OnePlus Watch 2 Review: Total Redemption!

Summary

La OnePlus Watch 2 propose un design élégant et une bonne autonomie grâce à son système hybride comprenant deux puces et deux systèmes d'exploitation. Elle offre 4 jours d'autonomie, un écran AMOLED de qualité, la résistance à l'eau et aux chocs, le suivi d'activité et de santé. Cependant, elle a quelques défauts comme des vibrations médiocres et des notifications avec du retard. Pour 300$, cette montre connectée est compétitive.

Takeaways

• 😀 La OnePlus Watch 2 coûte 300 $ et présente un design circulaire élégant avec un corps en acier inoxydable noir ou argenté et un verre de saphir.
• 📱 Équipée d'un écran AMOLED de 1,4 pouce à 60 hertz, la montre affiche une luminosité de pointe de 1000 nits.
• 🔋 OnePlus revendique une autonomie de 100 heures en mode Smart, dépassant largement celle de ses concurrents comme l'Apple Watch, le Galaxy Watch et le Pixel Watch.
• 👍 La montre atteint les normes de résistance à la poussière et à l'eau IP68, ainsi qu'une norme militaire américaine pour la durabilité.
• 💡 L'innovation majeure de la OnePlus Watch 2 réside dans son système à double puce avec deux systèmes d'exploitation distincts pour optimiser les performances et la durée de vie de la batterie.
• 🔄 Elle intègre un processeur Snapdragon W5 pour les tâches intensives sous Wear OS 4, et un BES 2,700 pour les fonctions basiques sous RTOS.
• 🏋️‍♂️ La montre propose de nombreux cadrans et des entraînements personnalisés, avec une intégration à l'application OHealth pour le suivi des activités.
• 🤔 Un bouton avec une couronne rotative ne remplit aucune fonction, conçu uniquement pour la durabilité.
• ⏲ Il existe un léger délai pour afficher les notifications, reflétant potentiellement le temps de commutation entre les deux processeurs.
• 📉 Malgré quelques faiblesses comme le délai de notification et une compatibilité limitée avec l'iPhone, la OnePlus Watch 2 est considérée comme compétitive et abordable à 300 $.

Q & A

Quelle est la fonctionnalité intéressante de cette montre connectée?

Elle a deux puces et deux systèmes d'exploitation différents pour équilibrer la puissance et l'autonomie de la batterie.

Combien d'heures d'autonomie la montre OnePlus affirme-t-elle avoir?

OnePlus affirme que la montre a une autonomie de 100 heures en mode Smart, qui est le mode par défaut.

Comment la montre OnePlus compare-t-elle à l'Apple Watch Ultra en termes d'autonomie?

Dans le test, la montre OnePlus a duré environ 56 heures, tandis que l'Apple Watch Ultra a duré environ 15% de plus que les 36 heures annoncées.

Quels sont les deux processeurs à l'intérieur de la montre OnePlus?

Il y a un Snapdragon W5 pour exécuter Wear OS, et un BES 2 700 pour exécuter RTOS en permanence.

À quoi sert le double processeur?

Le Snapdragon s'occupe des tâches intensives comme les cartes et la lecture musicale, tandis que le RTOS gère les tâches de faible consommation comme la fréquence cardiaque.

Quelle est la capacité de la batterie de la montre OnePlus?

La montre OnePlus a une batterie de 500 mAh, ce qui est plus grand que les montres concurrentes.

Quels sont les points positifs de la montre OnePlus?

Un beau design, un double GPS pour plus de précision, et une très bonne autonomie de la batterie.

Quels sont les points négatifs de la montre OnePlus?

Un délai pour afficher les notifications, des vibrations médiocres, et pas de compatibilité iPhone.

Que pense l'auteur de la montre OnePlus dans l'ensemble?

Il a été impressionné, surtout par le prix abordable de 300$ pour toutes les fonctionnalités incluses.

À qui cette montre pourrait-elle convenir?

