{"id":306359,"date":"2025-11-25T17:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/306359\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T17:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:40:07","slug":"i-bought-a-e20-smartwatch-on-aliexpress-heres-how-that-turned-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/306359\/","title":{"rendered":"I bought a \u20ac20 smartwatch on Aliexpress \u2014 here\u2019s how that turned out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bodytext\">If you care about privacy, this might disappoint you \u2014 many cheap smartwatches don\u2019t have any open-source companion app alternatives. Gadgetbridge reportedly works for some models, but it didn\u2019t detect mine. And the default app, Da Fit, isn\u2019t great and is likely not too privacy-friendly.&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">Worse yet, you have to use it at least once, because there\u2019s absolutely no way to set the time directly on the watch. A one-time sync with a smartphone is mandatory.&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">Up to that point, though, things were still okay. It seemed like I had found an affordable watch with decent looks, great battery life, and on-device alarms. The watch faces were very limited and mostly unimpressive, but I managed to find one I liked \u2014 it looked a bit like an electricity meter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you care about privacy, this might disappoint you \u2014 many cheap smartwatches don\u2019t have any open-source companion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[14846,137221,203,202,137225,137226,214,137222,49,48,95,195,215,207,137223,137224,213,206,216,212,208,209,226,61,211,210],"class_list":["post-306359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-ali","tag-aliexpress","tag-amazfit","tag-amazfit-active-2","tag-amazfit-bip","tag-amazfit-bip-lite-amazfit-active","tag-benchmarks","tag-billig","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-gadgets","tag-graphics-card","tag-laptop","tag-lige","tag-lige-smartwatch","tag-netbook","tag-notebook","tag-processor","tag-reports","tag-review","tag-reviews","tag-smartwatch","tag-technology","tag-test","tag-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}