OnePlus Watch 3 – A Breakthrough in Smartwatches?

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The Galaxy watch has been a great recommendation for years until last year where the OnePlus watch gave it some competition. I still preferred the Galaxy watch as an everyday android watch but now the OnePlus watch 3 here absolutely destroys the Galaxy watch in a couple categories. So there are several main upgrades to the OnePlus watch 3 that fixed the biggest drawbacks of the OnePlus Watch 2 and strengthened its biggest benefits. so I’ve been wearing this for about 2.5 weeks now and I only charged it twice. there’s also finally a rotating crown which you don’t have on the Galaxy watch Ultra or the Galaxy watch 7. Of course, I did a ton of testing so in this video, we’ll talk about the design, dive into the new features, and of course go through some of the accuracy tests I ran.

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Additional video notes:

Rotating crown + button
Bottom button – for opening workouts or for ECG

2 colore
Emerald Titanium – silver titanium bezel + the only green is on the rubber strap
Stainless steel case
Stainless steel buckle
So actually very little titanium – not making any real difference on weight or durability. – stainless steel is great though

Obsidian titanium – same thing but black

Strap connection method

Display –
1.5” display
2D sapphire crystal glass
Peak 2200 nits, as low as 1Hz for battery life
IP68 +5ATM – so fine for swimming

Their newest phone is weirdly better at IP69. Shouldn’t be an issue since this is allegedly MIL-810H so good for up to 158F – I wore it in a sauna hotter than that but ideally the watch will be cooled by your skin there

Health monitoring
Multi-dimensional sleep monitoring
Wellness score
Wrist temperature added
60 second health report – Garmin does this but in 2 minutes
6 key indicators – vascular age, hR, SPO2, Mental wellness, sleep quality, wrist temp
ECG analyzer will not be available in the USA – not coming to the US & Canada

This was weird though – got mad at me for a low HR when it was 49

Nap detection tested & it works really well!

Dual engine architecture – Snapdragon W5 & BES2800
Silicon nanostack battery (as seen in oneplus 13)
Now 631mAh vs old 500mAh
This alone will destroy most other watches – Expect others to copy!!
Apple Watch – 18 hrs
Pixel Watch – 24 hrs
Galaxy Watch 7 – about 24 hrs
Now being that the Pixel Watch, Galaxy Watch, and this are three of the most commonly purchased Android smartwatches here in the US, I’ll be making an in-depth comparison video very soon. Get subscribed if you haven’t already!

Usb-C charger
Any other charging methods? – no

UX TOUR

Control tiktok or vertical videos (maybe only YT & TikTok?)
Camera control
SOS
Find my device
Google Wallet, Maps, Calendar, and all the google apps you would expect
Offline spotify

Google Assistant – not branded as Gemini here yet

APP TOUR

SPEAKER & MIC TEST
Bluetooth 5.2

Haptics – ?

PROS:
Beautiful design
Battery life is incredible
Rotating crown makes the watch so much more usable
Plenty of apps available
Video watch faces & customized tiles / widgets
Fall detection – yes
Overall, a fantastic wearos watch

CONS
OHealth app is not great
ONLY ONE SIZE?
Female cycle tracking? – no
No ECG in USA
No bodyscan like what Galaxy has
No mention of aquatouch or glove mode

Huge miss for women. It is clear OnePlus wasn’t thinking of women at all when they made this watch.

Compatible with iphone? – No (expected)