Tic all the boxes
If you refuse to pay £200-plus for a smartwatch, the TicWatch S2 claims to offer all the features you need for less… but does it pass Stuff’s wrist assessment?
The appeal of Mobvoi’s TicWatch series really boils down to one thing: money.
The TicWatch S2 has pretty much every feature you could ask for in a smartwatch that costs well under £200: GPS, a heart-rate sensor, better than average battery life and 5ATM water-resistance.
But now that Fitbit and Huawei have used their own operating systems to show how good at tracking a fairly low-tech smartwatch can be (with the Ionic and Watch GT respectively), the S2 is a reminder that Wear OS can be hard to live with.