Earlier today, Oppo launched a bunch of new products in its home country China, including the latest Find N2 foldable series. The brand also introduced a new glacier grey color variant of the Oppo Watch 3 Pro. The wearable debuted in August with Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 chip, AMOLED display, 15-day battery life, and more.

Oppo has announced a new glacier gray color for the Watch 3 Pro. It will be available for purchase in China at a price of 1999 yuan ($286). It is also offered in Platinum Black and Desert Brown colors. Do note that the wearable is not available outside China yet. The international availability of the Oppo Watch 3 Pro is yet to be revealed.

To recall, Oppo Watch 3 Pro arrives with a square dial and has an aluminum alloy frame and fiberglass casing. It sports a 1.91-inch AMOLED screen which is LTPO, a first for a wearable. It packs a 550 mAh battery, which can last five days of full usage and 15 days of light mode. It takes around 65 minutes to fully charge. It weighs 37.5g without the strap.

The smartwatch is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon W5 chipset, paired with 1GB RAM and 32GB storage. There’s also an Apollo 4 Plus chip. It runs ColorOS Watch based on Wear OS and RTOS.

Further, the watch offers LTE connectivity, Bluetooth 5.0, GNSS, and NFC. It is 5ATM water resistant and features sensors, like an accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, optical heart rate sensor, SpO2 sensor, ambient light sensor, and altimeter. There’s also an ECG sensor. It can be paired with both Android and iOS.

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You guys might find it hard to argue with the fact that the Apple Watch is the most powerful smartwatch ever made. But this may require a prerequisite that you are using an iPhone. Obviously, Apple is not bothering to make an effort to win over Android phone users. So do Android users have a similar option to the Apple Watch?

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We’ve reviewed quite a lot of Smartwatches that support Android well, such as the Amazfit series and the Huawei Watch series. The Huawei Watch is especially impressive and we also believe that the latest HUAWEI Watches is probably the best choice for Android users. But when the OPPO Watch 3 series got released, we wondered if things had changed.

So today, let’s check whether the OPPO Watch 3 Pro is the most powerful smartwatch to go with an Android phone.

Design

The OPPO Watch 3 Pro has undergone a significant change in its appearance. Most notably, the Watch has a curved-top design that visually fits the curvature of the human wrist. But if you look closer, you will also notice that the bottom in contact with the skin doesn’t have a similar curved design.

Combined with the curved design of the top, the whole watch looks a bit bulky from the side. But from the front when we use it normally, it looks pretty refined and smooth. At the same time, the curved design also makes the watch look sportier and more stylish. On both sides of the dial, the watch comes with a speaker and a microphone for voice commands, playing music, and making phone calls.

The rectangular display is bright and legible, which gives the watch an advantage over round dials in showing text content. In addition to touch input, the smooth-scrolling digital crown allows users to zoom in and out, and scroll content with good precision.

Display

The curved LTPO display supports adaptive refresh rates, which can reach a minimum refresh rate of 1Hz. It’s a great feature for smartwatches but unfortunately, most new smartwatches do not yet support this feature. It can significantly extend the watch’s battery life with less power consumption for daily use. This is especially true for sports tracking. Thanks to the low-power LTPO display, the Watch also allows users to work out with the Always-on feature. And the 1.91-inch AMOLED display has a peak brightness of 1000 nits. So even under the bright sun, the display content can still be seen clearly.

Snapdragon W5 & Apollo 4 Plus

Battery life is probably the biggest headache for a full-function smartwatch. Well, the OPPO Watch 3 Pro offers pretty good solutions to this issue in both software and hardware departments, at least on paper. The watch adopts a dual-chip design for hardware, one of which is the latest 4nm Qualcomm wearable chip, the Snapdragon W5. It is ideal for high-load smart scenarios and brings a much smoother software experience than its predecessor, along with 40% lower power consumption as claimed. In addition, it also features another small core chip called Apollo 4 Plus to achieve low-power consumption for all-day standby.

Software

For software, there’s a Power-saver mode that can be fast activated by long-pressing the crown. In this mode, you will not be able to install and use third-party apps, and only limited features are available here. For example, there are only several sports tracking modes available in this mode with no AOD. The function menu can only be listed without any animation. And the experience will not be as smooth as in the Smart mode. However, you will significantly extend the battery life from 3 or 4 days to about 2 weeks. So under the Power-saver mode, it works almost the same as a smart band product.

