Rogbid Rowatch2 Smart Notification Watch -- REVIEW

You won't believe the price of this smartwatch

Let's check it out. Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out this

This is the Rogbid Row Watch 2 Smartwatch. And yeah, it looks a whole lot like an Apple watch

In fact, it's very similar in design, so similar that the screens within 1 millimeter of the 44 millimeter

larger Apple Watch size. This is actually a 1.7 inch touchscreen and it's interesting

The resolution's only 240 by 280 but it's a pretty crisp looking screen. It actually works really well

It's IP 68 waterproof includes a fitness tracker and it's really interesting what sports they track

It tracks walking, running, swimming, cycling, basketball, football, and then there's two odd ones, badminton and skipping

Now, I don't do a lot of badminton and I don't do a lot of skipping, but if I did, my watch could track that. How handy is that

It also tracks your heart rate and it has an oxygen monitor. How accurate they are might be another story, but it actually has at least some data

Sleep tracker, it has a sedentary and water drinking reminder you can set

So if you're the kind of person that just sits at your computer or your video game system and just zones out and has hours and hours and hours

pass. This can remind you to get up, get a glass of water, move around a little bit, maybe focus

your eyes on something at a different distance, right? All of that can be done. You can also set

alarms, so if this is for grandma or something, it can remind her to take her meds or something. Pretty

handy. Now, some of the other features it includes are a remote button for the camera on your

paired smartphone, and it has a weather display so it can show you the weather, and it has a remote

music controller. So again, on your paired device, if you're listening to music, you could just go to

the controller on your watch to pause or to go to the next track or even just to see what track

you're listening to. Now, it is a notification watch. It is not actually a watch that lets you

interact. So you can't answer phone calls. You can't respond to text messages on this watch

But honestly, when I look at people and how they use like their Apple Watch or their Samsung

Galaxy gear or something, that most of them actually use it for notifications and then go to their device anyway

So maybe that not such a big deal It connects via low power Bluetooth and it has a pretty solid battery life So one of the things that really frustrating about the Apple Watch is that its battery life about 20 25 hours which means every single day you have to charge it This they say it a five days of full use per charge

I found it's a little shorter than that, but even three or four days is pretty darn nice

And then if you don't touch it and it just sits, it can actually be on standby up to 30 days

So I will tell you that I had it sitting untouched for a week or so, and the battery was still

like 82%. So that was pretty impressive. Now, I know I've talked about it a lot, but you want to see it. So here's what I'm going to do is I'm going to close up on the watch. But before we do that, let me show you some of the interaction you get through the app. So the app, actually, let me just get my recording started. So the app is called Hero Band 3, which is interesting. So it's not actually from the same company. I think it's just a company they work with

And as you can see, it shows you the watch. It gives you access to a lot of watch faces

Here's some of the ones. These are the ones I have installed. But if I go to discover more dials, check out all the watch faces you can download

So the actual watch face that I have right now, that's sort of that Santa Fe, New Mexican style image, that is one that I downloaded

And it was super easy. So really nice feature. It gives you lots of settings

You can see notifications. You can turn on and off notifications. If you get a lot of stuff on Twitter, you can turn that off

Pretty handy. Set alarms, access your remote shutter and give it permissions to do that

You can check for upgrades. You can also go and get your health status

And you can see, I haven't worn it very much and I haven't moved around very much yet today

So I'm at a pretty embarrassing 264 steps. I'll break at least a thousand

by lunge, if not five or 10,000. And then finally, there's also some profile. You can set your

height and weight and you can set your goal for a number of steps per day. All of that. Really handy

Really the sort of home screen of it, though, is the middle one that shows you the watch face

Now, great. Let's switch and let's look at the watch itself. To do that, I need to spin the camera around

to point at it and we'll see how that goes. First thing to notice is that there's a button on the side

It's not a crown. It doesn't give you a dial. It doesn't give you that sophisticated interaction you'd have on an Apple watch

But it's functional. I can change watch faces on the ones that are already preloaded by just pushing and holding

And then it can step through and you can see what my options are And this one let see there well I think I just pick this again I actually like this one and then I going to go and swipe upward and that gives me

my steps and fitness swipe up again I can see sleep I can see my heart rate obviously I do not

have my heart rate right now because it's literally sitting on a table which is curious

But we can go back to the screen. If I go in the other direction, then I can see settings

And there are some interesting ones. So I can go and push the button again to wake it up

I can do flashlight, which just gives you a bright screen. I'm not sure when that's useful, but I suppose that can be beneficial

And then this button will give me weather and it will update the weather

Tell me how it's looking outside. That's a pretty nice day. and I find that it's easier just to push the button to move back and around

So 91% battery, Bluetooth is connected. I can go to settings and there's a lot of settings

So you can see there's a lot of things you can do from the settings screen

I can push again. I can go in the other direction and here's some notifications that have come in

Text message, Facebook, some general notifications off of my phone. And of course I can zoom in on one

And I guess that's from the ESPN app. And as you can see, it's a little confusing to figure out what direction to move things in

but now I'm back to the date and time and whatever screen that I want

There's a lot to like about this simple little watch. Now, let's flip it over and see what's on the other side

So the sensors for things like your heart rate are in the center

center. But this is what's important to look at on the back. These are the charging tabs

and it comes with a very special charging cable, and it works with magnets. So you just get it

close, and now it's ready to charge, and you plug the other end into whatever charging device

you want, which is good and bad. It's good because this lets it be waterproof, but it's bad

because if you ever lose this cable or it gets damaged, you're kind of out of luck

because this is not something you're going to find off the shelf at somewhere like Best Buy or even probably at Amazon.com

So that's a design limitation worth knowing about. Maybe that's the nature of these things

to have some sort of a magnetic charge, but you do want to know that

Now, also while we're at the back, notice that it a standard watchband with a quick release so you can take the band off you can switch it for another one It a pretty neat little watch I mean it really not a true one competitor with

something like the Apple Watch, but it's at a fraction of the price. So it might be a little less

accurate with its pedometer. Its health rate, you know, heart rate, oxygen monitor, all of those

might be a little bit more questionable in terms of their true accuracy. But it gives you a chance to

join the world of smart watches and try it out and get those notifications and say, oh, look

someone just sent me an email message, right? All of that can happen. You could turn on and

off your haptic feedback, all of that at such a low price that if you lose this or break it

you're not even going to care. It's okay, because you'll just get another one, right? And you're

wondering, well, okay, how much is it? So let's talk about the price. But before we get to the

price, give me some feedback on this video. I really appreciate it. Give me a thumb

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appreciate when people subscribe to my channel. All right. Now this, I suppose I'll take it off

and show you. And by the way, it's sort of a typical rubber band on it and it does have an easy

release so you can change watch bands if you want. That's a pretty easy thing to do with modern

smart watches. And I changed the face even. So super easy to do that. This is the Rogbid Row Watch 2

Smartwatch and it's 3699 at Amazon.com. 3699. That is so cheap that there are watch bands for the

Apple Watch that cost more than this. And this comes with the actual watch. So definitely one worth

checking out, this could be really great for a tween or teenager that just wants those notifications

but doesn't really need to wear a multi-hundred dollar device on their wrist. And it might be fun

for you to have if you're like going to a tough mutter or you're in an environment where things

are really banged up a lot because having this go south is a whole lot less sad than having your

brand new Apple watch at $400 going bad. So definitely one to check out. I'm going to put that back

on my wrist and I need to go for a walk. So I'll catch you in my next video