The smartwatch market has taken off over the past couple of years. We have seen popular brands launch flagship models, but at high prices and there are also budget smartwatches with somewhat similar features, priced at a fraction of those prices. Oppo plans on sitting somewhere in between the premium and budget smartwatch brackets, with all the features of the expensive smartwatches, while also attempting a popular design. This is also a Google Wear OS watch, so there are things every Android smartphone user will like. 
If you are wondering what makes budget smartwatches any different from the premium ones, it’s the lack or limited support for prominent smartwatch operating systems. Budget smartwatches use proprietary operating systems that don’t include smart features that the Oppo Watch has, thanks to its Google Wear OS support. The Oppo Watch uses a 1.91-inch AMOLED display. The watch has a 3D-curved design all around, on the edges of the screen, the sides and back. It is built primarily out of aluminium and it comes in two colours, black and glossy gold. It is an impressively sized screen for a smartwatch and it has a high pixel density of 326 PPI and a 100 per cent DCI-P3 colour gamut, so you get accurate and realistic colours. The straps on the watch can be replaced with nicer, colourful options, to jazz up your smartwatch. The strap is made of a Flurorubber material, which means you can to use the smartwatch in water.
Using the Google Wear OS has several benefits. It lets the Oppo Watch have way better support for notifications from apps running on your smartphone. You can quickly reply to messages from the Oppo Watch, while budget smartwatches can’t. Of course, some features such as replying to messages are only possible if you use an Android smartphone. The Oppo Watch can stream online music and you can control the music using controls on the watch screen. The benefit you get over budget smartwatches is that you can actually interact with your phone more, rather than just get visual notifications. You also get access to a lot of information from the phones such as shopping lists, messages and more. You can also make payments from your watch or locate your phone in case you lose it.
The Oppo Watch is also water resistant up to 50 meters so can go swimming with it. You can go for runs in the rains or if you sweat a lot, it won’t be an issue. There is GPS and GLONASS built into the watch, so you won’t need to carry your smartphone with you on your fitness routine. Practically all the performance and features are made possible by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear 3100 processor onboard, that is helped by the 1 GB of RAM. It also 8GB of internal storage that helps it do all its magic.
There are a lot of other nifty features built into this watch. One can click a photo the day’s outfit and the watch lets you choose a suitable design and theme. You can even use photos from your phone album as a watch face. These are the kind of customizations rarely found on other smartwatches, even higher up the price order.
The Oppo Watch has a built-in heart rate monitor so you can keep tabs on all kinds of physical activities such as running walking cycling or swimming. It even has Google Fit support so you get all kinds of advanced analytics, and you can also sync exercise data to the Google ecosystem. There is an X-shaped activity meter on the watch, with four different colour bands that you can work towards as a daily goal. You know exactly how much exercise you have done so far, and how much you need to do to meet your target. It’s just the kind of motivation required to be fit and constantly active. There are also breathing exercise reminders to help calm you down and some others to ensure you’re always on the move. Oppo even has its own HeyTap health app that can be downloaded from the Google Play Store. It lets you customize your watch faces, and record health data.
This is a Google Wear OS supported smartwatch, so you also get access to Google Assistant straight from your wrist. You will need a phone connected to it for it to work. You can then ask Google Assistant for any kind of information you might have on your smartphone, whether it’s weather updates, or asking it to book appointments, translating from one language to another, some quick maths and more.
Most smartwatches suffer from the problem of quick battery drain, and no one likes having to recharge their watch all the time. The Oppo Watch claims to have a 21 day-battery backup on a power saver mode, and 36 hours in the Smart mode. Charging the watch is not a problem, with the all-new VOOC Flash Charging. It takes about 15 minutes to charge from 0 to 46 per cent, and 75 minutes if you want to charge it from 0 to 100 per cent.
The Oppo Watch is just the kind of smartwatch if you are an Android smartphone user and you want a premium option that brings the smartphone to your wrist, not just notifications. You can now buy the Oppo Watch online at reliancedigital.in or at your nearest Reliance Digital store.
