Cogito Classic Smartwatch - initial review

Cogito Classic smart watch - initial review

 So am out in Taiwan for Computex and came across this in a whole range of colours - the Cogito smartwatch - It's one fo the first smartwatches I've handled in real life, that doesn't look like a smartwatch, which is a good thing.
So first impressions (i've only had the watch for 3 days) - it looks good, and the strap is rubbery (silicon actually). Thought I've noticed it smells of burnt rubber - odd. Of the the things that attracted me to the watch was the overall looks and the fact it's water resistant to 100m (10ATM), so I can swim and snorkel with it, unlike most other watches.

Cogito Classic compared to my Omega Planet Ocean Chrono

So what do you get in the box? the standard affair of manual and watch - nothing else, and to be honest you don't need anything else.

Specifications

Out of the box I have
Software revision: 2.00.0044
Hardware revision: 2.00.0000
Firmware revision: 1.03.0002

Pairing

First what you have to do is pair it. I have a HTC One, and whatever you don't pair it using the built in android system - it won't allow the App to detect the watch.
Download the app from the Appstore (cogito watch, connected devices), and pair it with that.

Allow the app and the service to accept notifications (it will do that from the app) or it will never be able to send notifications to the watch.

Once paired, it will have listed the watch as both 'Connected' and 'Paired'. If you do it with just the android system, it will list it as 'paired' but it never connects.

It will also auto set the time

The phone App

Ok, so the app for android is pretty simple.
The first page lists all the notifications, and you can filter it with the buttons on the left hand side.

Android App home screen

Under watch settings, I've found that music controls do not work with google music :(

Annoyances

• If the caller ID is longer than (I think 10 characters), it will not display the caller name.

• If multiple notifications appear (e.g. phone, mail, social), it will display only the total of all notifications. You cannot select the notification and find out how many there are of a certain type, with the left/right button
• Cannot individually select a notification and acknowledge that.

• The App should auto clear all notifications above 100. What happens if you receive over 10,000 notifications? Will the app crash?
• Cannot set date on watch to DD/MM (default set to MM/DD)

Issues

So this has only happened once to me, where the watch crashes, and it only displays the last notification. I wasn't so sure if it was the app on my phone crashed or what? Doing a soft reset (pressing the four buttons all at once with 3 seconds), didn't resolve it, so I had to open the back and pull the main cr2032 battery out, and short some pins, then re-pair it.

Not a great start.

The customer support email address from within the app gave me SMTP 550 error - the recipient does not exist! W T F!

Also contacting them on twitter has yielded no response either (so far 2 days).