The launch of OnePlus Watch was catastrophic. I’ve never had any flagship smartwatch since Will.i.am. famous smart watch Pulse it failed in such a spectacular way. I recently he wrote 2,000 words about how he was the worst smartwatch I’ve ever used. Today OnePlus released an antenna update that aimed to fix some of the flagrant omissions and cock-ups of the watch.
It’s better than nothing, but to be honest, the OnePlus watch was launched with almost nothing, so it doesn’t exactly impress me. According to one publish in the OnePlus forum, the update includes:
- Improved GPS performance
- Improving the accuracy of activity tracking (walking and running)
- Optimized heart rate monitoring algorithm
- Notification application icons enabled for most used applications
- Improved alarm clock function
- Optimized notification synchronization algorithm
- Some known bugs have been fixed
- Improved system stability
Reader, look at this list and cry with me. This is a damning list of everything that fucked OnePlus at launch. GPS performance, precise activitymonitoring, heart rate-monitoring and notifications syncing correctly basic functions that are expected to work as advertised outside the box. The document “fSome known bugs have been removed. The focus is also making a lot of effort here. The problem is that there was lots of known mistakes that I now keep guessing which ones have been addressed. The vagueness doesn’t trust trust, but I’ve contacted OnePlus to see if they’ll clarify what mistakes they’re talking about here.
When I initially raised concerns with OnePlus, the company told me — and other reviewers — that we were expecting an update in mid-April. A spokesman told me that the mid-April update would finally synchronize the sound-tracking data and SpO2 history in the OnePlus Health app. This is huge, because in addition to being a feature of a marquee, sleepingtracking is only useful if you can see your trends over time. So here we are, a week after launch, with what I guess is the update that OnePlus was referring to.
I updated the app and the OnePlus Watch. My sleep and SpO2 data is nowhere to be found. I’ve synced at least five times. I guess my sleep story is gone in the ether. So either OnePlus told us what was wrong and this widely reported bug has not yet been fixed or the watch itself does not store more than a week of data. Neither option is good. (For record, I smart scale can store 14-day data for eight different people, so the latter is just ridiculous.) I asked OnePlus about sleeptracking / syncing SpO2 applications as well, but have not received any response.
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Another thing that was not resolved? My arm has been buzzing all the time I’ve been writing. I have at least 100 unread email notifications. But hey, at least my notifications have icons.
True, I only have this update for a few hours and need more time to check if the really big bugs have been fixed correctly. But what baffles me is that you still can’t switch from a 12-hour time format to a 24-hour format. This, along with sleep history and SpO2 timing issues, was a widely reported bug, although it has yet to be fixed. OnePlus says it will come in a future update, along with an ever-visible screen, a camera remote control for Android smartphones, four new languages, the rest of the more than 110 training modes promised and a face of AI clock. Listen, OnePlus, considering how it looks failed French translations and I gave clocks to several reviewers (including me) who were initially stuck in Hindi, perhaps prioritizing this thing to work fully as advertised before postingka other markets.
At best case, these updates will fix some of the biggest issues I’ve had with OnePlus Watch. Which leads me to wonder: Why demons could that release no will be delayed by one week if there was a week left to fix this shit? Consumers are not beta testers.
Honestly, I’m mostly angry because that means I have to go back and relive the trauma of this testing experience. This fix-it-as-you-go approach is incredibly disrespectful to me, my peers, and consumers. But listen, OnePlus, I’m a professional. You said the operating accuracy and GPS were fixed. If I run three miles in good faith and the fitness metrics are still broken, me he can not be responsible for throwing this thing into the East River.