Pebble Engage Cosmos is a brazen imitation of the Apple Watch Ultra that only costs $50. It looks and feels amazing, but as they say, beauty is only skin deep.
I test many tech products, explore them from weird angles, and write about them for a living. It’s a privilege, but every now and then, things get boring, and you start wishing for something that breaks the mold of being extraordinary. That’s when I discovered the Pebble Cosmos Engage, an Apple Watch Ultra lookalike that fares a little too well at being a copycat. It looks like an Apple Watch Ultra, acts like an Apple Watch Ultra, and only costs around $50.
In fact, the build quality is terrific. There are no gaps alongside the frame edges, the surface finish is well done, the buttons — especially the rotating Digital Crown — offer nice tactile feedback, and the silicone strap is tidy as well. But if you look closely, there are a few differences. Instead of four screws in each corner that you see on the Apple Watch Ultra, the Pebble Cosmos Engage deviates with cute floral stars surrounded by three concentric rings.
A handful of good surprises I was also pleasantly startled by the screen. It’s a 1.95-inch panel with a resolution of 380 x 385 pixels. It’s not the most pixel-dense panel I’ve seen on a smartwatch, and definitely nowhere close to what Apple serves. The display offers a peak brightness of 600 nits, which was enough to display the on-screen contents even under broad daylight without any legibility issues.
But don’t read too much into that accuracy. Even when the watch was lying idle on the table, both the app and the watch face were showing 85bpm as my heart rate, and it kept changing, too.Notably, the smartwatch lists a feature called “blood pressure monitoring” and has a dedicated app for it. It’s funny to see, especially since Apple and Samsung haven’t figured out smartwatch-based blood pressure monitoring yet.
But there are a few more annoyances. The M2 Wear app needs to be always running in the background to show SMS alerts on the smartwatch. If you clear all your background apps, the Bluetooth automatically disconnects, and you will have to manually enable it on the watch to sync the messages and other data.
I am not convinced why an app as barebones as the M2 Wear would need so much information about me. Another inexplicable rule mentioned in the documents is that logging out of your M2 Wear account is an irreversible process, which means if you log out of your account in situations like changing a phone or performing a reset, all your data is gone. Moreover, if you forget your smartwatch unlock password, there’s no way to recover it.
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