At the CES 2015 floor in Las Vegas, a Chinese company was showing off an Apple Watch knockoff that it was selling for only $27.
The company behind this Apple Watch knockoff is based in Shenzhen,
China and is known as Hyperdon. Apparently, the company sells its
product stores through retail stores in the United States and China, as
told by its representative to Mashable.
The company calls its watch the “Smart Watch” with the representative
claiming that it has a battery life of “more than 180 hours.” At first
glance, it is almost impossible to distinguish this “Smart Watch” with
Apple Watch. Turn on the screen and you will be greeted by icons that
are a blatant rip-off from Apple Watch.
For a knockoff, the watch packs in some impressive technology,
including a pedometer, stopwatch, alarm, a vibration motor and motor.
The Mashable reporter who purchased the watch was able to pair it with
her iPhone after a few tries and was then successfully able to make
phone calls and play music through it. Apparently, the watch also has an
option to display notifications from certain apps including WeChat, but
requires the installation of a shady looking APK.
A testimony to the company’s shady practices is the fact that the
representative told the Mashable reporter that the price of the watch
was $30, and not the $27 she quoted earlier, after she returned from an
ATM with the money.
[Via
Mashable]