Aux personnes recherchant une montre connectée Android abordable avec une très bonne autonomie et pas mal de fonctionnalités.

Outlines

00:00

😊 Présentation de la montre intelligente OnePlus Watch 2

Le paragraphe présente la nouvelle montre intelligente OnePlus Watch 2 qui coûte 300$. Elle a un bel écran AMOLED circulaire de 1,4 pouces protégé par du verre saphir. Son design en acier inoxydable noir ou argent est similaire aux smartphones OnePlus récents. La montre est étanche, durable et a une autonomie impressionnante de 4 jours grâce à son système hybride composé de deux puces et deux systèmes d'exploitation : le Snapdragon W5 pour les tâches intensives sous Wear OS et un processeur BES plus économe en énergie pour les tâches basiques sous RTOS.

05:02

😃 Test d'autonomie et avis sur les points forts et faibles

Le YouTuber a testé l'autonomie de la OnePlus Watch 2 pendant 4 jours en la comparant à une Apple Watch Ultra. La OnePlus a tenu presque 100h avec toujours allumé grâce à sa grosse batterie de 500 mAh et aurait pu tenir 200h avec toujours éteint. Ses points forts sont le design, l'écran, le GPS double fréquence et l'autonomie. Ses points faibles sont le délai d'affichage des notifications, les vibrations moyennes et l'absence de compatibilité iPhone. Pour 300$, la montre est très compétitive.

Keywords

💡smartwatch

A smartwatch is a wearable computing device that offers features beyond simple timekeeping. As described in the video script, smartwatches connect to smartphones to receive notifications, track health and fitness data, playback music, and run apps. They contain advanced processors and sensors compared to standard watches. The OnePlus Watch 2 discussed is the company's latest smartwatch offering.

💡battery life

Battery life refers to how long a smartwatch can run before needing to be recharged. It is an important consideration for wearable devices since small size limits battery capacity. The script mentions battery life ranging from 18-40 hours for major competitors. The OnePlus Watch 2's hybrid processor system enables an exceptionally long claimed 100 hour battery life.

Highlights

The OnePlus Watch 2 has an interesting dual-chip system with two operating systems to balance performance and battery life

The watch achieved over 50 hours of battery life in testing, compared to only 36 hours for the Apple Watch Ultra

OnePlus claims up to 100 hours of battery life with always-on display disabled

The watch has a high-powered Snapdragon W5 chip running Wear OS for intensive tasks, and a separate chip running RTOS for low-power background tasks

The hybrid system makes the watch both responsive and have great battery life, like a hybrid car

The rotating crown on the side button serves no function, it is just there to make the watch more durable

There is an annoying 2-second delay when checking notifications before they are displayed

The watch has a 500 mAh battery which is larger than competitors with similar battery life claims

With power saver mode enabled, the watch can last up to 12 days on a charge

The watch has a nice premium design with stainless steel body and sapphire glass

It meets military standards for durability and is IP68 water resistant

The display gets very bright at 1000 nits and has a smooth 60Hz refresh rate

It has a good selection of watch faces and workout tracking features

Dual-frequency GPS provides better accuracy

At $300 it's very competitively priced for the technology and features

Transcripts

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- So this smartwatch

has one really interesting trick up its sleeve

that I haven't seen in any other, and that, honestly,

I don't think we're ever gonna see again.

So at this point we know

what a smartwatch is already, right?

This is a stable, mature category.

They deliver mostly across the board

on all the same functions.

And aside from the one crazy trick,

this one is no exception.

This is the OnePlus Watch 2,

three years after the original OnePlus Watch

and it costs 300 bucks.

So for the $300 you're spending,

you're getting a pretty nice circular watch design.

It comes in this black or silver stainless steel body

and a sapphire cover glass

over a 1.4 inch, 60 hertz AMOLED display.

Design-wise, you could argue

it takes cues from maybe the OnePlus 11

or the OnePlus 12 with the way the camera bump

is melted into the side rail of the phone.

