A $55 Smartwatch: Too Good To Be True?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- In this clip, Marques, Andrew, and David discuss Nothing launching a sub-brand called CMF, which, according to a recent leak, is going to have a surprisingly affordable smartwatch in its lineup.
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The name should have been something
‘Something from Nothing’. You’re welcome, Carl.
Dbrand ahead of the curve on that one chief.
😂😂😂
This would be genius 😂
Something what? Complete your opinion
$69 for the watch, $49 for the buds and $39 for the charger.
I love that they will make products that are affordable and good.
Wheree
@@asifmdz1 not on sale yet, it was just released.
@@asifmdz1This is the guy who leaked it
@movendusingh250 do you have one?
Only buds available at the partner store in Romania, 75$. They eat a lot of...
To clear everyone's confusion here. CMF is just copying what other brands in India like Fire-Boltt and Noise do which is that they make a watch like fitness band and sell it as a "smart watch". There are big margins for this and most of these companies basically take the components from the same vendor in China and then just package it differently. So CMF will just create a better looking package and sell it for more. BTW, 4500 Rs is on the higher end for this kind of product. Products go for way cheaper here. Plus at that price point, they can push millions of these making huge profits for almost no investment which is exactly what Nothing needs right now.
as an indian, thanks for sharing a perspective of the domestic market here. i feel like it has to be similar in other countries with a lower median income as well but idk.
@@lmaotest2065 also apple watches and whatever you think is high end exists here, it's just seen as somewhat unnecessary and a flex at best so companies figured out making watches with basic functionality would be enough to be a sort of gateway to wearable tech if that makes sense
@@lmaotest2065it's an economic and cultural thing
If you only need $10 to buy a weeks worth of groceries then $100 is alot of money
The minimum wage in Nigeria is approximately $30 a month
@@lmaotest2065that’s because these kinda “smart watches” are targeted towards students of age 14-20 in India.. that’s why he’s saying it’s on the higher side because you can get smart wearable products for as low as 1000 rupees.. about 10-15 dollars
@lmaotest2065 I'm in America and that's high end for me.
We are used to big companies charging high prices for their products that we doubt companies selling at affordable prices
There is affordable and therebis realistic
I think we can see why only MKBHD is a reputed tech reviewer among them. Even MI Band series are cheaper and still they are pretty solid with a limited functionality. No wear OS so no fancy snapdragon processors to increase the price but a better battery life in return. If it do the basic stuff well with a solid build quality, it has a great potential for the budget market.
Notifications, step count, sleep track, time\weather\date and long battery life is all most people need from a smart watch. The cheap Amazons do most of that stuff just fine.
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That’s a fitness tracker then lol not a smartwatch
Thank you, I was just about to write the same thing. I bought one of these $55 watches a month ago after losing my pixel watch and it's still going strong.1 weekish battery life, and it's doing all the things I need.
@@superiortoall22some of them can check messages, weather and give alerts.. they can do 95% of the overpriced smart watches out there
workout data
“Leaks” are a marketing term for free advertising.
Here in Spain the Xiaomi Mi Bands sell like hot cake. They're under 40€ and cover the basic needs for most: messages, time, notifications and find your phone
To be fair. I can see how a $55 can be concerning. But 4500 rupees for a smartwatch is still on the higher end. I just use an mi band 6 because it does the work that most "smartwatches" do for way cheaper. Imo the best deal is buying a galaxy watch 4 on discount
Or an apple watch
I promise you $55 is not on the “higher end” when a large variety of more expensive watches from Apple, Samsung, Google, Garmin, etc are available. On top of that the Apple Watch is the most popular watch in the world so the norm is definitely $199+
I've got an Amazfit Bip 3. I got it because I can't wear a smartwatch at work so I didn't want to spend a lot of money on something I would really only wear half the day. All in all I like it though, my needs are pretty simple, it tracks heartrate and blood oxygen ok, the pedometer is good, it's good at controlling music and volume, the watch functions work fine, and the battery lasts about 2 weeks. The apps aren't super polished and can be a bit annoying, but I'm happy with it, especially at the price point. If I end up in a situation where I would wear a smartwatch all day I would probably get a nicer one, but it is good for what it is.
