TicWatch Pro 3 vs Apple Watch SE difference – how to do sleep tracking?

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How to do sleep tracking in TicWatch Pro 3 or Apple Watch SE? Is it worth investment in 2021? Track your daily activity on these Watches and see your trends in the Fitness app on iPhone. Measure workouts like running, walking, cycling, yoga, swimming, and dance. Get health related notification and recent status on blood oxygen saturation level or sleep tracking. Know about more benefits in TicWatch Pro 3 vs Apple Watch SE comparison.

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Pros & Cons – TicWatch Pro 3 vs Apple Watch SE

TicWatch Pro 3

Pros

  • Wear OS 3.0 update is confirmed for mid-2022
  • Dual display is ace
  • Improved design
  • Great battery life
  • Zippy performance
  • Accurate heart rate sensor
  • Thinner and lighter than before
  • Significant performance improvements
  • Improved secondary display
  • New sensors and health tracking

Cons

  • Still large for some wrists
  • Dire companion app
  • Wear OS needs a refresh
  • Cheap strap

Apple Watch SE

Pros

  • High-quality hardware
  • Bright display
  • Plentiful features
  • Affordable

Cons

  • Short battery life
  • No ECG
  • Limited sleep tracking
  • Limited color selection

Price – TicWatch Pro 3 vs Apple Watch SE

If you are in the United States, you can easily find the TicWatch Pro 3 GPS model on Amazon for $299.99. At the time of writing, the TicWatch Pro 3 LTE’s cellular functionality can only be used in the UK, Germany, and Spain. You can find this model on Amazon UK for £329.99 (~$460).

However, it doesn’t manage to address the flaws that remain in Apple’s smartwatch line, despite some notable advantages and a starting price of just $279 / £269 / AU$429. It offers the best of what you’d expect without offering anything new, so you’ll be waiting on the fabled Apple Watch SE 2 for any big changes.

What is the difference – TicWatch Pro 3 vs Apple Watch SE

Round design in Apple Watch

The gently rounded design in Apple Watch SE underbelly is comfortable against the skin, and the edges never dug into my flesh. I don’t care for the feel of the plain silicone strap that came with our review unit (in fact, it gave me a rash.) It has a slick finish to it. TicWatch Pro 3 has circle design.

Dual display in TicWatch

Apple’s third generation Watch display is impressive, but the TicWatch Pro display is on an entirely different level functionally. It’s called a “dual layer” display, with one layer being a fairly standard-looking round AMOLED display. That second layer is using Film compensated Super Twisted Nematic (FSTN) LCD tech.

Rotating Crown in Apple watch

TicWatch Pro and Apple Watch both have a pair of buttons for use on the side, but only Apple’s watch has a rotating crown. I admit I almost never use the rotating crown on my Apple Watch, but those who take advantage of not needing to rub your finger on the display are going to notice it missing on the TicWatch. 

Resolution

I was impressed with the display of Apple Watch SE. The 44mm size is great, as it offers plenty of real estate across the 448 by 368 pixels. The SE doesn’t offer the always-on display functionality of the Series 6, but it lights up whenever you raise your wrist. 

With  1.4-inch AMOLED panel, TicWatch Pro 3 has 454 x 454 resolution panel and it is crisp, clear, and bright enough for use in sunlight. 

Processor

Apple gave the SE its S5 SiP processor, which has a 64-bit, dual-core engine. It’s paired with 32GB of storage, which is more than enough for some music files. Other hardware features include the W3 chip for pairing with AirPods, an always-on altimeter, GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and compass.

In TicWatch Pro 3, the Wear 4100’s quad-core CPU boasts a 1.7GHz clock speed which is claimed to boost performance by 85% compared to the Wear 3100. In addition, there are also big improvements to the GPU — reportedly 2.5x faster — and increased power efficiency resulting from the shift to a 12nm process, as well as additional optimizations.

Voice assistant

To be perfectly honest, the less said about Siri on the Watch the better. I know things are going to be much better in the next generation of watchOS, but Google Assistant is more capable in every possible way on the TicWatch Pro.

Charging

Both of these watches require you to use a fairly proprietary dock to charge the watch, but by nature of its popularity the Apple Watch charger is significantly easier to replace when you need to. The charger for the TicWatch Pro is also a pin-based charger instead of the smooth magnetic-seal wireless charger Apple is using. 

