It’s difficult to keep smartwatches charged. The finest of them need charging around once a day, and because their chargers are connected to USB connections, taking a smartwatch on a trip necessitates bringing along an additional coiled cable.
That’s what smart rings have found out. Wearable chargers like the Oura Ring are USB-input pucks that fit in your pocket as opposed to bulky wires. I wrote earlier this year about hoping smartwatches will follow suit, and it seems that someone was reading. Although the watch’s incredible battery life will undoubtedly be discussed extensively, the new OnePlus Watch 2’s charger is also almost faultless.
The perfect charger for my smartwatch
It fulfills every need I have.The charger for the OnePlus Watch 2 is a little square with a USB-C connector, so you can use any old USB cable to charge it. I don’t know about you, but there are a lot more USB-C chargers than there are USB-C ports available in my house. I can use the OnePlus Watch 2’s charger in any room without having to dig behind furniture to locate an available outlet or USB port, which makes it far more handy than the ones that come with competing watches.
The smartwatch charger from OnePlus is also very good for trips. The most of the time I wear a Pixel Watch 2, however it’s difficult for me to go back to my workstation to unhook its charger since I have it hooked into a USB port there. I ultimately purchased a second charger just for travel; it is kept spooled up in a bag along with my mini travel shampoo and toothbrush. However, the charger for the OnePlus Watch 2—a tiny magnetic puck with USB-C input—is simple to tuck into a suitcase pocket before I go.
It’s funny to say that you will most likely be able to leave your OnePlus charger at home. The OnePlus Watch 2 runs the whole Wear OS, yet it lasts an amazing 100 hours on a single charge, so you won’t even need a charger for long weekends or overnight travels. I received the watch set up last Friday with around 50% charge left, as I said in my complete review. I didn’t get a low battery indicator until the following Sunday evening, which was two days later.
The OnePlus Watch 2’s charger can pump up to 7.5 watts, which, depending on how full the watch’s battery is, may offer enough juice for a full day’s usage in approximately 10 minutes. It’s speedy, too, in typical OnePlus form.
Give me each watch’s own charger
This charger will be missed when I switch out my wearables
Even while I’m pleased with the OnePlus Watch 2’s charger and battery life, I don’t believe it’s a very good smartwatch overall. It runs Wear OS, but OnePlus’s fitness monitoring feels underdeveloped in comparison other Wear OS watches at comparable prices, and the bits of the software that diverge from the default experience seem a little uncomfortable.
However, I still want to emphasize how fantastic the OnePlus Watch 2’s battery and charging conditions are. I really hope that the rest of the wearable market takes note of OnePlus’s excellent work with the Watch 2.
