30-Day Battery Xiaomi Smartwatch | Imilab KW66 Review By Tech Spurt

Hello gorgeous peeps, I'm Chris from expert, and this bad boy here is the Xiaomi molar kw, 66 smartwatches, very catchy name indeed. Now, in the last couple of months, we've seen lots of budget friendly, smartwatches, launched by the likes of realm and the maze fit and the Emmy lab definitely fits into that category. It'll cost you just 50 us dollars from the usual online sellers like AliExpress, and the main selling point of Xiaomi's smartwatch is the fact that it offers 30 days of battery life between charges, although if you actually dive into the small print it looks like about two weeks of use is more likely if you actually bother to use any other features. Of course, though, to be fair compared with a lot of small watches. These days like the Apple Watch and stuff which tends to just last a day or two between charges. A fortnight is still pretty damn good right up there with the likes of the Huawei watch gt2 series.

What I'm going to do is I'm going to whip the similar out of its box, I'm going to rock it on my wrist for about 24 hours, and I'm going to take you on a full-on tour of the hardware and the software and for more on the latest greatest tech. Please do put subscribe and ding that notifications bell cheers. So there is the similar kw, 66 smartwatches, let's see what you actually get in the rest of the box as well, so get a quick start guide, just telling you how to get the watch all set up and running you through the various features you actually get a spare silicon strap bundled in the box as well, which is perfect. You get a green one, stuck there on the watch to begin with, and then you get a black one in the box. So a bit of an alternative design, and you've got a proprietary USB charger as well.

There's no adapter bundle in the box. You'll have to provide your own, otherwise just plug it into a spare USB port on your laptop or whatever, and then, when you need to charge your emu lab smartwatch, just basically slap that onto the back and as you can see, it's got a magnetic connection, although not a particularly strong one. I would say it's certainly not strong enough to actually hold the watch aloft if you were to let go of it and that's everything that you'll find in the box. So now, let's check out the actual watch itself, and I've got to say. First, impressions are pretty good actually for just fifty dollars.

This feels like a more premium uh small, which definitely along the lines of the likes. The Realme watch s which of course, costs around sort of 75 pounds. Premium vibes definitely helps by the fact. It's got a good little heft to it's 54 grams, including the Jason and the strap, and it's just great to see a small watch with that circular design, as well with so many especially the budget. He watches ape in that apple square format.

The actual case in itself is metallic. It's a zinc, alloy casing to be completely precise, then around back, it looks like you've, basically got a glossy plastic ass end on it, and apparently the similar kw 66 smartwatches is ip68 water and dust resistant as well, which again is great for this sort of price points. That means you'll be able to sweat all over it. You'll be able to take it out in a piss and rainstorm. No worries and touch with the watch should be absolutely fine if you submerge it as well, although I did notice on the similar website that it said not to take this watch into a steamy environment.

So I guess, if you're going to hit the sauna or something you want to leave it in your locker, okay, just going to bang the watch on my wrist now and sort of see how it feels and again, initial impressions are pretty good that soft silicone strap certainly feels all right against the skin. The catchers are doing a pretty good job of yanking up my arm hairs, unfortunately, but that's pretty standard and, as you can see, they're not too chunky as well, compared with a lot of other smartwatches. Oh, and the Xiaomi watch takes a standard, 22 mil bands as well, so as you can see, easily remove the current straps and then slap on your own preferred favorites all right. So let's get this IMF lab watch all set up, and then oh, that was quick and easy. Oh, it doesn't look like it needs any proper setup.

It's just kind of gone straight into the main menu and um loving the uh very interesting bit of watch face action there, but to actually get the smart which all paired up with your smartphone and everything. What you'll need to do is go up. The settings and uh open up the qr code feature and then just scan that with your phone and then that should give us a direct link to the app we need to download from either the app store or the Google Play Store. Or, of course, you can just go and find it yourself, it's called glory fit and with that downloaded you've just got to tell the app a little more about yourself. I've got no idea how tall I am target steps.