The fit bip is actually really good imo for the price you get great bang for your cash
I have one of those cheep watches too. I really only use it to not miss text messages as I don't always keep my phone on me. And having the time that accessible is nice. An apple watch is definitely something I would invest In later down the line. (Maybe after my current one breaks as that does happen too).
Got my dad one, he used to literally miss every phone call and message, now it keeps him aware of when folks are trying to contact him and he also gets to check on his HR and steps. Great little device imo.
I'm thinking of getting one of these cheap Amazfit watches. I bought a Fitbit Charge 5 used from Marketplace and the stupid thing died a month later. I don't blame the seller, I blame me for being a dumbass for buying a Fitbit. I had a Charge 3 that died twice also. It's a piece of garbage.
The sleep monitoring, heart rate, etc are wildly inaccurate. The rest of it should be fine
Really ignorant video for a huge tech youtuber like MKBHD. There are countries outside USA who cannot affort $600 Apple smartwatches. Just look at the market size for smartwatches in India, look at the top companies, their average selling prices. There is a huge market for sub $50 smartwatches in South Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and many other developing countries. Sure they might not have WearOS or satellite enabled SOS, but they do the basic job of calling, fitness and health tracking. Nothing just wants to capture a pie in that market, and Carl Pei already has a lot of credibility behind his name to execute this.
i love conversations about Nothing, people who have no clue about the brand will be confused and i'll never get tired of it
I think it's okay to have a conversation about product but I agree because now the watch was revealed and it's everything the leak said it was for an affordable price so basically they were hating on it way too soon.
I am a happy amazfit owner. Have owned a bip ($50ish) and liked it, but the plastic body couldn't hold up. So switched to a GTR, and still happy with it.
Marquess, Carl watching this video seeing how easily you decode the concept behind CMF😂
You can pretty much get same specs and build quality as the CMF watch for roughly $ 25-30 in today's Indian watch market. So, $55 is still on the higher side and targeting the premium smart feature watch segment. Remember, Galaxy Watch 4 44mm often goes for as less as $ 85 during sales. So, Indian watch market is pretty competitive at this point in time :)
I don't see too many people around me, with a smartwatch. It's for a niche market. I just don't like the idea of charging my watch everyday. It makes simple things unnecessarily complicated. A normal watch works better for me. The only possible benefit of a smartwatch is you can watch who is calling you when you are driving a Car. But that does not justify its price. There is hardly anything special these smartwatches can do. Probably the most overpriced and least useful device ever. I feel the same way about Tablets.
i've never seen them go lower than 120 euro/usd in my country and i checked price watch stats, 85 seems unlikely
cmf offers a neat software experience and build quality thats what would make it stand out
@@vipulgarg8575 i use my watch for google maps and spotify while im on a bike, its really useful for me
@@vipulgarg8575tablets are for students tho idk why would be niche?
Smartwatch are going to gaining market pretty rapidly tracking your activities is obvs stupid but that's why people buy it
In India we have dozens of small smartwatch companies like Fire Bolt, Boult Audio, Boat, Noise and all and these sell like crazy on Amazon. So nothing won't fail with the choice of CMF. I hope that if CMF helps the company like a cash cow, then nothing can reduce the cost of their own products.
All those are shit tho, they arent smartwatches, they are smart bands with big screen.
I'm wondering why it is so difficult to buy from India from Europe (live in the Netherlands). I can buy from America, China etc with ease, but direct from India is almost impossible. That's too bad, because there is a lot of cool stuff there.
Ew
Nothing is more clear then that Nothing's clarity is nothing short of clear.
