OnePlus Watch 2 Review: Total Redemption!

So this smartwatch

has one really interesting trick up its sleeve that I haven’t seen in any other, and that, honestly, I don’t think we’re ever gonna see again. So at this point we know what a smartwatch is already, right? This is a stable, mature category. They deliver mostly across the board on all the same functions. And aside from the one crazy trick, this one is no exception. This is the OnePlus Watch 2, three years after the original OnePlus Watch and it costs 300 bucks. So for the $300 you’re spending, you’re getting a pretty nice circular watch design. It comes in this black or silver stainless steel body and a sapphire cover glass over a 1.4 inch, 60 hertz AMOLED display. Design-wise, you could argue it takes cues from maybe the OnePlus 11 or the OnePlus 12 with the way the camera bump is melted into the side rail of the phone. They’ve done a similar thing here with the buttons on the side of the watch. So there’s a circular button at the top and this rectangular button at the bottom. And I kind of like it. It’s a nice shape. It’s got this little subtle, classy variation of just the pure circle. And then the back looks pretty standard too. You got the four pins at the top, those are for charging. And it has all the sensors you’d expect for a smartwatch in the middle, optical heart rate sensor, pulse oximeter for blood oxygen, and of course, it still has the interchangeable bands, same as gen one. And the whole thing is actually both IP 68 dust and water resistant and reaches a US military standard for durability. Basically means it can also withstand extreme temperature and moisture and shock among other things. (watch taps) It’s not too heavy, it’s built pretty well. This display goes up to a thousand nits peak brightness. So it looks good. It’s built well across the board. Nice. So what’s the catch? Read more