Una Watch Review: A Modular, Repairable GPS Watch Is A Good First Step

Unfortunately, the modularity compromises its ruggedness somewhat.

Daniel Cooper for Engadget

RATING : 7.8 / 10

Even as someone who's deeply invested in modular, repairable technology, it's rare to hear about a repairable "smart" watch. Google's Pixel Watch 4 is setting a bar, but it's still the exception rather than the rule, especially across the industry. Gear that small and that tightly packaged is hard to make sustainable, to the point even the EU added a carve-out to its e-waste rules. So when Scottish startup Una said it had made a truly modular, and user-repairable, smart-ish GPS running watch, I paid attention.

Una was founded by Lewis Allison, the former CTO of Scottish golf watch company Shot Scope. He set out to build a watch that was modular, repairable and open source to enable users to have far more control over their own gear. The company's slogan is...

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