MOBVOI TICWATCH PRO 3 ULTRA
A rugged Wear OS smartwatch that goes the extra mile
The screen is touchsensitive and, surprisingly, features hardly any lag
Apremium Wear OS smartwatch in a military standard case sold for a tantalisingly low price, the TicWatch Pro 3 Ultra GPS doesn’t disappoint. It offers a range of intelligent features, and its build quality is nothing to be frowned at.
The TicWatch Pro 3 Ultra GPS is built using US Military Standard 810G (MIL-STD-810G) materials to withstand “extreme temperatures, humidity, solar radiation, shock, low pressure”. It’s also IP68 water rated for those extreme showers you might take wearing the watch.
Of course, the 1.4-inch AMOLED display is protected by a Corning Gorilla anti-fingerprint glass to ensure the front is as tough as the rest of the watch. The screen itself is fully touch-sensitive and, to our surprise, there was hardly any lag between movements we made with our fingers and the interactions on the screen.
On the side of the watch case, you’ll find two rotating watch crowns that also function as push buttons. Well, they mainly serve as push buttons, as we couldn’t find any evidence of the rotation being utilised while playing around with the watch.
The watch features a myriad of sensors, including an accelerometer, gyro sensor, an optical heart rate sensor, SpO2 sensor, low latency off-body sensor and a barometer.
Since heart rate variability (HRV) assessment is all the rage now in the world of fitness wearables, Mobvoi naturally included a feature on the TicWatch Pro 3 Ultra GPS based on it: you can find the Fatigue Assessment tracker in the Mobvoi App.
During testing, we found the heart rate sensor and GPS reasonably accurate when used for running training. There were no dips in heart rate, and the GPS followed our route pretty closely. It took a while for the watch to pick up the signal, though, at least compared to running watches.
It’s hard to find a real issue with the TicWatch Pro 3 Ultra GPS, especially at this price point. Sure, it would be unlikely to push the Garmin Enduro 2 or the Apple Watch Ultra off your wrist as your workout tracker if you owned either of them, but it has plenty of decent features that might convince less performance-oriented people to choose it over more diehard fitness wearables.