Monday, July 23, 2018

Mobvoi TicWatch Pro

Even though I'm an iOS developer, in my daily life I'm currently using a Motorola G5+ and not an iPhone. There are several reasons for this choice, but the main one is probably that I'm often dropping my phone and iPhone screen replacements are way to expensive :-)

However I've been using a Motorola 360 2nd gen for about a year. Despite that I liked the look of it and the functions it offers, I've decided to sell it already about a year ago being without smartwatch since then. I my opinion wearOS (or Android Wear as it was called at that time) is still behind watchOS, but I'm a bit old school when it comes to watches so a rectangular watch was never a real option. Beside that the main weakness of all smartwatches is the battery life...

But nowadays there is a smartwatch that faces this problem. I know that the TicWatch Pro is not the first of its kind, but the first that got my attention so I've decided to buy one. The approach that has been taken by the Chinese company is to put an LCD on top of the OLED display which jumps in whenever there is no need for smart features. Basically it puts wearOS on sleep when you just wear it and fires it up when you look at your wrist or when you press a button. In theory that's what you need and when it helps you to charge the watch just once a week then it is a real game changer... if it can hold the promises in real life usage too.


Now I have it since last Friday (about 4 days) and I'm about to charge it the first time. I guess this first week is not representative, as it had to update all its contents, install all the apps and me constantly playing with it, so I'll update this post next week to provide some real numbers.

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