{"id":159230,"date":"2025-11-25T18:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/159230\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T18:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:18:06","slug":"i-bought-a-e20-smartwatch-on-aliexpress-heres-how-that-turned-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/159230\/","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":159231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[89325,89326,1075,39337,89330,89331,569,89327,114,203,570,61,60,562,89328,89329,568,561,571,567,563,564,1535,80,566,565],"class_list":{"0":"post-159230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-ali","9":"tag-aliexpress","10":"tag-amazfit","11":"tag-amazfit-active-2","12":"tag-amazfit-bip","13":"tag-amazfit-bip-lite-amazfit-active","14":"tag-benchmarks","15":"tag-billig","16":"tag-china","17":"tag-gadgets","18":"tag-graphics-card","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-laptop","22":"tag-lige","23":"tag-lige-smartwatch","24":"tag-netbook","25":"tag-notebook","26":"tag-processor","27":"tag-reports","28":"tag-review","29":"tag-reviews","30":"tag-smartwatch","31":"tag-technology","32":"tag-test","33":"tag-tests"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}