This is a review of the TickWatch Pro 3, and it’s amazing battery life.
The TickWatch Pro 3 by Mobvoi takes battery life to the next level with a few clever tricks. Dual Screen tech, new chipset, and clever software are only part of the tech story. But that’s not what I am here to talk about. I want to change your expectations and free yourself of charging bricks, AKA wall warts.
The big players, Apple, Samsung, and others, have been adding features right and left to their products. More powerful processors, more powerful features. More battery-draining eye candy. All of this comes at a cost; power. Realtime heart rate, O2 sensors, stress monitor, and sleep tracking are fantastic if you can use them.
It sometimes makes you feel like Cinderella at midnight. Play too hard and forget your watch is about to become a pumpkin.
That kills one of the best new features out there, sleep tracking. This one killer feature has changed the way I look at data collection on my wrist. Sure, exercise data is fantastic. Most of which drain the aforementioned brands into the dirt before you get to bed. This kills any insights you get while charging. I hear tracking battery anxiety is a new feature coming down the pike in 2020. How fitting.
We are forced to choose which excellent feature or insight we will use and when. Is it full notification, swimming, or sleep today? Most watches suffer fatigue if you push them hard while working out. For example, use your watch to track a busy tradeshow day and keep your schedule on track with full notification; you will likely have a brick for dinner. These are all choices you don’t want to make but are forced to one way or another, and it might even make you late for dinner when your watch dies.
Clever technology aside, what do you get for using a watch/data acquisition device for 72 hours? Amazing insights. With a TickWatch. You can choose to use its clever dual screens to conserve power in a few ways or burn full power and charge every other day. But that’s not the real story here. Being able to use all the features of this gadget and not have battery anxiety is. Wearing your watch for a long period with all the features working provides a very different view. While you can stitch data together, having sleep one day and working out the next, it’s not ideal. Long battery life gives you a full picture. In short, you don’t have to choose while learning more about yourself.
I have used this watch with abandon in recent days.
I discovered things about how I sleep and workout that were lost on my Apple Watch. Battery life like this reinforces my view that cell phones / mobile computers need to slow down on the features and function race, allowing us to discover what real power management can provide. Not having to choose what screen. Refresh rate, camera feature, or screen sleep time would change my life. I suspect it would change yours too.
Is this watch perfect? Of course not. There are a few small nits that Mobvoi could improve. The improvement over WearOS is terrific; respect to Mobvoi for that. What this watch does is what everyone should expect of their gadgets. Do something great longer. Give you meaningful insights, not marginal features. Free you of charging anxiety, allowing you to make that important date after a hard day of work or exercise and still be on to tell the tale without losing a shoe.