REVIEW: W56 Smartwatch, Best 1:1 Apple Watch Series 6 Clone? Fullscreen, Rotation Crown By OSReviews

Hey you all here OS reviews today we're taking a look at the w56 smartwatch, although it has a rather generic name. It's actually one of the best replicas of the Apple Watch 6th gen on the market. In fact, it's almost a one-to-one copy, including a much larger display that measures over 1.75 inches diagonally this time and functions include wireless charging in addition to ECG plus optical heart rate, monitoring, there's even a body temperature monitoring sensor on here. So you can see if you have a fever, it's one of the features that have gotten a little more popular recently due to the ongoing pandemic. You can even use it to answer phone calls if you're connected using Bluetooth to your smartphone, it doesn't have a sim card slot of its own. However, it does have a small mic that you can use to talk into uh, so kind of interesting there, although of course you don't have any smart assistant or anything like that, it's powered by a MediaTek processor and the OS is also by MediaTek.

It's the same generic operating system powering lots of the lower cost. Smartwatches we've seen in the past so that part hasn't really changed in terms of the battery at 320 William hours, which claims to last for around two days of continuous use. That is a little on the low side. It does mean you can have continuous heart rate, monitoring and ECG monitoring turn on in terms of sleep tracking. By the way it will track sleep automatically between the regular hours at night, so here's the packaging and what it looks like, there's a sticker and then inside the packaging.

We get a few extras, including a protective little bumper, for the watch that you can protect it with. Of course, there is the user manual that tells you how to connect it and download the companion application. We also have access to the watch itself and then, finally, there is the charger which, as aforementioned uses a wireless charging system just like the real Apple Watch. In fact, if we turn it over, we won't find any contacts or anything like that. It's very shiny, you can set it onto this surface here and any orientation will do so here we have the w56 smartwatch itself and just taking a closer look at the design of the watch.

First, almost immediately, we can see that, of course, the display is indeed quite large, though I wouldn't say it's necessarily bezel-less or frameless like some images. It is indeed, of course much smaller in terms of bezel sizes compared to past clones or replicas, and even compared against other budget. Smartwatches like the amaze fit big, you can just see how much larger the bezels of these watches have been in just a year or two ago. So it's nice to see such a large 1.75 inch display on a watch that has a similar sized footprint. Aside from that, the body of the watch is indeed constructed out of an aluminum unibody, so it does indeed feel very solid.

We have just a power key on the side and then the crown key, which you can also press downwards, on to select things. Of course, the straps here again are removable, and they're, actually magnetic, so they're held into place and securely locked when you pop it in you can change it for different textures and styles, and then here on the rear, it does resemble the Apple Watch quite a bit, although some text here, of course, is a little different. It says: Bluetooth, watch series, 6, 44, millimeter, aluminum and ceramic casing. It is very shiny and feels quite comfortable, but does attract fingerprints a little easily, so you have to kind of wipe it off after a while, but everything is smooth. We just see the optical heart rate monitor and some contacts there for the ECG, that is, the electrocardiograph meant to get us a more precise measurement for heart rate information compared to just the light based optical sensors.

There are two modes on here. The side here features a speaker as well as a microphone. Now the IPS lcd does have very good viewing angles, and visibility is also quite good. Although it's not going to automatically adjust, you can go into settings and turn it higher or lower. Depending on your surroundings, I didn't have any problems in terms of looking at images and whatnot, even though it's not an AMOLED or OLED display, it's also very contrast, so the black does look quite deep and as a whole, it's a pretty high quality screen.

It's perhaps the one of the best attributes. I'd say of this clone. You can change the watch face by the way by long holding for a few seconds, just like lots of other smartwatches, we've seen in the past and then scrolling side just by side to change the style. Alternatively, you can actually just twist on the crown directly and that will actually cycle through the watch faces one at a time as well. The overall scrolling action of the crown feels pretty precise.

The movement doesn't feel loose and overall, it's pretty tactile and sensitive. So here's a demo of some of the ones that you get on here, a mix of analog and digital options. They all look pretty good and fill up the size of the screen here and overall they are reasonably attractive, although not all the elements on every single watch face will be fully interactive. Some of these, for example, the heart rate map, is not going to populate in live real time, such as with the real Apple Watch or on the maze fit big. U, however, it still looks quite clean, there are some images that you can also customize other ones here again that kind of go through show you your daily activity goals, your heart rate, the time information, and you can pick the one that you like the most cycling through just a few, more others which are meant to copy kind of what the Apple Watch has as well of course, and giving you that choice now.

Some of these are also animated in the sense that they will have some moving elements after you wait for a few seconds which is kind of neat um, and you can kind of see how they work from there. The list really is quite long, so the watch's memory is pretty much filled with all these custom watch faces. Overall, though, definitely gives you lots of options and again, I think they all look quite attractive and show off the vibrancy of the screen in a pretty nice way. A few final ones here, let's just scroll through and then kind of return us to the watch, face that we saw at the beginning. We can scroll to the right to access the list of all our applications, or rather in this bubble view just like with the real Apple Watch OS you can kind of cycle through to navigate and kind of find your way around.

