imoo Watch Phone Z1 Kids Smart Watch, 4G Kids Smartwatch with Video and Phone Call Durable, GPS Watch with Real Time Location and IPX8 Water Resistance (Pink)

Z1 – As close to perfect as I could find
This is for the Z1 watch.I spent a good 25-30 hours researching phone watches. Eventually went through Amazon, YouTube, and independent gadget reviews for 23 devices. So I can tell you that I did my checking. I don’t normally review stuff – but – as there was a serious lack of decent reviews on phone watches on Amazon, I thought it may be useful.Eventually went for this one for a 10 year old, even though it was more expensive than some others out there.Key things wanted INITIALLY – Entertainment (games etc), GPS tracking, phone capability (standalone – not needing to be linked to a mobile), Calendar, Alarm, Stopwatch.Now – let’s make this clear – NO phone watch had all of these. If you wanted GPS – it would probably not have games. If you wanted a habit tracker calendar – it would probably not have calls. Something would always be absent.So I reduced my key “want list” to – Calls and Entertainment. Calls being the dealbreaker.After a lot of thought, I realised that it wasn’t worth sacrificing GPS tracking, or going for a more plasticy “toy” watch, for a couple of really bad computer games (maybe good for a 5-8 year old – but not for my 10 year old – she can source games elsewhere).So we’re down to calls and GPS as they’re key requirements.I cannot fault this watch so far.- Packaging – pretty classy. Doesn’t look like a kids watch. The only things it has on the box are the brand “imoo” and “Z1”.- Instructions – clear and easy to understand. But it’s not hard to guess your way around this if you’ve ever had a smartphone of any type.- Build quality – solid. It doesn’t feel cheap at all. The strap is a fake leather/silicon hybrid.- Touchscreen – very responsive – it’s not in any way worse than my own mobile phone.- Screen definition – very clear. Everything looks and feels good quality- Camera – for a 2mpx camera it takes surprisingly good pics.- Battery – so far so good. About 2 day’s charge in there if you have medium usage- Social Media – NONE. <3- Calls - very clear. Some people say it's tinny - but I would say that's using a very strong word for how it sounds. It's just lacking in some bass - but that's to be expected on a speaker this small. What's important is that the clarity is excellent. You can hear everything being spoken with no interference. The watch doesn't need to be raised to the mouth unless you really want to.- Disabling - In addition to the dialpad, you can also disable the odd shake game, the step counter and friend video.- Class mode - You can also disable all incoming and outgoing usage for any sets of dates and times (no limit to how many) so you can make sure the user isn't using the contacts part of the watch during school or tuition or night time etc. It has a backdoor you can toggle so that calls to parents can still be made during this time period if you want. So be aware that you shouldn't send your kid stuff or they'll get in trouble.- SIM - Utterly easy to install. Pop out the "lid" on the back using the plastic tool in the box. Put the Nano SIM into the lid. Clip it back in. When you turn on the watch, it recognises it straight away. I am using a GiffGaff SIM.- Texts/voice messaging - You can send texts TO the watch, but the watch can't send texts. Not a problem, as sending a voice message is a piece of cake. If you do this from the app to the watch and vice versa, it's immediate delivery, and you can send emojis through there too (limited choice). App to watch contact is not linked to your provider so it's free. But phone to app needs WiFi or data.- Video calling - this is ONLY from app to watch or vice versa. If you want someone to be able to video call the watch, they have to download the app, and you have to invite them to your family. Not possible for anyone other than people you've approved to do this. Again you need WiFi or data to do this.- "Binding" - you can "bind" numbers to the watch from the app. If they are bound they can join family chats (group chats) with the watch, call directly, download the app and make FREE facetimes and calls to the watch. Watch to app needs WiFi or data.- Dialling out - You can choose to disable the dial pad if you want from the app. Stops the kid making calls to anyone who isn't bound. If you don't disable this, they can call anyone, and this will be charged to your phone provider. Any phone calls made to "bound" contacts is charged to your provider as this is a phone call and not watch based.- Blocked calls - the watch won't accept ANY calls from numbers that aren't preinstalled on the watch. All numbers added have to be from the app. You can't do it from the watch, which is great.- Emergency SOS - You can set this up so if they draw a "C" on the screen it auto dials the admin of the app. Pretty useful and nice to have this emergency feature. You can't do this if the watch is turned off.