so this is the tick watch pro three ultra gps it's a bit of a long name
so first of all i want to thank motherboy tickwatch for sponsoring me and sending me
this watch so i could get a review done for you and as an iphone user i have pretty much
always been an apple watch user and i was quite happily surprised to know that i can set this
up with my iphone and it works pretty much no differently to my apple watch in fact it has
much better features than the ones i've got on that one so i've been using it for the past week
and i'm looking forward to giving you my thoughts but before we do that let's have a closer look
at what it is so the tick watch is a smart watch using google's wear os 2 operating system it's not
currently updated to the warehouse 3 which we'll get on to later but it is very functional now this
model is just the gps model which means it has a gps chip built into it but you can also get
a cellular model too in certain areas now you can use it for pretty much all the things you'd expect
to use a smart watch for things like fitness tracking sleep tracking telling the time but this
watch actually does take a few steps further with some of the tic watch apps as well and helps you
look after your mental health sounds amazing now this particular one has the new snapdragon 4100
wear processor but it also has a processor from mobvoi in it as well which allows it to take
advantage of some of mob voice own features and one of those features is the fact that it's got
a really cool dual display i'm gonna talk about dual display i don't mean like a nintendo ds
i mean like it's got one screen but two displays within that screen the first is
the ammo led display that you'd expect on a smart watch and that you get on most smart watches
but it also has a separate display and that gives you all the things you need to know at a glance
without taking up loads of battery and what is nice is that you can also customize the back so
you get your own custom color for the backlight now the most impressive thing is the battery life
it's saying that it should be up to 72 hours and actually i got about three days of battery just
and i've just charged it again this morning so i'm massively impressed and that is with me turning on
some of the features that require a bit more juice to get going you can see the battery is a little
bit cheeky how they've marketed it because every feature that uses a lot of battery life on it
is turned off before you start and a lot of those features are really really cool and i ended up
going in and switching those features back on but even with me going in and doing that and switching
these features on i'm still getting close to three days battery life which for a smart watch is crazy
my apple watch would never get passed today and i've tried fossils watch as well and that one
again it was about a day's worth of battery so this is massively impressive now a bonus to that
when you get to low battery let's say about five percent you can have it to go straight
on to essential mode and essential mode basically switches off the smartwatch capability so you lose
your tracking and stuff and gives you your digital screen and your steps and your time and all that
stuff all of the sort of bare essentials is in the name but then your watch will then continue
to last for a long time and if you do essential mode from 100 battery that can last up to 45
days so that means you can use this watch as an ordinary watch and not really have to worry about
charging it for a month and a half that's mental now a lot of other watches focus on things about
how fast you can charge them and that does matter especially if you're having to charge it every day
i left this one for an hour this morning when i was getting ready and when i came back it was
about 99 so this one still charges fairly quickly i don't think it's as quick as some of the other
ones but it's got a much bigger battery to fill now the watch has a 1.4 inch display
and that is pretty big i've got fairly thick wrists you could say but certainly not thin wrists
and i don't think i would go for anything any bigger than this now that's not a bad thing
because actually i quite like chunky watches and i think that this is sort of the perfect size
the only thing to bear in mind is if you've got very tiny wrists it might look a little
bit too big potentially i don't know it's hard for me to tell because of my true trunk wrists
now the watch is military tested which means it shouldn't be getting any damage and in the
just slightly over a week that i've been using it um i've not put a mark on it at all the
glass is corning gorilla glass which means it's pretty sturdy um extremely resistant to things
like scratches and it's also easy to read in sunlight now the straps that come in the box are
this sort of silicony rubbery feeling straps they actually feel quite nice they're quite comfortable
pretty strong and when you've got the watch strap on it's pretty comfortable now if you don't like
this particular strap it's not the end of the world because you can change it it is like a lot
of other watches that has this sort of universal strap thing to use any other strap that has this
sort of pin mechanism uh you can put that on this watch and it should fit fine so we obviously have
all of our sort of sensors here on the back there and you've got your charging point there so if you
have your charger like this it's just a little two-pin charger like that and that clips on here
like so magnetically attaches and then the watch will start charging so the watch has gps it's got
a barometer so it can measure your altitude it's got a bunch of different ways of tracking you you
track your heart rate your blood oxygen but it also can track your mental well-being too sure
on the science of that i'm not going to pretend to know about it but that is pretty cool feature
the only thing to bear in mind is if you do buy this watch a lot of these tracking features are
switched off by default so you do need to sort of dive in the apps on the watch to go switch them on
and i haven't been able to keep track of my mental well-being because i forgot to go in and switch on
so learn from my mistakes now one of the things that was switched on is the sleep tracking i make
sure that was switched on and because the battery lasts so long i found that i wasn't bothering to
take the watch off at night and i was tracking my sleep and as you can see i don't sleep brilliantly
but when i am gone i am absolutely unconscious so my sleep efficiency is pretty high i'm sure
my wife would probably agree with that and tig watch i have a bunch of different health and
fitness apps installed on the watch so you can use those apps to sort of use this watch to its full
potential now because the watch also has google wear os on it you get the google apps as well but
they don't all use this to its full potential so if you want to sort of use the ticwash
apps you do need to have a mobvoi account and download the mobvoi app now i am an iphone user
i really love my iphone and i wouldn't trade it for anything one of the nice things about this
