H06, ø41mm, 6.9 or 7.3mm thin, 1.32″ smart watch. Review

Found yet another thin cheap Chinese watch, close to the DW01, But better….

Corrected version of ad-rendering after scaling display back by 87%

High value for small money…., has become my new daily driver!
It exists in both a 6.9 and 7.3mm version, with different top glass. (and a wider variant too)

Real life with a Titanium band added:

It is close to the DW01 in dimensions, with slightly lesser bezels, and what seems like better software

ADD: Note that the same watch also exists in a much wider (ø51.4mm, 1.75″ display) variant with for large arms. I added a post for that here.

The original ad image that I corrected the display on in the initial image

And how the same looks in reality (and with a face more my style):

I found this video

It exists in two variants, a flat top version, and one with slightly curved top glass edge, that is 0.4mm thicker. I got the latter.

Here som quick facts

• It is ø41.0mm, and 46.5mm long including arms. 🙂
• System Info: Name H06 (see later on other names…) , Software version AT365SBV000099
• 7.3mm thick outside the protrusion 9.1mm at the cone protrusion (ø14mm at the skin end, ø21mm at the base). The flat part of the base is ø35mm slanted towards the ø41mm, being 5,0 mm thick at the edge. (well the top edge is also slanted roughly 1×1.5 mm, so strictly 3.5mm at the outer edge)
• The weight less band is about 17.0g. Aluminium.
• 1.32″ display, 3.7mm bezel-ring, så 67% screen coverage.
• Standard 20mm pin band
• At 0-60% charging with 0.2A. 99% after 75min.
• Mic and speaker for calls via BT though phone.
• Seems to do heart rate and sleep well.

Here a plot of profiles compared to some of the other thin ones. It is the green one (click to enlarge).

Here the bezels and coverage ratios compared to the other thin ones i tested.

	H06	DA09	GX03	T8classic	T82024/T8Pro	T8mini	DW01	MT55/MT56	TN88
Screen coverage	67%	71%	75%	59%	61%	57%	65%	62%	61%
Bezels	3.7mm	3.4mm	3.5mm	5.0mm	4.7mm	4.9mm	4.0mm	4.9mm	5.1mm
Bezel under glass	2.5mm	2.8mm	~2.5mm	3.4mm	3.3mm	3.4mm	2.9mm	3.0mm	3.0mm
Display diameter	1.32″	1.43″	1.75″	1.3mm	1.32″	1.19″	1.32″	1.43″	1.43″
Case diameter	41.0mm	43.1mm	51.4mm	43.0mm	43.0mm	40.0mm	41.6mm	46.2mm	46.5mm
Case length	46.5mm	48.8mm	60.0mm	48.2mm	48.2mm	46.0mm	47.7mm	52.2mm	53.0mm

 

The band arms look better than the renderings indicate. They are NOT just straight arms like e.g. the DW01 and T8s are using, but more integrated with the case closer to a real watch (Though not as integrated as e.g. the DA09, or the MT55 looking like a real watch case). Note that they are also slanted at the ends.

 

On this alibaba listing from “ShanZeng Vanssa” they call it “H06” it looks somewhat like a manufacturer, BUT could be a wholesaler, as they do wholesale also…
Though this from Global Sources could confirm it as manufacturer.
On this page (that takes loooong to load) it says “Release Date：2024-10-12“, so if it they are the manufacturer, it could be really fresh!!

Aoke-elec claims it as AIPKER GX2 here, and that is especially interesting as they also got a much wider (51.4mm!!) variant they call AIPKER GX03 here. that does not seem to be part of the VANSSA sortiment, though it is clearly a sibling! But the material seems less at Aoke, so most likely they are BOTH wholesalers from the actual manufacturer.
For completeness, I added it here, though I can not imagine ever wearing it.

Found it as H06 on AliExpress here.

But has not been able to find an fcc.report so that suggest that they are not the actual manufacturer… (And the real name is different)

Here copy of spec sheet from the global source link

(and here as a pdf, almost the same)

Note that it seem to exist in two variants, with a flat top, or slightly curved edges top, 0.4mm thicker. (As well as the two colour variants)

A listing here says the G-sensor is “STK8321”.

 

I’m far from sure I have found the manufacturer nor the real name.

The first two I found and bought was named “KM88” from here is almost certainly from a wholesaler rebranding the devices and not the actual manufacturer.  (Software version AT365SAV000098, it is not offering an upgrade, despite the version number for the H06 i bought slightly later seems higher AT365SBV000099)

They got other watches with similar naming. and Karen M matches “KM” in the names, the video about themselves, does not show any production, and they talk about rebranding to the customers wishes on their site…..

Another wholesaler (TKYuan) is calling it “TKY-X2” here. And here one selling it as “LP77”, And Valdus call it X2 here….

A rather unsharp video (sorry) of a cute default watch face, that are somewhat interactive, they got a handful of different colour combinations.