They've done a similar thing here

with the buttons on the side of the watch.

So there's a circular button at the top

and this rectangular button at the bottom.

And I kind of like it. It's a nice shape.

It's got this little subtle, classy variation

of just the pure circle.

And then the back looks pretty standard too.

You got the four pins at the top, those are for charging.

And it has all the sensors you'd expect

for a smartwatch in the middle,

optical heart rate sensor,

pulse oximeter for blood oxygen,

and of course, it still has the interchangeable bands,

same as gen one.

And the whole thing is actually both IP 68

dust and water resistant

and reaches a US military standard for durability.

Basically means it can also withstand extreme temperature

and moisture

and shock among other things. (watch taps)

It's not too heavy, it's built pretty well.

This display goes up to a thousand nits peak brightness.

So it looks good. It's built well across the board.

Nice. So what's the catch?

What's the weird twist?

Well at the beginning I mentioned like we already

kind of know what a smartwatch is,

which is a tiny computer on your wrist with a tiny screen

and a tiny battery.

And that's fine.

Like they all tend to have pretty short battery lives

just because they're so small,

and so you kind of just charge 'em every day.

And that's the way it is.

Like the main competitors here are the Apple Watch,

which is 18 hours,

although that's not the most direct competitor

'cause that's the iPhone.

But the Galaxy Watch, one of the best,

40 hours of battery,

and the Pixel Watch, the newest one,

24 hours of battery life.

But this one, OnePlus is claiming 100 hours.

100 hour battery life in Smart Mode,

which is not the battery saving mode,

it's actually the default mode out the box.

100 hours.

So 96 hours is four days.

I feel like, you know, 100 sounds cooler

so they just went with 100.

But four days of battery sounds a lot less inconvenient.

So, you know, I had to put that to the test.

So for the past four straight days

I've been that guy walking around

with both an Apple Watch Ultra,

which claims 36 hours of normal use

and this thing.

Doing all the same stuff with both watches on,

getting notifications, doing workouts,

just poking around the UI.

And by the end, I was actually very impressed with both.

So the $800 Apple Watch Ultra

actually over performed the 36 claimed hours for me.

By hour 56 it was about ready to die.

Now meanwhile, the OnePlus Watch had about 15% left.

Now you're probably thinking, wait,

that's not even close to 100, it's like 50 something.

But OnePlus told me that

if you turn the always on display off,

that's good for two more days of battery life,

it's actually off by default.

I turned it on for this test,

but that would get you well over the 100 hour mark.

To be fair, that's also probably true

about the Apple Watch Ultra.

Now one detail to consider that I think actually mattered

for this particular test.

I've been wearing hoodies a lot

'cause it's that type of weather.

And so even with the sleeves on this Chevron Hoodie,

which I'll link it below

'cause you probably wanna check it out.

It covers the watch.

And so when you cover the watch with your sleeve,

it thinks it's in the dark

'cause the light sensors are covered

so it turns the brightness way down on the watch.

And so I think that's why it outperformed

the battery numbers that it's claiming

is 'cause I had a sleeve over it a lot of the times

and the brightness was low.

But even still, this $300 watch

outperformed this $800 smartwatch just in terms of battery.

Now here's the thing.

The way that they're achieving this battery life

is, I think, more interesting than the battery life itself.

This is the twist.

See, most smart watches have a chip inside,

computing everything,

with some high powered cores and some high efficiency cores

to balance out power and battery life.

This watch has two entirely separate processors

and two different operating systems

running for each of them.

So there's a high powered Snapdragon W5 inside,

that's powering Wear OS 4

and that only lights up for things connected to that.

Then there's also a BES 2,700 chip

that is always on and runs RTOS.

And they both share the same 32 gigs of base storage

and two gigs of RAM.

So Wear OS kicks on for the more intensive tasks

like maps or music playback.

But the RTOS that's always on

is for those basic, low power tasks:

heart rate monitoring, phone calls,

notifications, background stuff.

