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- Get the hell out of my life. Who needs you?

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(melancholy piano music) Beat it, leave me alone. The deplorable state of Wear OS

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is one of the main reasons that I haven't been using Wear OS watch,

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in spite of the fact that I daily drive Android. But, I'm hoping that this unboxing

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sponsored by Mobvoi for their TicWatch E3

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is going to help me turn the corner here, because there's a lot of things

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that are looking up right now. I mean, first and foremost, is obviously Google's acquisition of Fitbit,

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which should give Google a big shove in the right direction in terms of development.

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One of the other big things that's happened is we're finally getting some better hardware.

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So this watch right here, the TicWatch E3,

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is actually only the second on the market to use the Snapdragon Wear 4100.

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That processor is a dramatic improvement

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over the previous 3100, going all the way from a 28 nanometer manufacturing process down to just 12.

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So everything from CPU to GPU to connectivity

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is multiple generations of improvement better.

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I mean, we're going from Bluetooth 4.2 to Bluetooth 5.0.

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So let's go ahead and get this thing unboxed. The main highlights from Mobvoi,

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before we actually fire it up are that, of course, it's using the Snapdragon Wear 4100 processor.

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It's got a 2.5D curved display, it's IP68 water resistant.

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They actually asked me to clarify that IP68 means fresh water,

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not salt water. And that's true not just to this watch,

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that's anything that has a water resistance rating.

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You know, you go and put any electronics in a conductive liquid, you're gonna have a pretty bad time.

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It's got 20 plus professional workout modes with their TicMotion technology,

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and it's got 24/7 heart tracking, blood oxygen saturation monitoring,

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stress and sleep tracking, and VO2 max tracking during runs.

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So basically, that means that it's gonna check your maximum rate of oxygen consumption

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while you're working out. Let's go ahead and get this unboxed. You got your Do Not Eat.

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You got you Quick Start Guide. They've got your, ah, yes.

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Okay, so they're using a magnetic attaching charging cable.

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I mean, obviously, with any kind of watch, you don't want a USB cable. So it's got magnetic action, like that.

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I think that passes the easy to attach test.

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Okay, let's try and turn it on now. Oh, whoops.

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I started it up in the diagnostic thing.

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Whoopsie-daisy. Oh, wow. Product name, Rice Fish.

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So there you go, ladies and gentlemen, you hold both buttons

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if you wanna bring up that menu. Hey, there we go.

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All right. Now obviously, compared to their own TicWatch Pro 3,

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there are a couple sacrifices that had to be made in order to hit this aggressive price point

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while still keeping the specs very compelling.

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So it does have a plastic housing. And obviously with that comes a smaller display.

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But, guys, specs are important in something like this.

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Like, look how fluid that scrolling is. If that's the sacrifice they had to make,

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this thing is $199 US. That is so much smoother

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than any other Android Wear or Wear OS experience that I've had.

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It actually feels smooth. Finally, right?

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(mellow music) Okay, there we go.

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Welcome to Wear OS. I have to confess, it's actually been a little while.

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There's your voice interaction.

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All right, there's your quick settings. There's your activity, weather.

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Blur that, it's calendar events. (Linus laughs)

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Unable to detect heart rate. Please authorize heart sensor. Okay, well we can do that.

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Sure. Okay. Let's find out what my heart rate is.

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79 beats per minute. Is that good?

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I don't know. Okay, so you can swipe up to move tiles.

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You can add tiles, like simple calculator.

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Timer, a bunch of workout stuff. Voice memo.

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That's a nice, simple watch face.

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Cool, hey, my battery life's pretty nice. It's a 380mAh power battery.

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And that is just so much more responsive than the old processors.

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Let's see what happens if I click on a Trello thing.

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Yes, no reply, open on phone. (mellow music)

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I don't think so. There we go. All right, cool.

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It's supposed to review some thumbnails.

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All right. Now, one of the first things that I'm gonna adjust

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with any smartwatch is Always on Display. So it does support Always on Display,

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which means I just need to go find it because it doesn't seem to be enabled by default.

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Whoops. Settings. Display. Right there.

