be powerful enough in function. Just like eTimer 2, we can see some clues

The semi reflective TFT screen can display time, steps and other information perfectly after screen rest. The application of this technology can greatly reduce the energy consumption of the screen, and enable the wearer to view basic time, steps and other information without lighting the screen. The experience is great

The connection between eTimer 2 and mobile phone is not complicated. Download the matching APP, turn on Bluetooth at the watch end, search for Bluetooth with mobile phone, pair and connect, make simple settings, and then turn on all the functions. The whole APP is designed succinctly and specially for eTimer 2. Each time you disconnect and reconnect, you will be asked to select the notification read permission, and you must turn on the corresponding APP permission, In order to ensure that notifications can be pushed to the watch normally, in addition, it can be selected according to personal circumstances, and there are few applications available to add to the watch at present, only one dial and Yahoo Weather. However, there are more detailed start buttons for various types of reminders in the reminder settings, such as regional change reminders, which can be used to prevent the loss of mobile phones and watches. When mobile phones and watches leave a certain distance, It will ring at the same time. All function settings are easy to understand, clear and practical

On the watch, you can answer and make calls, completely freeing your hands. It is especially suitable for driving, working in front of the computer and other scenarios, and the voice of the call is relatively clear. In addition to the pause of the first loading, the SMS viewing is very fast. You can directly slide up and down to view the full text, and also provide direct reply to the preset SMS on the mobile phone, Or call back

In addition to basic step recording and sleep monitoring functions, ETimer 2 has a new heart rate monitoring function. Through the monitoring sensor on the back of the watch, you can accurately display the heart rate value in real time. The operation is also very simple. Open the detection in the heart rate monitoring item, or in the step recording interface. The detected historical data and other information can be viewed in the menu on the upper right corner. This function is very helpful for friends who like sports

Remote photographing is a good function. After entering the application, select Android or Apple, hold the phone, and press the watch shutter to take photos. However, it is not easy to focus on the screen, so it is a bit difficult to take good photos

The mobile phone message push function can set which apps on the mobile phone to enable push messages, which is very responsive. For applications such as QQ and WeChat, which have a large amount of information, it is recommended to open them as appropriate, otherwise it will cause frequent harassment. In addition, this smart watch can also be used as a Bluetooth player to listen to music, while the alarm clock, calendar, long sitting reminder Remote photo taking and weather plug-in functions are more practical in life. Unfortunately, the calendar does not have the lunar calendar function, and Baidu Voice can also achieve voice control

Of course, smart watches are still in the initial stage of development, and there are still some problems. For example, through the use of Xinli eTimer 2 during this period, I think the following aspects can be further strengthened:

1. The most important thing is the endurance, which is also the obstacle of most smart watches. No smart watch has a satisfactory endurance. As for eTimer 2, its application in the semi reflective TFT screen patent constant display technology can also be seen in its efforts to extend the endurance of smart watches. However, the endurance of about three days for medium frequency use, More technological breakthroughs are needed;

2. There is too little interaction between the watch and the APP, so the APP is more like a watch setting program. My suggestion is to build more functions in the APP, such as synchronizing the watch movement, sleep and heart rate monitoring data, generating curves, and adding dial editing and importing;

3. Sleep monitoring can only be started and stopped manually. As the standard function of many bracelets, sleep monitoring basically does not need too much manual intervention. eTimer 2 should have the function of automatically monitoring sleep;

4. There are few application plug-ins. At present, there are only digital clocks and Yahoo Weather. For a smart watch with excellent performance, the number of applications is the embodiment of intelligence. Everyone can customize their watch functions according to their own needs. From the experience of eTimer 2 receiving message push, we can develop a WeChat intercom application. In the case of no text reply on the watch, A voice reply is also good;

5. Although speech recognition is easy to use, the problem of low recognition rate also has an impact on the experience. At present, speech recognition technology is also a stage of development and accumulation, and better experience needs to be improved in the speech recognition technology itself;

6. The utilization rate of virtual keys is not high, and more gesture actions can be developed to improve the efficiency of application use, such as sliding, double clicking, and combination keys, which can be set as corresponding shortcut keys;

7. Although many products are not up to standard now and will be lit by mistake in many cases, I still hope eTimer 2 can develop a good enough wrist lift screen, after all, it will greatly facilitate the use of watches;

8. There are not many types of dials. Square dials like this one are more attractive, but three of the built-in dials are round and only two are square, all of which are ordinary. I hope to develop more exquisite dials for users as soon as possible.

epilogue

The Xinli eTimer 2 smart watch is strong and calm in appearance, maintains the functional advantages of the previous generation of products in function, and also adds the heart rate monitoring function. In fact, I personally think this function is of little significance to ordinary users, but also increases costs. The constant display technology is the biggest highlight of this watch, and the display experience is very good, However, in terms of energy consumption, it does not seem to achieve the expected goal, but in any case, this smart watch is quite up to standard in the use of functions. The use experience of making calls, reading SMS, and displaying push messages is good. At the same time, an interface for application expansion is reserved. I believe that with the optimization of the system, this smart watch will bring users a better experience.