so by now you've probably all heard of the Mobvoi Ticwatch pro 3 and understandably so some of you
might have been deterred by the higher price point now though there is a new smartwatch on the block
this is the Mobvoi Ticwatch e3 the budget friendly younger brother to the Mobvoi Tic watch pro 3. and i'm very happy
to say it comes with very few compromises it runs on google's wear os it's lighter and even sports
the latest snapdragon wear 4100 chip the same as the ticwatch pro 3 starting to sound like a
pretty smart deal so in this video we'll do a quick unboxing review its features and of
course do a heart rate and blood oxygen accuracy test make sure you keep watching as the ticwatch
e3 might just be one of the best smartwatch purchase opportunities of 2021 stay tuned
what's up guys welcome back to tech it easy so the ticwatch e3 has landed on the table
for a review and unboxing so i've had this thing for around two weeks now and full disclosure they
did send this out to me but i can assure you it's not going to make me any less thorough
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down below now let's start things off by unboxing the ticwatch e3 so we're gonna see what's inside
the box talk about the design and the setup straightaway i can tell you it's a really
great unboxing experience first impressions of the watch were awesome and it's not something that i
would actually class as budget as sometimes that suggests it's a bit cheap i'd actually call this
affordable because it actually feels pretty good so with the watch itself we get a really nice long
charger it is a magnetic pin charger so there will be no wireless charging on this watch but that's
no bad thing this is a sort of budget affordable watch so it's not something we can really expect
and the fact that they included quite a long cable does make all the difference i've reviewed many
fitness trackers and smart watches and they come with this horrible little dinky cables i never
know what to do with other things i'm noticing the watch is pretty big there's two physical buttons
and we have a huge bezel now it would be nice if the bezel actually had some utility for example
they could make it touch sensitive not too upset about that but i do feel like the bezels are quite
large for 2021. nonetheless so the watch does look great so attached to the watch is a rubber wrist
strap and the watch itself is a non-metal body and it features 2d curved glass something else that
i think could become outdated pretty quickly for example the upcoming galaxy active 4 is rumored to
be coming with a completely flat screen and in my head that is going to be something that's going to
look a lot more modern so it'd be interesting to see how quickly the ticwatch e3 ages
so moving on from the unboxing let's compare the ticwatch pro 3 to the ticwatch e3
and see what we're going to be losing out on now the tig watch e3 is quite obviously the budget
version of the ticwatch pro you haven't got that nice bezel and it just looks a little bit dumbed
down if you are coming over from apple you could compare it to the likes of the apple watch sc
if you do end up going for the ticwatch e3 you're not actually going to be missing out on too much
in actual fact it has a lot of similarities to its big brother as mentioned at the start we have the
same chip the snapdragon 4100 and for comparison to other smartwatches in the same sort of field
the fossil watch gen 5 uses the snapdragon 3100 so compared to the 4100 you're looking at a 150
gpu increase 85 cpu and memory increase as well as 25 saving on power consumption those are pretty
big numbers we also have the same storage and ram that being one gigabyte of ram and eight gigabytes
of storage as well as the blood oxygen 24 hour heart rate monitoring vo2 max and of course your
usual sports tracking features it's sounding like a pretty good deal but one big difference between
the two watches is the battery life the tic watch pro boasts up to 72 hours of battery life in what
they call a smart mode and 45 days in essential mode which if i'm honest that sort of defeats
the object of it being a smart watch because it really brings it back to its bare basics anyway
the new ticwatch e3 which we do have here goes for 24 hours which by today's smartwatch standards is
dragging behind a little bit that being said in my personal opinion if it gets you through the whole
day no questions asked you're gonna be absolutely fine and from personal experience and testing it's
actually done me more than a day several times in fact i've not really thought about charging
it too much every day i've put it on charge it's always had around 20 to 30 percent left i will
admit i've not been wearing it 24 7 but i have used it for a bit of sleep tracking and of course
wearing it throughout the day so if anything i do think they've actually undersold themselves here
less battery life could also be excused as the tick watch e3 is a lot lighter and smaller than
the tick watch pro 3. for example the ticwatch e3 weighs in at just 32 grams as opposed to the
41.9 grams the tick watch pro 3 weighs in at and although it does look and feel bulky it's not
weighing me down so let's move on to the health tracking features which is probably what you
all want to hear about so as i mentioned briefly earlier the ticwatch e3 features many different
tracking capabilities those being vo2 max sleep tracking stress tracking blood oxygen heart rate
steps stress and a few others it also features over 21 different workouts up from the original 14
that the tig watch pro 3 had to name a few we have football indoor slash outdoor cycling and even
taekwondo watches from the likes of samsung may have more but as i stress in almost all smartwatch
videos you don't really need workouts they all do the same thing just with a different name and in
a slightly different way strip it back and your watch is always just tracking the same things
so if you were hoping for more don't let it deter you in addition to these features
