Seven years after the launch of Apple Watch , do we really understand smart watches? Counting down the smart wearable market on the market today, it can be roughly divided into three categories. One is the smart watch with the main function like Apple Watch, the second is the long-life functional watch similar to the main battery life of Huawei Watch, and the third is the low price. Smart bracelets that are affordable.
Last year, OPPO began to deepen the field of smart wear, and successively launched OPPO Watch , OPPO bracelets and other wearable smart devices. Of course, at the time of its birth, there were a lot of objections, thinking that its appearance was too similar to that of Apple Watch, but in fact, the dial of the smart watch can only be made into a circle or a square, and it is inevitable to crash with Apple.
Xiaolei, as an old OPPO Watch user, has a good understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of this watch, and has been hoping that OPPO’s second-generation Watch can solve these problems and provide users with a good Experience.
Just so, Xiao Lei also got the second-generation OPPO Watch recently. Next, let’s take a closer look from the perspective of an ordinary consumer to see if this generation of OPPO Watch is exciting. Start Xiaolei's desire for a new one.
Compared to others, battery life is the most important
Xiao Lei does not want to start from the appearance of OPPO Watch 2. After all, for Xiao Lei, the most important thing about smart watches is not other, but battery life.No matter how good your appearance is, and no matter how good your functions are, it will be useless to lose power all at once.
I believe everyone should know that the current pain point of smart watches is battery life. If you want to ensure long battery life, you have to give up such as esim, dynamic desktop and smooth animation, and only design some basic health or life. Function, but if that is the case, what is the difference with ordinary functional watches.
OPPO Watch 2 gives three solutions. One is to give the option of dual mode switching. By default, the watch will run in full smart mode. In this state, the watch can exert 100% of its strength. , When the battery is reduced to 5%, it will automatically switch to the light smart mode. You can still use the heart rate, blood oxygen, exercise, information notification, NFC and other functions. Of course, you can also switch to this mode by long pressing the power button (theoretical 14 days of battery life).
The second method is to work hard from the chip inside the watch. OPPO Watch 2 is equipped with a brand new Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 4100 processor, which is compared with the previous generation OPPO Watch. Wear 2500, improved performance by nearly 85%. coupled with the Apollo4s chip customized in conjunction with Ambiq, running both at the same time can extend the battery life of OPPO Watch 2 to 4 days in full smart mode.
The last method is to install Android and RTOS in the watch, plus the self-developed UDDE dual-engine hybrid technology, which enables OPPO Watch 2 to automatically switch to a different system according to different usage scenarios. For example, when we look at the time, read information notifications, or view health data, we will use a low-power RTOS system, and when we use larger software such as Baidu Maps, , NetEase Cloud Music, etc., we will switch To the high-performance Android system, fundamentally solve the battery life.
In the actual experience of Xiaolei, he has been wearing it from 9pm on July 22 when he is fully charged, during which automatic brightness, sleep blood oxygen detection, connection to mobile phone, information notification, For commonly used functions such as NFC, there is still 47% of the battery power left at 3 pm on July 25, which is a very good result.
By the way, this time the OPPO Watch 2 uses the latest Watch VOOC flash charging technology, which is officially claimed to be fully charged within one hour. Xiao Lei also actually tested it. It took 27 minutes to charge from 50% to 100%, which is almost in line with official data.
Features: more and more comprehensive, but there are still flaws
The battery life problem is basically solved here in OPPO Watch 2, but if you want to give users a reason to buy, this alone is far not enough. The reason why Apple Watch has become the highest-selling smart watch on the market is that in addition to the powerful A-series chip blessing, a complete software ecosystem is certainly also a very important part.
Therefore, for OPPO Watch 2, in addition to battery life and performance, how to get your own software ecology is also a difficult point.
OPPO Watch 2 provides a built-in App + software store online download,It has 50+ common App adaptations, including Baidu Maps, Alipay, Tencent Translator, Tencent News , Express 100, NetEase Cloud/QQ Music/ Himalaya , Palm Bus and so on.
Of course, it’s one thing to support these apps, but how to display these apps perfectly on the watch is another. Take Xiaolei’s more commonly used map navigation for example, if it’s on a mobile phone. The navigation route has been set up, but when you don’t want to always hold the phone, if the smartwatch can perfectly connect and display detailed data on the dial, it will naturally bring a good experience, but the OPPO Watch generation did not realize it.
On OPPO Watch 2, this slot of Xiao Lei has finally been solved. After matching with ColorOS 11.1 or higher mobile phones, OPPO Watch 2 can achieve "cross-screen collaboration". Simply put, after setting up the cycling and walking navigation through the Baidu map in the mobile phone, and turn on the "flashback button" in the mobile phone, the watch will display the navigation information simultaneously. When you use Didi to take a taxi, you can also use this function to view the license plate and route information.
But the current OPPO Watch 2’s cross-screen collaboration, the number of apps it supports is still too small and too few. If you want to break your wrist with Apple Watch, you need to be more careful in software adaptation, but also Find a new way.
Therefore, the rapidly growing children's watch market has become OPPO's next goal. Because it is limited by children’s inconvenience to use mobile phones, it has a certain degree of connectivity and can use light applications.And the smart watch that can talk becomes the best choice.
In the OPPO Watch 2 app store, we can see a software called WeChat for children. As the name suggests, this WeChat app is the main user for children . Therefore, text input is no longer provided in the chat interface, but replaced by the three major functions of voice, expression and voice call.
Considering that the current society is already the world of electronic payment , the WeChat payment function for children in OPPO Watch 2 has been added. Of course, in order to prevent children from spending money indiscriminately, parents can set the upper limit of payment when binding the watch, up to 500 yuan per day.
