OPPO Introduces the Apple Watch… Wait

[69Mustang]

That’s funny because I’ve been using my Apple Watch to track sleep for several years now. Via 3rd party app but who cares whether it’s 1st party or not? Apple added cycle tracking to the Health app but it doesn‘t do anything more than the 3rd party app I was already using.

Again, context matters. The author was addressing features between the two devices, not their app environments. You're simply restating what the other guy did. Not sure why (or if) you think you're saying something different. Either way, you mentioning 3rd party apps carries the same relevance as the other guy's mentions... none.

 

[cmaier]

If you need third party out of the box to do it, it doesn’t do it then.

That makes no sense. If that’s the case, then a windows PC does little other than playing solitaire.

 

[GadgetBen]

I wouldn’t be surprised if they have used the exact same moulds.

 

[Glavin]

Wet Animal Markets and IP theft are going to be your legacy, Emperor Pooh Bear? Step up your game. The Chinese people deserve better than that.

 

[paul4339]

Absolutely ridiculous! No one wants a square watch! Watches are suppose to be round! Besides, you have to charge it each day, I want a watch that lasts at least a week on one charge.... This idea will never catch on.

 

[rp2011]

I think the battle needs to really be with other governments, and perhaps this is already sort of happening with the US. If China doesn’t want to respect other countries companies intellectual property then trade wars and tariffs seem like they’ll continue for a very long time.

It just seems a no brainer, pull these companies into line and say hey, you can’t just rip off a design and pretend you came up with it. It won’t be allowed.

Also noted though that they couldn’t master the crown.

Love my Apple Watch, but that stupid crown should definitely go. Oppo got one thing right.

 

[fullauto]

As a designer these stories give me instant anxiety. Must be such a downer for Apples design team.

 

[Jar Jar Abrams]

Forgive us for getting confused in our headline.

Chinese smartphone maker OPPO today introduced its first smartwatch, the OPPO Watch, with a so-called "signature design" that just so happens to look virtually identical to the Apple Watch. "This might be the best-looking smart watch of the year," said OPPO's vice president of marketing Brian Shen.

The OPPO Watch uses OPPO's custom Android-based operating system ColorOS and offers the functionality you would expect from a smartwatch, including notifications, fitness and heart rate tracking, contactless payments, music playback, breathing reminders, and so forth. It also has built-in eSIM-based cellular connectivity.

Unlike the Apple Watch, the OPPO Watch can monitor sleep quality, generating a sleep report of the user's duration of deep sleep, light sleep, and awake time. MacRumors uncovered evidence of Apple testing sleep tracking on the Apple Watch last year and reports have indicated that the feature could be on deck for 2020.

OPPO Watch will be sold worldwide, with availability beginning in China on March 24. The 46mm version features a 1.91-inch AMOLED display with a 402x476 resolution for 326 pixels per inch. U.S. pricing remains to be seen.

Article Link: OPPO Introduces the Apple Watch... Wait

What a joke, what a country, operates on theft and irresponsibility f u k look at the mess the world is in now thanks to their irresponsibility, Oppo what a stealing sh it company. No one will buy that counterfeit Apple Watch with a shi tty name oppo, how about calling it bat soup

 

[LeeW]

Nice, now Oppo and Google can track you whether and whatever you are doing.

 

[Solomani]

Are you serious or just making stuff up? How many other smartwatches are out there that look nothing like an Apple watch?

Samsung watches look NOTHING like Apple's and are round.
Garmin the same
Fossil the same
The new Moto 360 whatever its called now, the same.

There are in fact VERY few major brand copies of the Apple Watch. Except the Chinese brands who have no respect for anyone's intellectual property- this and Xiaomi which are copycats of the Apple Watch.

Which completely justifies the US bans on Chinese thieving companies like Huawei. Absolutely support throttling companies like that. OPPO should be next on the ban hit list of US Congress.


Huawei reportedly expects steep drop in 2020 phone sales due to US ban

 

[cmaier]

Which completely justifies the US bans on Chinese thieving companies like Huawei. Absolutely support throttling companies like that. OPPO should be next on the ban hit list of US Congress.


Huawei reportedly expects steep drop in 2020 phone sales due to US ban

The U.S. doesn’t ban companies based on allegedly thievery. The Huawei ban is about alleged national security threats.

 

[x-evil-x]

Apple really needs to step up its battery game on the watch.

ive had all apples watches from first release to previous gen and ive always been happy with the battery life. 2 days is plenty for me. barely have to charge the thing and I never worry about battery life like on my phone. Not really an issue

 

[mi7chy]

Apple didn't invent square watches. Before Apple Watch there were traditional square watches then Garmin square fitness watches half a decade before Samsung Galaxy Gear which came two years before the Apple Watch. OPPO further refined the square smart watch with nicer curved screen design which Samsung popularized and removed the tiny dumb UI input crown. More importantly, the OPPO watch battery life goes up to 21 days in basic notification mode. Only thing ugly and cheap looking is the bar type for attaching wrist strap. Should've made it nicer like the Galaxy Active2.