Battery

In Apple Watch SE, Battery life is rated to 18 hours of active usage. You’ll find that your mileage will vary greatly. For example, with just casual use of the watch, using it to monitor daily activity easily reached the end of the day with a 50% charge.

Family setup

There’s a new service called Family Setup. As long as you buy an LTE version of the Apple Watch SE and have an iPhone, you can set up multiple watches for the family. Think of it as the easiest possible way to get your kid a phone/smartwatch combo. Because the watch has LTE (this service does not work with GPS-only watches), it can send/receive messages, phone calls, and connect to the App Store for discovering apps. 

Are there any similarities – TicWatch Pro 3 vs Apple Watch SE?

The Ticwatch Pro 3 has a really impressive suite of health monitoring apps as does the Apple Watch Series 6.

Both smartwatches can function as a heart rate monitor as well as has blood oxygen monitoring. Blood oxygen saturation is one of the most hyped up metric of 2020 with the Apple Watch Series 6’s website displaying this feature very prominently on the Apple Watch Series 6’s landing page.

Google’s Wear OS doesn’t have this by default, but the Ticwatch Pro 3 has this feature added in as part of its health suite. So, here’s how they stack up:

Both have a noise monitoring app — the Apple Watch Series 6’s environmental noise monitoring is better because it’s run continuously while Mobvoi’s TicHearing has to be activated in order to get a reading.

Both have a have a blood oxygen saturation monitoring app. Uh, they’re both OK. I don’t see much use in these features, to be honest, but yes, they can shoot a red light into your skin and give you a reading.

Both have a dedicated app for tracking exercises. The Ticwatch comes with Mobvoi’s TicExercise as well as the typical Wear OS smartwatch suite of Google Fit. With the Ticwatch Pro 3, you’d want to use the TicExercise in order to get information on the power saving screen, but that also means you will be stuck with the small selection of exercises that the TicExercise tracks.

The Watch OS’s Workout app is a bit better. There are more exercise options to choose from.

But the most important thing here is how both watches motivate you to live a healthier lifestyle. The Ticwatch Pro 3 will periodically advise you to get a certain amount of steps per hour if you haven’t hit that number, while the Apple Watch will advise you to stand. The Apple Watch is better also because its system of “rings” that graphically express to you how close (or far) you are from achieving your calorie burning, exercise minutes and standing goals.

The Apple Watch Series 6 is also much better integrated into the iPhone’s Health and Activity apps, while the stats that the Ticwatch Pro 3 gathers goes into the Mobvoi app. The Mobvoi app is OK, but not as comprehensive as the Apple Watch and iPhone combination.

Performance review

Among the smartwatches that we could subject to a browser test, the superiority of the latest Qualcomm SoC, which is found in both TicWatch Pro 3 models, is impressive. Not only is the Snapdragon Wear 4100 faster than its predecessors, but the TicWatch Pro 3 also performs better than the Galaxy Watch 3 with Samsung’s Exynos 9110 and the Apple Watch Series 6 with the Apple S6.

Alternate of TicWatch Pro 3 vs Apple Watch SE

Apple Watch Series 6

SPECIFICATIONS

  • Display: 40mm, 44mm
  • Heart Rate: Yes
  • GPS: Yes
  • LTE: Optional
  • Battery Life: 18 hours
  • Swim-Proof: Yes
  • Music Storage: 32 GB

REASONS TO BUY

  • Brighter always-on display
  • Fast charging
  • WatchOS 7 on-board

REASONS TO AVOID

-Still just 18-hour battery life

While we would’ve liked to see the Apple Watch improve its 18-hour battery life, the Series 6 does benefit from faster charging. You can completely juice it up in just 90 minutes, which comes in handy for wearing, instead of charging, it overnight. Yes, the Apple Watch 6 has sleep tracking, too, thanks to watchOS 7. The latest software also adds new watch faces, mobility metrics and an automatic hand-washing timer.

The Apple Watch Series 6 is the best Apple Watch right now. It adds to everything we appreciated about the Series 5, like the always-on display to the library of health features, with an even brighter screen and added blood oxygen (SpO2) reader. Plus the Apple Watch comes in color for the first time — the exclusive blue and Product Red finishes are awesome options.

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