Smart Watch for kids | 兒童用智能手錶 - Girls' toys (3)

I received a message last week that the 2 watches I ordered had been delivered to collection point closed to my home. I picked them up on my way home. When I showed them to my daughters when I arrived home, they were very happy because they knew that those watches were actually smart watches I purchased online for them.

上星期我收到一個送貨通知，所以我放工回家前就順道去拿這兩只個多星期前網購的智能手錶。當我回到家中，給女兒們看這兩只錶時，她們都表現得相當興奮，因為她們知道這是買給她們的。

Nowadays, everybody gets at least one smartphone. It is not rare to find kindergarten kids playing their own smartphones. My daughters have been asking for their own smartphones for over one year. However, I tell them that they are not going to own smartphones or mobile phones until they are in secondary schools. This is because :

They don't need their own phones right now as they are always with adults
Mobile phones are too expensive for kids at their ago
Primary schools including the one they are now studying do not allow mobile phones
We don't want them waste time on playing mobile games.

現今社會每個人都起碼擁有一台手機，甚至連幼稚園學生都有自己的手機。所以女兒們在一年多前已經開始要求我買手機給她們。不過基於下列的原因，我們決定了到了中學階段才會讓她們擁有自己的手機：

由於她們身邊差不多一定有成年人陪伴，所以她們不會需要有自己的通信設備
對於她們來說，手機太過貴重了
香港的小學(包括她們就讀的)都不容許學生帶手機回校
我們不希望她們浪費時間玩手機

As they grow up, they are getting more and more after school activities. There are needs to keep in touch with them. Without a mobile phone, it is not that easy to do so. We decided to use smart watches to solve this problem. This was the second smart watch we ordered for our daughters. The first one we got from TaoBao but they went out of order after a few months, could not turn on at all. Since they were from TaoBao, there was no local warranty. It would be too expensive and troublesome to ship them back to China to repair, therefore, we just put them aside and order these new watches.

隨著她們日漸長大，她們變得越來越多課堂以外的活動。我們有需要跟她們保持聯絡。因為沒有手機，所以我們就使用這些智能手錶。之前曾經在淘寶買過幾只這樣的錶，可惜都很快便壞了。因為是在淘寶買的關係，沒有香港的保修，送回大陸去修的成本很高，所以我們就放棄了。乾脆買過兩只新的算了。

There were only 3 things in the boxes, the smart watch, a micro USB charging cable and a small piece of paper containing very simple user manuel, however, it was in a very small font that the words could hardly be read, basically made it useless. There was the watch with a plastic bag inside the box.

在那盒子中就只有一只錶，一條供電線和一張很少，很簡單的使用指示。可以由於字體太細的關係，基本上是看不到內容的，所以有等於無。而錶本身是有膠袋保護著的。

This is how the watch looked like without the plastic bag.

拿掉膠袋之後就是這個樣子。

Power on the watch, first page shown contained Date, Time, connectivity information, menu, settings menu, icons for Phone and Phonebook.

開著手錶，就會看見日字，時間，網絡狀況，目錄和選項，當然還有電話和電話簿。

Swipe on the touch screen for other functions :

在錶面一掃就會見到下列的功能：

Phone call | 電話
Phone book | 電話簿
Messages | 短信
Call center | 來電中心
Photo album | 相簿
Remote message | 遠端信息
Remote camera | 遠端照相機
File manager | 檔案管理
Settings | 設定
Alarm | 響鬧
Calendar | 月曆
Calculator | 計算機
Recorder | 錄音機
Camera | 照相機
Bluetooth | 籃芽
Music Player | 音樂播放機
Sleep monitor | 睡眠監視器
Pedometer | 計步器
Stand alert | 站立提醒
QR code for downloading Apps (Android) | 2維碼
Web Browser | 網絡瀏覽器
Find my Watch | 手錶防遺失
QQ
Wechat | 微信

All of the functions are commonly found on other smart watches. The functions that we need were only Phone and Messages. They are for us to keep contact with our daughers, all the other functions of little value to me. I will leave them to the girls to test them out.

以上的功能都是智能手錶常有的。但我們要的就只是打電話和短信，好讓我們和女兒保持聯繫。其他的功能就讓女兒們自己探索去。

In order to make the watch works, I have to put in one Mobile SIM card and one MicroSD card. Turn around the watch.

只要放進網絡SIM卡和記憶卡再開啟電源就可以使用。

Open the back cover. It was a little bit hard to open, took me some time to do that.

因為錶背的蓋子比較緊，花了我不少時間才能打開。

In the center was the SIM card slot. Next to it was the MicroSD card slot. Just put in the SIM card and SD card,put the cover back and turn on the watch. It should be able to use for making and receiveing calls after it is connected to the mobile network. Very simple to setup and use.

在中間的就是SIM卡插槽而旁邊的就是記憶卡槽，只要放好SIM卡和記憶卡，打開電源，等接上網絡之後就可以打電話和傳短信，非常容易。

There were a few darwbacks :

There was no internal battery for storing data. Therefore, it cannot hold system configuration data if the battery was removed for access of the 2 cards.
There was no iOS apps for this watch, Apps only avaiable on Android platform. So for iPhone only users like us, we have to do all settings on the watch.
It support only GPRS data network, i.e. 2G data network, which is actually too slow for most applications other than just sending text messages.