- On/off button - It's on the back of the phone. And doesn't stick out. So it's not something they can accidentally turn off (or say they did!). If you're finding it hard to turn it off, press the button using the SIM card tool that comes with the watch. The button isn't easy to press on purpose so there is no chance of accidental turn off.- GPS - SO FAR - pretty decent. The app didn't recognise the watch at first, but if you click refresh on the app, it located the watch to 1-8 metres in 3 seconds. When tracking the watch whist moving, it struggled while it was in a car (you need to refresh the app screen and it located to about 20 metres), but was much better at walking speed. Either way, it's more than fine to get an idea as to where you kid is.- Games - "one" pseudo game. It's hardly a game. You shake the watch and it it logs that you did it. Very odd. You can shake 6 times a day - as you do this daily you unlock little prize chests and achievements. I can't tell you what they all are as we haven't had this long enough to know - I will update when I know more. God knows what this is about - but hey - this wasn't a priority. Don't get this watch if you want games!- App - very user friendly. Over a million downloads on the Google store. Easy to navigate and lots of useful options. Easy to figure things out and try things out.- Step Counter - pretty accurate. Maybe a little off, but close enough to give the user an idea of how much activity is being done.- Security guard. You can set an area based on WiFi for when the watch (and therefore the user) is safe. When they enter that WiFi area you get a message on the app that they're in the secure zone. So for example you could set one up at home, and another at the youth club that they're walking to. When they arrive they don't need to do anything, and you get a notification.Hope this helps! Enjoy!

Brilliant but needs a bit of improvement
I am completely against the idea of children having smartphones and it saddens me that we have reached a point in human evolution that we can’t even walk along the street without looking at a screen. I think the problem with giving children smartphones is partly because that parents don’t know what else to do—they want to keep an eye on their children and for them to be contactable which is perfectly reasonable but smartphones are everywhere.After quite lengthy research I ordered one of these for my 10yo. I didn’t like the idea of a dumb phone for fear it might cause ridicule or bullying so this seemed kind of a cool alternative and it’s proven to be a complete hit. We bought it with a GiffGaff sim which costs us £8 p/m but I’m sure I could drop to a lower tarrif and so far we’ve had zero problems.My son isn’t a bit bothered that it isn’t smartphone, his friends think it’s cool, we are able to see where he is, and we’re able to call each other. The sound quality is just as good as any phone, video calls are excellent and he doesn’t have to carry a device around with him as it’s on his wrist.What lets this watch down is the messaging side of things. There are two ways to send messages; by SMS or via the Imoo app, both of which work fine, except that messaging is largely one-way i.e. we can send messages to the watch but the watch can only reply with a voice message and only if it’s through the Imoo app. To explain that a bit better, if I send an SMS to the watch it’s received ok but my son cannot reply to it at all. If I send a message through the Imoo app, my son can reply with a short voice message. This hasn’t really caused a major problem but it is a little bit inconvenient. A lack of keyboard is perhaps partly the reason for this but there is a keyboard on the watch for entering the wifi password.The app also allows two way sending of an animated emoji type thing as messages, basically a character that looks like a rabbit with various meanings, but the emojis available on the watch are different to the ones on the phone app. We couldn’t see a reason for that until my son made the astute observation that he thought the emojis sent from the app are mostly commands e.g. it’s dinner time, bedtime, drink etc and the emoji’s on the watch sent to the phone are mostly responses to this which makes a lot of sense.The “class mode” function is great allowing the watch to be disabled, except the telling the time, during certain times of day e.g. at school or at night time (although the watch turns itself off during the night and comes on again early morning). Battery life is good, it lasts about 2 days with normal use but charges quickly.All in all we’re very pleased with it and don’t regret buying it one bit. It’s just a shame the messaging side is a little bit unorthodox.

super Einsteiger Smart-Watch für Kinder. Minimale Funktionen und gute Kontrolle durch App auf dem Eltern-Smartphone.

