Oppo Watch Free Review: Fitness monitoring in style
The Oppo Watch came out in 2020 as Oppo’s answer to the mainstream smartwatches from Apple and other Wear OS brands. Considering its price, it was one of the nicest watches to buy. However, it was out of reach for many and in a bid to expand its accessibility, Oppo later announced the Watch Free. Launched in India now at a price of Rs. 5,999, it is almost half the price of the Oppo Watch and promises a lot on paper.
It is, however, a lot different than the Oppo Watch. In fact, the Oppo Watch Free is essentially a fitness tracker rather than a full fledged smartwatch. It looks like a fitness tracker too. Hence, it steps into a segment of “wannabe smartwatches” that want to do it all but miss out on certain street smarts. And, is it worth choosing over all those others?
To find out, I have been wearing the Oppo Watch Free for two weeks and here is what I found.
The Watch Free plays it safe with its design and hence, it looks familiar to a couple of fitness trackers from Honor and Huawei. You get a band-like design that has a slim and thick display, with its silicon straps emerging out of the top and bottom. The strap has a leather-like texture, which adds to the overall appeal of the Watch Free.
The body of the watch itself is devoid of any physical buttons, which adds to overall sleekness of the Watch Free. The 1.64-inch display stretched almost edge to edge, but there are some noticeable bezels at the bottom. This is an AMOLED display and that too of a good quality. Hence, you get to see bright and vivid watch faces in the best of ways Oppo intended. There is an auto-brightness sensor, which is of great convenience. The display responds swiftly to touches, although I feel the animations and response could be tuned better for
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