ever since embracing the Apple ecosystem a couple of months ago I've been itching
to get out but of course if I'm going back to Android I'm going to need an
Android watch conveniently OnePlus sent over the OnePlus watch 3 which takes
everything that was good not to mention good value about the OnePlus Watch 2 and
2R and makes it even better and more
expensive let's take a quick look at what comes in the Box we've got the
OnePlus watch 3 an a Toc charging cable
they're proprietary magnetic clipon charging dock and some documentation of
course the included accessories are not the Highlight the highlight of course is
the new rotating Crown which offers both rotating and pressing functions hm I
wonder where we've seen that before anyway that's not the point because the
Highlight is the new display it features an ltpo flexible OLED panel that can go
down as low as 1 Herz for power saving
and as high as 2200 nits under specific
spe ific conditions Outdoors under direct sunlight to help improve
readability of course none of that is the big highlight the big highlight and
I acknowledge this is now the third big highlight is the improved battery life
OnePlus boasts up to 5 days in their
Smart Mode which actually looks like a pretty reasonable use mix up to 3 days
in heavy mode and up to is this right up to 16 days in power saving mode and this
comes thanks to a couple of key Innovations one is something that we've
already seen before which is their dual processor dual operating system
architecture it does come with some caveats so sometimes especially late at
night when it's in sleep mode you've got to completely restart it and even under
the best circumstances if the weos and Snapdragon processor go to sleep you
might have to wait a little bit for them to become responsive so you can open up
heavier apps but they have a second processor on board that is extremely
lightweight and that lightweight processor actually is using a new 6 NM
manufacturing process that makes it not only higher performance especially in
neural engine applications but also more power
efficient the second big innovation is that they're using a new battery
chemistry that takes the capacity from 500 milliamps on the old one to 631
milliamp hours is a little on the chunkier side though the weight is about
the same as the OnePlus Watch 2 rather than the lighter weight of the 2R but I
mean how wearable is it I guess now is as good a time as I need to put it on oh
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addition to the usual suspects OnePlus claims that the watch 3 has a new glass
and led material in their PPG module which enhances accuracy of heart rate
monitoring it also has a new wrist temperature sensor and when all of these
sensors work together there are six total things that it'll keep track of
heart rate blood oxygen levels mental Wellness wrist temperature Sleep Quality
and Vascular age and they put all this
together in a convenient interface so supposedly you just lift your wrist
press one button and it takes a a minute to do a scan so why don't we do that oh
like why don't we play around with the interface a little bit first actually
okay so that zooms I mean yeah I could do that ah yes quick workout including
badminton mode which from my experience with the two and the two R actually not
bad ooh I kind of like that really quick
way to get your notifications or your settings 60-second checkin get prepared
check if it's a in your country but I
may have to take off my skin brand forgive me oh no I applied my 5G
protection sticker on top of my
skin oh yeah apparently has a new shape that helps it maintain better contact
sit
still based on the assessment of three
health risks and Seven health indicators I'm
normal arterial stiffness is normal my
blood vessels are soft oh do I sell this on my forehead oh yeah that's right it's
got enhanced dual frequency GPS which is supposed to help if you're say running
in a city with lots of tall buildings which can cause issues for GPS accuracy
so this does both L1 and L5 frequency satellite signals stainless steel and
titanium bezel oh titanium bezel that's
pretty cool might keep it from getting scuffed I didn't mention they're super
vuk fast charging they say 10 minutes on the charger will get you up to an
additional day of battery life so that's pretty convenient if you're like me and
you forget to charge your Smartwatch and you're like oh throw it on the charger
really quick and then you can go out oh yeah and the screen is a little bit
bigger it's actually 1.5 in compared to
1.43 in on the older 2 R of course none
of these are huge upgrades so I would say if you can find a great deal on a 2R
that might actually be a pretty good way to go it is substantially lighter this
is a this is a pretty thick watch with that said I wouldn't be too put off by
the retail price of this thing cuz it's already on promo for $30 off with the
promo code that we have down below until the end of March 31st and if you trade
in any device in any condition really
okay sure you can get an additional $50 off so realistically it's $329.99 us but
it's more like 250 to 300 32 gigs of
storage Bluetooth calling with Bluetooth 5.2 I think that's basically it
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