Here an advertising-rendering with corrected dial size (scaled by 90%)
Just as the NWZ01 I the next day also accidentally stumbled upon the existence of this one on Aliexpress here!!
It is fairly easy to find in various places by the model name “DW01-SC“, or just “DW01”. I think the manufacturer is “Kushang“, based on some FCC documents here, stamped as new as 2024-04-09.
Got it in the mail 2024-05-31, and have adjusted this in between, last was the stamina 2024-06-20.
Here an ad video taken from here, with a real version of the corrected faked image above, in a rather coarse resolution
And a few ad rendering pages
At first it looks VERY close to the T8 Pro, but there are a few differences.
- The 41.6mm diameter place it right between the 40mm of the T8 Mini, and the 43mm of the other versions of T8.
- 6.8mm outside protrusion 7.5mm at the protrusion So it is even thinner, than both the T8 and NZW01.
- The back has a larger protrusion 22mm vs 19mm, yet the slanted part seems between the T8pro, and the original T8. Close to the T8 Mini.
- The length is slightly less than the T8, 47.7mm.
- The display is 1.32″, and the glass disc 39.3mm, so the bezels is 4mm wide, so slightly below 2.9mm bezel-ring under the glass.
- One of the mics is placed next to the crown, seems smarter at first but also less protected.
- The speaker grill is different.
- The arms are slightly longer, Somewhere between the original T82022 and the later versions of T8. (expected for same 20mm std band and narrower case).
- Weighs 24.95g excluding band, (and 64.49g with metal Milanese band)
- The timer uses neither the vibrator nor the speaker. Display only????
- At first glance the same features as the T8 Pro (well except ‘Stress monitoring’), and comes with a major version newer version of the firmware MOY.FJv3-3.4.4
The display is a ø466pixels ø1.32″ amoled just like the T8pro. The battery (from FCC photos) is 3.8V 185mAh, like the T8
Found a fumbling unboxing video from some seller here.
I found a users guide from Kushang here.
Battery
After wearing it for over three days, and playing a bit, it was down to 90%, so started like a much better stamina than the new T8 Trio, but ended on 2½ weeks though, so clearly better but far from the 6 weeks of the original T8.
Charges pulling about 80mA when roughly 90% filled. So I expect a full charge to 185mAh to take about 2 hours, depending on efficiency and how much it reduces the charging current near the end. The charging icon on the display only shows a constant half filled image during charging, konstant icon in the app too, so not much help here…
When I remove the plug it displays the percentage in the app.
The current is down at 50mA at 90% and slowly declining at 99%. And when displaying “Fully charged”, it keeps pulling a diminutive charge going down to 1mA (the meter I used, does no go finer)
When charging from empty, it after a few minutes stabilizes at a charging current of 78mA, so expect that to be the same until beyond the 90% mark.
Version 3.4.4 has an odd bug. When the charge goes below 59% (reached after 10½ days), it is stuck at displaying 59%… Restarting or Power off/on of the app/phone/watch does not change anything. But attaching to power for a few seconds (pulling 78mA) and it displays the (assumably) more correct 53% here after 11.8 days.
The same bug reappeared at 52%
The orange line here (click to enlarge)
So we ended up at pretty exactly 2½ weeks (less 90 minutes) stamina on the DW01. Quite nice. (Note how the T8-Mini plummets from 50% to 0% in roughly two days with an earlier version of the same crappy MOY software, and we see the similar on the DW01, after the odd falsely flat parts, dropping from 47% to 0% in 2½ day)
Size compares
Here a few images of left to right
TN88, MT55, T8pro, T82024, DW01 and T8mini
and stacked (less the TN88)
They are a little hard to stack as the protrusion is fairly small, and not 100% flat, so limited contact surface, so they easily move between I stack them aligned and get to take the photo…. The DW01 is strictly 7.45mm at most of the protrusion, but 7.50mm at the two charging points.
Know bugs
The MOY software can not show a reasonably continuous battery percentage. It has bloated values, and ‘collapses’ quickly when below 50%. (The T8 Trio with earlier version of the software has the same bug)
Also note the two falsely flat segments of the discharge graph (see above)
Version 3.4.4 has a really annoying bug. Sometimes it overnight resets two settings while I’m asleep.
- Forces Raise to wake On
- Forces Continuous Heart Rate monitoring Off
I do not know if it forces other settings, to values I have set already.
It is most likely not a bug in the crappy DaFit (=Tha’ Shit) app, as other watches plagued with the same app, does not experience the same, so must be a bug in the MOY software.
Conclusion
I have not got a real conclusion yet, but it feels like it is better than the new T8 trio, but in some aspects is better and in others worse than the original T8.
That it function-wise matches the T8 Pro with less bezels. and the case size being right between the T8 Pro and T8 Mini talks in its favour. As does that it is even thinner, though slightly.