Mobvoi, the corporate behind the favored line of TicWatch smartwatches, on Wednesday launched its newest watch, the TicWatch Pro 5. It runs on Google’s Wear OS 3 software program and is powered by Qualcomm’s new (*5*) W5 Plus Gen 1 chip, which ought to enhance pace and total efficiency. A brand new model of the Mobvoi well being app will launch alongside the watch, which prices $350 and is out there now.
In addition to the brand new chip, the TicWatch Pro 5 consists of a variety of different options like a rotating crown for navigating the watch’s interface and a smarter new backlight that ought to enable path runners and night time joggers to view the display screen with out illuminating their environment. There’s additionally a one-tap measurement function to supply entry to 5 completely different well being metrics immediately, like coronary heart charge, blood oxygen and extra, in addition to stress administration and superior sleep monitoring.
On the health facet, there’s steady heart-rate monitoring, a built-in barometer, improved VO2 Max monitoring and instruments that can assist you perceive the correct restoration time required after your exercises. There are over 100 completely different exercise modes, which ought to make it straightforward to match what the watch tracks to the exercise you are doing. With the redesigned app, Mobvoi is placing extra deal with the health-tracking points of the watch to higher compete with corporations like Samsung, Apple and Oura.
Mobvoi has traditionally targeted extra on lower-cost, entry-level fashions, which the corporate has had some success with. It’s additionally one of many solely “smaller” corporations that is producing Wear OS watches. While this watch will launch with Wear OS 3, essentially the most present model out there right now, it is price noting that Google simply introduced Wear OS 4 throughout its developer convention. When requested about that subsequent working system, Mobvoi didn’t have any bulletins however mentioned the corporate is working with Google on future Wear OS updates.
Still, Mobvoi’s total deal with well being, with each its new app and the TicWatch Pro 5’s options, additional present that health is the main space of focus for right now’s wearables.