we do also have automatic workout detection so you don't need to press any buttons and it's just all
automatic there's no setting up and it's really easy to use whilst talking about setting things
up i will mention that the tick watch e3 has been super easy so if you're not exactly a techie then
i'm pretty sure you're gonna have no issues setting it up the biggest thing you have to do
is make an account download their app and that's it even without that you can still use the watch
so moving on to the app it's a really nice simple layout this is of course where you can find your
watch faces but mainly this is where you get your fitness report and detailed breakdown of things
like stress heart rate exercise and other bits so whilst we've got the app open we might as well
move on to doing the blood oxygen and the heart rate accuracy test to do this as usual i'll be
using medical grade equipment so in this instance i'll be using the o tubing that the guys at well
you provided me for a previous video what it will do is put a live reading to my phone of the spo2
and heart rate and we can match that to what is displayed on the watch and inside the app okay so
let's jump straight into the heart rate accuracy test so as you can see straight away straight off
the bat is bang on this is a really good sign because i didn't have to do any extra adjusting
it just worked straight away as expected there were a few discrepancies at one time it did shoot
up quite a bit higher than your tubing but then it did come back down and level itself out again
it is also worth noting that smart watches do tend to be a little bit slower with their
continuous heart rate tracking compared to the o2 ring which is to be expected since the o2
ring is sort of medical grade equipment but yeah really happy with the heart rate accuracy here
if it's something that's important to you there's no need to worry moving swiftly on to the spo2
monitoring again i've done 10 tests off-camera in total i'm just gonna show you a few of them
every single time it was bang on the last test i did it was one percent out but in fairness on the
o2 ring the percentage had only just dropped just as the tick watch e3 was giving its results so out
of my 10 tests i had a 100 success rate which is absolutely amazing especially for a device
at this price point and i think that even rivals some of the flagship smart watches at the moment
so 10 out of 10 for heart rate and spo2 accuracy for me so now the heart rate accuracy test is out
of the way let's talk about wear os system ui and what are the features the ticwatch e3 has
so the tick wash e3 is running on the latest version of wear os and i have to say it's been
a delight really surprised me coming from samsung the last time i played around with wear os was
actually with a skagen foster three and i have to admit it was absolutely god awful experience
but the tic watch e3 has sort of given me some hope and dare i say at times it even feels a bit
smoother than tizen i'll admit that it did take some getting used to but it feels really fast
smooth and snappy and i have to say it is great to have such fluid animations and an
uncompromised experience on a budget affordable smartwatch moving into the watch we have a great
selection of apps and is really nice and simple and clear a swipe from the top will bring you to
your settings left is google assistant bottom is your notifications and a swipe right brings you
into the watch tiles this is where you can see your activity rings weather and a few other bits
and you can actually customize these to how you want them now i did briefly mention notifications
and i do want to quickly talk about them so i'm getting notifications from things like discord
even cryptocurrency price alerts you name it i've got it and the best thing about all this is
that none of it required any setting up in fact i didn't even know i had it set up these are things
i don't really get on my galaxy watch at the moment as well as it just showing up on your watch
for reading it does also give you a vibration alert so you're not gonna miss anything important
quick pit stop on the subject of watch faces now i will admit the tick wash e3 doesn't have the best
selection in comparison to the galaxy watch 3's ecosystem but then again you do have access to
popular apps such as facer and watchmaker where you'll get thousands upon thousands of watch face
choices and i will be dropping a top 10 wear os watch face episode later on in the week so make
sure you subscribe for that so this video is getting a lot longer than i first anticipated
so i want to quickly go over the specs of the ticwatch e3 just before we finish up so you do
get things like ip68 water resistance with this so that does mean you can take it pool swimming
with you it also comes with built-in gps which is a big selling point for a watch at this price
point we also have things like always on display nfc and of course we have that 24 hour battery
life on the side note the tick watch e3 does feature a microphone so you can use your google
assistant on this and you can actually make and receive calls on it so in conclusion i'm really
really happy with the ticwatch e3 i will start off with the bad things though i do think the design
could become a little bit outdated as i mentioned at the start it does have a huge bezel and
unfortunately the screen is that curved glass and i think flat screens are going to become a thing
on smartwatches very very soon so be interesting to see how the ticwatch e3 ages other than that
though you do get a huge selection of features on the watch alongside flagship killing internals it
makes me think this watch is really a no-brainer considering its price point of 179 pounds
or a shade under 200 you're really getting a lot of smartwatch for your money i guess to sum it up
in a sentence you're getting a flagship watch experience just not a flagship design and for
me that's a pretty good compromise anyway let me know your thoughts down below on the ticwatch e3
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