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Pick up the long-lasting Mobvoi TicWatch Pro 5 at 20% off for Prime Day
An 80-hour battery life, now at a discounted price
Part two of Amazon Prime Day festivities is officially here, or as Amazon calls it, the Prime Big Deals Days sale. This two-day event will showcase some of the best electronics in the industry, including some of the best smartphones in the business, coupled with earbuds/headphones and even smartwatches.
Mobvoi TicWatch Pro 5 review: Battery bliss
The TicWatch Pro 5 offers great performance and battery life, but it's not without its flaws
The past couple of years have been equal parts exciting and frustrating for Wear OS fans. While Samsung’s Wear OS-based Galaxy Watches and Google’s Pixel Watch have breathed new life into the platform, options from other players have stagnated, offering late and incomplete updates to the modern Wear OS 3.
The Mobvoi TicWatch Pro 5 launches today with Wear OS 3.5 and monster battery life
Mobvoi promises 80 hours between top-ups
Late last month, a juicy Amazon leak told us pretty much everything there is to know about the Mobvoi TicWatch Pro 5. Per the leak, the watch was set to be the first to market with Qualcomm's new Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1 chipset, sporting Wear OS 3 and a refreshed design featuring a rotating crown. Now, Mobvoi's confirmed that it was all true: the TicWatch Pro 5 is the watch we were expecting, and you can buy it starting today.
The Pixel Watch and Samsung's Galaxy Watch are sapping a ton of oxygen in the Wear OS world right now. Recent investments in development have helped the platform make a tiny dent against the Apple Watch on the market, but truthfully, we'd really like to see more players come back on the field. Mobvoi looks set up to provide with the TicWatch Pro 5 this year and we've got all we need to know thanks to some errant uploads appearing on a Canadian Amazon product page.
Mobvoi's next TicWatch Pro looks way sleeker than its last in this leak
The TicWatch Pro 5 could vastly differ in design from its predecessor
The TicWatch Pro series from Mobvoi has been a standout for Wear OS, owing to its premium experience at an affordable price point. The next model could continue that trend as a leak from last year claimed that the TicWatch Pro 3’s successor would run on Qualcomm's Snapdragon W5+ chipset for wearables and boast 50% longer battery life. Mobvoi also teased the forthcoming TicWatch Pro model with a textured rim as opposed to the smooth one on the TicWatch Pro 3. We now have our first comprehensive look at the next-generation TicWatch Pro 5 thanks to a newly leaked render.
TicWatch maker Mobvoi introduces new platform for creating and sharing smartwatch faces
You'll soon be able to earn from your unique watch faces via the new TimeShow app
Mobvoi makes some of the best Android smartwatches available today, but its TicWatch line sometimes doesn’t feel like it offers quite as many customization options as Samsung’s Galaxy Watch series, or Google’s Pixel Watch. Those tech giants provide plenty of ways to make your smartwatch your own, beyond just picking your strap, size, and color. But now the TicWatch maker is introducing own watch face marketplace alongside a new platform where you can create and share unique designs.
Mobvoi wants you to pay for enhanced sleep tracking on your TicWatch
Still radio silence from the company on the Wear OS 3 update for its watches
Mobvoi makes some of the best Android smartwatches on the market. Its TicWatch lineup is known for offering excellent value for money, packing the latest hardware, a decent software experience, and all the health-tracking features you could ask for. Unlike Fitbit and the Google Pixel Watch, Mobvoi had not put any of the health-related features on its smartwatches behind a paywall. But that's changing now. The company has announced upgraded sleep features for its TicWatch lineup that are locked behind a subscription model.
Mobvoi teases its next-gen TicWatch powered by a Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1
The smartwatch is due to launch in the coming months
Qualcomm chips for the Wear OS platform have not been as good as its smartphone SoCs. They are among the key reasons why many Wear OS smartwatches have been riddled with performance and battery life issues. The San Diego chipmaker hopes to change that with its upcoming Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1 and W5 Gen 1 platform, which promise 50% better battery life. Hot on the heels of the SoC's announcement, Mobvoi has teased its "most powerful smartwatch" to date, powered by the W5+ Gen 1 chip.
Mobvoi's next TicWatch could be a Wear OS flagship with an improved premium design
A 'long duration' battery has been promised
Mobvoi is a known name in the Wear OS market for a reason — it consistently releases capable smartwatches at satisfactory prices that even undercut the competition from time to time. Take the company's flagship TicWatch Pro 3 Ultra GPS, for example, which, while it doesn't really run the latest version of Wear OS, still makes for a worthy competitor to the Galaxy Watch 4 by making up for lacking in other departments as we've noted in our review. Now, Mobvoi appears to be working on a new "flagship" watch that could possibly be a successor to the current top dog.
Mobvoi's new $100 smartwatch wants to compete with the Apple Watch where it counts
Looking out for your ticker
When searching for a smartwatch, you might stumble upon a lot of offerings from Mobvoi. It makes some of the best Wear OS-based smartwatches in both budget and premium categories. Its latest product, however, comes without Google's Wear OS, but offers plenty of health-focused fitness features on the cheap. The Beijing-based company has taken wraps off the TicWatch GTH Pro, an upgrade to last year's TicWatch GTH.