Like the HUAWEI Watch we reviewed before, the OPPO Watch 3 Pro also supports multiple health tracking features, such as Blood oxygen, stress, heart rate, sleep, and step monitor. You can see the ECG app here and probably you’ve also noticed that we didn’t tell you anything about the touch button down below the crown on the side, which actually is an electrode for ECG detection. However, by far the ECG feature is not available yet, so there is nothing you can do with the ECG app, and for now, the electrode doesn’t have any other functions. (P.S. It seems that OPPO has recently pushed the ECG feature, but we’re not sure if it will work in non-Chinese regions.)

It’s almost the same experience as other smartwatches when it comes to these health tracking. But compared to the latest HUAWEI Watches, there’s no skin temperature detection.

As for sports tracking, there are over 100 tracking modes for options. On the OPPO Watch 3 Pro, it’s great to find my favorite basketball and soccer modes, which are still not available on HUAWEI watches. Apart from a few exercises like running and walking, it can only record limited data like exercise time, heart rate, and calories burned.

The companion app of the watch is called HeyTap Health, which is available for all Android phones. The app looks good but I still prefer the Huawei health app, which has a better breakdown and summary of data, and you can also get more life and exercise tips in the app and more training courses with Huawei’s wearables.

The OPPO Watch 3 Pro is undoubtedly the most versatile Android smartwatch on paper. It supports NFC, third-party app installation, voice assistant, and E-sim functions for independent calls. But some of these features only work well in China. For example, some third-party apps are only available in Chinese; the voice assistant couldn’t recognize languages other than Chinese, and the e-sim features only support Chinese carriers.

So if you are concerned about these features, I suggest you wait until the watch gets released in your region or globally. Then I believe OPPO will fix all these regional adaptation issues.

Or you can check out the latest Huawei watches we’ve reviewed. All of them actually got released globally, and they’ve done a better job of customizing features to different regions.

However, I still want to share with you the points that this watch does well in software. For example, It has the best AOD feature that I’ve ever experienced on an Android smartwatch. The system feels really smooth and the experience is close to Apple Watches. Especially for the main menu, instead of simply zooming the app bubbles in and out, it gets a more regular arrangement when zoomed in or out. And it also shows the apps’ names if the bubbles become big enough. Even though the experience of these third-party apps is not perfect, we could still find apps to have fun with, such as the FitBuddy app. I believe you would enjoy having a kitten on your watch.

Under the smart mode, the watch lasted for over 3 days as we turned almost all the features on. But when you switch to the Power-saver mode, the watch can work like a sports smart band with standby for around 2 weeks.

I’m happy to see that the watch gives the choice to the user… But wait, in that case, why don’t I buy a cheaper smart band instead of the bulky watch which claims to be all-powerful, right?

So that’s all the facts that we believe are important about the OPPO Watch 3 Pro. To be honest, we are a bit disappointed, but it’s not exactly the product problem. For those users who live in China, it certainly deserves the title of one of the best smartwatches. However, if not, I do not really recommend you guys to get it from an overseas retailer as you may have trouble with the language.

So what are your thoughts on the OPPO Watch 3 Pro? Let us know in the comments section down below.

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The latest OPPO Watch 3 Pro is now available on Giztop for $389 only. 

OPPO WATCH 3 PRO

Key Features:

• 1.91-inch LTPO dual curved OLED display
• Qualcomm Snapdragon W5 chipset and Apollo 4 Plus chip
• 1GB RAM and 32GB storage
•  24 x 7 blood oxygen monitoring and heart rate monitoring
• Sleep tracker and snoring risk assessment
• Professional AI sports algorithm
• 100 sports mode and 6 auto recognition modes
• 500mAh battery: 5 days in Smart Mode and up to 15 days in RTOS-only mode
• VOOC 2.0 charging 
• 5ATM water resistant
• Supports eSIM – make and receive calls, check and receive information, download applications, etc
• Multiple modes: family care mode, classroom mode, and gaming mode
• Colors: Black (Rubber strap), Brown (Leather strap)

You can now buy the OPPO Watch 3 PRO – Black RUbber strap version for $389 and the Brown Leather Strap version for $419 only on Giztop. 

