StarryBay Smart-watch Phone

Smart devices are becoming more popular today.  You have the drones, fitbits and now the smart watch.  The watch, shown below, is the Starry Bay Smart Watch Phone.  It acts almost just like your smart phone, but is in a form of a watch.  The first thing I liked about this watch, is the wide white band.  It's a durable sturdy plastic like band, that is very flexible and has many holes in the band, to adjust it to your wrist.

It has a touchscreen display that is in full color, with several icons already loaded for your use.  Some of the icons include the sleep monitor, sedentary reminder, alarm clock, calculator, steps, messages, settings, phone book and more. You can answer or dial calls from your watch and supports hands free calls. When you sync your watch with your cell phone by bluetooth, you can then see who is calling from your watch...same goes for messages.  If using this watch with an Android, some of the functions you can expect are:

     * Supports anti-lost
     * Phonebook 
     * Fundo
     * Remote Camera 
     * Notification push including emails, calls, Facebook & Twitter

For iOS:
     * Supports music player
     * hands free/ making calls

If you plan on using this watch with the iPhone, it only supports partial functions such as: Pedometer, Calendar, Call Sync, Calculator, Clock, Stopwatch, Music Player, Hands free, etc. 

The Starry Bay Smart Watch Phone comes with a small pamphlet, showing what each button or function is.  It will explain that you need to download an app, either from Google Play or Apple Store, to use with this watch.  The app is called, BT Notification or BT Notifier.  This app will allow some of the features work on your watch.  

I will admit, I played with this watch for an hour or so, just to get the feel of all the features. Setting the time was easy. I just went to the Setting icon on the watch and set everything up. Syncing was quite easy as well...no problems there, but I did find out, after trying to get my messages and call history on this watch, that after I downloaded the BT Notification app and synced (or thought I did, anyways), that I had to reboot my phone as well as the watch. After that, everything works just fine.  

I'm still tinkering with this watch phone, to see if there is anything else I can do with it.  I love that I can just have my phone (watch) with me at all times, even when I don't have my phone.  I love the color, I love how it looks and feels on my wrist.  Sure, you can go ahead and buy the Apple Watch...but let me tell you, you will get almost the same thing with this watch, but at a very low low fraction of what the Apple watch will cost you.  Right now, this particular watch, sold by Wang De XIAO on Amazon, is only $44.99 with FREE SHIPPING. 


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***I received a complimentary product, in exchange, for my honest and unbiased review.  All opinions are 100% and solely my own.

VCALL U8 Plus Bluetooth Smart Watch

It seems like it's been an eternity since I've been online, to blog.  With the Christmas holiday over with and everything back to normal, I'm back!  During this time, I've received some awesome gifts, not only from my family but also as a blogger.  One of those items is the VCALL U8 Plus Bluetooth Smart Watch.  Now, if you are familiar with the Apple Watch, this watch is similar to that, but very very much reasonable.

The VCALL U8 Plus Bluetooth Smart Watch is not expected to live up to the more expensive Apple Watch, but it still gets the job done.  With the VCALL U8 Smart Watch, you have access to your messages, phone calls, fitness tracker, calorie counter and much much more.  This VCALL U8 Plus Smart Watch is only a tiny fraction of the cost of the more expensive smart watches on the market, today.

The VCALL U8 Plus Smart Watch is Android supported and is made of an environmental friendly plastic material.  It includes: Long battery life, barometer, dial, SMS, phonebook, call history, BT Notification, BT music, long-distance capture, pedometer, sleep monitor, anti-lost alarm, power save mode, remote camera and many more options.   It supports hands free calls/Answer or Dials calls from wrist watch.

This is such a neat little gadget.  The watch seems well made and fairly easy to use.  Setting the time took a few minutes for me to figure out, once I realized that there was a faint yellow cursor, that hovers over the digit you want to change.  I could barely see the yellow cursor at first.  Syncing the phone was fairly easy as well.  Just turn on the bluetooth on your Android phone and watch, pair the two devices and the watch is connected.  The watch will work if your phone is within a certain amount of feet from the watch.  Once the phone or watch is away from each other, the watch will disconnect.  

I love that I can wear this watch and see who is calling or sending a message at the same time.  I don't have to pick up my phone every time I want to see who has called or left a message.  It's so convenient!  I even made a phone call from the watch!  The VCALL U8 Plus Smart Watch has a speaker on the side, so you can communicate and talk, right from the watch.  So cool!  As with any new electronic that requires bluetooth and syncing, there are some minor issues you will have to work with.  Once I had this watch all figured out, the next moment, I had an issue of reviewing my text messages.  It gave me an error reading stating I had to download BT Notification App, which I already had done.  There are several apps on Google Play that you can download, but the BT Notificatin app is the one that is requested.  You may have to download a couple, just to figure out which works best with your phone and watch.  Once you download the BT Notification App that works best, uninstall the others you had previously downloaded, to prevent any confusion.

All in all, I love this watch.  It gives me the sleep monitor, the pedometer and the fitness tracker that I really love.  I love that I can make a phone call from this device, but keep in mind, every one can hear the conversation since the watch is on speaker mode and the voice comes from the watch itself.

You can grab your own VCALL U8 Plus Smart Watch HERE!




***I received a complimentary product, in exchange, for my honest and unbiased review.  All opinions are 100% my own.

USB Reading Lamp with Flexible Goosneck

I do most of my blogging and writing early in the morning.  When I say early, I mean early...like 4:45 am, before anyone else is awake.  I can get more done at this time of day, then any other, mainly because I have a full time job, as a loan coordinator.  

There are many many times I get aggravated because I can't see my keyboard (mainly when I make a mistake and have to correct), or when I'm trying to read info from an insert or pamphlet, and there is limited lighting, because I don't want to turn on the light and wake anyone up.

This little gem comes in very very handy!  It is a USB Reading Lamp with a Flexible Gooseneck and it is a lifesaver!  As a matter of fact, as I'm typing, it is the first time I've used it.  It's so small, compact and can be taken anywhere with you.  It's perfect to connect to your laptop, desktop or any other device that has a USB port.  The lamp has to lighting settings...one for low light and one for a brighter light.  You can adjust the gooseneck any way you want and it stays put.  

I'm amazed by this little gadget and very pleased that it illuminates my whole keyboard and a little more.  

 PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

FEATURES - Two extra bright LEDs with two steps of adjustable brightness via switch
DESIGN - Flexible flex neck gooseneck arm will bring light to your favorite position. On/Off Switch
COMPATIBILITY - Fits all devices with a Powered USB port: Laptops, Netbooks, PCs, Macs, USB Hubs and Wall chargers
USE - Great for home, remote/travel, study or office use. No batteries needed - light is powered by USB line power.
PORTABLE - Lightweight at 1oz. Made of durable plastic and metal materials.



You can get your own personal little USB Reading Lamp with Flexible Gooseneck by visiting i2Gear Amazon page.  The sale price is only $7.99 and well worth it if you do a lot of reading and working on computers during the late night or early mornings.

I absolutely love mine and it will stay affixed to my computer!



***I received the above product, free, in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.  All opinions are 100% my own.