watch is that you can pair it with your iphone and it's no different than if you had an android
phone the only sacrifice you would have to make is that you can't actually reply to messages on here
you do have to message people from the phone but you can't view and region messages and everything
like that so it's not the end of the world now tick watch is ip68 dust and water resistant that
means you can take it swimming you can take it in the shower and that's not going to be an issue so
hopefully you have an idea about the watching its capabilities let's have a look at how it works
so i've actually had the watch for about a week slightly over and i have been messing around with
the settings on it so not everything is as it would be as default i'm trying to just sort of
make it my watch make it as good as it could be for myself so one of the cool features is this
dual display so you have this sort of sort of standard display that is when it's resting then
when you tap the screen it comes up to the ammo led display now you've got the two buttons on
either side press that once to open up the screen and you can press it again to open up your apps
and you can then scroll through it is using wear os 2 not wear os 3. that's still not out on it yet
who knows when that's going to be out on some of these other third-party watches but
hopefully we'll see it soon now if you press this button at the bottom that will take you through
to an app of your choice i've set it through to ring my phone but i didn't actually want that to
happen by default it takes you straight to fitness and obviously i'm incredibly unfit so that's not
really going to be right for me but i do lose my phone a lot so by doing that and saying it up
to find my phone that's really really useful now there are a ton of different apps available from
tick watch themselves so you've got all the sort of tick healthy exercise apps where you can go
in and sort of set see all your things now being an apple watch user i'm used to the whole closure
rings thing and this is a very similar thing except it's just one ring and you can't really say
fill your ring because that's a bit inappropriate but instead you have these bars that make up one
whole ring now these bars are made up of three different categories you have steps active hours
and exercise now another feature that i have switched on is the fact that i'm used to my apple
watch where when i raise it it turns on like so so i wanted that to happen on this watch which is
obviously as you can see i've done that now that isn't what happens by default normally by default
is a bit different so if i go down here and go to the settings menu and go to display you can turn
always on screen like so and that will always have the main ammo led screen on which we're
not going to do that for now boys things you have everything for gestures so you can turn on tilt to
wake or turn it off and have touch to wake as well so if i turn till to wake off and i do that now
i have a back light that comes on when i tilt it and then when i go away the battle light turns off
like so so i want to see what the time is backlight comes on and you can actually
change the color of that backlight as well which is quite nice so you can have that
as a few different colors if you wanted it to now what you do have if you want to save battery
even further you do have an essential mode so in this essential mode we can select our background
color so we can change it let's say change it to red and have the screen off pull it up
and look at that nice little red watch so from the main display you can do a few different
things if you swipe from the left you go to your sort of google assistant and it gives you some
basic information and you can quickly access what's the weather like today
right now it's 15 degrees and partly cloudy today it'll be partly cloudy with a forecast high of 15
and a low of 11. because i didn't know why it thinks i'm a nailsy but that's probably more
google than this uh then you can obviously swipe up and you go to your notifications and it gives
you emails and everything like that if you swipe down you go to your sort of quick actions google
pay you can have your do not disturb mode and all that stuff and cinema mode and all that
and then you quickly access your settings as well from there if you swipe from the right that takes
you to your tiles now you can customize what tiles you have and you can do that on the wear os app
on your smartphone but then when you're in your towers it just gives you some basic information
from some of your apps nothing more interactive than that really and then i think if you then
tap it it'll then take you to the actual app now one of the annoying things about using your watch
is having to constantly do this all the time and actually you can do some of the main features
from your watch just by flicking your wrist so if you flick it outwards you can go up and swipe
down and scroll through your notifications and you can shake your wrist and that will take you back
to the home page then if you flick back that'll scroll upwards like so and i really like that
sort of flexibility it's something a little bit different that other smart watches aren't doing
and actually after sort of practicing it a little bit you do get to a bit of a
routine with it especially when you want to look at notification watch buzzes you just want
to flick up and see what your notifications were there you go so what are my thoughts on this watch
well honestly i love it there are some things that aren't perfect and i think i would like improved
but ultimately at the end of the day i really like a lot about this watch i'll give you some of my
highlights first of all the design suits me to a t is exactly how i'd want my watch to look it's not
overly square like the apple watch it looks really nice the sort of textures on the front i like the
fact that you've got the numbers around the rim again you can obviously change your watch face
i quite like the default one that comes with it but you can change that as well if you want to i
really like how quick and responsive this thing is it's super super responsive you're never sort of
waiting a long time for apps absolutely they just sort of pop up quite quickly and the whole point
of having something available to you on your watch is for it to be quick and easy and convenient so
that is a massive highlight and ultimately my main highlight is the battery life i cannot believe
it lasts me three days in comparison to all the other watches i've tried that is a game changer
and i know a lot of people quite happy to just sort of take the watch off put it on charge and
then put it back on at some point in the day but my day changes every day some days i'm out all
day and i don't get an opportunity to stick it on charge um sometimes i just forget so the fact that
i only have to worry about it once every three days that is brilliant so guys what do you think
do you like the ticwatch pro 3 ultra i do let me know your thoughts in the comments
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