Works but barely
The watch (Move SE) fulfills its purpose: we can see where our daughter is, and get in touch if necessary. It mostly works fine. Unfortuantely, the impression is spoiled by quite a few issues. The biggest two first: (1) The only physical button is so implemented, that when the wrist is bent, the button is pressed unintentionally, and we receive at least a couple SOS calls per week. That defeats the purpose, because by now we stopped calling our daughter back to check if she's fine. (2) A few times, we were in the situation that we needed to call our daughter and were getting "cannot call right now" or similar error. Imagine you allowed your daughter to go for a walk alone, knowing she has this watch, and then you cannot reach her! Smaller ones: Only Latin letters are supported for messaging (seriously, in 2023?) A message can only be some 30 characters long. A voice message can only be some 10 seconds long. And the kid can only read the last message on her watch, there is no way to scroll them. It still seems to be the best option in market today, but the user experience is really subpar.
1 January 2024
Unprompted review