It's like a hybrid car.

It's really interesting.

And a fully electric car, you guys already know

has all the benefits of being really responsive

but not the best range.

But a gas car has a ton of range,

just not as responsive as fully electric.

So if you get a hybrid, best of the both worlds,

responsive and range.

And this watch, it's a hybrid with the best of both worlds,

responsiveness and range.

So I've been pretty impressed.

You know, using this thing, it's responsive.

It has a ton of watch faces.

There's a lot of custom workouts

which look very familiar with tracking

and everything that still sends all the data

to the OHealth app in plenty of detail for me.

I do still wish now, shoveling snow was a workout type,

but that's another story.

But you know, these here are regular weightlifting workouts.

And also, can I say I really like that it is

hold to end the workout, not tap to end.

So it's way harder to accidentally stop a workout.

Great idea.

Also another weird quirk,

this button here has a crown that rotates.

But that rotation doesn't actually do anything.

It doesn't change the volume,

it doesn't scroll up or down in anything.

It does nothing. It's not connected to anything.

It just freely spins.

apparently, that's literally just to make it

more durable upon impact.

Doesn't serve any function.

Also, it does have this weird hitch,

that it hasn't really gotten any less annoying,

which is if I get a notification,

I feel the buzz on my wrist,

then I lift up my wrist

and it takes like a full two seconds

to show me the notification I just got.

Not that two seconds is a disaster, it's not a ton of time,

but it's longer than you expect,

and it kind of annoys me to have to wait

in comparison to other watches,

which will just show me the notification right away.

And I feel like you can actually see the moment

that it fires up the Snapdragon W5

and Wear OS kind of snaps on right in front of you

before it shows you that notification.

It's very odd.

But here's the other twist on top of

everything we've already talked about.

I don't think this dual chip system

is all of the magic creating this great battery life,

because this watch also has a 500 MilliAmp hour battery.

Now 500 MilliAmp hours doesn't sound like a lot,

but here's the sizes of other smart watches

in competition with this and their battery sizes

and how long they last.

And it's a little bigger than you'd expect.

Now if I gave the Pixel Watch 2,

which also has a Snapdragon W5, by the way.

If I gave the Pixel Watch 2 a 500 MilliAmp hour battery,

do we think it would last 50 hours?

I don't know, but there you go.

Honestly, at the end of the day

I just came away from this mostly just impressed

that they actually kept the price of this watch so low.

Because two chips and two OSs

and the work that goes into that,

I dunno, to me that just sounds expensive

and it's really not missing anything else too drastic.

I think it's competitive in a lot of good ways at 300 bucks.

So I think the clear positives would be:

a nice design, really classy looking design, nice display,

dual frequency GPS, so that's for better accuracy,

and then of course really good battery life.

The four days we talked about is awesome,

but if you put on power saver mode,

it's up to 12 days of battery life.

Now this is gonna disable a lot of the Wear OS things,

so it's just basic stuff, exercises, heart rate monitoring,

but you could get it to really last a week if you wanted to.

But then the weaknesses are

definitely the delay in checking your notifications.

The haptics also aren't that nice,

and there's no iPhone compatibility,

but you already knew that.

But I would also say the charger is not that cool.

Honestly, it's kind of clunky.

I mean it works perfectly fine, don't get me wrong,

but it's just like a big plastic block

with pins and magnets in it.

But it'll get you a full day's charge in 10 minutes

and a full charge in an hour.

So that's acceptable.

But for 300 bucks, I'd say OnePlus has redeemed itself

from its previous efforts in smart watches.

It's pretty good.

Like in a world of smartwatch gimmicks,

there's the one with earbuds inside,

there's the one for fitness,

there's the one for the iPhone.

Maybe this is the one with the hybrid system

and pretty good battery life.

(upbeat music) Maybe that's enough for you.

Let me know in the comments below.

Either way, that's been it.

Thanks for watching.

Catch you the next one. Peace.

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