Oppo Launches Oppo Watch X in South Africa
Oppo Launches Oppo Watch X in South Africa. Leading global technology company Oppo today launched its new flagship smartwatch – Oppo Watch X, a trusted companion designed to elevate every moment in life with dual-frequency GPS and multiple exclusive fitness monitoring features. And enabled by a dual-engine architecture and hybrid interface by Wear OS by Google™, Watch X has industry-leading endurance with up to 100 hours of battery life. Additionally, the watch gets up to 12 days with Power Saver Mode. With Wear OS 4, the latest version of the platform, Watch X comes with smart connectivity and Google Play’s extensive app ecosystem. The RRP for the Watch X is from R5,999.
With a growing need for more actionable fitness monitoring data from a smart wearable, Oppo has made accuracy a priority on the new Watch X. Oppo Watch X features dual-frequency GPS with the ability to receive both the commonly used L1 GPS signal and the more advanced L5 GPS signal. The use of two separate antennas for each GPS signal further improves the precision and reliability of positioning for users when running, cycling, hiking, or exercising in environments with poor GPS coverage.
Thanks to the dual-frequency GPS, along with a high-precision accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer sensor, Watch X ensures more consistent data tracking for more precise measurements and improved accuracy when tracking workout routes. Oppo and Wear OS worked closely to fine-tune these sensor capabilities.
Oppo Watch X also provides automatic sports recognition with the ability to identify when the wearer is walking, running, cycling, swimming, or using a rowing machine. For running enthusiasts, Watch X goes a step further with the addition of running posture recognition. This function can detect a runner’s ground contact time (GCT), balance between the left and right foot GCT, step frequency, stride length, and more, all in real time and in both indoor and outdoor environments, allowing users to correct their running posture for improved safety and performance.
Other dedicated sports features available on Oppo Watch X include a dedicated badminton mode. Developed in-house by Oppo, the new feature collects specialist data during play and produces a post-match analysis across five dimensions of explosiveness, activity, endurance, confrontation, and offense to help users adjust aspects such as their swing strength and speed. As with the running posture recognition, the data provided is highly actionable, allowing wearers to pinpoint their weaknesses and take their game to the next level.
Alongside incredible sports and fitness tracking features, Oppo Watch X also includes plenty of features that empower wearers to better manage their everyday health. By tracking sleep breathing rate, sleep blood oxygen level, baseline heart rate, snoring, body movement, and other sleep behaviour, Watch X supports full-scenario sleep monitoring, even if it’s just a nap. With in-depth weekly sleep tracking reports available through Oppo’s OHealth app, users can also closely monitor changes in sleep duration, sleep regularity, snoring risk, and their overall sleep score. Together, the comprehensive sleep monitoring data enables users to better understand their quality of sleep each night and build habits that can lead to better sleep.
Underlying these improvements in data measurement on Oppo Watch X are a more accurate 8-channel heart rate sensor and a 16-channel blood oxygen sensor through which users can monitor their heart rate, blood oxygen saturation levels, and other information. Thanks to the advanced suite of sensors and onboard algorithms, Watch X can also monitor stress levels over a given time period by calculating heart rate variability (HRV).
Powered with Wear OS, Oppo Watch X comes with Google apps, including Google Assistant, Google Maps, Google Wallet, and Google Play1. Experience new levels of convenience with the launch of transit directions on Google Maps for Wear OS – navigate public transportation effortlessly from your wrist. Plus, manage boarding passes, event tickets, and more directly on your watch with Google Wallet passes now available for Wear OS. With Google Play on the watch, users can access a wide range of even more Google apps and third-party apps, including Gmail and WhatsApp.
These apps are specially designed for smartwatches, catering to various needs from health and fitness to productivity, making Watch X more functional and versatile. With the support of Fast Pair, you can quickly connect and set up your Oppo Watch X with your Oppo or other Android smartphone. This seamless pairing enables you to answer or reject incoming calls, control music playback, check and reply to WhatsApp messages, and access more supported features directly from your wrist.
Oppo Watch X features a large 500mAh battery and the Watch VOOCTM Flash Charging for both multi-day use and quick recharging. It can be fully charged in just 60 minutes or provide an additional 24 hours of use in as little as 10 minutes.
Avashnee Moodley, head of marketing at Oppo South Africa said: “We are excited to launch the Oppo Watch X to the South African market, this marks a significant milestone in our journey towards revolutionising the wearable technology market. With its fusion, sophisticated design, and advanced functionality, the Oppo Watch X sets a new standard to deliver a smooth, power-efficient user experience, making it a trusted companion designed to create a healthier and dynamic lifestyle.”
“We’ve made significant updates to Wear OS’s hybrid interface to support new capabilities that run on Oppo’s innovative dual-engine architecture,” said John Renaldi, senior director of product and design, Wear OS by Google. “Through this collaboration, Oppo Watch X transparently switches between the low power and high performance engine to deliver a feature-rich, premium smartwatch experience with optimized battery life.”