Well, thanks to our great mate covered, I barely even hit the bare minimum here right now. Hopefully we can get all paired up there. We go, let's found it huzzah, and the next stage is to set all the permissions for the smartwatch. So, for instance, do you want it to notify you about any income and calls and other notifications as well from the likes of messenger, Gmail, etc. You could also turn on a do not disturb as well, which is quite handy if you're going to be rocking it all night long for a bit of the of sleep, tracking, and you've got controls over the uh units as well, whether it's metric or a good old British system, all right, so I've been rocking the Xiaomi minilab qw66 on my wrist overnight and already starting to see some little foibles cropping up some uh some little telltale signs that, yes, it is most definitely a budget smartwatch, but to be fair and that's not to say that I dislike the MD lab and for 50 it does offer some pretty good features.

So, let's start with that, 1.28-inch IPS screen, which, as you can see, that isn't surrounded by the thickest bezels in the world for a budget uh smartwatch and the screen itself is absolutely fine. Uh, not super detailed. Once you get in quite close, you can see that images and text is quite pixelated and the colors aren't exactly going to knock your socks off for being like super, vibrant and punchy, or anything like that. This is also the smartwatch on the top brightness. You can quickly configure that by swiping down and then tapping this little icon here.

As you can see, there are several stages on the top level. You will struggle to see it outdoors on a bright sunshiny day, but otherwise it's fine but zero issues with viewing angles or anything. So you can sort of stare at your wrists, uh surreptitiously from the side to get a slight glance at the time when you're a bit bored in a meeting you may notice, I got rid of the deer watch face, which is a little random to see. At least you can change the watch face simply by long pressing it and then swiping left and right there's a small selection of different options on there already. Alternatively, if you go to the dial center section of the glory fit app on your smartphone, you've got a selection of watch faces that you can choose from now.

You can sync them up with your smartwatch just one at a time, though, and of course yeah, it's nowhere near the sort of size of selection that you get on the likes of the Huawei watchers, or on good old, Wear OS, of course, but at least you get sort of a semi-respectable variety and if you've got a custom dial, you can actually create your own watch face. You can either choose a photo from your Google photos, uh selection or your smartphone album. Otherwise, you can actually take a picture with your camera there and then, let's do that and then just crop it to your liking and then last up just choose the color of the text that appears at the time and everything. Unfortunately, you can't actually change the layout of the information or exactly what information is displayed on that watch face alongside your own face and then go make yourself a cup of tea or potentially a full three-course meal, while it syncs up with your smartwatch and then here presto there is your fresh new watch face. Won't you be the talk of the town now the UI here on this image lab smartwatch is very straightforward? You can drag down to fast access your settings and main toggles the likes of, of course, that screen brightness, which I showed you earlier and the find my phone feature, which is quite handy if your phone's constantly going down the back of the sofa, as you can hear, that just makes your phone vibrate like a morph and gives a little tinkly ringtone noise, and you've also got access to the rest of the settings uh in there, which are very, very limited.

Indeed. To be honest, you can basically reset your smartwatch and get some information on it and, of course, you've got that qr code, which you can use to scan to download the app and that's pretty much it if you swipe this away. You'll access your list of apps, which again very basic and limited, compared with a lot of rivals from likes of Huawei you'll, actually Wear OS apps. All that kind of stuff you've got your basic fitness tracking stuff, which I'll cover in a bit. You've got to stop watching notification, support and that's basically it and since, unlike Wear OS, smartwatches and the Apple Watch, you can't download fresh apps from an online store or anything.

That's basically, all you got take it or leave it and then flick in the opposite direction, and you can see all of your stats at a quick glance offers this number of steps taken. Distance and calories burns. You've also got access to your 24 hour, heart rate tracking right there uh how much sleep you got last night. Apparently I got seven and a half hours I'll be buggered. If I feel like I have, I think, that's roughly how long I lay still for, but I probably actually got closer to six hours, but then sleep tracking on these things is basically best.