Mobvoi Earbuds ANC review: Low-key good
They're not the best earbuds, but they don't have to be at this price
Truly wireless headphones are everywhere nowadays, but finding an affordable pair with all the bells and whistles is no easy feat for Android folks. The iPhone faithful can always just pick up some AirPods and pay the Apple tax. Fortunately, Mobvoi has released an extremely affordable alternative that feels like the real thing, and they’re only missing some of the more advanced functionality. At only $60, you really can’t beat the Mobvoi Earbuds ANC on price, particularly if you want active noise-canceling included. Unfortunately, some of its more glaring shortcomings make the low price that much more understandable.
Mobvoi introduces the TicWatch Pro 3 Ultra GPS with a colorful upgrade
Launching with a familiar but slightly tweaked design and an improved screen
Mobvoi recently teased the arrival of the TicWatch Pro 3 Ultra GPS as an upgrade to last year's TicWatch Pro 3. After some previews on its social media channels, the smartwatch is now finally official. In typical Mobvoi fashion, the company has only made small changes to this year's product, keeping a lot from the previous model and delivering a few improvements to the new device.
Mobvoi announces it is announcing a new TicWatch next week
The pre-announcement comes with a giveaway
Mobvoi's TicWatch 3 Pro is due for an upgrade in mere days. So the manufacturer says as it promotes a giveaway for its new model, the TicWatch 3 Pro Ultra GPS — say that five times fast.
YouTube Music for Wear OS now works on more than one watch
The only thing better than smartwatch support is smartwatches support
About a month ago Google released a new YouTube Music app for Wear OS. But "Wear OS" now means either the new 3.0 version, running on only the Samsung Galaxy Watch4 until at least next year, or more or less every other Wear OS device running older software. Today Google says the YouTube Music Wear OS app is available on some older devices.
What the heck is going on with the chip powering the latest TicWatch?
Store listings indicate a silent upgrade, but nothing is lining up
Before the launch of Samsung's Galaxy Watch4, Mobvoi's TicWatches were truly the only wearables worth recommending for Android users. Equipped with a Snapdragon Wear 4100, the TicWatch Pro 3 and E3 are two of the only devices you can find with that specific processor, even more than a year out from the former's launch. At least, that's the chip both watches were initially marketed with, but if you try to buy one today, you might be surprised to see an unannounced performance upgrade listed in the specs sheet.According to listings on Mobvoi's official website and Amazon, both of the company's current watches are powered by a Snapdragon Wear 4100+ — not the original 4100 chip as originally marketed (via 9to5Google). This change is rather curious, considering there's been no announcement about a potential upgrade for either watch. While the Pro 3 is well over a year old now, the TicWatch E3 only went up for sale in June. It'd be an odd move to upgrade the processor of a watch that's just three months old.
Google confirms Wear OS 3 upgrade for a handful of current smartwatches — will yours get it, and when?
Some concrete information after a couple months of silence
Since Google and Samsung announced a relaunched version of Wear OS at I/O two months ago, anyone with a current-gen smartwatch has wondered whether their device will receive an upgrade. Samsung and Fitbit have both been open regarding whether older wearables will move to Wear OS — the answer is a solid "no" — but Google has remained vague in its language over the last two months. Finally, we're learning a lot more about the future of wearables on Android, and it's not all good news.
Mobvoi wants to give you a free TicWatch E3 for basically just using it
Tweet about your workouts for a full refund
Google is about to release an all-new version of Wear OS built in partnership with Samsung, but if you can't wait for a new wearable any longer — or you're looking to pick up a smartwatch for free — do we have a deal for you. Mobvoi is the company behind one of the best Android-friendly watches you can buy right now, and it's willing to give you its new TicWatch E3 on the house. You'll just need to complete a few workouts — oh, and you'll need to post about them publicly too.
Will your smartwatch get an upgrade to Google and Samsung's new Wear OS?
Even two months after I/O, future plans are still unclear
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After years of silence from Google, Wear OS has finally returned to the spotlight. New partnerships with Samsung and Fitbit have reenergized Android-friendly wearables, but there's still a lot we don't know. Both of these companies currently power some of the most popular wearables for Google's mobile OS, leaving many current owners unsure about the future of their watch.
The TicWatch E3 could be the Wear 4100 smartwatch you've been waiting for
All the essentials from the TicWatch Pro 3 for less moolah
Mobvoi has been in many ways responsible for keeping the Wear OS platform even vaguely relevant in recent years. Its TicWatches continue to represent the best of a bad bunch in terms of Google-powered smartwatches. The TicWatch Pro 3 was the first to launch with Qualcomm's improved Wear 4100 chipset, but now that's being followed up by a sleek new model, the TicWatch E3.
Mobvoi's Android app for TicWatch gets an all-new design, complete with fitness reports
Some of its features aren't working just yet
While we're all waiting for Google's revamped Wear OS to drop later this year, there's only one watch running Android worth picking up right now: Mobvoi's TicWatch Pro 3. A year after its release, it's still the only wearable with Snapdragon's Wear 4100 chip. Mobvoi has done a great job keeping its flagship watch updated since launch, and now it's doing the same with its partner app. The latest update to its app refreshes the design to make it easier to manage your device and track your fitness.