BEANTECH Full Function Smart Watch for Apple/Android Devices. Classical Elegance with Communications, Fitness, Music & Camera Control. Silver with Black Calfskin Leather Strap

I love this watch it is so many things in one! I like the heart monitor for when I exercise. I like the fact that I can take calls at work without pulling out my phone. It works well with my iPhone 6s. The text and music applications work well also the calculator app.This is an awesome piece of work!

No text messages remain on watch, does not sync to all email accounts loaded on iphone, does not synch calendar/appointments.. Not enough functionality for the price.

One of the best bang for you bucks you can get...so many features and the nicest looking watch I have...! Great great great purchase..! More user friendly then smart watches 10x the price

Just love it

Works well.

This item did not work well with my iPhone

I really, really want to like this watch... but I don't, sadly, enough to want to use it on the daily basis. In general, the watch is massive.. even more so in person than it appears in the photo because it is so thick. The strap is cute enough but it is a little loose for me (a small woman) at the tightest setting, so I would need to make an additional hole for the watch to sit still, which is especially important because it is big and heavy. But the biggest deal-breaker for me is that there is no control of which notifications come to the watch in any way that is different than those that come to the phone... on the off chance that someone wouldn't want every single banner that comes on the phone to make the watch buzz. These are two different streams of input.. I don't want to have to adjust the notifications on the phone to be able to limit the notifications on the watch, in which I'd only want the most critical (as well as ones that are actually useful.. why would I want CNN or NY times notifications on the watch, when I can't open those apps.. but I don't want to turn them off on the phone, where I can).Pros:Time clock display options - several looks including digital.Nice overall lookTouchscreen interface (though I can't say it's great... see cons below)Plays music through the watch which is kind of nifty if you want that (though I couldn't figure out how to play music on the phone and just control it with the watch.. though I didn't experiment with this for long).Cons:No options for notifications (explained separately above)Really large and heavy and thickTouchscreen is not very responsiveOnly one button, so everything else is touchscreen. More buttons, especially to access alarm/timer, and SIRI would be helpful. It's not helpful to use SIRI if I have to scroll over to it first.In-watch app options are not impressive. I won't use a lot of them, and there doesn't seem to be options to add others.The bitwatch app is not in any way intuitive and doesn't control much.. it's mostly the step tracker and sleep options, which aren't principal for me.I can't get the messaging app to do anything... it says it isn't working.Has an alarm and stopwatch option, but no timer feature, which I use very frequently.Does not seem to partner with any other apps as some watches do, like apple health, sleeptracker or fitness pal.If there are more options available for this in future updates, I would certainly give it a chance, but my main goal it be able to get alerts and messages from my husband an kids, and access alarms and timer while keeping my phone in my pocket. This really seems to be more fitness centered (though doesn't partner with other apps as mentioned above). This definitely does not provide what I am looking for, or offer enough custom options to be useful - if it is going off all the time, I would end up just tuning it out, and it much more intrusive than the phone, so it would stand to reason a user might want to filter down notification options.

If you’re considering getting a smartwatch and have been checking out prices, you’ve seen the huge price range span. Just today, a simple search for smartwatches returned a list that I sorted by price. Smartwatches began just under $30 and climbed to well over $1,000. Just like regular wristwatches, the list included smartwatches made of solid and plated precious metals, composites, stainless steel and plastic. Like wristwatches, you will find acrylic, mineral and sapphire crystals and leather and plastic straps as well as cheap and expensive link bracelets. Like regular wristwatches, thinner smartwatches that are waterproof (versus just water resistant) generally command higher prices too.In addition to all of the differentiating factors that regular and smartwatches share, smartwatches have their own differences. They are made to work with Android, IOS (Apple) and Samsung devices. Some work with only one type device and some work with a combination. There are some higher priced smartwatches that have embedded SIM cards and don’t even need a separate device.Except for (more expensive) smartwatches that have their own SIM cards, a smartwatch isn’t going to do more than access the functions of my smartphone. Depending on the watch, the degree of control is different. At this end of the price range, there’s not a lot of tweaking one can do. The BIT’s software doesn’t provide the same amount of customising ability as my in-law’s Samsung smartwatch. For instance, she can set parameters to limit which app notifications come through to the watch. With the BIT, I have to turn off the notifications from the phone to keep them from coming through. It’s just one reason why her smartwatch was three times more expensive than this one.It does the basic stuff it should like mail and text access, getting and making calls, and listening to music and podcasts. The fitness tracking abilities of the BIT smartwatch (count steps, monitor sleep, keep an activity record, etc) are about the same that I’ve been used to but it doesn’t work with the fitness tracking app I’ve been using for the last year. I’d like to be able to have the watch work with any fitness app I designate to not lose all my accumulated data.Personally, I’m glad I didn’t shell out a lot of money for a higher end smartwatch. After a little over a week of daily wear, I backed off wearing it as much. For one thing, it doesn’t hold enough charge to wear it an entire work day without a recharge, plus charging it is cumbersome. I gave up wearing watches daily when I got my first smartphone. I’ve enjoyed them as accessories to wear on occasions I “dress up” This doesn’t cut it as an accessory. For me, it’s too big and clunky, not eye catching for the right reasons. Tag Heuer makes some very fine looking “connected” watches that are truly accessory worthy but out of my price range.Even though I don’t love this watch, all in all, I’d have to say it’s a good, way to get insight into smartwatch functionality, without the expense of the bells, whistles and conveniences available on higher priced watches. I recommend it to anyone that’s on the fence about whether a smartwatch is or isn’t for them.