{"id":199782,"date":"2025-11-25T18:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/199782\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T18:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:25:09","slug":"i-bought-a-e20-smartwatch-on-aliexpress-heres-how-that-turned-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/199782\/","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":199783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[57392,110520,23402,24902,110524,110525,1820,110521,381,18,282,1821,19,17,1815,110522,110523,1819,1814,1822,1818,1142,1143,1812,82,1817,1816],"class_list":{"0":"post-199782","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-eire","18":"tag-gadgets","19":"tag-graphics-card","20":"tag-ie","21":"tag-ireland","22":"tag-laptop","23":"tag-lige","24":"tag-lige-smartwatch","25":"tag-netbook","26":"tag-notebook","27":"tag-processor","28":"tag-reports","29":"tag-review","30":"tag-reviews","31":"tag-smartwatch","32":"tag-technology","33":"tag-test","34":"tag-tests"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115611745232397169","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}