I Found The Android Smartwatch With The Best Battery Life (and It's Not A Samsung Or Oneplus)

ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• The Mobvoi TicWatch Pro 5 Enduro is disposable successful Obsidian achromatic for $349 (but connected waste for $175 astatine nan clip of writing).
• This Google Wear OS smartwatch offers agelong artillery life, dual-display technology, and a sapphire solid display.
• The watch presently runs Wear OS 3.5 and is disposable successful 1 larger size.

For nan past mates of years, I've been switching betwixt various Google and Samsung Galaxy Watch models to brace pinch my Android, arsenic Google's Wear OS is nan champion wearable experience, successful my opinion. One characteristic I've travel to admit successful a smartwatch is simply a long-lasting battery, and 1 of nan champion successful that class is nan Mobvoi TicWatch Pro 5 Enduro. 

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I've been running, rowing, biking, and sleeping pinch nan caller TicWatch Pro 5 Enduro smartwatch for nan past mates of weeks, and its marathon artillery life solves my biggest rumor pinch Wear OS smartwatches. 

Its monolithic 628mAh artillery has a unsocial dual show creation for low-power standby use. That equates to an advertised 90 hours -- astir 4 days -- of artillery life successful smart mode and up to 45 days successful Essential Mode. Even amended yet, conscionable 30 minutes of accelerated charging provides up to 2 days of artillery life.

When I tally outside, I usage nan outdoor moving mode pinch GPS search enabled, and my depletion calculations bespeak that nan Pro 5 Enduro should supply up to 15 hours of GPS tracking. I typically tally a mates of times per week (30-45 minutes each time) and statement connected nan Hydrow a mates of times while wearing nan watch to way my 24/7 activity and sleep. 

I've been charging nan watch erstwhile play pinch this usage pattern, truthful nan 4 days and 90 hours of emblematic usage look accurate.

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For comparison, nan Google Pixel Watch 3 dies connected maine during nan 2nd day, while nan Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Pro will get maine into nan 3rd time earlier moving retired of juice. The TicWatch Pro 5 Enduro is nan clear victor for artillery life, and if a long-lasting artillery is your superior need, I couldn't urge nan watch more.

The Snapdragon W5 Plus Gen 1 Wearable Platform contributes to nan awesome artillery life and will support a early upgrade to Wear OS 4, contempt presently moving connected Wear OS 3.5. This caveat is 1 point to note, as, unfortunately, Mobvoi hasn't displayed a way grounds of timely updates. Since Wear OS was released successful nan autumn of 2023, this caller exemplary should person launched pinch Wear OS 4 retired of nan box, fto unsocial Wear OS 5.

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Beyond artillery life, nan dual-display exertion pinch interactive and customizable ultra-low-power show options is exceedingly useful. You tin take from 18 inheritance colors to item nan always-on display, which is connected nan apical furniture of nan watch and shows cardinal metrics specified arsenic nan number of steps taken, bosom rate, artillery life, time, and date. 

In this dual-display mode, spinning nan ample rotating crown fastener brings up a full-display bosom complaint reading, humor oxygen level, and compass heading.

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While moving out, this ultra-low powerfulness show furniture will ray up successful six colors that bespeak your existent bosom complaint zone. This characteristic is ace useful for checking which area you're successful astatine a glimpse without having to attraction connected mini numbers successful nan mediate of a workout. This mode besides pairs pinch 3rd parties, specified arsenic Strava and Nike Run Club, pinch information for illustration bosom rate, pace, and elevation, pinch nan ultra-low powerfulness display.

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The TicExercise app offers complete 100 workout types pinch various metrics specified arsenic betterment time, GPS tracking, speed, and VO2 Max. Unfortunately, you can't customize nan information screens for nan various workouts. This whitethorn beryllium good for casual athletes, but I would for illustration to spot immoderate basal customization to prioritize nan astir important data. Thankfully, since this is simply a Wear OS watch, you tin download third-party services for illustration Strava to optimize your experience.

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Once your workout is complete, nan TicHealth exertion provides exhaustive information astir your capacity and wellness metrics, specified arsenic regular and play goals, slumber details, bosom complaint history, and overmuch more. TicHealth is 1 of nan important updates successful this watch complete nan TicWatch Pro 5 exemplary released successful precocious 2023.

Other improvements successful nan Enduro exemplary complete nan Pro 5 exemplary are nan redesigned rotary knob, nan usage of sapphire crystal solid connected nan show alternatively of Gorilla Glass, a larger and clearer personification interface display, and further third-party integration pinch nan ultra-low-power display.

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In addition, nan TicWatch Pro 5 Enduro has much than 7,000 watch faces available, and if you usage nan TimeShow app, nan look tin beryllium changed daily. The ample 1.43-inch show supports each Wear OS apps, including Google Maps, Messages, Wallet, Keep Notes, and overmuch more. Phone calls and messaging activity good done a connected phone, and nan voice-to-text usability performs flawlessly, too.

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The Pro 5 Enduro measures 50.15 x 48 x 11.95 mm and weighs conscionable 44.7 grams pinch its 7000 bid aluminum and fiberglass nylon case. The sapphire crystal show is resistant to scratches and nan 24mm watch set is very comfortable pinch useful quick-release pins. The watch is besides rather durable pinch a 5 ATM standing and MIL-STD-810H certification.

The device's world navigation outer strategy (GNSS) is included for meticulous tracking, and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.2 supply easy connectivity to your telephone and network. However, nan watch itself does not person cellular capability.

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