Impressive OnePlus Watch won't compete with Apple Watch By Tailosive Tech

OnePlus just finished their OnePlus 9 events and there's probably a bunch of channels right now that want to talk about the new phones. The specs seem good. The price seems fair, that's kind of what we're used to with OnePlus every year. They get a tad more expensive, but the phones get overall better and to answer your question: yes, if I had to use an android phone OnePlus 9 pro, that would be at the top of my list simply because of the 50 watt wireless charging. But what I find much more interesting is: they have just now officially entered the smartwatch market and not with a Wear OS watch, and I think that it might be the perfect smartwatch for a lot of android users out there. Let's begin so, as we've talked about on this channel in the past, Apple Watch has kind of dominated not just the smartwatch market, but the watch market as a whole, and it's crazy, because the Apple Watch is still only available for iPhones they've, never opened it up for android and even then its user base has surpassed 100 million devices, which is insanity.

If you consider that it's still growing at an exponentially faster rate, it's not slowing down so how OnePlus was going to enter the smartwatch market was of great interest to me because I've been reading the rumors for a while. I didn't really make that many videos on it, because I wasn't really sure what they could offer other than around design, because, most of the time there are watchers out there trying to replicate the Apple Watch's success. They just kind of duplicate the exact same design and all the rumors and leaks, of course, were showcasing this round design, which has been done with smartwatches before. But I think the price for battery life is actually what's most impressive here. So, let's just start off with the colors in the first place, because even the base model, one plus watch, which starts at 159, comes with a stainless steel chassis which, on the Apple Watch, is actually pretty expensive.

The base models, both the Apple Watch SE and the cheapest Apple Watch Series six you can get are aluminum and I actually like the look of the aluminum, but the main reason I went with stainless steel in the past wasn't so much of the external design. But more, so you got that sapphire infused glass, which was a lot more durable. This uses a standard ion x, glass, which is a bit more prone to scratches, but this comes with stainless steel by default in the same pixel density as the Apple Watch at 326. But of course this is round, and it's 1.39 inches across and when it comes to the health sensors, I think they got the basics down. They still have an optical heart rate, monitor blood oxygen sensor, gyroscope sensor, air pressure sensor, so there's not going to be an ECG or that kind of thing.

But honestly, I don't think people use that very regularly and one thing: you'll notice, that the OnePlus watch decided to skip out on was a cellular model, doesn't matter how much you want to spend on it, they're not going to have a LTE option, although you can take phone calls off of it from your smartphone, so you still can call on it. It's just if you decide to leave your phone behind. The watch is gonna, be severely limited, also because storage wise, it only has about two gigabytes of usable space. Four gigabytes total, but two gigs is reserved for the operating system and all that, whereas the Apple Watch has now moved on to 32 gigs standard, but again it's more expensive as a whole. It still has ip68 water resistance, and it requires android, 6 and above to work, but it doesn't run where OS, which I thought was an interesting choice.

OnePlus is taking their own route here with the smartwatch and trying to design the OS from the ground up, which I honestly think might be a good call, because Wear OS has never really swayed a lot of people to buy an android watch. But the interesting part about that to me is that the main reason we're not calling it android wear anymore, and they rebranded to Wear OS is because there were actually a significant number of people using android wear smartwatches with iPhones, so because of that they decided that it didn't make much sense to keep android in the name. So that's why it was rebranded to Wear OS, whereas now in the system requirements on the web page, it specifically says that OnePlus does not support iOS. So this is a very intentional decision. That means they are not going against the Apple Watch market really, because the OnePlus watch obviously is gonna work with most android phones, but not iPhones, and the Apple Watch is gonna work with all iPhones, but not any android.

So OnePlus is kinda, taking the apple route in a way, and just saying we know our market, we know we're targeting so in the fact that there's so many comparisons you can make to the Apple Watch in the same way doesn't really compete because it'll fall back on which smartphone do you use and whichever smartphone you use, that's gonna ultimately be the best smartwatch for you. The battery life, though, is, in my opinion, the best advantage of the OnePlus watch, they're saying with average use, you can get a two-week battery life with this thing, which is pretty amazing. If you consider the battery capacity is just a little over 400 William hours, so it's not a huge battery. It doesn't have an always on display, so that obviously kind of helps, but neither does the Apple Watch SE and that's more expensive than the OnePlus watch, and they also claim that you can get a week-long battery life with just 20 minutes of charging, which is pretty impressive. If you consider people who like to track their sleep or as OnePlus demonstrated, you can be wearing this thing and fall asleep on the couch and with an OnePlus TV it'll automatically turn off when it detects you're no longer awake, that's pretty cool.

That would come in handy for me on occasion. But if someone wants to wear their watch to bed, they can just wake up in the morning, drop it on the charger for 20 minutes and put it back on, and they're good for another seven days. That's something! I would really love to see the app watch to do some day, and I'm very jealous that it can't do that after so many generations of upgrades- and I have to wonder this- must be a very power. Efficient chip they've got inside the OnePlus watch, but it's noticeably absent from the tech specs, and they didn't seem to want to talk much about the CPU in the OnePlus watch during the event, which makes me feel like. Maybe it's because it's not very good, and I know that processing speed doesn't sound like it- should be a main concern when you're thinking about buying a smartwatch, because it just tells the time it handles phone calls.

It handles text messages. You do fairly basic things on a smartwatch. So why do you care if the processor is a little slow? But honestly, I've seen a lot of people complain about how slow, either their series 3 has gotten or how long it takes for software updates and if you're, just doing basic things on the watch and the UI ends up glitching out or hanging, and you can't move on from the next screen, and it crashes, then the OnePlus watch would start to fall in line with a lot of other android watches out there that have not gotten off the ground have not seen the same success as the Apple Watch, simply because they're not as fluid, and they're, not as seamless as an experience, so as little processing power as a smartwatch might need. I still think it's somewhat important to have, and it kind of concerns me that they're not bringing it up and something I also don't really see them. Bringing up very much, at least in the tech specs is the brightness of the display.

So a two week. Battery life is really, really impressive, but if the watch is really, really hard to see in broad daylight, then that might make it kind of worse experience and might understandably make it not that much better. Despite being so much cheaper than an Apple Watch in the first place, they also are going to have a sapphire infused glass version, but it's using like a cobalt alloy, which I'm not sure why they want to brag about cobalt. I mean tesla's doing their best to get cobalt out of their batteries, because it's an unethically mined mineral most of the time, and it's kind of pricey so not sure why they wanted to brag much about cobalt, but it does have over 110 workouts built into it. It does have Bluetooth, 5 and ip68 water resistance.

So I think, if you're an android user out there, and you're looking for a new smartwatch, you can't really go terribly wrong with 160 bucks. That's a pretty good deal. You might not have as wide of a watchband collection to choose from as the Apple Watch, but it's always interesting to me to see a new company enter it and to see what they leave out and what they include and how they make it better than the competition. So what do you guys think you want more videos on the OnePlus 9 because, overall to me, like every android flagship that comes out these days? It's always just the same kind of like yeah. The specs seem pretty good, but the camera's not as good as this other phone.

So that's why I didn't want to give much attention to it. No, I'm not planning on reviewing any of these things. I would have to switch to an android to actually review the OnePlus watch. So no, thanks, but do let me know what you guys think this is your apple sheep here I'll see you guys in the next one.

Source : Tailosive Tech