I bought the cmf watch by nothing, and I must say that I love it. I spent $25 on a new band (the bright orange was all that was available at the time - too bright for me) - almost half of the cost of the watch itself. It's a slick looking watch that has all the features I really care about. There are drawbacks like no third party apps, no Apple Pay or Google Play, but really I hardly ever used those on my other Android wear watches (I don't have an Apple Watch). I use it with my iPhone 13 and get all my notifications, answering phone calls on the watch is crystal clear audio both ways, it has an always on display option, and the battery lasts for 4-5 days on a single charge. Like I said, I love it and think it's a nice looking piece of tech to wear on your wrist.
Temu says hold my boxed wine
I'm just curious why Nothing already has a spin-off brand, which seems to play into the main problem most people have with Android which is lack of focus and fragmentation. Why not just release everything under the Nothing brand?
orange nothing watch sounds amazing :0
Please buy one more mic for the other two guys
You should try the Realme buds air 5 and pro. Those are about 50-60 dollars.
You should try products that are popular from India. Value for money is key in our market. Cheap doesn't necessarily always mean bad. Even at very low prices compared to the US market.
What's the model of Casio watch David is wearing?
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I use an Amazfit GTR4 limited edition and I switched from the Apple Watch Ultra. I don't regret it one bit and love my round smartwatch that works with iOS and gets 10+ days of battery life.
imagine marquess on this podcast... and then three days from now he's all 'what's up guys. so I've had the CMF watch ultra for about two weeks now...'
Not running Wear OS is a turn off for me
what people don't realize is that there's also a world beyond these first world countries like america or england. i am from suriname where the ratio of dollar to srd (our currency) is 1 : 40. one f*cking american dollar is equal to 40 dollars (srd means surinam dollars) in my country. given that the average (monthly) salary here is $150 to $200, most people can't afford expensive earbuds (or anything for that matter), $55 is like 1/4 of my salary for instance. So yeah i'm not buying apple anything anytime soon. a working $15 wireless headphones is good enough for me. they make it seem like these products shouldn't even exist. Well i've got news, not everyone is fortunate enough to call $50 or even $100 pocket change.
Trust me, you guys are in the premium tech space.
You have no idea how crazy the competition is and how cheap lots of products are.
And what's with the 100$ apple watch strap? You guys serious?
Come for the tech news, stay for the outro.
The avg person in India goes for a smartwatch coating around 2000 to 2500 rupees. That's about 30$. That's what the Indian market is like.
See these amazefit, noise, and bout smart watches are the most selling smartwatches in India. And the next big seller is duplicate Apple Watches for 10-30 dollars. People here don’t actually care about workouts and health statistics precision. They only cares about being able to put their moms photo on their watch face and things. It’s a different market.
OK, so what I’m confused about the most is why would they call the watch & buds pro?
I'm guessing it's just because thats a fairly common search term for someone trying to buy cheap headphones or watch who doesn't know any brand names.
Guessing they want to grab a lot of former oneplus fans in India who are not happy with the Brand's direction.
That's what I'm thinking, plus the guys have to realize that the average wages in India are so much lower than here in the US, that 55 bucks can still be a lot of money for people there.
I still think galaxy watch 4 44mm at under 100$ is still better than any non wear os smart band / watch. Unless they can build an app ecosystem like bangle smart watch.
It sucks battery doesn't even last 1 day you have to charge it every day
@@Shashwat_Lakhera battery lasts 2 days for me, I have even extended ot to 3rd day with optimised settings.
Again, for the price galaxy watch doesn't have much competition, pixel, fossil, tic watch or even newly launched Xiaomi smart watch lacks sensors that galaxy watch has while being cheaper.
For full disclosure, I was using galaxy watch with a redmi device initially, and switching to a Samsung device kind of improved battery life further as Samsung phones uses Bluetooth low energy and uwb to connect to watch. Secondly recent oneui 5.1 update on watch brought much more optimization options. My watch 4 is almost a year old, I'm using rom from different region to unlock spay, and I also have lots of sideloaded apps to take advantage of the sensors, I either use it for two days in one charge during weekends, and charge for 30 minutes daily on week days, with charge levels always between 30-70.
