The first to know that went out to ask about the brand of and TicWatch was seen by chance at a " China Mobile Global Partner Conference " several years ago. What was particularly surprised at that time was that his smart watch was actually equipped with a dual-screen stacked upper and lower layers - AMOLED screen + FSTN LCD screen. In this way, the watch can be opened all day and the battery life of the smartwatch can be extended.
and TicWatch ProX, which supports eSIM independent Internet access and is equipped with the full intelligent operating system WearOS, also adopts this screen solution, so that I can still use it for more than 4 days when I use it normally and exercise for 1-2 hours every day. With this long battery life, I think it is only meaningful to talk about a watch - if you charge frequently, it is easy to buy it and eat dust.
Then let’s take a look at the overall user experience of TicWatch ProX.
After using it recently, I summarized the experience of TicWatch in a streamlined sentence for the usage of TicWatch ProX: exceeding expectations, proactive service and agility.
Currently, smart watch products are mainly the world of mobile phone manufacturers - such as Apple watches and Huawei watches occupy the majority, and it is difficult for third-party independent watch brands to compare with their voice and sales. If you don’t know about it specifically, few people will pay attention to products from third-party independent watch brands. It was a coincidence that the author came into contact with TicWatch ProX by himself. After using it, the feeling that it really exceeded my original expectations:
is a performance in battery life.
Like the Apple Watch S8 series just released and the Watch3 series of Huawei , their battery life is within 1-2 days, which means that it normally requires charging once every 1-2 days. However, this TicWatch ProX can actually reach 2-4 days, including daily indoor exercise power consumption, which has refreshed my understanding of this type of product.
One is a problem with the stability of the connection with the mobile phone.
smart watches mainly need to be used with mobile phones. As a third-party watch product other than mobile phone brands, it is not easy to make the connection stability with mobile phones. I usually use it with Huawei Mate40 Pro. Looking back, I found that I have almost never encountered any connection stability problems:
- , after disconnecting from the Bluetooth range of the mobile phone, it automatically connects within the range, and does not need to connect manually again;
- , during daily use, it is also normal to receive messages pushed by the mobile phone and transmit the heart rate information, exercise monitoring information, sleep information, etc. collected by the watch on the mobile phone, just like using a watch brand of the same mobile phone. I have preset the possibility that the background may be cleaned up and causing disconnection problems, because this is a big risk point when using watches and mobile phones across brands.
One is an active service
When using some smartwatches, I found a big problem: the function is fine. When looking at the parameter table, I did see a lot of functions, but during the actual use, you will find that these functions are very scattered and require you to set some professional parameters one by one, or hide them deeply. I think this kind of product is a manifestation of the inertia of the work of product managers and R&D departments. If you use
TicWatch ProX, you will find that you are surrounded by its active service during use:
You have walked for a few minutes, and it automatically turns on exercise monitoring for you, and when you stop, it will automatically pause - other running, elliptical machine , strength training, etc. After you pause the monitoring, watch monitoring basically monitors this state in a few seconds, and then it will automatically pause, and wait for you to resume training and start monitoring;
Xiaoyou Health: packages the exercise, training intensity, heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, mood, etc., and sets a daily activity goal to remind your day's activities from time to time.I think this is almost a personal trainer-style sports and health assistance function.
surrounded by these active services, I feel like I am not facing a bunch of hashed data when using this phone, but I am really enjoying the corresponding flexible functional services, or feeling "intelligence" rather than instruments.
One is the dial usage experience
As mentioned earlier, the screen of TicWatch ProX is a stacked dual screen:
- The first layer is an LCD screen, which is mainly used to keep light, which is convenient for viewing time at any time and also for you to view the time you have exercised. In this state, it will distinguish the current time and the current movement duration, and will automatically pause and automatically resume counting for the movement duration.
- first layer is an AMOLED screen, which is used for regular display like other watches. This screen displays well and is very smooth - when you go out and ask about the animation effect in it is also very smooth.
One is WeChat
RTOS system long-term battery life watch has only recently begun to upgrade to support WeChat, and TicWatch ProX has long supported WeChat. It can view WeChat messages, such as voice, text and pictures; it can also reply to emoticons, voice and voice to text; it can also answer WeChat voice calls (cannot call).
mobile terminal
mobile terminal needs to install two apps, one is Google WearOS, and the other is to go out and ask. Actually, I suggest that if you exercise a lot, install a Keep exercise (this watch can be connected to Keep, or you can practice with the tutorial in Keep). The page designs of these two apps are simple and beautiful, and the functions are easy to reach instead of hiding around waiting for you to find something.