 

[cmaier]

Apple didn't invent square watches. Before Apple Watch there were traditional square watches then Garmin square fitness watches half a decade before Samsung Galaxy Gear which came two years before the Apple Watch. OPPO further refined the square smart watch with nicer curved screen design which Samsung popularized and removed the tiny dumb UI input crown. More importantly, the OPPO watch battery life goes up to 21 days in basic notification mode. Only thing ugly and cheap looking is the bar type for attaching wrist strap. Should've made it nicer like the Galaxy Active2.

Blah blah blah.

Funny how the oppo looks so much like the Apple Watch and so different from every other square watch that preceded it.

There are a million square watches that the oppo looks nothing like.

 

[J Evolve-Learn]

Cheap knockoff blatant theft never had an original idea, excuse me while I go on eBay and order some cheap “OEM” 6-foot lighting cables for my iPhone - they keep burning out every few months (but they put the Amazon smile arrow on the product image so it’s definitely authentic, right? - oh, damn, delivery time from China now delayed 60-90 days…

 

[chucker23n1]

Blah blah blah.

Funny how the oppo looks so much like the Apple Watch and so different from every other square watch that preceded it.

There are a million square watches that the oppo looks nothing like.

It's the same dumb iPhone-lookalike argument again.

Were there phones that looked like an iPhone before 2007? Less than a handful, but yes.

Were there ones that looked like it after 2007? Yes — almost every single one of them. That's not a coincidence.

Nor is it a coincidence that OPPO's watch looks like the Apple Watch.

 

[mi7chy]

Were there phones that looked like an iPhone before 2007? Less than a handful, but yes.

Nor is it a coincidence that OPPO's watch looks like the Apple Watch.

Nobody cares about the 2007 iPhone. That thing was fugly. I had the iPhone 4 and 4S which were unique although they resemble sardine cans. iPhones now look like Galaxy phablets. And, the OPPO watch looks more like a shrunken down Galaxy S6 Edge which came before the first Apple Watch. So, it's more correct to say Galaxy set the trend for how phones and watches look like now. I don't pay attention to the fake Jim Keller.

 

[name99]

Pretty sure you know they mean sleep monitoring is not a feature of the Apple Watch. Which it is not. Context does matter. Since the author was discussing feature differences...

What is a "Feature of a Watch"?
Sleep Monitoring IS a feature of the HARDWARE. The hardware can do it and does do it.
It is not a *built-in* feature of watchOS 6. SW can be added to the watch (for $2.99) to enable this functionality. Which is what I said.
It might be a *built-in* feature of watchOS 7, or not - who knows.

What I said was correct.
If someone said that "The Apple Watch can't play music" would you argue that this is technically correct because, as shipped out the box, there IS NO MUSIC ON THE APPLE WATCH, you have to add it.
Does that argument make any sense?

There are many ways MacRumors could have said something that was correct and useful; but what they said was neither correct nor useful.

 

[Shanghaichica]

Nobody cares about the 2007 iPhone. That thing was fugly. I had the iPhone 4 and 4S which were unique although they resemble sardine cans. iPhones now look like Galaxy phablets. And, the OPPO watch looks more like a shrunken down Galaxy S6 Edge which came before the first Apple Watch. So, it's more correct to say Galaxy set the trend for how phones and watches look like now. I don't pay attention to the fake Jim Keller.

I agree on the first point about iPhones following the trend of the original galaxy note. However the Apple Watch was first shown on stage in September 2014 which was before the S6 edge.

 

[69Mustang]

What is a "Feature of a Watch"?
Sleep Monitoring IS a feature of the HARDWARE. The hardware can do it and does do it.
It is not a *built-in* feature of watchOS 6. SW can be added to the watch (for $2.99) to enable this functionality. Which is what I said.
It might be a *built-in* feature of watchOS 7, or not - who knows.

What I said was correct.
If someone said that "The Apple Watch can't play music" would you argue that this is technically correct because, as shipped out the box, there IS NO MUSIC ON THE APPLE WATCH, you have to add it.
Does that argument make any sense?

There are many ways MacRumors could have said something that was correct and useful; but what they said was neither correct nor useful.

You pretending not to know what they meant doesn't mean you didn't know exactly what they meant. They were comparing features of each watch. Again, context matters.

You need a better analogy. And no, that argument doesn't make sense since The Apple Watch comes with the music app preloaded. So if someone said to me the Apple watch can't play music, I'd say (pedantically smirking), "Well actually, the AW can play music since it has the music app loaded, shipped out of the box. All you have to do is add the music you want it to play. See what I did there? Despite knowing exactly what you meant, I ignored the context of what you wrote and instead focused on pedantically parsing the words you used. Like you did with the article.

 

[HandITOVER]

SMH.

 

[chucker23n1]

From a hardware perspective, Apple Watch 5 has much to learn from Oppo Watch

Such as?

Does Oppo design chips now?

and It's 2x less expensive with built-in cellular.

Wait, hold on. Are you saying… Apple isn't the cheapest option?

This changes everything!

 

[coolfactor]

I wonder how well OPPO will do with this watch?
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From a hardware perspective, Apple Watch 5 has much to learn from Oppo Watch and It's 2x less expensive with built-in cellular.

Please enlighten us on *what* Apple has to learn... I'm genuinely curious.

 

[sidewinder3000]

Cowards.

 

[HandITOVER]

SMH.