This Is the Worst Smartwatch I've Ever Used
It is not uncommon for a flagship gadget to fail at all front, and OnePlus Watch has managed to pull it off.
Every little thing went wrong while I was testing this watch. Trace all activities incorrectly. It says I slept and woke up. My counting is closed by more than 10,000 steps. I changed my rating to the Royal Empire, but sometimes it showed me data using a metric system anyway, just for fun. I went to look at the market feature the company mentioned at the time of its announcement, and I found that it was not actually available at the launch.
As I sat down to write this review, I wondered if it was too hard to call this the worst smartwatch ever made. After all, it can at least bring notifications. My wrist was then filled with the rage of a thousand angry bees as at the same time I received 40 email notifications that had been sent four hours earlier. It is impossible to overstate how bad this smartwatch is in its work.
What is the OnePlus Watch?
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From a design perspective, OnePlus hopes you think this product is the basis of style. Not at all. While not a bad watch, it has the same nondescript smartwatch companies that default when they don’t have a first impression. There are two buttons on the side. It has a silicone strap strapped that you can replace. Wash. There is a limited edition version that looks better, but the only one available in the U.S. This is the only black ball. I would say it doesn't attack my wrist, except that it also looks like I'm wearing a dinner plate.
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At the 46mm case, this is the second largest smartwatch I've heard of in recent memory. (It's only 7th.) This might be fine if you have a big wrist, or if the belt is too tight. However, even in the smallest hole, I had to press this object up about 1.5 inches from my wrist to my hand. I happen to be pineapple and my wrists are smaller than normal, but my husband is not. He is about 6 feet tall and has wrists of normal size, and said the watch is "uncomfortable and too big."
I will give credit where credit is due. This can be a great crying screen, but at least it's beautiful. The colors are bright. Notifications are easy to read. The bezels are there, but not nearly as bad as some of the watches I've tested. The processor is very fast, so swips register quickly with minimal latency. I wish it were a little brighter in direct sunlight, but that is confusing.
Depending on the hardware, you get 1GB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage. You also get continuous heart rate monitoring, built-in GPS, accelerometer, and automatic exercise detection. You are missing out on NFC payments and there are no third-party applications, but those are minor issues with this watch. If you have OnePlus TV, you can use the smartwatch as a remote control. I don't have a OnePlus TV, so I can't tell you how well this remote feature works. It doesn't matter to anyone in the U.S., because OnePlus TVs are not available here.
On paper, the OnePlus Watch may look like a clear, large, but functional watch. If that were the case, I would leave it at that. Unfortunately, the OnePlus Watch is a wearable case.
This is too far from my arm compared to other smartwatches. On my real wrist, we wander a lot to get a heartbeat reading. Photo: Victoria Song / Gizmodo
OnePlus Watch and its app and partners are failing at a rate I have never seen in five years testing and updating smartwatches and fitness trackers. But before I go into why, I should add a disclaimer: OnePlus has reviewers that have downloaded the beta version of the watch companion app. This is what I spent most of my time experimenting with, but hopefully it won’t be the last version - at least, certainly as hell is better if OnePlus wants to keep the dignity. But I do not know the time to visit the future, when the OnePlus Health app works as intended. I can only tell you in my week about this garbage fire. At the last minute, OnePlus sent me a patch to try out the same app that buyers initially find. But a OnePlus spokesman told me that the patch "had a few health upgrades, durability and tab control," another 50 face faces, and "other repairs." Because of the brief change, I cannot be sure that all the problems I had were solved. But my God, there were so many problems I don't think they were so important.
For the record, there are two software updates in the air scheduled - one in mid-April that will add external sleep tracking and cycling recording to the app (you can already do it on your wrist), and the other in the middle - May will add "GPS optimization" and all exercise routines 110 promised by OnePlus. (The clock has 14 modes ready for launch.)
The best thing I can say is that this app is "working." Setting the clock was easy, the app starts, and you can navigate between menus and metrics. You can easily browse menus and clock widgets and launch apps. Everything else is broken.
First of all, I was not able to fully explore the sleep watch feature, because you can't view sleep tracking data in the phone app. And you can’t watch the blood oxygen levels from the sensor of the SpO2 clock. This means that even if sleep data is recorded on your wrist, you will not be able to view your sleep history on a larger screen where you will be able to sense certain trends. In terms of accuracy, one night was almost a sign. Sometimes it was closed. At night the clock reported that I fell asleep at 8 p.m. and I got a good 12-hour break, in fact I could not sleep all night because of a family emergency. While OnePlus will soon add the ability to view your sleep data with SpO2 in the app, a weird release.
At startup, you can only track sleep on the wrist and you can't view history
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