Cherry Mobile G1 Review (Part 3)

Hi, 2nd to the last installment here. The last should contain real world use of the watchphone and conclusions.Now aside from being a watch and phone, you can use your watch phone as an impromptu flashdisk IF you have a long terminal micro usb cable. The charging port is recessed so normal length plugs will not work. Luckily I have one that fits just right.

Just below is my long micro usb cable plug

Connecting to a pc will show 3 options. Charging (only), mass storage (charging and flash disk mode) and com port (for using the phone as a modem (gprs? Can you say the equivalent of dial up?)

At least it gives us options

Charging by pc is faster as the supplied adaptor is rated at 400 mA. So it'll be pretty quick using a power bank for those low to dead batt moments.

Music on the phone is alright. Good enough to put you to sleep in a quiet room.

Some cons and annoyances: it has a radio app and its displayed on the box but you wont be able to use it since it will ask for a headset (as an antenna I suppose) so its pretty useless. Another is that when the screen times out to the standby (time, date and sim info) there is no way to get back to the phone menu until you close the phone and slide it open again. Considering the pad is small. You may need time to enter info. In connection to this. There is a display option for what happens when you close the phone. The default is it closes the current activity (bye bye whatever you were doing) and another is to contine. One more thing, if you turn off the phone and take out the battery, time and date resets. So there is no battery back up in there and if your phone dies from low power and isnt connected to a power source it will likely reset ss well. As I earlier mentioned, the manual is useless, so you're stuck guessing what each button does.

On the right side from top to bottom is the camera, the volume rocker and the start switch. This wakes the watch when the display is off (to conserve power.) On the right is the micro usb port covered by a rubber cap and the microphone hole.

The bluetooth headset turns on with a long press. When on and with another long press, you'll activate its pairing mode to pair it with your phone (also works with other phones.) Pressing the button on the headset when on and idle will call the last number.  Pressing it while someone is calling will answer the call.

For now. I'd rate the phone as usable with its semi rugged non water resistant build (beware sweat as the rear cover is NOT sealed with any proofing), mostly for calls and not so much for text or music. Even less for imaging as I think it was mostly placed there as a gimmick.  It will suffice as a flash disk but is limited to only 8 gig. (I may try a larger capacity if I can get my hands on one.) I'll update the review with part 4 after a few days of testing as I'll be using it everyday.

In case you missed it, part 1 is HERE and part is is over HERE.

Thank you for reading :)