They does not cycle through, when pressing, semi random what you get. What side you press determines the direction it goes from sitting still.

 

Usage **WITHOUT** the app

This watch can be used completely without the app, and that is rare! Though it is a bit hard to initiate without the app, it is possible with some fiddling with the button (I’m not 100% sure of what it takes, but done it trice after a reset on a test unit, after selecting language you need some combination of long and short presses and waiting certain periods between presses, to bypass the state where it request you to connect it with the app…).

Unlike many others it allows you to set the date and time, if you want to use it completely without the app.

Using it slightly over a week disconnected from the app did not drift noticeably (some of the other cheap one do), but could have drifted some seconds – forgot to check.

It is certainly the easiest to initiate it with the app. Without the app you can not download alternative watch faces either.

On the watch only it is quite limited what history you can see, so alone it is best for a ‘now’ image. You can see a ‘today’ image of the states, but the granularity you see is low, with measure points grouped to hours. So if used without the app, I would not select the measure frequencies of monitoring too high, I mean quarterly or even hourly might do just as fine for many purposes.

 

App and firmware

It feels like a substantially more polished firmware on the smart watch than the MOY one used by many of the other 2024 devices. (Da09, DW01, T8Mini, T8Pro…)

The watch can hold 7 days of data, so if you want to collect data in the app for graphs, it needs to be connected (at the least) weekly.

The UI seems much more appealing. Starting by allowing the user to select among several different AOD watch-faces, and with a fairly large number of normal watch-faces, where you can have a four at the time on the watch. (I’m not sure if it is a fixed number or depends on the complexity of the selected faces).

Currently 130 normal watch-faces (Add now 230, collage below)

Here the now 230, shrunken to 25%:

Unfortunately none of the dials currently offered are right down my alley. ADD a LOT more added, also my style. I prefer a discrete face that at the least towards the bezels are completely black. And with hands not digits, and the nice discrete ones for AOD, oddly can not be selected as the main dial.

It got the nice feature that many others lacks, that it requires you to confirm on the watch, if a new phones tries to connect to the device.
And this is great. BUT they have taken the security a bit far here, as they require a factory reset even if you are connecting with a new phone, logged into the app with the same account. So on changing to a new phone, you should remember to collect data on the old first!

Note that the GloriFit Pro app does not work on Android 9.0 (repeatedly crashes after binding), but do work on 11.0 though it claims to work from 5.0 and up, well it does not!. It do work on LineageOS 21.0 also. It is really hard not to read the name as a short form of GlorifiedShit, but apart from the compatibility issues it really is not that bad. I do not know who steals from whom here, but more or less the same as DaFit and others in many aspects, so at the least they have inspired each other….
(They just updated GloryFitPro to 1.42, with “stability improvements” – but it still crashes on Android 9.0)

In the app I can select e.g HR monitoring on/off, but on the watch I can both choose the base frequency of 5/10/30/60 min PLUS a nifty feature that can be turned on, where it increases this, if it detects that you’re active. These settings are totally inaccessible from the app (turning it on defaults to 10min).
Similar for SpO2 where the frequency of 5/10/30/60 min is only available directly on the watch.
There are other features that can be controlled on the watch only, and though it can seem a bit silly, I guess this is a consequence of them using a fairly generic app.

The alarms set is always with sound and vibration (no option for vibration only). You can snooze an alarm for 10 minutes. If you ignore an alarm for one minute it automatically snoozes it. You can adjust the volume in 15 levels and thus turn the volume level down to a rather low level, though strangely not completely off.

Count-down timers can be set anywhere between 1 sec and 23:59:59, it fires with vibration only. When it fires you can select to stop, or to restart the timer. The later is useful if you need a repeated timer, say every two hour.

They offer a six-digit pin protection, nice with an option, but would have made more sense with some pattern-unlock on a small screen, I mean for my fingers the whole watch is two fingers wide, so easy to mistype.

The sleep-monitoring works with a 1 min granularity. And seems to do a fair job compared to many of the other cheap ones.

 

Notifications, text

Tried to turn on notifications, that I normally do not use, and inspired by a post on Reddit, tested if it handles emoticons when sending SMS, and it does NOT!

 

Accuracy

At heart rate it seems to to a fine job, similar to the T8_classic, and better than the T8_pro, T8_mini, DW01, DA09 and MT55 generally.

Here zoomed in and scaled (with some interior cropped also) compares of two screendumps from Saturday.

Note that the details are not always the same, but though both measure each five minutes, these series are not simultaneous, so can be correct.
Also note that the GloriFitPro confusingly smooth over the graph, where the QwatchPro leaves a hole when the watches were taken off between 9:25 and 9:44.

On sleep it seems to do better than all the above! It is quite good to detect if I doze off in a chair in the evening on one hand, but NOT counting as asleep when I’m sitting quietly other nights. Many watches struggles with that, and it does a surprisingly good job at this, no matter if it is 23 or 03 when I go to bed. It even catches some short awakes. It is not perfect, but I have a feeling that it is the most accurate I’ve tested the last two years.

