{"id":447,"date":"2021-02-08T07:39:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T06:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/08\/ticwatch-pro-3-review-faster-slicker-wear-os-smartwatch-misses-mark\/"},"modified":"2021-02-08T07:39:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T06:39:04","slug":"ticwatch-pro-3-review-faster-slicker-wear-os-smartwatch-misses-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/08\/ticwatch-pro-3-review-faster-slicker-wear-os-smartwatch-misses-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"TicWatch Pro 3 review: faster, slicker Wear OS smartwatch misses mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Improved performance and battery life let down by weak vibrations, app and sustainability niggles<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s TicWatch Pro 3 is the first Wear OS watch to use a newer, faster chip designed to breathe new life into the stagnant smartwatch line \u2013 but doesn\u2019t do enough to manage the uphill task.<\/p>\n<p>Made by the Chinese tech firm Mobvoi, the new watch costs \u00a3289.99 and competes directly with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2020\/jan\/24\/fossil-gen-5-review-googles-wear-os-smartwatch-at-its-best\">Fossil\u2019s Gen 5<\/a>, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2020\/sep\/01\/samsung-galaxy-watch-3-review-the-new-king-of-android-smartwatches-screen-battery\">Samsung\u2019s Galaxy watches<\/a> on Android. It\u2019s a big watch that manages to avoid being chunky, looking fairly nondescript with a black plastic body and silicone strap. It is quite light but designed for fairly large wrists \u2013 I had the strap pulled to its second-tightest position.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/feb\/08\/ticwatch-pro-3-review-smartwatch-wear-4100-faster-slicker-wear-os\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5b37a5335caa5f2421aa06890e94f561b76cc0ec\/924_752_3434_2061\/master\/3434.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3ec8bd0e797c21f44010915fe74f7a75\" title=\"TicWatch Pro 3 review: faster, slicker Wear OS smartwatch misses mark\" \/>Improved performance and battery life let down by weak vibrations, app and sustainability niggles<br \/>\nGoogle\u2019s TicWatch Pro 3 is the first Wear OS watch to use a newer, faster chip designed to breathe new life into the stagnant smartwatch line \u2013 but doesn\u2019t do enough to manage the uphill task.<br \/>\nMade by the Chinese tech firm Mobvoi, the new watch costs \u00a3289.99 and competes directly with Fossil\u2019s Gen 5, as well as Samsung\u2019s Galaxy watches on Android. It\u2019s a big watch that manages to avoid being chunky, looking fairly nondescript with a black plastic body and silicone strap. It is quite light but designed for fairly large wrists \u2013 I had the strap pulled to its second-tightest position. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improved performance and battery life let down by weak vibrations, app and sustainability niggles Google\u2019s TicWatch Pro 3 is the first Wear OS watch to use a newer, faster chip designed to breathe new life into the stagnant smartwatch line \u2013 but doesn\u2019t do enough to manage the uphill task. Made by the Chinese tech &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/08\/ticwatch-pro-3-review-faster-slicker-wear-os-smartwatch-misses-mark\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TicWatch Pro 3 review: faster, slicker Wear OS smartwatch misses mark<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}