Although smart watches do not have as many functions as mobile phones, for children with serious curiosity, they may still use watches on their hands as toys. May affect learning. To this end, parents can set up the classroom mode in the Huantai Health APP in advance. Not only can they choose to turn on the mode at a fixed time point, but they can also disable most of the functions, so that children can learn without interruption.
In general, the software ecology of OPPO Watch 2 has been greatly improved compared with the first generation, but the linkage between mobile phones and watches is still It is not perfect, and I hope it can be solved by OTA in the future.
Appearance: classic hyperboloid screen, but a bit disappointed
In order to make its watch not look too similar to Apple Watch, OPPO used the industry's first hyperboloid design on the first generation of Watch , Can make the watch look lighter and thinner visually, and can better fit the curvature of the wrist, reducing the discomfort when wearing.
Lights up the screen. This is a 1.91-inch AMOLED screen with a ppi of 326 and a screen-to-body ratio of 72.7%. In the state of the screen, it is very black. . The aluminum alloy frame is also polished very delicately, and the texture is even better than Xiao Lei had imagined. However, there is a saying that although the high-gloss case looks good, the problem of easy fingerprints is unavoidable.
Turned to the back, the sensor part of OPPO Watch 2 is still made of ceramic material, which is much better than ordinary plastic in terms of texture and wearing comfort.
Readers who have used the OPPO Watch generation should be impressed by the quick release design of its strap, and the strap can be removed with a single push. The second generation of OPPO Watch also uses this design, but what makes Xiao Lei puzzled is that the disassembly speed of the two is almost the same, but the bayonet of the first and second generations is not the same.This also means that the straps of the two cannot be used in common.
But whether the smartwatch looks good or not, in addition to its own design, it also depends on whether the dial looks good or not. This time OPPO will equip OPPO Watch 2 with hundreds of dials. If you are still not satisfied, there are three other options: "Light Painting Dial", "Album Dial" and "AI Wearing Dial 2.0".
Let me talk about this light-painted dial first. If readers have used OPPO phones, they are expected to be very familiar with the interface of the light-painted dial. This is indeed the transplantation of to ColorOS . The user uses his imagination to create his own dial.
And AI Wearing Dial 2.0 uses a mobile phone to take a photo at will, select an area, and the system will automatically produce a corresponding style dial according to the color of this area. Compared with AI Wearing Dial 1.0, this generation of optional patterns has become more and more interesting.
The left is the first generation, the right is the second generation
However, Xiao Lei also wants to talk about his dissatisfaction from the appearance of the 1st generation OPPO Watch From the above point of view, there is almost no gap. If there is a certain gap between the two in appearance design, it may prompt more old users to upgrade.
Sports: Data must be accurate to make a good watch
Xiaolei doesn’t know how many people around me will buy such products for the sports function on smart wearable devices, but Xiaolei personally cares about this very much. In addition to the variety of sports, the data must also be accurate.
OPPO Watch 2 chose an exclusive cooperation with the Institute of Physical Education of the State Sports General Administration to provide more professional AI motion algorithm support for the OPPO Watch series.
In order to briefly test the accuracy of the data of this watch, Xiao Lei borrowed a colleague’s Apple Watch for comparison. Here, Xiao Lei chose free training. After the exercise is turned on, the interface will display heart rate, energy consumption and exercise Time three data.
It can be seen that after nearly 17 minutes of anaerobic training, the data of the two are very close, and the difference between the numbers of heart rate and energy consumption basically remains in single digits.
Apple on the left, OPPO on the right
In addition to free exercise options, OPPO Watch 2 also records more than 100 exercise modes in daily life like the rowing machine , Cycling, fast walking, skipping rope and so on, basically only you can't think of, nothing can't be done.
It should be noted that the multiple sports modes mentioned above are only an APP built into OPPO Watch 2.If you feel that you don’t usually have so much time to exercise, you might as well turn on the 5-minute easy fitness function in the watch. When you enter this mode, the watch will teach you how to exercise in a short video, and the related data of the exercise will also be displayed below. It can be said that it is a personal trainer worn on the hand.
This function can also be linked with another function of OPPO Watch 2 "Sedentary Reminder". When the watch finds that you have been sitting for more than an hour, it will vibrate Remind you that it's time to get up and exercise for a while, then the dial will display the "5 minutes fitness" option, which is still very useful for office workers like Xiao Lei who often need to sit for a long time.
In addition, functions such as blood oxygen and pressure monitoring that were absent from the previous generation are supplemented in this generation, and sleep information has become more complete. It can basically be said that OPPO Watch 2 is healthy Data monitoring is already at the forefront of the industry.
Summary:
Advantages:
_span1, the hyperboloid design is still bright; Both;
3. Longer battery life and shorter charging time;
Disadvantages:
1. Poor appearance innovation,It is almost the same as the previous generation;
2. The number of straps is too small, and the personalization is not strong enough
Overall, Xiao Lei is personally optimistic about OPPO Watch 2, especially in the battery life design It far surpasses some friend brands. Xiaolei has also experienced many smart watches before, and eventually they gave up using the problem of "battery battery life". After all, battery life is always the biggest pain point of a smart watch.
More importantly, the price of OPPO Watch 2 from 1299 yuan to 1999 yuan is precisely between Apple Watch and ordinary smart watches, and it can be at this price through excellent performance Have sufficient competitiveness in the segment. This can also make consumers realize that now OPPO watches are getting better and better, and there is one more choice in the market, which can also enhance OPPO's own brand value and compare it with other masters on major stages. Compete.
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