Oppo launches the Watch 3 and Watch 3 Pro smartwatches
(Pocket-lint) – Oppo has come good on its promise to launch the first smartwatches featuring Qualcomm’s Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 platform – the Oppo Watch 3 and Watch 3 Pro. The standard Watch 3 offers a 1.75-inch 372×430 AMOLED display that should look nice and crisp, with quick charging to let you get its battery back up to full in just an hour. It’s also got a smart little in-house co-processor that it can swap to for simple tasks like timekeeping to make sure that the more powerful Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 is only employed when it’s actually needed, maximising the watch’s battery life.
You should therefore get around four days from it before you need to recharge, although a low-battery mode will extend this to a very decent 10 days of use. The Watch 3 Pro is very similar to look at, but is a little bigger – it’s got a 1.91-inch screen, at 378×496 resolution. Impressively, it’s an LTPO AMOLED, which is a rare thing indeed for smartwatches, so should have really great contrast.
One key upgrade comes in the form of a slightly larger battery that should extend its battery life to five days on a charge, or up to 15 days in the low-battery mode.
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This is a watch that brings together all of what makes Huawei so impressive. The watches have only been announced in China, where they’ll go on sale on 19 August, priced at around GBP180/£222 for the Watch 3 and GBP230/£282 for the Watch 3 Pro. We wouldn’t bank on a global release, but if that’s on the cards we should hopefully hear relatively soon.
Writing by Max Freeman-Mills.