LOL Surprise are a bunch of dolls that are like collectors’ items. I see a parallel between these dolls and Funko Pop figurines in terms of design. I guess the big appeal of this smartwatch is that your child will get to choose between different LOL Surprise dolls.

Yes, the LOL Surprise smartwatch has a video camera, but it feels like a they stitched together a bunch of stills to make the video. If you’re in the same position as me, and don’t really get the what LOL Surprise is all about, here’s the long and short of it (as I understand it). I don’t like it, but will the little ones find it too lousy for their tastes? They might actually not mind it as much as a full-blown adult would. I have reviewed two other smartwatches — the iTOUCH Playzoom and the Vtech Kidizoom — in this price range and I can say that the difference is noticeable. The pedometer does not passively register your movements. What I mean by that is that you must open the pedometer app and activate the pedometer before it will measure your walks. Plugged into computer, saw nothing

But it has… games

On the sides, you get a single button, a USB outlet for charging and transferring files, speakers and a microphone. Great screen In most cameras, you’ll have a burst mode where it shoots multiple photos per second. If you put all of these in a video with, say, eight frames per second, that’s kinda what the video quality feels like. You’d expect to be able to swipe on all touchscreens these days but this isn’t the case with the LOL Surprise Smartwatch. I certainly sought the element of surprise and the element of being admired by my peers of having the coolest collections. If you are considering buying this from the USA, then great news — the pedometer measures distance in miles and the dates are written in the month-day-year format.

The LOL Surprise dolls are like Kinder Surprises. For Americans where this is banned: Kinder Surprises have toys encased in a chocolate egg that you’ll have to eat through to get to the toy. The design is overwhelmingly pink. The watch case is fully pink and the printed rubber strap comes with light green and pink stripes covered in a pattern of stars with a white underside. It’s a bit like Neapolitan ice cream. I got my first smartphone, a HTC Desire in 2011. The iTOUCH Playzoom and Vtech Kidizoom reminded me of the HTC Desire with its low-pixel-density screen. Of course, if you go up in price range to the Garmin vivofit jr. 3 and the Fitbit Ace series, you’ll get a completely different type of screen that wouldn’t be a fair comparison. There’s an element of surprise embedded in the watch faces too. Unlike most smartwatches, you can’t choose your watch face from a list nor can you swipe to get one that you like. The camera quality is OK. Any cellphone camera will blow the LOL Surprise smartwatch’s camera to smithereens. Video cameraHaving only a rear-facing camera is great if your child likes to take photos of themselves, but it’s terrible if you need to take forward-facing pictures. Not only will you be blind shooting because you can’t see the screen, but you’ll also have to blind-press the shutter button. On all of its competitors (the Vtech Kidizoom and the iTOUCH Playzoom), they have cameras that are forward-facing and rear-facing. The Kidizoom has two cameras while the iTOUCH Playzoom has one swiveling camera (that takes upside-down photos when forward-facing).