Usually anyway, you've got fast access to your training through there, and you've also got media controls too, and these are definitely rudimentary controls at best, as you can see, you don't actually see what song is playing or any kind of information on the screen, but those controls do work so tap play. Your music will play tap pause. Your music will again pause. You can skip tracks all that good stuff. Otherwise, you can see there's bugger or volume control or anything at all like that, so you are stuck to the more basic stuff.

And lastly, if you swipe up from that main watch, face you'll receive your notifications list. As you can see, there are no messages for me. I haven't actually been able to get the notifications to work at all you're supposed to be able to set this up through again the glory fit app. If you just go to app reminder, you can get it all turned on there grant full access and then, of course, see exactly which apps you want to receive notifications from on your wrist and yet fundamentally it just doesn't work at all. I've played around with app permissions for about an hour, or so I've cleared the app cache.

I've done all kinds of stuff to try and get this to work and nothing seems to help. So this is on uh the pixel 4 ray um. It might work on other smartphones, but if you've got a pixel chances, are it's not gonna? Sync up nicely and the glory fit app itself again a bit of a cluttered mess could definitely use a bit of tender, loving care there, but still besides the notification support, all the other features seem to work. Fine, including the raised hands to activate display uh. The smart alarm clock worked a treat this morning.

My wrist started buzzing at 7 45. Although the haptics aren't exactly earthquake level, let's see uh quite a gentle arousing. So if you're a bit of a deep sleeper that probably won't work so on the fitness tracking side of things, it's pretty rudimentary stuff. To be perfectly frank, so of course you've got your heart rate monitoring, uh 24 hours. Just does that automatically when it's on your wrist- and that seems perfectly accurate to be fair to it, I obviously don't have a SP or 2 monitoring or anything like that, which would be quite a boon at this sort of price point uh.

The lab watch will casually track your steps taken uh. You know calories supposedly burned all that good stuff, which I showed you earlier throughout the day and then at any point, if you want to perform a bit of exercise, you've got 13 different tracking modes. Of course, they are a bit of a strange bunch. You've got like likes of table tennis, uh rugby badminton, baseball alpine ism, not even sure, if that's actually a word, but then you do at least have running, walking and cycling on there, which I guess would cover off most of uh. What people are up to and all this basically does.

Is it tells you exactly how long you've been exercising for keeps a general uh, look at your portrait and all that good stuff, and then, when you're finished, it will log that data and sync it up with your smartphone. That's the actual performance. Well, that can obviously be a little jittery again for a basic small watch. It's really not that bad, though, to be fair, it's fairly, responsive that touch screen. So when you swipe it generally gets it right.

The only other quirk that I've noticed is the actual battery meter, which seems to be locked at 100, which is quite confusing because I was using the small watch quite a bit last night, and then I dove online, and I discovered that actually, it only counts down in 25 increments, so it'll go down to 75 percent, then 50, then 25 and then dead. You get a 340 million batteries, stuffed inside the midlab watch, which is pretty respectable. Given the size of this thing. As I said before, the 30 days of battery life seems to be complete, bollocks, basically with mixed general everyday use. They reckon you'll get closer to about two weeks of use, which again is pretty damn good, certainly beats the crap out of having to charge your smartwatch every single night alongside your smartphone, which is what you'll have to do.

If you get the Apple Watch or most Wear OS devices, so that, in a nutshell, is Xiaomi's minilab kw, 66 budget smartwatches and, as you can see, it's definitely one for casual smartwatch users who prioritize battery life over feature sets because, let's face it, the features are pretty bare bones on this thing and some main stuff like that notifications handling just did not work for me, but you know the design is really, really nice. If you can actually get the notifications handling to work, then that's great. It's got the rudimentary fitness stuff on there. The step tracking uh distance covered all that kind of stuff. Now, personally, I would say if you've got a little of extra cash, just uh, throw it at Realme instead for the new watch s which they put out, which is a lot better than this thing, the features are a lot better.

You've got more customization options on there too. So that's what I think would be great here. Your own thoughts down in the comments below please do plug subscribe. Ding that notifications bell and have yourselves a lovely rest of the week, cheers everyone loves you. You.

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