El reloj cumple todas las funciones a la perfección. Compré el Z6 en verde para mi hijo en su cumple de 8 años, estuve tan contenta con el reloj que cuando mi niña de 6 años me lo pidió se lo regalé también (en color morado) cuando cumplió 7 años. El primero me valió 229€ y el segundo lo pillé en oferta con 20€ menos (si mal no recuerdo).- Puede llamar y recibir llamadas (solo a los contactos agregados por los padres) sin necesidad de estar conectado al bluetooth de un móvil, ya que usa tarjeta sim independiente.- Bloquea automáticamente llamadas de números que no tiene guardados en sus contactos (la agenda la controlan los padres desde la aplicación que tiene que descargar uno de los padres en su móvil), lo cual es perfecto, así no reciben llamadas no deseadas de comerciales, números equivocados, etc.Yo agregué solo a la familia (padres, hermanos, tíos y abuelos), claro que si quieres añadir amigos, etc. Puedes, de esta manera el niño solo recibirá llamadas y llamará a las personas que tú quieras.- Tiene llamada de emergencia.- Puedes tener activado el “modo clase” para que no reciba llamadas ni mensajes a esa hora y así no tenga distracciones. Yo, por ejemplo le tengo activado el modo clase desde que entran al cole hasta su recreo y desde que finaliza el recreo hasta la salida del cole, lo tengo activo se lunes a viernes (automático) y lo desactivo en festivos o vacaciones, todo esto lo controlo desde mi móvil.- En cuanto a las llamadas, se oye bastante bien por ambas partes.- Envía y recibe mensajes por la aplicación a los contactos que tenga como “administradores”.- No tiene más juegos o tiene uno solo algo súper básico, esto también me parece otro punto a favor porque así no están pegados a una pantalla que era lo que no quería, por eso no era partidaria de comprarles un móvil, además de que al no tener juegos no se baja la batería tan pronto.- Tiene alarma que puedes activar para una vez, todos los días o los días que quieras, también la puedo activar desde mi móvil y no necesito estar donde está él.- Tiene doble cámara (delantera y trasera), para activar la cámara trasera solo hay que darle a un botón que tiene en la parte superior y el reloj se levanta automáticamente mientras hace un sonido de robot y en la pantalla aparece también la imagen de un robot (una pasada para los peques), enseguida se activa la cámara, tiene muy buena resolución, puede tomar fotos o grabar y enviarlo a los contactos que tengan la aplicación.- El GPS es altamente preciso, un rango mínimo de error, siempre me ha dado la ubicación precisa. La vez que más margen de error tuvo fue una calle, de las cortas (por no decir la única vez que tuvo margen de error),yo no estaba en casa, el reloj sí pero me ponía la dirección de la siguiente calle de casa.- No probé sumergirlo al agua aún, aunque en las especificaciones pone que sí es resistente a sumergirse en ducha o piscina por media hora. No lo he intentado, mojarse sí que se ha mojado y no le ha pasado nada. De todas maneras le contraté un seguro que me ofrecieron al momento de la compra, por dos años si mal no recuerdo, que le cubre cualquier daño accidental, en teoría si se rompe accidentalmente o falla en cualquier momento, el seguro te da otro. Por ahora mi hijo mayor va casi un año con el reloj y no ha tenido problema ninguno.- Es robusto, con lo cual es más resistente a caídas, le ha caído ya 3 veces y apenas se le ve un mínimo rasguño en una esquina de la carcasa, es casi imperceptible y las caídas han sido duras, en la calle. De todas formas le compré también un protector de pantalla el cual me ofrecieron también con la compra justo para este modelo de reloj (valía alrededor de 9€).Cuando mis amistades o familia me preguntan por el reloj lo recomiendo siempre, les aclaro que el precio es algo elevado porque los relativamente buenos rondan los 100€, pero este reloj vale lo que cuesta . A día de hoy no ha habido un solo día que me arrepienta de esta compra; todo lo contrario, recuerdo el día en que lo compré y pienso que fue una de las mejores compras que hice.No dañas la vista de tus hijos con una pantalla de móvil ni se quedan pegados al vicio que dan los videojuegos y en cambio tienes la tranquilidad de tener cierto control de sus movimientos. Por ejemplo, en clases extraescolares, alguna vez he tenido algún retraso, ya que llevo a mis dos hijos a distintas clases, y les llamo para informarles de mi retraso para que estén tranquilos o hablo con ellos de camino.Muy satistecha con mi compra.