Here sleep from Saturday night, where the H06 gets it pretty spot on when I go to bed with “1:52”, but the T8_classic got the going to sleep utterly wrong “18:05” with several awakes until the real bedtime…

The analyse in rem, light and deep seems likely too, but hard to tell for sure, so would not trust that too much.

And here an example where I dozed off for half an hour or so

It does not claim to do neither Blood Pressure nor Blood Glucose, and as so many of the others get something that is clearly wrong for those, I really want to praise them for not giving us fake data here as others do!!

It offers mood and stress also. I’m not a person plagued by stress, and it reflects that nicely. A single higher reading in both one day, is likely to reflect reality.

Neither the app nor the watch offers any setting to inform it on skin colour or tattoos. It does ask about gender, age, height and weight though. They MIGHT use that to estimate the amount of fat on the arm, but I doubt it.

 

Button

The push button is made almost flush with the case, and though discrete and garment friendly, I’m so conservative (Read: old), that I would have preferred a (fake) crown like the other thin one uses, making it look more like a traditional watch. But I do admit that that this one is more practical. The DA09, that has a proper rotating crown, aren’t really using it for anything sensible in their UI anyway…

 

Band and arms

They have squeezed the length to 46.5mm to make it more suitable for narrow arms. The flipside of that is that you need to tinker a tiny bit to do the trick I usually do with a Milanese loop band, skipping the adapter and wrapping directly. The gap between the pin and the case is (unmodified) 1.3mm, and needs to be 1.6mm, so easy to fix playing a bit with a file..

(You can see the edge closest is no longer ‘sharp’ but blunted)

The purpose is to get the left rather than the right here:

(Yes the image could have been sharper, but I hope you can see the difference…)

It reduced the weight of the case ever so slightly from 17.00 to 16.98g and more important I got rid of the 2.44g adapter. 😉

You can in no way see the tinker with a band mounted, so I did it with the ‘gold’ also, though this exposes a few mm² of the aluminium.

The sharp eyed reader might have spotted that I took a bit of the sides of the arms too, as the band I used was 20.4 mm wide

 

Battery and Stamina

I tested with all monitoring on, set at 5min where possible, and AOD turned ON, after 12h it had gone from 100% to 70%. It had a strange dive after one day but then flattened and reached almost two days (less an hour). Green curve here (click to enlarge)

It kept monitoring at the same 5min rate, and the AOD stayed on, so I’m not sure what happened at 20% It did give a warning at 20% and suggested to enter power-safe mode, but I rejected that. It might have reduced the brightness of the AOD, I’m not sure.

Recharging from 0% reached 60% after just 45min at 0.2A, After 50 minutes 70% is reached, and the current reduced to 0.15A. After an hour 85% at 0.07A. 99% after 75 minutes pulling 0.03A. And down below 0.01A and at 100% after 90 minutes.

I tested the stamina with AOD turned OFF, and all monitoring ON at max frequency. After 7 days it was down to 25%, neither impressive nor horrible considering the high frequency pulls. It dropped really quickly in this end from 43% to 25% in just 24hours, but the curve then surprisingly flattened slightly so 6% after eleven days…. So 12 days, or 1.7 weeks with all at maximum frequency.

See the green curve below. Note the same strange flattening after 20% that I also found above with AOD on

 

I then started a stamina test with moderate probing: Heart rate every 5min, but with automatic finer detail during activity enabled. Also sleep tracking enabled and SpO2 enabled, but only hourly. Stress and mood monitoring disabled. This is more like what I had had on other watches, except the nifty automatic turned on. As hoped the maroon curve is substantially right of the green one, and it ends slightly beyond 2.7 weeks… Strictly there were a few hours left, but….
A new run (yellow) is slightly better, and reached the three weeks mark, less a few hours.

Note that something odd happened the night after 2024-11-26, where it drained rather fast. The app was stuck, and I needed to brutally kill it to restart it, and things has looked better since, but this means the stamina in this run most likely lost at the least a day.
(It is the only lock up I have seen in the app though. I can not say anything sensible on why it hung)

Here the two first inserted (entry-points thinned) in a larger context with other thin ones (click to enlarge)

 

Workouts

It offers over 150 different workout modes, and you can put those you use in a list relevant for you. I have NO idea how good or bad these modes are at handling the actual activity, and are highly unlikely to test them being lazy….

 

Conclusion

After using it for two months I’m still really positive, especially after they added som better discrete watch-faces. Though it is not the thinnest it have other benefits. For one thing I believe it is less inaccurate than the many MOY-firmware ones with JL7013-chips.

Currently I’m using it as my new daily driver replacing the faithful and beloved T8_classic, that I have used since late 2022. (swapped the T8 unit a few times for scratches though)

Note also that this is one of the rather rare smartwatches that can be used completely without an app, not even strictly needed for initialisation!

I will currently rate it (considering the thinness and price) to
8-9/10