Looking for a smartwatch that’s as user friendly as it is functional? Then check out the Ticwatch 2 Active Smartwatch, offered to Android Community readers at at 15% off the regular retail price. Smartwatches, while a great idea, have failed to gain popularity. This is largely because most of them run on operating systems that were designed for much larger devices, like smartphones and tablets. When you take a complex OS and try to cram it into a small wristwatch, you get a tool that’s, at best, awkward to use.
The Ticwatch 2 Active Smartwatch, by contrast, succeeds where others have failed. That’s because it runs on a proprietary operating system, Ticwear OS, that’s designed specifically for use with a smartwatch. It allows you to easily plan your day, manage your communications, and track your fitness all from your wrist. The end result is that you have a wearable device that actually helps you in your day to day life without becoming a drag on your productivity.
So, how’s it different, exactly? The Ticwatch 2 lets you uses voice commands to interact with it. Instead of trying to press a touch screen while you are walking around, just speak to order an Uber, set a reminder, or take a call. The sports app is intuitive so you spend less time fiddling with your watch and more time exercising, and it’s got a built-in GPS to track your distance and location
Like what you see, but unsure if this is just another gimmicky device? Let us put your mind at ease. The Ticwatch 2 raised over $2 million on Kickstarter, and it has been praised by the trusted folks at CNN, Engadget, and Digital Trends for its clean and simple user interface. The Ticwatch 2 might very well be the best smartwatch on the market today and you can get it for much less than other models.
Pick up your very own Ticwatch 2 Active Smartwatch in your choice of two colors (charcoal and snow) right now for just $169.99, a savings of $30 off the regular retail price, at Android Community Deals.
i bought one back in january – i can confirm it’s a pretty good smartwatch.
don’t expect to run much for 3rd party apps though. it’s not [android wear], but has a dysfunctional compatibility layer enabling you to install android wear apps on it. this process generally results in unusable apps on the watch (as in the apps launch but crash immediately after launch).
the one big useful app is [watchmaker]. it’s a great app with a large repository of watch faces. aside from that you get the apps included with the watch. don’t expect anything else.
if that’s enough for you (it is for me) you’ll be happy with this watch. if not, then you won’t be. simple as that.
How’s the battery life. Some other comments I’ve read has put it as low as 8 hours, which seems ridiculous. I imagine it has to be better than that.
I use mine all day (ambient mode with tilt to enable full brightness, lots of notifications, I view my schedule on the watch for each meeting I have at work)
From 7:00am till 11:00pm five days a week I generally have about 15% battery left when I drop it on the charger at night.
On rare occasion it craps out earlier but I always know why (e.g. fire up WiFi on the watch and download a firmware update, or use the watch gps to track a mid day exercise without the phone).
I describe the battery life as “fine”. You absolutely must charge it every night, but since it can’t track your sleep there’s nothing to complain about there. If it could last several days or a week that would be stellar, but I don’t see this level of function lasting that long on any devices out there.
That it can’t track your sleep is a good example of the one real weakness for this watch: very little developer mindshare which translates to few apps. As such there isn’t an app to track your sleep. There isn’t an app to brew beer, or to monitor your 3d printer, etc etc. The only REAL 3rd party app we’ve got is WatchMaker (which is quite good).
If you like the features the watch ships with and don’t want to install 3rd party apps you’ll like this watch. If that’s not you’ll dislike being constrained to just the few apps available. I’m somewhere in between; maybe 80% happy despite not having lots of interesting apps to choose from. Battery life hasn’t really been an issue here, but maybe it would be if there were apps running all day or one running while I slept…