Vivo’s Watch 3 aims to appeal to a broad spectrum of smartwatch buyers ranging from health and fitness focussed users requiring long battery life and extensive fitness tracking capabilities, as well as design-conscious smartwatch users, who require eye-catching looks and lots of smartphone connectivity features.
The vivo Watch 3 caters to both user groups by firstly adopting a sleek Asteroid Black finish and a stainless steel Smart Digital Crown for effortless navigation, with this circular smartwatch being paired with a black soft rubber band. Its light and thin body, weighing only 36g (excluding the band), offers comfort, and the ergonomic design ensures it sits perfectly on the wrist. This smartwatch’s full AOD (Always On Display) offers a continuous and convenient view of the time and important notifications, whilst 5ATM water resistance means that the vivo Watch 3 is durable enough for any scenario, whether swimming, showering, or being caught in a Gauteng thunderstorm.
The Watch 3 appeals to the former thanks to it being a comprehensive health and wellness companion. It features 24-hour heart rate and blood oxygen monitoring, stress tracking, and advanced sleep analysis tools that provide valuable insights to improve health and well-being. The Advanced Multi-Channel Star Ring layout enhances tracking precision, offering 8-channel heart rate monitoring and 16-channel blood oxygen monitoring for comprehensive and accurate health data.
Powered by vivo’s proprietary BlueOS, which is a custom Android-based operating system designed to enhance the user experience with intuitive navigation, user-centric design, and optimised performance, the vivo Watch 3 offers seamless and personalised interactions. Thanks to a wide selection of customisable watch faces, users can effortlessly switch between professional and sporty styles with just a touch, whilst the vivo Watch 3 also supports over 113 sports modes, delivering a tailored fitness experience that accurately tracks activities ranging from running and yoga to more specialised sports. Real-time insights provide precise feedback to help users meet their fitness goals.
And you will be doing that tracking far beyond the amount of time that a Galaxy Watch or Apple Watch enables you since the vivo Watch 3 boasts a battery life of up to 16 days, with us consistently getting around two weeks of usage from a single charge, despite using the device to track (with GPS on) our 5-8km walk that we do three times per week.
All of this comes with a pricetag of just R5999 which puts it in a similar range to the Apple Watch SE (2nd gen), Samsung Galaxy Watch 7, Garmin vivoactive5, and HUAWEI WATCH GT 4, with the vivo more than holding its own in terms of value, specs and feature set, design and battery performance against any of these devices. Worth a Top 3 consideration to any new smartwatch buyers.