Marketing the new OnePlus Watch 2R as a sporty, durable Wear OS watch to “encourage an active lifestyle,” with a lightweight design for “those who appreciate all-day fitness tracking “. I love watches that do it right for me, but my colleagues who tested the OnePlus Watch 2 blasted its fitness specs as its Achilles’ heel. So I decided to test the accuracy of the Watch 2R for myself.
With the original OnePlus Watch 2, our reviewer Harish complained that it was “unreliable in counting daily steps or activity,” that it misjudged calories burned after exercise , and that its stress data is artificially inflated.
Meanwhile, my colleague Nick did a one-week review of the OnePlus Watch 2 and had the same complaints about unlimited steps and significantly lower HR numbers over time. of anaerobic exercise. Nick and Harish both suspected that the watch used its low-power RTOS coprocessor to handle the health and fitness sample and that it wasn’t fast or stable enough to get a good reading.
This made me nervous about testing the OnePlus Watch 2R, a fitness watch that supposedly couldn’t handle exercise well. So, as with my Galaxy Watch Ultra fitness review last week, I paired the two smartwatches to see how the Watch 2R would compare to my Garmin Forerunner 965 for heart rate and accuracy. when two GPS units.
My OnePlus Watch 2R fitness test
OnePlus’ OHealth companion app doesn’t let you export TCX/GPX files like Samsung Health, and I had trouble getting Health Connect to export my data properly, so I couldn’t create charts my standard HR or GPS for direct comparison; I will use tables as an alternative for now.
| Run #1 | OnePlus Watch 2R | Garmin Forerunner 965 |
|---|---|---|
| Location | 3.05 miles | 3.09 miles |
| Avg. / Size of HR | 146 bpm / 159 bpm | 147bpm / 158bpm |
| Cadence | 161 steps per minute | 162 steps per minute |
| The length of steps | 3.28 feet | 3.35 feet |
| Avg. Ratio | 8.8% | 8.7% |
| Avg. contact time with soil | 301 ms | 283 ms |
| Calories burned | 318 calories | 421 kcal |
For my first run, the OnePlus Watch 2R stayed pretty much on track with the Garmin Forerunner 965. I saw heart rates at ten different times, and the 2R matched the 965 four times. and it was 1bpm six times shorter, corresponding to 1bpm. -low average.
GPS accuracy was always the same. It’s hard to say whether the accuracy of the OnePlus two is more reliable than the Garmin as both maps caused me to go off course on rare occasions, but I was thankful that they both they fell in the same area of ​​the football for the run by blocking the marks. leaves.
In terms of performance, the OnePlus Watch 2R is well connected for the length of the run and the average standing vertical, but it measured my vertical oscillation as 1cm short and the average contact time 18ms long.
| Run #2 | OnePlus Watch 2R | Garmin Forerunner 965 |
|---|---|---|
| Location | 3,315 meters | 3,220 meters |
| Avg. / Size of HR | 174 bpm / 191 bpm | 176 bpm / 191 bpm |
| Cadence | 180 steps per minute | 174 steps per minute |
| The length of steps | 4.42 feet | 4.43 feet |
| Avg. Ratio | 6.0% | 6.6% |
| Avg. ground contact time | 241 ms | 223 ms |
| Calories burned | 194 kcal | 229 kcal |
I ran eight laps of 400m for my second track, and the Garmin held true because it uses stored track maps to judge where you might be. OnePlus had many problems: The Watch 2R caught my wrist during laps or miles around the 350m mark, repeatedly. It was as if the starting point was completely wrong, but then the GPS was right-correct when I hit the wrong place. However, it did reduce my measured speed by a good amount.
I thought heart rate for a hard workout would be the sticking point, but its average HR was more accurate than the Galaxy Watch Ultra during my workout last week. Of course it fell short of the Garmin results – usually 1-3 bpm short at a given time – but it usually translates to an accurate number given enough time. Indeed, the Watch 2R did better than the Watch 2 in this area.
Also, OnePlus’ active dynamics data deviates from Garmin’s in small ways. I’m not sure if OnePlus said I took more steps per minute when I left my feet on the ground for a long time. However, I noticed after my run that OHealth had my height listed as 5’7 (I’m 6’1), so that probably skewed the results. such as vertical oscillation. Regardless, using form data is less useful, in my opinion.
General OnePlus Watch 2R fitness review
This may be a case of low expectations undermining my opinion, but the OnePlus Watch 2R feels like a solid budget watch. It has the weight for its display size, a three-day battery life with Wear OS 4, Google Assistant, and a $229 price tag that I’d expect from an Amazfit watch – not something with proper app support.
OHealth provides the most in-depth and amazing data available for running, providing detailed information for specific statistics such as training effect, working power, VO2 Max, and recovery time – even though Garmin wants me to rest another day and my VO2 Max is a little low.
That said, it’s still pretty basic compared to other tie-in fitness apps. OHealth offers a lot of individual information, but its long-term training load and overall fitness are on the light side. If I used the Watch 2R for a long time, I could automatically sync the data to Strava and rely on it.
Going back to my colleagues’ complaints about the original OnePlus Watch 2, my final score on both runs was 11,670 for the Forerunner 965 and 11,560 for the Watch 2R.
The Garmin watch beat every other model on my first and second step count tests, so I’ll treat the first number as the correct control group. About 100 steps across 11,000 steps is a bit of a rounding error, and it’s much better than the OnePlus Watch 2 vs. Pixel Watch 2 across the same area (1,860 short). The same for my recent test of the Galaxy Watch Ultra against the Forerunner 965 after 10,000 steps (348 short steps).
The OnePlus doesn’t record my calories burned compared to the Garmin, but to be honest, I did never You’ve seen any of the two watches that match how many calories you’ve burned. I don’t know what goes into that algorithm and how you can tell which ones are cheating or selling you short. So I’m not too upset about it looking like OnePlus is on the low end, because it’s just a guess.
Honestly, my biggest complaint with the OnePlus Watch 2R is the same one I have with the Galaxy Watch Ultra: the lack of a crown. OnePlus has given the Watch 2 a passive crown that rotates and does nothing, while the Watch 2 has two soft buttons, one of which pulls up workouts automatically unless you switch to silent mode. that one. Thanks for that, but the sweaty displays in the pictures above should show why I don’t like relying on swipes during exercise. Give me the up/down buttons or the crown every day.
I need more time for a full review of the OnePlus Watch 2R which focuses on health and sleep. But I’m more confident about the odds of being relevant to the average athlete than last week — and compared to cheap Android watches for quality.
An affordable Wear OS watch
The OnePlus Watch 2R has a Snapdragon W5 CPU, a 500mAh battery, a 1.43-inch display, dual-band GPS, NFC for hidden payments, Google Assistant, and the latest detailed metrics. It’s not as stylish or rugged as the original Watch 2, but it’s much lighter, cheaper, and seems to lack the same HR issues.
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