Oppo Watch Review - Running Swimming Cycling By Seedubs Media

G'day folks Connor here from cw's tech reviews back with another video, and today we're doing my full review of the Oppo watch. This is the 46 millimeter version, so without further ado hit the like button and a subscribe button and let's get stuck into the video, let's go, okay, so to start off with I'm just going to say, I was really surprised by the Oppo watch, and it's moved into the smart world of fitness tech. I mean I was quite impressed with what I have here, and I'm going to go through. Why, but first a couple of specs. I just want to get out of the way. First, one is snapdragon 3100, coupled with the micro apollo ambit wireless soc, I'm pretty certain.

I mumbled that up but go look it up, and you'll see what I'm talking about, but two chipsets. So that's pretty cool. It also comes with one gigabyte of ram and eight gigabytes of storage, built-in GPS, not connected GPS, 403 William hour battery and more on that soon comes in with five atmospheres of water resistance. So that's five ATM again more on that soon. You also have Bluetooth version, 4.2 NFC for wireless payments and 2.4 gigahertz Wi-Fi and then to top it off for the build. You have glass on the front ceramic on the back with some polycarbonate or plastic and the strap is called floor rubber, which again is just really sort of some fancy way of saying plastic, so plastic, ceramic glass and aluminum, and it really looks good.

So for me, you put those specks aside, and you want to look at how this operates in your day-to-day life, and I must say that, for day-to-day use this felt and looked really elegant. It would not be out of place in the corporate world or out on the running track tracking your running. It has a very nice look to it. Furthermore, it has no sharp or obtrusive edges. Furthermore, it's very smooth thanks to that curved glass, very smooth on the back, thanks to the ceramics and the rubber or floor rubber, whatever they've called it is very smooth as well.

So it's just an all around smooth design, it's easy to wear in my sleep, so I don't worry about scratching my face with it. If I wear the galaxy watch, I worry about scratching my face, so I actually don't wear this to bed, but I'll pay watch. I couldn't scratch myself with it. If I tried you have two buttons on the right hand, side one is a multi-purpose button and the other one is a home button, and they're very tactile. One's got a bit of green tint on it and the other one is just plain, but they're very tactile.

You know when you press them, there's no confusion, just a really well-designed smartwatch and look. It might look familiar to you like, maybe look like an Apple Watch. Maybe my only complaint is the clasp. They shouldn't deviate from an original watch. Clasp, there's no need to, and this one is fiddly it's awkward to try and get on, because it doesn't have that extra little clasp over the band.

They could have done better with the clasp, but otherwise beautiful, look, beautiful design really elegant. Now. The next part for me is really important, because I do a lot of sport and when I say sport I mean that that sport, where you're out by yourself doing your thing. So I do a lot of running a lot of cycling and a lot of swimming to try and stay active. First, I'm going to tell you with the running it tracked my running very accurately and when I compared it to Samsung health on a smartphone that was almost identical, and maybe there was like a one percent difference in the distance covered.

So I don't know if it was Samsung health that was out or the smartwatch. So that's really impressive for their first real sort of forte into the sort of 500 price range of smartwatches. Now I would cross the street from time to time, and if I look back through my maps, I can see that it has tracked me correctly, while I'm crossing the street and taking little deviations throughout my running track. So it actually did track me very well down to the distance the time and the pace, because I was also using another app as a bit of a coach. So it would tell me when to run at certain paces and certain speeds, and the watch tracked those speeds accurately as well.

So for me, I'm really happy with the running of the Oppo watch, the tracking it was really where it needed to be. It doesn't come with a lot of data, so you're going to have to just make do with data, and I'd say this isn't for the most serious of runners. If you're like a hardcore runner, you do a lot of training and do marathons, and you really like to keep on top of all your technical data and maybe even do training and stuff like that. Then you might want something a bit more running focused, but for your day-to-day sort of casual runner, who just does it to stay fit and wants to track their general sort of progress, then this is going to be an amazing addition to you. Now it tracks five main types of exercise, so you've got running fat, burning, running fitness, cycling, outdoors, walking, outdoors and swimming cycling and walking.

My experience was the same as running it tracked. Everything really well in terms of distance and speed, and that sort of thing not a problem with it in that area and, in fact, again down to one percent difference between this and my Samsung health, app, which I have found to be quite reliable over the years same with walking. It knew when I was walking, and it would track my walking and the distance was reliable. The time was reliable, a really solid experience for that general sort of GPS tracking, and it could also track my laps in terms of kilometers and break down each kilometer and tell me how fast I was for each one again. Now I would have to say, for me, swimming is the next part that I tested and look.

I only got to swim with it twice, but I think the results speak for themselves. The first time I did 10 laps of a 50-meter swimming pool, one lap of freestyle, one lap of breaststroke, and it tracked all ten laps perfectly for the time it took me and the amount of laps and the total distance covered. It tracked really well, but it doesn't go into much detail again, so it left out my swath. It also left out the style of swimming that I was doing so, whether I was doing freestyle or breaststroke. I mean these were all left out again.

