The launch of the OnePlus Watch has been catastrophic. I’ve never had an iconic smart watch from Will.i.am. famous smart watch Pulse it failed in such a spectacular way. I recently he wrote 2,000 words about how it was the worst smartwatch I’ve ever used. Today OnePlus has released an over-the-air update that claims to fix some of the watch’s huge omissions and cocktails.
It’s better than nothing, but to be honest, the OnePlus Watch was released with almost nothing working properly, so I’m not exactly impressed. According to a post on the OnePlus forum, the update includes:
- Improved GPS performance
- Improved tracking accuracy (walking and running)
- Optimized heart rate monitoring algorithm
- Notification application icons enabled for the most commonly used applications
- Improved lift-wake function
- Optimized notification synchronization algorithm
- Fixed some known bugs
- Improved system stability
Reader, look at this list and cry-laugh with me. This is a cursive list of everything OnePlus has caught at launch. GPS performance, precise activity-tracking, heart ratemonitoring and notifications that sync correctly Basic functions you would expect to work as published from the box. „Fwe removed some known bugs ”bullet point also makes a lot of weights here. The problem is that they existed so much known bugs that I now let you guess that have been addressed. The vagueness doesn’t build trust, but I’ve contacted OnePlus to see if they’ll clarify what errors I’m talking about here.
When I first raised concerns with OnePlus, the company told me and other reviewers to expect an update in mid-April. A spokesman told me that the mid-April update will eventually synchronize sleep.data tracking and the SpO2 history in the OnePlus Health app. That’s huge, because, in addition to being a marking feature,tracking is only useful if you can see your trends over time. So we are, a week after the launch, with what I assume is the update that OnePlus was referring to.
I updated the app and OnePlus Watch. Sleep and SpO2 data are nowhere to be found. I’ve synced at least five times. I guess my sleep history disappeared into the air. So either OnePlus told us the wrong thing, and this widely reported error remains unresolved, or the watch itself doesn’t store more than a week of data. None of the options are good. (For registration, smart ladder can store data worth 14 days for 8 different people, so the latter is simply ridiculous.) I asked OnePlus about sleeptracking / synchronizing SpO2 application, but received no response.
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Another thing that hasn’t been fixed? My arm was noisy all the time I was writing. I have at least 100 notifications for unread emails. But hey, at least my notifications have icons.
Of course, I only had this update for a few hours and I need more time to check if the really big errors have been corrected correctly. But what I’m doing is you still can’t switch from a 12-hour time format to a 24-hour one. This, along with sleep history and SpO2 timing issues, was a widely reported error and still remains unresolved. OnePlus says it will come in a future update, along with an always-on display, remote camera control for Android smartphones, four new languages, the rest of the over 110 promised training modes and an AI clock face. Listen, OnePlus, given how apparently erroneous French translations and offered to several reviewers (including me) watches that were originally blocked in Hindi, may give priority to this to work fully as published before seeingkl in other markets.
At best In this case, these updates will fix some of the biggest issues I’ve had with the OnePlus Watch. Which then leads me to ask: WWhat the hell could that be? launch no to be late for one week if a week was all it took to fix this shit? Consumers are not beta testers.
Honestly, I’m mostly upset that this means I have to go back and relive the trauma of this testing experience. This fix-it-as-you-go approach is incredibly disrespectful to me, my fellow reviewers and consumers. But listen, OnePlus, I’m a professional. You said that running accuracy and GPS were fixed. If I run three miles in good faith and my fitness measures are still broken, I will can not to be held accountable for throwing this into the East River.