OnePlus - Watch 2

OnePlus watches have excellent battery life and offer health metrics and all other features you'd expect from a smartwatch. Also they're pretty affordable.

I would consider a OnePlus watch. The 3 is the latest. I have a 2R which has been fine for my use cases so far. It supports NFC and apps. I have the always on display activated and it is lasting around 3 days. It's VOOC charging is also very fast. The 2R is on WearOS 4 but the Oxygen UI still gives features like the App Grid. It is expected to update to WearOS 5 later this year.

One Plus Watch is my new favorite! You cant beat it for the money.

One Plus gives you 14 days on Power Save.

@gdir You guys both say 'fast charging', but what does that mean exactly? I used the OPW2 for about 2 weeks before my OPW3 came in the mail and I compared with both chargers. The 2 charger was slower by about 10-15mins on each watch. With my 3 charger the most it ever takes is just shy of an hour, about 58-59 mins, and that's from 0-100%. If there's even 5-10% already on the watch when I snap it on it'll take 40-45 mins. So with using the 2 charger, that would be 1hr-1:15hr. I know 15 mins doesn't sound like a lot, but I never have to charge more than an hour, and that's huge to me. It's the fastest charging watch with 2nd to longest battery life, while still being the most capable I've ever used. I've used Garmin, Fitbit, and this OPW3 over the last 10 years. (I'm not including Moto 360 watch from 2014, that was a failure...)

What are your desires and expectations? Must-have or don't-care features? Do you want it to have LTE capability? Regarding Samsung there are only a few things that aren't supported without a Samsung phone and, personally, none of these things are all that important and I'm not sure you'd get those features on any other watch brand anyway, so it's not like you're losing anything by getting a galaxy watch. I've used a pixel watch 2 and, most recently, galaxy watch 7. The pixel watch 3 is essentially a 2 but with an optional larger size; the soc and everything other than the display is the same. If you're considering the smaller size options and considering a pixel watch, you should just get the pixel watch 2 instead of the same size pixel watch 3 of you want to save some money. I stopped using my pw2 because it does not show new notifications as they come in without some sort of manual action, so unless you tap the screen or lift your wrist when you get the vibration, you don't get to see anything and 75% of the time my pw2 wouldn't recognize a wrist-raise gesture, so I'd miss whatever the new notification was. Contrast with the Galaxy watch that has this option to just show the notification card with content automatically. If you want a wearos watch with better time between charges without too much sacrifice of features the oneplus watches are good. They aren't great with fitness tracking and the vibration motor isn't very good. People mention Garmin here but I want to point out that they are not smartwatches and even the smartest ones they make are not smart and lack many features of an actual smart watch. I used a venu 2+ for a while and while I appreciated the fitness aspects, the lack of smarts (and generally bad UI design of both the watch OS and the companion app) turned me off after a while.

I think the OPW2 was pretty ass tbh, but the latest greatest insanely expensive watch having to go power save to get 3 days is pretty funny. But hey, if you like it that's all that matters.

Very odd I have a GW4 it doesn't track naps but my op 2r does very accurately as well.

I'm a converted fan to OnePlus. Had the OP Watch 2 for over a year now and it's rock solid, battery is 4-5 days easy, it's beautiful, bright, tons of first party watch faces, I'm a fan, and have been wearing android watches since the ole Moto 360 flat tire.

I had the Oneplus 2r and sold it. Great battery life but too many quirks. Don't know if the Oneplus 3 is better. I am super happy with my Galaxy watches and my Galaxy Z flip 5.

Examples? I would walk 50 steps and when I stopped the Oneplus 2R watch would keep going 6 steps ahead, Sleep monitoring didn't show any active awake time even though I remember waking up on a restless night. The stress meter didn't work and the quick panel icons are not adjustable and the O'health app is very basic. Maybe they fixed these on the Oneplus 3. My favorite galaxy watch is the Galaxy 5Pro. Wear O/S Battery life is the same as the OnePlus 2R watch but with much better vibration. It's not as good looking as the One-plus watch but has more accurate functions. These are my opinions.

I have tried Fossil. Skagen, Galaxy 4 and 6, Ticwatches, Oneplus, Amazfit watches. The ticwatches I tried had terrible vibration. I recently was surprised and found the galaxy 5 and the Galaxy 5 pro watches and they both have great vibrations. The 5 pro is thicker and its vibration is the best I have felt in years. Reminds me of the Pebble time and time steel which had a similar vibration. I would also like to point out the Galaxy watch 5 is 44 and the 5 Pro 45mm. The 40mm usually have less vibration strength.

I agree that the battery life of the Oneplus 2, 2r is great and the Oneplus 3 must be even better since the battery is larger and I'm glad you are enjoying it. I do disagree on the health sensors compared to the galaxy watches. O'health does not compare to Samsung health. O'health needs more work. Did they improve it with the Oneplus 3?

You mention you want to use your watch for hiking I believe you are better with the Galaxy watch. The step count on the galaxy watches is right on the step count on the Oneplus watches is off. I have read this for the Oneplus 2, I experienced it on my Oneplus 2R and the Oneplus 3 has the same processors so I would be concerned. The galaxy watches get the updates the Ticwatches do not. My galaxy watches already have wear 5.0. The other problem with the Oneplus watch is the sleep monitoring. If you take a nap it will link in with your sleep score and you can not remove it. The galaxy watches have a much better sleep monitoring and if you take a nap it is registered separately so you can remove it or keep it. The stress monitoring on the Oneplus watch simply does not work. Galaxy watches win here again. If vibration strength is important to you the Galaxy 5 and 5 pro have the strongest vibration. I could go on and on.

OnePlus watch 2. Good basic tracker but long battery life.