OnePlus Watch
The $160 OnePlus Watch was hands down the worst smartwatch launched in 2021. Rather than run Google’s Wear OS, which would have given it access to the existing Android watch apps available in the Play Store, OnePlus launched the smartwatch with RTOS, the same platform that powers the Amazfit line of wearables. The experience is decidedly not good.
In our review period for the watch, OnePlus only offered beta versions of the Watch’s marquee features, seriously hampering that initial experience. Sleep-tracking, fitness-tracking, and even heart rate-monitoring were inaccurate, rendering the gargantuan 46mm wearable almost useless. Even after an update, the OnePlus Watch remains buggy and doesn’t offer the sort of experience you’d expect even from even a more budget-friendly smartwatch. This one is a skip. —Florence Ion
