The Tick Watch Pro 4G LTE: A Revolutionary Smartwatch with Cellular Connectivity
Not getting 30 days out of it, but the ability to not walk around with a dead SmartWatch is definitely a positive thing. However, the added convenience of a 4G LTE connection may come with its drawbacks. As I haven't been able to test it yet due to my boy's issues setting up connectivity, I can only speculate on the benefits and potential limitations of this feature.
With the release of the Tick Watch Pro 4G LTE, users will be able to connect to 4G LTE networks, allowing for phone calls, music streaming, and notification delivery straight from the watch. This means that users can leave their phones at home and go for a run or engage in other activities without needing to constantly check their devices. The Tick Watch Pro runs on LS by Google, which provides access to notifications, talk to Google Assistant, and a user-friendly interface.
However, performance fluctuations and stutters may occur, particularly when downloading apps or setting up the watch for the first time. The processor, Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100, is aging, but the addition of a gigabyte of RAM has improved performance compared to last year's model. Performance-wise, it feels smoother now, although there are still instances where the watch struggles with certain tasks.
The user interface features two buttons: the top one can be used to turn on the display and access the app drawer, while the bottom button is customizable. My boy has set it up to turn on essential mode, but users can also customize it to suit their preferences. The top button can be pressed and held to access Google Assistant, although performance may not always be the fastest.
One of the most confusing aspects of fitness tracking with the Tick Watch Pro is the dual-tracking system, which utilizes both Google Fit and Mob Boy's suite of apps. Both services capture similar data, but there are benefits to using each app separately. For example, Tick Pulse captures heart rate data faster than Google Fit, and Tick Exercise presents workout data in a more visually appealing way.
When put to the test alongside the Apple Watch Series 4, the Tick Watch Pro showed impressive accuracy in step tracking, with a difference of only 100-200 steps between the two. However, it did overcompensate for distance traveled by around 0.10 miles over the course of a 2-mile run. The heart rate data was also very similar across both watches.
Additional features of the Tick Watch Pro include onboard GPS, which provides an accurate map of your run in Tick Exercise, and NFC capabilities that enable contactless payments through Google Pay. With four gigs of internal storage, users can store offline music playback content. Finally, the watch boasts IP68 water resistance, making it suitable for swimming activities.
The Tick Watch Pro 4G LTE is currently available from Amazon and Mob Boy's website at a promotional price of $279.99, which will increase to $299 after August 10th, when LTE service becomes available through Horizon. It's essential to consider the cost of cellular connectivity on a smartwatch, which can range from $10 to $20 per month, before deciding whether this feature is right for you.
Overall, the Tick Watch Pro 4G LTE offers a unique combination of features that set it apart from other smartwatches. While there may be some limitations and performance issues to address, the added convenience of cellular connectivity makes it an attractive option for those who want to stay connected on-the-go without needing to carry their phone.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone I'm Joann chica - and LTE watches are few and far between these days that is if you're looking for a watch running Google's we're a West platform at the moment you have to go to Samsung and Apple to find a really good cellular SmartWatch until now ma boy is releasing a 4G LTE version of it stick watch pro and that means it's the most feature packed where OS SmartWatch to date here's what it's like the tick watch Pro 4G is very similar to last year's tick watch Pro there are just some slight differences and I think they make it look a little bit better first off the bezel around the screen has a little bit of a texture to it now and the same is true with the sides of the buttons on the sides of the watch and that's just adds some visual flair it also is only available in black whereas there was another color option last year and it's also more importantly 11 grams lighter which really helps with wearability it's still bulky large and masculine though and I do wish they took that year to slim it down or maybe even have a smaller version for people with smaller wrists even on my wrist it looks pretty large it's still comfortable to wear though and the reduction in weight helps with that and so does the 22 millimeter strap it's a silicone strap and it's soft to the touch though it does tend to attract a lot of dust and lint it's interchangeable so if you don't want to wear this strap and change up the look to leather or something else you can I don't hate the design but I don't feel particularly strong about it either it's not like the Scoggin foster to where I felt happy it was on my wrist here I don't feel anything except for the buzz on my wrist when I get a notification it's clear that mahboy is going for function over form and that's fine if it means two day battery life which I'll get to in a bit what I do hate though is the pre-installed watch faces available for the watch I'm using a google fit one because that's about the only one I really like the rest of mob boys own pre-installed ones are pretty ugly in my opinion but thankfully you can hunt you through the Google Play Store to find something you really like what sets this eCourse pro apart what really is a feature that I think more SmartWatch manufacturers