The features that you want to access once again, the crown is functional on this watch, so you can zoom in and out just by rotating the crown, so that pushes everything to the minimal kind of size, and you can also zoom in and crop in, to get a larger view of the icons and, overall again it works pretty. Well, maybe it's not as fast or completely as fluid as the real deal, but we have to keep in mind that this is just a fraction of the price of a real Apple Watch from here. We have a few functions, such as the aforementioned body temperature monitor, and you can also see your previous measurements as well. Usually it takes about 20 seconds to get a test. Same thing goes with the blood pressure monitor.

It also works pretty well standard stuff. These days, I can swipe over from the edge of the screen to go back by one page by the way, and the overall touch screen is fairly responsive. I'd, say it's of course, much better than some clones. We saw in years past right now. Everything is registering my touch without too many problems.

The slightly curved 2.5 d glass definitely helps as well making the motion still feel pretty elegant from here. The UI kind of gives away that it's not really a real Apple Watch, but rather it's running on that proprietary MediaTek smartwatch operating system, which is a lot more light. It doesn't require as much memory or as fast processing as android wear, but still is a platform that we've been seeing for a while now. Other things we can see here is brought up the dialer able to take a look at your steps during the day. Although you can't really tap to take a look at too much additional info again telling your light versus deep sleep patterns, uh the accuracy of the sleep tracking, I won't say, is perhaps the best in the world.

Sometimes it's a little off in terms of if you aren't moving it kind of thinks, it's sleeping still. It gets in the right ballpark I'd say it gives you an estimation as long as you're sleeping at the regular hours at night. Some final functions here include the aforementioned spo2 blood oxygen monitor function, which again is pretty useful to have these days since uh, the ability for you to breathe properly is correlated with the amount of oxygen, that's in your veins and that can be used as a rough estimation of whether you are having any coveted symptoms or not or difficulty breathing. So that is another function on here. Another sensor, which is good to see, there's also a basic stopwatch, in addition to a basic calculator even on here.

We can also change notifications, whether it's a vibration where it's a sound as well as the display brightness inside the settings here and that works as expected. Not too many surprises in that regard and to go back from this screen, you can tap on the basically power key once this particular button is a little uh requiring a firm press for it to register, but it does feel pretty tactile all the keys are made out of metals. Otherwise, we can slide over to the left of the home screen to access all of our sports and activities that we can instantly begin tracking gives you a variety here to take a look at including cycling, running jogging, walking all of this once you start it, it will track your heart rate continuously during the session. However, this watch doesn't have a built-in GPS chip, so it won't track your route on a map unless you're connected to your smartphone and use your smartphone's GPS. When you start an activity once again, the list here is scrollable using the uh crown key on the side here.

So it's basic but elegant and works as expected. By the way we can do a quick demo of what the speaker sound like by jumping into the alarm clock. In fact, this is what the interface is like, where we can set up a time or even a countdown timer, and we can actually change the time directly on the watch itself, which is pretty neat and once we're satisfied, we can change the alarm tone, so you can see there there are five different ringtones to pick from, and it is a pretty loudspeaker built onto the side all right, so the companion app, which is called m active, is a pretty generic application, definitely isn't going to be as advanced as say, the real one from apple or even some ones from amaze fit or Xiaomi we've seen in the past, but it does the job for basic things like syncing information when you're connected by Bluetooth. You can set up your goal here, as well as some personal stats, like your height and weight, to better calibrate what the sensor takes as a step and to see how much of your goal you've reached calories converted as well as the distance walked. You can also see different things like your temperature, your last heart rate test your blood pressure test, as well as your sleep data blood oxygen will all be populated here, but, aside from storing the data, it doesn't really give you too much more, such as recommendations or even alerts if you've reached a threshold and should seek medical attention or something like that, so I think the application could definitely do with more polishing in the future.

It is a little primitive and not the most detailed thing in the world, but at least you can store the information that you've recorded from the watch over and sync the time, so that's more or less it. As far as our quick, hands-on review of the w56 smartwatch again, it's one of the most accurate clones of the Apple Watch. I've seen to date with its hardware, at least in terms of how it feels and how it looks with a much larger screen, looks a lot more like the real deal now from afar. If you're going after that, aesthetic and the crown KIA here is again truly functional, which is impressive to a certain extent. So is answering phone calls and having a small speaker on the side, the accuracy of all the sensors are okay, sleep tracking is probably the weakest out of the bunch.

The others seem to be fair compared to other budget. Smartwatches, it gets around the same range in my testing. It's pretty crazy to see how far we've come with these kinds of products at first getting lots of details wrong and now just slowly through iterative updates, just getting closer and closer to the real thing. So you can find out more details if interested in the links below, but for now that's been our video thanks for watching here at OS reviews, that's been the w56 Apple Watch, 6 clones.

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