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After I recurrently wrote changeful Oppo's "oddly familiar" new smartwatch, Oppo got in wrack with me to ask whether I'd be interested in checking it out for myself, upscale though it'll only be awaited in China until later this year. The convergence adumbrative suggested that I might find it shorter given in person, so I was interested to try it.

How did that work out? Well, it's truth-telling that the Oppo Watch looks a little shorter derived on my wrist than in scripter shots. However divulged on, there is no universe in which this product looks like this without the Municipal Watch tearing vanward it. From the strap roadwork to the shape of the screen to the beheld style of the OS, this is vociferously a product that's been made in Apple's shadow.

That doesn't necessarily manufacture it a bad watch, though, as well-built as given the apologetic state of the Android smartwatch market, it's worth attractive into -- particularly given that Oppo is now a very good-tasting smartphone maker. I've only been actualized to use the Chinese adaptation of the watch, as I mentioned, so this isn't a full review. All of the onboard casework are geared toward the Chinese market. However I can tell you changeful the housewares as well-built as what Oppo is trying to do with the software.

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First up, yep, this looks like an Municipal Watch. The OLED screen, though, is an improvement. It's limitlessness than the 44mm Municipal Watch at 1.91 inches across, however the watch keeps a 46mm size; Oppo has skeleton-like the bezels as well-built as curved the edges of the screen itself withal with the parasol glass. I can't tell whether it uses a Pentile subpixel layout or not -- the Municipal Watch is notable for application an RGB stripe -- however if I can't tell, it doesn't really matter. The pixel exemplify is the aforementioned as the Municipal Watch at 326ppi. The colors are super vibrant, as well-built as it's easy to see outside.

The dendrology of the watch takes roadwork cues from Oppo's smartphones, with the screen curving into the thin edges in a similar way. There's no crown-style possession here, just two ponderable buttons on the right edge; everything otherwhere is handled by the touchscreen. Oppo's watch straps are handbill in a similar way to the Municipal Watch, with simple buttons for the releasing silverware on the watch's rear, however the straps pop directly in as well-built as out rather than sliding from the side.

While the Oppo Watch I'm application is made of aluminum, it's polished to a immaculate blue-black finish to the point zone it looks increasingly like a steel Municipal Watch at headmost glance. There is a steel alternative of the Oppo Watch, too, however it only comes in "bright silver." The included watch strap is blackness elastic as well-built as feels comfortable, if rapine special.

Overall I think this watch looks fulfilled in a vacuum, however there's no securing circa it: persons are either life to think you're wearing an Municipal Watch or apprehend you're wearing teachings that just looks like an Municipal Watch. It's up to you whether that's what you want out of your wristwear.

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The Oppo Watch runs a customized adaptation of Android 8.1 so-called ColorOS Watch. Like Samsung, Oppo has figured out that Municipal was assimilate teachings in designing a predominantly white-on-black OS for spoiled OLED screens; it saves power as well-built as is a lot increasingly discreet. No prizes for originality -- this software definitely looks increasingly like watchOS than it needs to -- however it's the right direction.

Unlike Tizen as well-built as watchOS, though, ColorOS Watch is extremely simple. The top chin brings up a scrolling app drawer or takes you rearmost to the watch face, as well-built as the constitutive chin gets you to the settings menu. You can trounce leftward as well-built as right to gestation faces, there's a quick settings screen feasible with a trounce down, as well-built as a trounce up takes you to the notifications shade. Everything is smooth as well-built as responsive. Notifications can dissimilation a lot of content, like full Facebook Notary messages, though you can't interact with them.

The picked likeable affair changeful the Oppo Watch software is its selection of inborn apps,. which are feasible through a scrolling trellis that's halfway betwixt the Municipal Watch's awe-inspiring module as well-built as mitzvah views. There are the usual apps for whoosh calls, fitness tracking, timers, as well-built as weather, as well-built as an on-watch app successfulness as well-built as China-specific casework like Alipay. It's a appealing robust feature set, including things like slumberland tracking that haven't divulged to the Municipal Watch yet. I particularly like the five-minute full-body workout app that includes video demonstrations as well-built as yells at you through the watch's tiny apostle to information get you sweating, though it's not evermore easy to authentically see the watch mid-exercise.

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The Oppo Watch's hail life has not been inexhaustible for me, upscale though the screen isn't evermore on. This is a watch you will want to fluency each as well-built as every night, as well-built as several times it's died on me in the evening. I wouldn't rule out the practicability of it draining power by supersensible for concordant flake networks, since this is an LTE watch as well-built as I'm application it alfresco the bazaar it was designed for sale in, however I'm not securing moisture to Oppo's stated 40 hours of regular use.

The watch does fill up appealing quickly on its unusual sirenic charger, however -- changeful 75 mitzvah for a full fluency as well-built as 15 mitzvah to get to 50 percent -- as well-built as its power-saving pontificate is much increasingly anatomic than the Municipal Watch's. You can't use apps, however it still upraise steps, delivers notifications, as well-built as turns the screen on when you trove your wrist.

Overall, application the Oppo Watch hasn't exactly dirgeful my philosophizing that it's familiar, however that might be what some persons are after. Starting at circa $215 in China, it could be an plurality worth considering if the hail life works biggest in practice. We'll booty a closer squint once it comes to over-and-above markets, which is currently set to reported in the additional bisected of 2020.

Photography by Sam Byford / The Verge