Dan Sung: Lemfo U8 Review

Dan Sung: Lemfo U8 -

This watch has no name other than Smart Watch but when I tried to pair it, it went under the handle of U8, so let's stick with that.
There are problems from the off with the badly translated instructions on how to pair it with a couple of QR codes that ended in landing sites written in heavy Chinese. Not even Google Translate could get through it. Sentences in the manual such as "can also be installed via smartphone 'Searching' Bluetooth notice application and download and install the application treasure" did not help much either.
When we did a search of Bluetooth notice apps, there were 10s, none of which actually did the trick. The end result was that U8 never connected to our phone. If it had connected, the promise was emails, SMS, phone dialling and mobile camera control.
The rest of the U8 is actually quite pleasing, if totally budget and occasionally unintentionally funny. The strap is soft and comfortable, the touchscreen is responsive and bright enough even if the viewing angle needs to be rather specific. We never really got the little flap for the Micro USB charging port on the side to close, though.
App-wise, there's a tidy little calculator, a pedometer (which didn't work), and a sleep monitor which claimed to be able to detect the difference between light and deep sleep. It definitely couldn't but it's helpful comments like "Sleep too little!" will be missed.
The U8 ended up coming off like one of those Doro phones for old people; only one that would have convinced them that, as they suspected, new technology is everything that's wrong with the world. In this case, they'd be right.
Don't buy a U8. Even if it is the cheapest option on test by quite some margin.