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smartwatches are in their infancy and every platform has its works now the biggest challenge that these companies currently face is being able to give you a SmartWatch that lasts for days or even months charging these can also be a challenges not all mechanisms are either practical or durable Hong kong-based cachito is one of the few companies with a solution to that problem but you bet there's a catch I'm hi I'm Eddie Vetter with PocketNow here with a quick review of the ejido classic even though kazuto's offerings have been around for a couple of years and even some winning CES Innovation Awards in 2014 it wasn't until we flew to Barcelona that I had a chance to give its products a try for me the idea of having a SmartWatch that I wouldn't have to recharge was cool enough and after testing it for a few days these are our impressions for starters let's be clear Vegeta was really focused on designing of watch first SmartWatch second if you're still debating if you need a SmartWatch this is probably a good way to start a disclaimer is important though it would be more fair to compare the cachito with a fossil regular watch or a Marcin notifier than with the Moto 360 for example this particular stainless steel model that I had a chance to review is gorgeous from the dark packaging to casinos acclamation of this product being a work of French designer Xavier hoy it's clear that cachito was focused on selling you a timepiece that's not necessarily a gadget I'm particularly in love with this watch band which is by far one of the most elegant that I've used in years and those properties extend to the polished bezel and multiple buttons this watch works differently to every other watch and to every other SmartWatch as well you can fully submerge the cachito classic up to 100 meters deep in water like you can with most watches for example but things dramatically change once you look further within the bezel you'll find the liquid crystal display that resembles the old dot-matrix Nokia feature phones of back in the day and this display actually lights something blue when you press the buttons like you did with the old Motorola phones as well it gives you indications for your current time and date and this switches to a small notification panel that compliments the small icons at the bottom the watch's hands work like a regular watch where you can control these with the center knob and this module has a separate battery that lasts for years the SmartWatch features like Bluetooth connectivity notifications and vibrations are powered by a cr2032 battery that can last up to 6 to 9 months without recharging depending on your usage once the battery is depleted simply open the hatch with a coin and replace the battery yourself the SmartWatch molecule uses Bluetooth Low Energy to connect to any iPhone running iOS 7 or higher or any Android 4.3 device or higher from here it'll send you notifications through the connected device application to your watch and depending on what notifications these are you'll either get just icons or a number and an icon or sometimes some minor text on the panel the buttons at the bottom serve to flip pages on the display one at the tops turns on the SmartWatch module or off and the other surfs to dismiss notifications or pair the watch but Gugino classic gives you a small beep like alarms on an old Casio watch when you get notifications but you can also have the watch vibrate if you want or serve both as well the watch will also alert you when you've moved away from the phone by default and the application can even help you find your phone by long pressing a user-defined button so long as the watch is connected obviously now the experience of using the cachito classic as a SmartWatch is sadly not what I'd call positive first of all the point of using a SmartWatch for notifications is being able to act on the ones you care about it ignores the ones you don't sadly here all notifications will buzz your wrist regardless of what they are and this even applies to whatsapp notifications that you purposely mute it and you sadly can't tell what these notifications are unless you pull out your phone the app is also extremely archaic for both iOS and Android wear your options are fairly limited it does include its own fitness tracker for example but it doesn't sync with any service like google fit or Apple's iOS health services and have you enable it the battery drains much faster and things like vibrations and notifications are disabled you also get music controls you can even remotely take photographs using the application but again in a very archaic way this could be either good or bad for most of you I do value the idea that I could turn off the SmartWatch module and just use it as a regular elegant watch on my wrist I also value that I don't have to worry about charging it every single night or every couple of days at a time when public etiquette is being threatened by rude people constantly looking at their SmartWatch this is definitely a good solution for a lot of people as well this is a very elegant watch in every way but at $299 for this stainless steel unit it just has to be the problem is that once you match it against the Moto 360 that is just as elegant and far more useful things start feeling like if it's a little too late for the cachito to exist your priority should define what the best route to take is and again this is a really good way to start if you just want to try out a SmartWatch but then again not if you want to use this and complement with other watches that are already in the market as well I sadly can't say that I use the cachito Classic as my daily driver mainly because of the other watches that I own but I know that in your case things might be a lot different that depends on you for more coverage of every single SmartWatch that the world has to offer make sure you follow us on social media subscribe to our YouTube channel as well you can follow 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