6:50 we learned this in marketing class! Lobster restaurant example.
I used Haylou RS 4 Plus, it's got Amoled Display and 60 Hz frame rate. The best of it is the battery, it last 2 weeks. The feature Blood saturation, heart rate, and stress level. It cos $55 dollar. I love it.
Very happy with the cmf watch and especially the long battery life. Also it works with modern smartphones
Interesting how they covered mkbhd logo behind microphones
What Casio is David wearing? That thing looks sick!
I'm wondering the same thing, it's too hidden to spot what type it is :(
Someone further down said it was a AE1200. I found it to be a Modified Casio AE-1200 "Hydromod" (the polarizer is flipped to invert the LCD)
CustomWatchesWorld on Etsy looks identical, there's even a comment with a photo from someone with the username David 😂
Its from the Casio Digital Youth series. We can see it clearly at 3:50.
I think I can help with context here:
I classify these as a fitness band. A smartwatch proper, would integrate with the OS directly, no app needed (Apple Watch with iPhone, wearOS watches with androids, samsung watches with Samsung phones).
Fitness bands, on the other hand, need an app to function. A lot of those smartwatches you see on Amazon are fitness bands, with larger displays and better styling. Those things sell for between 20 to 200USD equivalent depending on the design and screen.
galaxy watches do need an extra app even on samsung phones
I've seen too many sub $60 smartwatches
They're basically fitness bands with bigger screens
First time they first mentioned the price in rupees 😅 4500 rs.
What the hell is going on at 1:26, is Marques a mind flayer or something ?
They make smartwatch, fine. I love it, they're moving to new things. BUT WHY A SQUARE WATCH?
This is the most confusing thing I've seen a new company do
Apple watch could have just cost $50, but the software and the firmware update that the company paid to hire engineers to maintain them adds to the total price of the watch!
Thank you! People forget this. You want something that's going to last 5 plus years you have to pay to play.
10:19 roasted
I am here for the tech talk, but also the outros....I mean, hilarious every time or what!!
Here , in India 4500Rs is also costlier.
If the Watch Pro feels like the successor to the Pebble, I'd be very interested in checking it out. I've been wearing Apple Watches every day for years now, and I love them, but the Pebble was my first smartwatch and still in many ways my favorite, so I'm very curious to check this out, even if I only use it as a back-up watch.
which Casio David has?
Its seems like its made for the biggest smartwatch market- India, where then market is dominated by mediocre Bluetooth calling watches, most of which are rebranded Chinese watches, and the price seems like its gonna fit. Neither too expensive, in the Indian market, like the Apple watch or from Samsung, but for the price seems like its gonna be shaka -laka-boom-boom.
i got a Huawei smart Band 6 for 30 bucks 2 years ago. Tracks Heart Rate, sleep, steps, Stress Level quite well. Battery Life for ober a week. Really Happy with that. It is even waterproof and I can wear it for swim workouts :D
Seeing this while my nothing watch on delivery.
Smart Watch which is basically smart band
With CMF sub brand, Nothing is trying to target the Indian market (Which is massively price sensitive). Considering that, it makes sense that nothing is selling it for 4500 Rupees. Additionally nothing is manufacturing/assembling their products in India which allows them to cash out on subsidies from Indian Government keeping their cost low.
Another thing to note is that 55$ is relatively cheap for American market, the same cannot be said for India. 4500 Rupees is still a mid tire product in Indian market.
Pegatron! Definitely one of the Decepticons.
In my high school football team, we used CMF as our motto. It stood for Crazy Motherf***ers. So mayyybe Nothing is trying to tell us something about how “crazy” cheap the products are 😂
2:58 Marques face so cute 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩
I have a cheap smartwatch i liked it for a bit but it took a little while for things to start breaking and stopped using it after a little over a year since the raise to show clock functionality stopped working 😢
i am using NOISE COLORFIT FORCE PLUS sporty colored amoled smartwatch
i paid around Rs. 3500 (i.e. $42) for it. i
It's good, has basic functionality, calling via bluetooth (drains the battery if used excessively) and a 3 - 4 days battery life with AOD.
