OnePlus Watch seems too good to be true. Is there a catch?

OnePlus has entered the wearables market with its new OnePlus Watch, a seemingly high-end smartwatch in each seems to be and options, however at a lower cost than the competitors. The $159 (£149, roughly AU$270) OnePlus Watch has rather a lot going for it. It has a modern design, superior well being sensors to maintain tabs on blood oxygen and stress ranges, and a week-long (or extra) battery life that would put the Samsung Galaxy Watch and Apple Watch to disgrace. 

Nevertheless it’s not with out its shortcomings. It is not suitable with iOS gadgets (but), and has fewer third-party apps. 

Along with its new watch, OnePlus has additionally launched two new telephones, the OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Professional.

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Easy, round design  

At first look, the OnePlus Watch bears a placing resemblance to the Galaxy Watch Energetic, Samsung’s $250 sports activities watch. It has a spherical watch face, AMOLED touchscreen, and a few buttons on the facet of its stainless-steel body. However in contrast to the Galaxy Watch Energetic, which is available in two sizes, the OnePlus Watch is just accessible in a 46mm case with interchangeable watch bands that may be swapped out for third-party options. 

Primary smartwatch performance 

The OnePlus Watch does every little thing you’d count on a smartwatch to do in 2021: show and reply to notifications, make and reply telephone calls, play music and function a distant on your telephone digital camera and OnePlus TV. Nevertheless it does not have Spotify help or every other music app, for that matter. As an alternative it comes with 2GB of inside storage for music. That interprets to about 500 songs, which you’ll be able to hearken to on the go when paired with Bluetooth earbuds. It is solely suitable with OnePlus and different Android telephones for now, however the firm says iOS help will are available time. 

Well being and health options transcend the fundamentals

The watch additionally does your fundamental health monitoring with over 110 totally different exercise varieties to select from and robotically logs your runs no matter whether or not or not you could have your telephone with you. It has built-in GPS and a 5ATM IP68 score, which makes it protected for swim monitoring. 

It additionally goes past the fundamentals and might measure SpO2 (blood oxygen ranges) on demand, in addition to detect stress ranges and flag abnormally excessive coronary heart charges. We’ll report again on accuracy on each health and well being options as soon as we’re capable of try it out for ourselves. 

Battery life for days  

The opposite huge promoting level for the OnePlus Watch, other than its price ticket, is its battery life. Even when it does not final the 2 weeks of regular use that the corporate claims (one week firing in any respect cylinders), it is nonetheless miles forward of the Galaxy Watch 3 and Apple Watch, which barely make it to the 48-hour mark. 

The watch additionally fees quick: You will get a full day of energy from 5 minutes on the charger, or wait 20 minutes for per week’s price of cost.

Time will inform

The One Plus Watch appears to test all of the containers in the case of worth, options and design, however the jury’s nonetheless out on whether or not or not the corporate’s first smartwatch can ship on all of its guarantees. As soon as we will try it out for ourselves, we’ll let if it is nearly as good of a deal because it sounds. 

The OnePlus Watch goes on sale April 14. It is accessible from OnePlus.