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Front and center, always on screen, and done. Yay.

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All right, so let's see what the Always on Display looks like now.

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There we go. Perfect. A watch that actually works as a watch.

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That's absolutely critical. Hey, Colton, text me.

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Okay, so I'm gonna pretend to be popular,

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and like I get messages. (phone chiming) Hey.

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"Hi, I'm big fan." (smooth hip hop music)

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Hi, is this Colton Potter? Never call this number again.

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Thank you. - [Colton] I'm your biggest fan.

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(people laughing) - I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

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Love you, Colton. Now let's try using Google Assistant with the E3. Okay Google, set an alarm for 5:30 PM on Friday

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to fire Colton.

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- [Virtual Assistant] Sorry, I can't set alarms on your phone more than 24 hours

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before they're supposed to go off.

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- Oh my God. I have a system update that it just started doing.

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While the watch was updating, I had some time to think and there's something

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I've got to make right here. (phone line trilling) Calling Colton back.

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- [Colton] Hello. - Hey, I'm sorry, babe. I didn't mean that. I think they're excellent finger paintings.

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- [Colton] What? - Please don't go. - [Colton] Who is this?

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(Linus laughing) - Um, bye-bye.

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- Fine. Get the hell out of my life.

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Who needs you? Beat it, leave me alone.

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There's a couple other things I wanted to show. I want to go to the Play Store.

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Apparently, there's like a zombie game you can play on this thing. Zombies Run Free.

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- [Colton] Oh, perfect. Here we go. Oh, wait.

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This is like, you run away from the zombies.

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- [Jono] Wait, what? - Like you have to actually run.

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I don't know if I wanna actually run like that. While I wait for this zombie game to install,

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it uses standard watch strap like posts. So all you do is take your stack one off

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and then you can- What is this? Did someone just, like, give me their watch strap?

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Is this yours, Colton? - [Colton] Oh, just show the white one. Don't show the other one.

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- What, no, that's fine. The point is that you can put a standard watch strap on it , right?

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So you've got this grubby old watch strap. Thanks, Colton. I'm probably gonna get like germs from it.

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Oh, nope. Yours is a little bit wider. - [Colton] Oh.

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- Well that's the first time he's ever heard that before.

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Got 'em. Well, this is funny. I had wanted to show you guys the interchangeable watch straps.

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They just use standard 20 millimeter watch straps. But these are not 20 millimeters.

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These are like 22 millimeter, 24 millimeters or something like that.

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So see you later. Exercise time, ladies and gentlemen.

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TicWatch's app has all your, I mean,

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presumably historical sleep, heart rate, blood oxygen, stress data.

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And then if you click Exercise and go to All Exercises, you can pick one.

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So I'm a go- Let's see, I'm gonna go with Taekwondo.

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Wait, how do I start it? Oh, I figured it out.

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Obviously, you start the exercise on the watch. This is just the log.

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And I was having a hard time figuring out what I was looking at because-

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TicWatch a little bit of honest feedback, these should be in alphabetical order, please.

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H, I, J, yeah, no, they're just in no order in particular,

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I guess. Okay. Apparently we're doing jumping jacks.

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Hey, look at that. They've even got a thing for it. All right, we're going.

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(upbeat music) (tape rewind squeaking)

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Hey, Colton, it's called a jumping jack. You ever try one? - [Colton] Oh, no.

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I tried one and then I quit. (tape rewind squeaking)

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- He does a lot of reps of like, the food to the mouth, you know? (people sarcastically laughing)

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(tape rewind squeaking) Okay, is that a minute?

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That's 59 seconds. I'm done, I'm done. Okay.

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High intensity interval training. Here we go. 126.

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Nothing abnormal today. That's what I peaked at though.

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Sweet. That's my heart rating.

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Okay. So that's pretty much it. That's the TicWatch E3, Snapdragon 4100, 200 bucks.

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Guys, you can find that link in the video description. Thanks again to Mobvoi for sponsoring this video,

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and we'll see you later. Make sure you subscribe to ShortCircuit. You can call my number whenever you want.