With its cutting-edge battery life and charging speed, eye-catching AMOLED display, Wear OS 5 features you’ll love, and next-level fitness tracking statistics, the OnePlus Watch 3 corrects the flaws of its predecessors.
One of the greatest Wear OS watches available right now is the OnePlus Watch 3. Without compromising on features you love or a bright display you can see in the sun, it outperforms all other Wear OS 5 smartwatches with a battery life of 4-6 days.
The health tracking is a generational improvement over its predecessor, performance is excellent, and the new rotating crown offers one of the most fulfilling haptic feedback experiences available. I wish OnePlus had an LTE model and more size options, but the main drawback is that North American customers aren’t able to use the same ECG function as people in other parts of the world.
Advantages
Amazing battery 4-6 day life
Significantly better fitness tracking (free of charge)
The OHealth app is now worthwhile.
All common 22mm straps are compatible.
Gorgeous, luminous DC-dimmed OLED
Outstanding design, haptics, and rotating crown
Parental control features
Drawbacks
North America has no ECG.
Just one size, and it’s large.
Not using an LTE model
Up to Wear OS 7, there are just two OS updates.
This is the third time. Although this is a rather general term that can be used to describe anything, it particularly applies to the OnePlus Watch 3, the company’s phenomenally successful third attempt at creating a complete smartwatch solution.
The past
With the release of the first dual-CPU, dual-OS smartwatch powered by Wear OS last year, the OnePlus Watch 2 reignited the company’s aspirations for a successful smartwatch. Battery life was one of its many strong points, but it fell short of Wear OS watches’ exacting standards for fitness tracking.
I’m pleased to report that OnePlus has resolved all of my concerns regarding the accuracy of fitness and workout tracking, as well as improving battery life over the previous year’s watch thanks to its innovative smartwatch architecture. The company is providing an extra year of security updates, the rotating crown does something this year, and the display is better and more aesthetically pleasing.
Retail Prices and Deals
The OnePlus Watch 3 retails for $329.99 USD or $449.99 CAD and is available in two colorways: Emerald Titanium (silver with a green band) and Obsidian Titanium (black with a black band). OnePlus only offers one size, and neither color option supports LTE connectivity. Originally expected to ship at the end of February, the watch was delayed until April because of a typographical error.
The OnePlus 3, Band Styles and Colors
The OnePlus 3 comes with a charging dock and a red cable; to get the fastest charging speeds, you’ll need a OnePlus charger, but you can use the one that comes with any OnePlus phone. OnePlus offers a few different band styles and colors, including a blue one that matches the Ocean Blue OnePlus 13. However, you don’t have to use OnePlus’s own selections if you don’t want to stick to them.
If there is one overriding theme to the OnePlus Watch 3, it is the extreme improvement. Since launching the first OnePlus Watch in 2021, OnePlus has advanced significantly, providing best-in-class hardware design, performance, battery life, and health tracking accuracy.
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Features of the OnePlus Watch 3
You frequently have to choose between two important features at the expense of a third when selecting a smartwatch. Do you want a lot of apps to choose from, a long battery life, or superior fitness tracking capabilities? With the exception of the Galaxy Watch Ultra, all Galaxy and Pixel watches require daily charging, but they all provide excellent fitness monitoring and app integration.
Fitness Tracking:
With AOD turned on, sleep tracking every night, and an hour of tracked exercise every day, I consistently received a full four days of battery life from the OnePlus Watch 3. This is comparable to the OnePlus Watch 2, but the Watch 3 is able to accomplish all of this without the heat rate sensor issues and sporadic notification problems that the Watch 2 had. Smartwatches from companies like Garmin or Coros offer great fitness tracking and super long battery life, but they lack the apps of a Wear OS watch.
AOD is turned off when the watch is first shipped, which will extend its battery life by about one day. You can use it for a full six days on a single charge if you don’t care about sleep tracking and just want to use it as a fitness tracker and a hub for notifications throughout the day. Usually, you may extend that to day 7 with this setup: AOD off, no sleep tracking, simply wearing it during the day and recording an hour-long workout.
Battery and Charging the OnePlus Watch 3
It takes no time at all to top up the battery when it ultimately runs low. According to standard OnePlus practice, a 20-minute charge will increase the battery’s capacity by roughly 75%, and another 20 minutes will bring it to full charge. It will definitely last you a whole day without any issues, even if you only had a few minutes to fill it up before leaving.
The OnePlus Watch 3’s energy save mode will allow it to run for more than two weeks on a single charge if you don’t care about Wear OS apps at all and simply want fitness tracking, notifications, and sleep monitoring. Although it functions more like a Garmin watch in this mode, you can always return to standard “Smart mode” to retrieve your apps.