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A few weeks ago, OPPO had announced its latest smartwatch lineup in the form of OPPO Watch 3 series. As the name indicates, the wearable device is a successor to the Watch 2 lineup launched by the company last year.

Today, the company has officially started selling the OPPO Watch 3 series smartwatches in the Chinese market. OPPO is also offering a 100 yuan discount for those who purchase the product in the first sale.

The OPPO Watch 3 is priced at 1,599 yuan (~$235), while the model with leather strap costs 1,699 yuan (~$250). On the other hand, the Pro model is priced at 1,999 yuan (~$294), and the leather strap version is priced at 2,099 yuan (~$308).

Coming to the specifications, the OPPO Watch 3 lineup comes with a square dial, just like its predecessors. The Watch 3 feature a 1.75-inch AMOLED screen with a screen resolution of 430 x 372 pixels, while the Watch 3 Pro has a larger 1.91-inch LTPO curved OLED display with a screen resolution of 496 x 378 pixels.

Under the hood, both the devices come powered by the new Qualcomm Snapdragon W5 chipset coupled with 1GB RAM and 32GB of internal storage. There’s also the company’s own Apollo 4 Plus chip.

It comes with support for LTE connectivity, Bluetooth 5.0, GNSS, and NFC for payments, passes, and car keys, among others. The devices are rated 5ATM for water resistant and feature all the essential sensors, like an accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, optical heart rate sensor, SpO2 sensor, ambient light sensor, and altimeter. Additionally, the OPPO Watch 3 Pro model also comes with an ECG sensor.

In the software department, the smartwatch runs the ColorOS Watch 5.0 out-of-the-box. The Watch 3 is powered by a 400mAh battery and is said to offer four days of battery life, while the Pro model is powered by a 550mAh battery, with the company promising five days of usage on a single charge.

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Oppo Watch 3 series is finally here as scheduled. The company took wraps off its latest wearable lineup in China today. The series consists of two models, namely Oppo Watch 3 and Oppo Watch 3 Pro.

Oppo Watch 3 Series Specifications

The Oppo Watch 3 arrives with a square dial, just like its predecessors. They feature an aluminum alloy frame and fiberglass casing. The Watch 3 has a 1.75-inch AMOLED screen with a resolution of 430 x 372 pixels. Whereas, the Watch 3 sports a larger 1.91-inch LTPO curved OLED display with a resolution of 496 x 378 pixels. Interestingly, both models come with the same 326 PPI but only the Pro version flaunts a crown.

Talking about common things, the duo is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon W5 chipset paired with 1GB RAM and 32GB storage. They also house Oppo’s own Apollo 4 Plus chip. They dual-boot ColorOS Watch based on Wear OS and RTOS.

In typical usage (mix of Wear OS and RTOS modes), the Pro variant (550mAh battery) is rated to last for up to 5 days, while the vanilla (400mAh battery) model is said to offer an endurance of up to 4 days. With LTE, the battery life drops by a day for both, and with heavy usage, it further drops by 1.5 days. In RTOS-only mode, they can last for up to 15 days and 14 days, respectively.

Based on this information, the Oppo Watch 3 series seems to be the best Wear OS smartwatch for battery life to date. It is probably due to the new Snapdragon W5 chip, which is making its global debut on these wearables.

Further, both variants offer LTE connectivity, Bluetooth 5.0, GNSS, and NFC (payments, passes, car keys). They are 5ATM water resistant and feature all the essential sensors, like accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, optical heart rate sensor, SpO2 sensor, ambient light sensor, and altimeter. The Pro variant also comes with an ECG sensor.

Last but not least, the Oppo Watch 3 series can be paired with both Android and iOS.

Oppo Watch 3 Series Price and Availability

The Oppo Watch 3 series will retail at the following price tags in China.

• Oppo Watch 3
  • Black (Rubber Strap) – ¥1,599 ($237)
  • Brown (Leather Strap) – ¥1,699 ($252)
• Oppo Watch 3 Pro
  • Black (Rubber Strap) – ¥1,999 ($296)
  • Brown (Leather Strap) – ¥2,099 ($311)

Both the variants are already up for pre-order in China and will go on sale from 12 AM on August 19.

Oppo is yet to reveal the international availability of these wearables.

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