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SmartWatches are expensive I mean think about it you've already paid a lot for

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your phone and then you're expected to spend hundreds more to get a smartwatch

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where half of the functions are still tied to that phone it's kind of

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ridiculous which is why I'm excited that cmf a budget brand from nothing the guys

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who made the nothing phone have come out with a budget Smartwatch a a watch Pro

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two there was a first version but it never saw release in North America and

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they're coming back strong with a bit of a different look I mean probably pretty

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generic when it comes to you know watches but compared to the Square apple

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watches look of their previous model I like the look of this a lot more and

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inside they don't really have much else other than a charger with USB

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a okay sure and it also has a magnetic

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charger with Pogo pins that attaches to the bottom there already I wish this was

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like a cradle kind of like the pixel watch where you can just kind of place your watch in there in almost any

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orientation this requires you to not not only make sure that you have this facing

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the right way but also the Watch The Wire has to come out of the left side or

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else it's going to be it's not going to connect properly hopefully you won't

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have to charge it very often because they're claiming up to 9 days of heavy

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use what heavy use constitutes I'm not sure it comes with a silicon strap which

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is pretty sporty but it does come with other strap options one thing I already

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like is that it's using a standard mount for the strap the frame itself is made

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with an aluminum alloy and comes with a nice little crown the Red Dot on the

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crown is very reminiscent of other nothing branded kind of stuff as well as

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on the bezel you can see the like dot matrix kind of font for the cmf thing

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and by nothing I think that's a nice little detail on the back we have a bunch of biometric sensors I think

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they're mostly focused around heart rate and SP2 we have a speaker in here some

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microphones you can take calls on this and one cool thing about this is that

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the bezel is replaceable like that cmf is planning to

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offer a few different varieties your bezels like to get scuffed because it is

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kind of supposed to protect the screen so if it gets you know scraped or stuff

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you can still have a clean looking watch speaking of the screen it is a 1.32 in

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AMOLED display with a resolution of 466 X 466 and it can get up to 620 nits of

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peak brightness which is pretty good just kind of looking side by side with

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my pixel watch which I really like the size of I don't have particularly large

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wrists it is a little bit taller few couple millimeters taller but not so bad

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it's not so bulky um I think that the uh hard edges make it look a little bit

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bigger compared to say something like the massive Apple watch Ultra which just

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looks Gigantic on a lot of different arms I'm not a huge fan of the placement

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of the crown it's a little close to the lugs I guess is what they're called um

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which means that if you have like bigger fingers it's kind of tricky to get

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multiple fingers in there if you really need to if you really need to spin there

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is haptic feedback when I scroll through this list and it um feel very good it

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feels very cheap and there's also like kind of a cheap rattly noise

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it just it just sounds it's not very robust and now that we've covered

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everything on the outside let's talk about the software that's on the inside

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south facing RGB and options for Wired and wireless connections check them out

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at the link in the description down below take a look at that that's the

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default watch face on it you can see the outdoor temperature steps calories one

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thing I wish is that these were actually um buttons to get to like different

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widgets like I wish I could go to my podometer app or my weather app or my

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clock app however it seems that I have to press the crown to navigate to the

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menu and then navigate to that app from my understanding they have a custom

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operating system but it seems very similar to were OS which is great cuz I

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like we OS we have Quick Settings at the top we have notifications if we swipe up

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we can uh go to widgets on the sides and

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stuff like that one thing I do notice is that you can see that um the bezels even

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though they have this nice bezel that you remove you don't actually go all the

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way to the edge with the screen on the inside I kind of wish that because they

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had the option of making this little bezel go over top that we didn't have to

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have this big extra bezel on the bottom you know and they got a ton of watch

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faces apparently 100 of them multifunction this looks like my kind of

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thing I like seeing all of my info in one quick go we've heard from owners of

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their last watch that the app can tend to be a little bit buggy but so far it

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looks okay one thing you should note is that since this isn't a wear OS watch

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there's no extra apps that you can download if you say have a specific app

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that you want to use like I like using say straa you are stuck with the

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whatever cmf gives you however this does have integration with straa as well as

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Apple health and Health Connect which will allow you to kind of transfer the

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data from this to pretty much any other app in the Health Connect ecosystem so

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stuff like Fitbit or a lot of dieting apps like my fitness pal basically

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that's kind of the API that you can send everything to and get your data between

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whatever apps you want to use one thing that I care about is actually heart rate

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detection I have atrial fibrillation which means my heart doesn't really beat

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properly all the time when I'm having a an episode with apib I like to be able

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to track it on my watch cuz then I can send it to my doctor and we can keep

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track of uh exactly what kind of rhythms are happening this is not rated by the

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FDA to track apib but it does have

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arhythmia notification so if it senses in a regular heartbeat it will note it

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honestly it's a pretty robust app run tracking GPS all of that stuff GPS on

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device by the way not through your phone you don't need to run with your phone to track GPS but let's quickly go through a

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lot of the other features they have they have 120 different uh exercise modes

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including jet skiing the one that I'm always doing it's ip68 water resistant

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which isn't quite good enough for say like swimming they have like a smart

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movement algorithm that they claim can measure the effectiveness training load

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and recovery time I could see maybe recovery time if they're just kind of

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gauging by your heart rate but any sort of motion tracking that I done on

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SmartWatches in the past in terms of like working out at the gym they don't

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really help you at all but all of that stuff comes in at a price of $69 which

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is great honestly that's cheaper than any Fitbit you're like competing with

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like a lot of the Chinese uh Brands like tick watch or Amaze fit and I think

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you're getting a pretty solid experience and you're going to be backed by a

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company that's a a little bit more familiar in the western territories now

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I would need to spend a little bit more time to make sure that all of the apps that are default work smoothly but this

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is kind of what I want I don't need a do everything Smartwatch I want something

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that can give me notifications that can track my fitness and this does

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everything and it does it just so much cheaper than other major brands and it

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makes me wonder why these other brands aren't even trying to make something

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good at this price point I think they did a great job thanks for watching this

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ShortCircuit if you like this video why don't you learn about a more premium

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offering the pixel Watch 2 James did a great job on that video I'm so proud of

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him