They weren't left out accidentally they're, just not part of what it actually tracks. So I would like to see that, but the 5 ATM water resistance was fine. I had no problems with it outside the water, no problems with it. Afterwards, just rinse off the chlorine, water or whatever water you've been swimming in rinse it off with fresh water, and you're good to go. So if you're, just a casual swimmer- and you just want to keep a count of how many laps you're doing or for how long you're swimming, then this is going to be fine for you just not for your hardcore swimmer, so exercise, I'm going to give it a like a b plus.

You know it leaves out some data, but most of the tracking is accurate, and I was pleasantly surprised with my experience with it and that's using google fit, but also using the hey tap health app that comes from Oppo now. It does also come with, like all these other five-minute exercise, types that it can throw at you, and it gives you little displays on your watch, face of how to do the exercises and how to get better and what you do. Squats and lunges, and all that sort of thing. But those five minute exercises were a little. Hokey, pokey and I'd say a bit more of a gimmick than an actual feature, and I can't see too many people stopping to do eight lunges and then getting back to work or getting back to watching some TV yeah, nice thought.

But probably not perfect with the execution, but it does look good on that great display double-edged sword here with a display. It's dual curved. It's beautiful! Furthermore, it's good to look at in good lighting. Look at that! It just looks great, however, in bright sunlight when running it's hard to see, and it's not bright enough. It comes with five levels of brightness and five maxes out pretty quickly.

I think you could easily add another couple of levels of brightness on top, but I think they were concerned about battery life, because when I use this in full tracking mode, so Bluetooth Wi-Fi everything connected doing my running in the morning and my exercise throughout the day I get about between 24 and 36 hours of use out of it, so it says 36 hours and that would be at a stretch, and I'm not going to use it in low power saving mode to get 21 days use out of it, because if I wanted that sort of watch, I would just wear my old school watch, 430 William hour battery charges really quickly as well. I think it's an hour and 15 minutes to get a full charge out of it, and it gets a full day. Furthermore, I mean that's all I really need in the modern world where I'm surrounded by electricity. Furthermore, I only need a full day's charge, but if I ever went camping and didn't take a charger for more than two days, I would just have a paper weight attached to my wrist. Furthermore, I always look for consistency when it comes to the heart rate.

Every smartwatch has a disclaimer that says this is not a medical device, and it's not, so you need to look at the consistency of its performance. Now, if I manually check my heart rate, and it's around 60, but the watch is telling me it's 180, then the watch is inaccurate. However, if I'm running up a hill, and I'm out of breath- and the watch is telling me my heart- rate's 180- it's probably quite accurate and that's what I found with the Oppo watch. Whenever I was doing exercise it would my heart rate would increase and the watch would track that accordingly. So I was quite happy with that.

I'm looking for anomalies here and then with that data I might decide to go and see your doctor or adjust my training or something, but again you're. Looking for consistent data, I was happy with the heart rate tracking, also with the sleep tracking. If I went to bed at midnight and my alarm went off at five, it would tell me I had five hours sleep. It would say that one hour's light one hour was rem and the rest was something else, and again it was consistently correct with the amount of time I slept, I'm not sure about the finer details, because I don't know how it knows that, and I don't know if it is correct, because I don't know when I'm in rem mode or deep sleep mode. I just know I'm asleep.

Look also if I was watching TV say doing a bit of binge-watching vikings or something like that. It didn't actually track those three hours of binge TV as sleep. It knew I wasn't asleep, so I think again it's fairly consistent when it comes to accuracy, not sure, but when it comes to consistency, it is spot on the data synced well from the watch to google fit and also, like, I said, to the Oppo app, so that was nice to see that coming through, and it was fairly like it would update every hour or so, and information was accurate. The notifications are not intrusive. You can decide how they are delivered to the watch you can choose between about 15 different watch faces.

You can also take a photo of what you're wearing, and then your watch will determine what sort of watch face to put on, according to the address sense, go figure, not something I would use, but pretty cool if you're a bit of a trendsetter overall. How would I rate the Oppo watch b, plus that's where I'm putting it and I think that's a perfect result for their first sort of big dive into fitness, trackers and smartwatches. It looks great. It feels great, it's really nice to wear it's not out of place. In most environments, the tracking is really consistent.

The GPS tracking was spot on most of the time. Like I'm talking like 99 of the time it was tracking me correctly. I couldn't really fault that same with the distance. The time the speed my pace. All that sort of thing, I think, really, really good job by opp- needs a bit more data.

I think the data that it collects could be. There could be more in it. Like I said, more swim data more running data for the more serious sports person. You would appreciate more data. The display could be a little brighter, but overall, I'm really impressed, and I actually have to send this back, which is a bit of a bummer, because it's something I could easily keep looks good feels good works.

Well, no problems! I didn't have any stutters with the software. It was easy to navigate, so you're, just sort of swiping up down and side to side. You've got your couple of buttons there on the side to help navigate as well. It's just a really, really pleasant experience and I think we're only going to see better and better things from opp, just like we did with their smartphones. They entered the smartphone world and had some perfect results, and they've just built on it, and now they have some amazing products on the market.

Same thing is going to happen with these smartwatches from Oppo watch this space they're just going to get better and better. That's my video on the Oppo watch. I hope you appreciate it. Thank you for watching, and I will catch you in the next video check, ya.

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