Sports monitoring
Now almost every smartwatch/bracelet is claimed to be able to monitor dozens or hundreds of sports, so is TicWatch ProX. What I use a lot of myself is mainly monitoring of hiking, indoor jogging, elliptical machines and several types of strength training. There are quite a lot of dimensions of data monitoring, and the accuracy is not very certain (no third-party trusted comparison).
During the motion monitoring process, I think the two are very different or the advantages are:
- , one is that its monitoring sensitivity is very high. Whether it is for those motion modes that can automatically monitor automatic running, or other motion modes that can be manually turned on, it is very sensitive to whether you have paused or resumed exercise;
- , the screen display is its screen display, which can display the exercise duration, heart rate, current time and other information in the LCD screen state (equivalent to the constant-on state of the lock screen), which is both power-saving and convenient.
However, in terms of sports status reminders, I think I can do more, such as regular voice notifications on how long I have been exercising, how far I have been running, and what my heart rate is. I hope to inform whether my heart rate is too low or too high, so that I can be safer, more assured and have a bottom when exercising.
Other functions:
1. It can detect noise conditions. I compared it with a special noise detection instrument myself, and the accuracy is OK.
2. The watch has a batch of official applications pre-installed, and can also expand third-party apps. The watch has a built-in app store and is pre-installed with Himalaya , NetEase Cloud Music, WeChat, etc.
3. Health monitoring: It supports sleep monitoring, heart rate monitoring, blood oxygen saturation monitoring, atrioventricular fibrillation screening and other functions, which is quite good. And he also developed an experimental function - mental fatigue and energy-intensive situation. This is a very interesting thing if you don’t know the accuracy and principle of monitoring.
4. You can open the access card and transportation card to your watch, so that you can open the door/swipe the bus and subway with a wave.
wear comfort:
TicWatch ProX, and the appearance designer is more sporty and business-oriented, and the strap is a brown leather glue mixed strap by default. It has a serious appearance and is suitable for wearing in business or sports.
The steel ring on the edge of the front screen is higher than the screen, so that when waving or falling, it can prevent scratching the screen to a certain extent. I scratched the screen of several watches in front of this praise. After you get the hand, it is recommended to rinse it with water and wipe it clean before wearing it, otherwise it may be a little itchy when wearing it. When wearing it, pay attention to maintenance and clean out sweat stains or moisture in time, otherwise it will also affect the health of the wrist. The weight of the
watch is the kind, it will not be so light that you cannot sense it, nor will it make you feel heavy.
The overall user experience of TicWatch ProX is probably the above situations. I wonder if you have any questions covering everyone’s usage scenarios? Let me share more information with you below:
One is about whether to enable eSIM:
TicWatch ProX itself supports the activation of eSIM. I opened my own mobile dual terminal and experienced it, and I guess it will still be turned off later. For me, I don't think this function is very urgent. When a watch is connected to a mobile phone, most of it can be used themselves - including WeChat. I would like to mention it here - when connecting to Bluetooth mobile phones, the default is to first cooperate with mobile phone services through Bluetooth. This setting can save a lot of power. If you want to activate
, I think you should still evaluate whether you like to move/exercise without bringing your phone. If so, it is better to activate it.
One is about cooperation with mobile phones.
The phone I matched is Huawei Mate40 Pro. In terms of permission acquisition and functional depth, I think it is even better than Huawei's own watch. For example, when your phone receives a message, you can either open it on the watch or choose to click "View on your phone" on the watch, which can directly open the SMS interface of your phone. When I saw this situation, I smiled for a long time.
combined with the connection stability I mentioned earlier, it can be seen that the compatibility between TicWatch ProX and mobile phones is quite high.
TicWatch ProX is worth buying:
TicWatch ProX has been on the market for more than half a year, and there are indeed many new watches on the market. But as far as my personal experience is concerned, I think this watch itself is pretty good, and it has a very cost-effective performance after the price reduction, which is very worth buying. Especially for mobile phone users who have just started or have poorly made it, it is more suitable as a third-party choice with good compatibility.
