so i'm on a bit of a mission to find a budget smartwatch in 2021 that's actually good and well i
think i might have actually found one today we're going to be reviewing and unboxing the cubot c5
smartwatch let's check it out and see if it's still worth buying stay tuned guys welcome back
to tech it easy so another budget smartwatch on the review table today but this time i'm actually
fairly excited about it no it's not running on wear os or anything fancy like that but the ui
for the price has actually kind of impressed me but more on that later on in the video let's unbox
this thing and see how it comes side note i didn't pick the color i promise cubot actually sent this
out to me so thank you very much for that so the box straight away better experience than say the
umidigi smartwatch we unboxed and reviewed last week it feels a little bit more exciting and just
presented better now inside the box you do have the watch itself with a pink strap on this version
but you also get a spare strap in a different color how good is that almost feels like an
apple watch unboxing okay maybe not but it's still pretty good the charger in this case is
a magnetic one which is brilliant in my opinion i would accept anything that's not one of those
horrible clip-on plastic ones i complain about in almost all my videos so apart from a manual hiding
behind everything that's pretty much all you get in the box i believe it does come in a black
version too so don't worry you're not stuck with the pink version although i do think that i wear
it pretty well so let's address the elephant in the room yes it does look remarkably like an apple
watch but really it's completely different for example the dial on the side doesn't actually do
anything when you rotate it however it does double as a physical button so you can actually turn it
on and off step back and go to the menu section something that i've said many times is something
that we really need on fitness trackers and smart watches i think it just gives an all-round better
experience and it means you don't have to plug it in to turn it on now from turning on i actually
had another pleasant surprise and that was the screen brightness a lot brighter than other
budget smart watches and fitness trackers i've tested and probably even brighter than some of
the flagship ones i've tested this is really important on a fitness tracker or smart watch
as a lot of us will be exercising outside so it's important that you can see it in direct sunlight
now for the ui no it's not an apple watch and it's certainly not a galaxy watch it's definitely
a budget smartwatch ui but it's not all that terrible when swiping through you get quite a nice
snappy response still feels like you're swiping through a powerpoint presentation but a fast one
of that you also have some nice animations on the steps heart rate and sleep tracking pages
which brings a bit of fun and life to the smartwatch also going back to the display is
actually fairly vibrant which is complemented by those fun animations and the bold colors used on
the sleep tracking and other screens i also found the icons to be nice and bold text is easy to read
really not too bad so far not too bad at all now let's just talk about the menu quickly so to get
to the menu you can tap that button on the side and it looks great but i really just want to turn
that dial it's even textured and it just feels like it is meant to be twisted so maybe for the
next version cubot could maybe make this something that actually works i think it would really add to
the whole user experience but then again i don't know if this can be done on a tighter budget but
anyway the menu here you have shortcuts to things like stopwatch workouts your heart rate and sleep
again messages find my phone and a few other bits it's a simple layout but i don't really mind
this it's easy to navigate and that's the most important part so yeah in general the cubot c5
smartwatch has a really nice look and feel to it especially for its budget price so let's see how
it does on paper and take a look at the specs so we of course have that 1.7 inch color touchscreen
display we talked about earlier in the video up to 15 days of battery life which is pretty good
i definitely think you could push the watch to that 15 days but you'd have to keep the screen
brightness down i don't think mine's quite gonna reach the 15 days stated but i have
been messing around with it a lot and doing some heavy testing so do bear that in mind
next we have 24 7 continuous heart rate monitoring again another brilliant feature to have then we
have 10 sports modes which isn't great to be honest we've seen a lot of other fitness
trackers and smart watches come with many many more than that for example the upcoming oneplus
smartwatch which should be released this week actually that has well over 100. on the flip side
of that all these modes really do is tailor the tracking to whichever workout you're doing really
they all track the same things like your heart rate steps if necessary and other bits like that
so for a lot of people it won't be a huge drawback so we also have the ability to get call and text
notifications but do bear in mind you can't reply to the texts or use the watch to take a call and
i wouldn't really expect it to at this price point to be honest i mean that would be asking a lot as
i talked about earlier we do have features such as find my phone a shutter controller
for your phone's camera music controller then finally we have 5 atm waterproofing so you can
actually take this swimming with you if you're that way inclined all in all i'm not too shabby
for a device that's going for just over 30 pounds in the uk originally it was going for 60 pounds
which even at that price point i wouldn't say it's a particularly bad deal however if i was going to
price this watch i'd actually put it somewhere between the middle i definitely think if this
was going for around 45 pounds it'd definitely still be worth it so we can't let the cubot c5
get away without doing a heart rate accuracy test so if you haven't watched one of my videos before
what we use is the o2 ring that the guys at well you sent out to me so what this will actually do
is communicate with my phone and you'll see at the top is your spo2 and the bottom is your heart rate
now something i did neglect to mention is that this doesn't actually have spo2 monitoring on it
which does put it behind a lot of its competitors but for a lot of people heart rate will just do
fine so first time around it came out pretty spot on but the bar on my o2 ring was showing up as red
which means the connection wasn't too great so i ran it through again and again it was almost spot
on occasionally it was one or two beats out but absolutely nothing to worry about this is pretty
much in line with flagship smart watches like the apple watch and the galaxy watch 3. so big
green tick for me on heart rate accuracy so there you have it that was the cubot c5 smartwatch as
always let me know in the comment section what you thought of the cubot c5 as i've said many
times throughout the video i'm actually pretty impressed with it i think they've done a great job
it is tough to find a decent budget smart watch especially when you've got fitness trackers as
usually we kind of see fitness trackers as budget smart watches anyway it's been an absolute delight
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