Watch 2 Pro Needs an Open API and Third-Party App Support

omaradel

I am honestly very disappointed with the CMF Watch 2 Pro system and its software.

Everything feels overly basic in a strange and frustrating way. The watch clearly has powerful hardware capabilities, but the software does not utilize them properly at all.

Other smartwatch platforms support almost everything, and even if their systems are relatively simple, they at least allow connection to external applications that provide many useful features. They don’t lock the user in as if they are in a prison.

The watch interface itself has almost no real capabilities. Support does not respond, updates are nearly nonexistent, and the number of watch faces is very limited. Most of the available watch faces look odd and poorly designed.

I strongly request a real solution, or at least opening the system to allow integration with third-party applications.

To be honest, before buying this watch, I respected this brand. This is the first product I’ve purchased from Nothing, and unfortunately, my expectations were not met.

I am truly disappointed.

Anonymous1235

omaradel This is because CMF Watches do not run on Wear OS, meaning that Nothing could never add third party apps on it even if they wanted to.

Ajay

omaradel right should be

>traSE_

omaradel

Totally agree, before bought i read about it using open source and everything.. but never seen a system this closed. I like the watch but the new Nothing X app new firmware was a real downer.. its like i bought a “dead” product.. when i started it installed the Cmf watch app, all was ok.. than looking around in it and get the msg this software will stop update, need to migrate to Nothing X.. after that many watch faces became blurry, and the reason for it i belive is because the new software/firmware is made for the newer models with bigger screens and diffrent resolutions…. And agree on the customer service, the first reply was a auto msg saying reinstall the watch and reinstall/update **Cmf watch app.

**Cmf watch app? Replied you should update your auto reply to Nothing X app.

Anyways no real help or answers, got directed to reseller, completely wrong way to go… So made a review on Google Play, reply super fast, say they work on it and will take time.. like it would be a hard fix?

Anyways the Founder of this watch actually grew up in Sweden and made a good job there. But should remember the story of the company Jens Of Sweden, who did a real fortune, but lost it all due to bad customer service.. when bad rep starts spread.. it goes fast.

company’s stand and falls on its customer service.

Hope history wont repeat it self.

Learn from JOS.

Also about the WearOS claim.

While it’s true that CMF Watch 2 Pro doesn’t run WearOS, claiming it can’t ‘speak’ to the Android/Google ecosystem is fundamentally incorrect. If that were the case, we would essentially be wearing analog watches.

The watch acts as a functional bridge via its Gemini AI integration. For instance, by using the watch’s mic to trigger the AI with a command like ‘Set a Samsung reminder in 30 mins labeled Test’, the Watch OS successfully relays the intent to the phone. The phone then triggers the Samsung One UI reminder, which in turn pushes the notification back to the watch 30 minutes later.

This proves a sophisticated two-way communication between the Watch OS and Android/One UI. As a side note: this is actually a brilliant workaround for the internal ‘timer bug’ where the watch’s native timer can’t run in the background. By using this AI-to-phone bridge, you get a reliable background timer that the watch hardware currently lacks.

The point is: they definitely speak to each other; it’s just a matter of understanding the architecture of the bridge.

omaradel

Anonymous1235
So, is it that Nothing can do anything about this? I think they could do much more than that.