I bought a 34€ smartwatch not long ago... really good one Amoled, normal sensors (heartrate, steps, blood oxygen, sleep) ... no applications though, and no GPS but it works really good with a long week battery... the Hello Watch 3
I have a smart watch from temu. Thought I'd see what they're like. I'm almost certain that it has a fake heart rate monitor on it.
i actually daily drive a $50 poco watch and it's kinda amazing (of course not as many features as an apple watch but has all i need)
Don't be surprised, India has already got some home grown brands that's catering the increasing demand for affordable wearables .
I have one these Amazon smart watch and it does the job for me. I just use it for notifications and track my running. I use to have Apple's Watch when I was using an iPhone but I never used it beyond the same basic notification and running features. I think if you don't need the extra watch features then save yourself $200.
I buy basically everything used. I got my smartwatch (the original Huawei Watch) for 30€, and it does everything I need from a smartwatch, shows time, notifications, media controls, fitness tracking, has amoled screen with AOD, runs WearOS etc.
Now the way is to wait for the video in which Carl Pei watches this video to explain everything.
CMF = Waveform Clips
Nothing = MKBHD
India has a vast market of smartwatches and that's what Carl Pei is targeting @nothing
Americans still find it hard to believe the world is bigger than America. $55 is 656 in my currency. And yes, it feels like buying a low quality Nothing watch for $656. Very pricey😂
Outtro was dope 😂
2:17 how many times do I have to say that design alone is merely arguably one of the most minor aspects of a new product?
The design of a Watch you Are probably gonna wear visibly in public is actually really important
It might just be a loose definition of smart watch. It might just be a activity tracker band disguised as a smart watch
$55 is not cheap here in India😂 its almost like a flagship for that kind of product.. and $55 smartwatch will get the same job done like those $100+ smartwatches.
About 6 or 7 years ago I bought some cheapie Android based smart watches that looked like my Samsung one. They worked well. They tracked steps the same, they did notifications the same, the UI was more button based than touch based, and it didn't look as polished for graphics but it did the job. It had a space for a SIM card, which my Samsung one it was mimicking didn't. I found that a decade or more ago with an iPad knock off. I had more functions on the knock-off than I did on the original, and I could buy like 8 knock-offs for the cost of a real iPod at the time.
forget cmf, can someone please drop any links to that guy's casio?
Providing LTE support with slightly Higher budget range would be considerable than just normal features with 55$
Amazfit is not by Amazon.
It's a band in disguise of smart watch. They have really good build quality and amoled screens however the OS is not that advance .
It can make calls , show msgs , track steps pretty accurately and that's about it.
Just a correction there, Nothing does have a charger, at least in India.
Love the new clips outro lmaoo
4:11 good reference
Can this create a buzz in the market lets wait and watch
It looks like the leaks of what the redesigned Series 7 was supposed to be
11:09 You've killed him‼️
what model casio watch is that guy wearing?
what casio watch is he wearing?
The watch at 1:56 is a modded Casio AE1200 I believe
So that’s basically a fitness teacher with a large display
CMFing phonetically said quickly could sound like somefing/something 🤷🏾♂️
I am using redmi watch 3 active and it just around 50 US DOLLAR. Its working great.
The reason they are doing this is not clear.
Presumably there's an SOC that does some basic "smartwatch" things (like give you 100 faces and 100 workouts), and the difference in price is the quality of the case and band, and how many get junked rather than going out the factory door with defects. But if it won't run Wear, will it have any apps? That is, be a real smart watch?
Can someone please tell the watch brand the guy in orange shirt is wearing it looks awesome. 0:32
Anyone know which model David's Casio is?
They found out that the average person doesn't buy Apple Watches but cheap alternatives that (claim to) do the job 🤯
I think cmf is for releasing cancelled nothing products, like the charger
3:35 textbook Temu.
What's that new Casio on David's wrist?
Better to call them as activity trackers!