W&O X9 Call. It’s a terrible watch, basically just a shitty android phone inside of a knockoff applewatch case. It runs Android 9 on 2" screen, 4GB RAM and 64GB of space (didn’t even test that one tbh), battery life - nonexistent (less than a day). But I’ve been looking specifically for stuff like this and bought a load of them at wholesale for like $28.5 a piece… and the specs didn’t even exactly match between all of them. Loaded them up with cheapest plans for IoT devices, installed termux, nodejs and moved some of my personal scripts over to them. One app/script per piece, no need for VM’s or containers 🤣 And they got their own links so firewall is also not necessary.
None of them have static IP’s accessible from outside though, so for stuff I need public access to I jam that into the remaining RAM space on one of the few of my $1/mo lowendboxes that I’m using primarily as VPN servers. Got them all on tailscale, so I could theoretically use Funnel to route traffic from public internet to those watches (haven’t tried yet). And still to figure out some way for them to failover onto each other’s internet because the plans are extremely limited, will probably have to learn android app development for that when I get to it.
There is also HK Ultra 2 which I believe is essentially the same thing, and I saw a few other variants on the market without even a brand name, so the only way to find them would be to search for “sim card” or sorting smartwatches category by bad reviews first 😂
Ah, and also a disclaimer: I am not promoting this as a viable way to host things. This is just my personal exercise at hobo engineering
Please tell more about those watches
W&O X9 Call. It’s a terrible watch, basically just a shitty android phone inside of a knockoff applewatch case. It runs Android 9 on 2" screen, 4GB RAM and 64GB of space (didn’t even test that one tbh), battery life - nonexistent (less than a day). But I’ve been looking specifically for stuff like this and bought a load of them at wholesale for like $28.5 a piece… and the specs didn’t even exactly match between all of them. Loaded them up with cheapest plans for IoT devices, installed termux, nodejs and moved some of my personal scripts over to them. One app/script per piece, no need for VM’s or containers 🤣 And they got their own links so firewall is also not necessary.
None of them have static IP’s accessible from outside though, so for stuff I need public access to I jam that into the remaining RAM space on one of the few of my $1/mo lowendboxes that I’m using primarily as VPN servers. Got them all on tailscale, so I could theoretically use Funnel to route traffic from public internet to those watches (haven’t tried yet). And still to figure out some way for them to failover onto each other’s internet because the plans are extremely limited, will probably have to learn android app development for that when I get to it.
There is also HK Ultra 2 which I believe is essentially the same thing, and I saw a few other variants on the market without even a brand name, so the only way to find them would be to search for “sim card” or sorting smartwatches category by bad reviews first 😂
Ah, and also a disclaimer: I am not promoting this as a viable way to host things. This is just my personal exercise at hobo engineering