![]() Still, of all the aesthetic ideas that OPPO borrowed from the Apple Watch, I wish the band would’ve been one of them. I’ve grown to loathe most bands that have a free loop instead of a buckle-and-tuck design, but I realize that’s more subjective than the scope of this review should be. I don’t personally love it, but it gets the job done. OPPO does not have that same sort of leverage, so you’ll be left with whatever OPPO sells and maybe a handful of no-name third-party options. Apple can go with a proprietary system because it’s Apple-third-party manufacturers will always make accessories for its products. That means you have to buy bands specifically made for the OPPO Watch, which are absolutely not in abundance at the time of writing. Instead, it’s a similar but equally proprietary system. OPPO also chose to clone the Apple Watch’s proprietary band system-just not to the point where you can use Apple Watch bands on the OPPO Watch. The biggest difference is that it has a couple of physical buttons instead of a crown, and both the 41mm and 46mm sizes are a bit bigger than their respective Apple Watch counterparts (40mm and 44mm). It’s, um, heavily inspired by Apple’s smartwatch, no doubt. When OPPO announced the Watch back in March of this year, the aesthetic similarities to the Apple Watch were immediately drawn. Yes, It Looks Like an Apple Watch It’s uncanny. It’s currently limited to India (Rs 14,990/Rs 19,900), and will be released in the U.K. Note on availability: OPPO hasn’t announced U.S. If you’re looking for a notification machine on your wrist and don’t care about fitness (or anything else), then maybe that’s good enough for you. They’re limited and not all that accurate. But these features feel like an afterthought at best, and a half-assed solution at worst. OPPO tried to at least add in some of the features that users want-like fitness and sleep tracking. But it’s not just a stock Wear OS experience, mind you. So, they’re left with two options: Build their own smartwatch OS, or use Wear OS. I can see the appeal for manufacturers here, especially considering they can’t just license an actually good smartwatch OS from the likes of Apple, Samsung, or even Fitbit. It takes years to build a good smartwatch platform like Samsung and Apple have done, and Wear OS is freely available for manufacturers to use in their own smartwatches. To cut right to the chase: it’s not enough. But by adding its own features in, it hopes to offset Wear OS’ faults. That’s what OPPO had to work with for its Watch-a platform riddled with shortcomings relative to the rest of the market. That is unless you consider Google’s Wear OS platform, which hasn’t grown or changed much since the 2.0 update nearly two years ago. On the other hand, the focus on Move Minutes and Heart Points is a seriously valuable way to go about teaching users how to stay healthy.The world of smartwatches has evolved dramatically and quickly. It just means that if you’re already used to tracking your fitness with another app, you may not want to dive right into Google Fit. It’s a different approach to what other fitness apps offer, but that’s not a bad thing. Google’s goal with Move Minutes and Heart Points is to make the results of exercising easier to understand. You also earn double Heart Points if you’re taking part in more intense activities like a long run. One minute of moderately intense exercise, like from a swift walk, earns one Heart Point.
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