should adopt is the fact that there is a dual layer display now this isn't the first time we've seen this the previous tech watch pro had this and headlined this feature but it's back here on the tick watch Pro 4G LTE essentially you're grading a 1.3 9 inch screen a 400 by 400 resolution and that's with the OLED screen on the bottom when you're interacting with the operating system that's the main display when you switch to ambient mode it switches to a hold on I got to look this up it's called a film compensated super twisted nematic display and it's an LCD screen and that's what's on top that will give you a digital looking clock that will give you the date time step count and battery life the OLED panel is big colorful has deep blacks it's high-res it's pretty easy to read outside the LCD panel as well is easy to read in sunny conditions but the big benefit to this dual layer technology is having much better battery life typical smartwatches just have an OLED panel and they use that for always-on display so that it always presents you with the time no matter what you're doing and that is a huge drain on battery life the LCD panel here sips up a lot less energy so that's how it's able to give you significantly better battery life I use the phone to check notifications respond to notifications control music playback and even use Google Assistant a bit and I ended the day frequently with around 50% left by 9 p.m. that's pretty impressive and I could easily extend that to a second day and have two days of full usage now if you throw in a workout you're gonna limit yourself to about a full day of use maybe a little more but this is easily one of the longer-lasting wireless watch is available to date even better there is a unique feature called essential mode and essentially it turns off the OLED panel and turns off where OS so you can only access the LCD panel which only gives you again the date time step count and battery life and that will extend your battery life to 30 days which again is super impressive but keep in mind that that also depends on when you turn that mode on so if you turn that mode on and you only had like 10% left then you're on you're probably not gonna get 30 days out of it but the ability to not walk around with a dead SmartWatch that is definitely a positive thing but a 4G LTE connection will likely drain the battery life more I haven't been able to test it yet because mah boy has had some trouble setting up that connectivity and actually you're not going to be able to connect to LTE until a full month after this product goes on sale so after August 10th and also keep in mind you can only use the LTE connection on Verizon if you're at Verizon subscribers so if you're planning on buying this watch for the 4G LTE connectivity well you need to be on Verizon though down the road I could see mahboy opening it up to different carriers we just don't know when that will happen or if that will happen what will 4G connectivity enable well you can make phone calls from the watch you can listen to the phone calls straight from the watch's speaker you can stream music and in general you can leave the phone at home and go for that run because all the texts phone calls notifications will all be sent straight to the watch the tick watch pro runs where LS by Google and that just means you can access notifications talk to Google assistant and using it is just not that difficult the latest update adds tiles which makes data more glanceable performance is surprisingly decent considering this watch is running the aging Qualcomm Snapdragon wear 2100 processor I think the culprit is the bump up in ram last year's - quest pro only had a 512 megabytes of RAM now there's a gigabyte and things definitely feel a lot smoother now you will experience performance fluctuations and stutters particularly when you're doing things like downloading apps setting up the watch for the first time or in general accessing Google assistant which is very very slow there are two buttons here and the top one can be used to turn on the display and also accesses the app drawer you can use it as the back button to go back to the home screen or go back and multiple menus the bottom button is customizable I have set it to turn on the essential mode but you can also use it for anything you like such as access to Google pay or google fit you can also use the top button to press and hold it and you'll access Google assistant but it's not always the fastest operation fitness tracking is a little confusing there are two ways you can track your fitness there's the Google fit suite of apps or there's mob boy's own suite of apps there's tick pulse tick exercise tic health versus google fit fit workout and fit breathe I've been using a mix of both services and I like Google's apps for their designs mob boys a ply on the watch but it's mobile app is pretty dreadful but they both capture similar data there are benefits to using mob boys apps though tick pulse for example captures heart rate data much faster than google fit it also works in essential mode I also like using tick exercise because I think it presents the data a little better than Google fit workout tick exercise also does a pretty good job of Auto pausing the workout when it detects that I haven't moved the software it's supposed to automatically track certain workouts but I haven't really gotten this to work it does give me activity reminders though when it recognizes that I've been too sedentary so how accurate is it I tested the tick watch Pro next to the Apple watch series 4 and the data was very similar step camp was only off by around 100 and 200 steps with the mob boy presenting the higher number and it also tended to overcompensate for distance traveled but by around 0.10 miles in a span of two miles heart rate data was also very similar across the board on top of all that you have onboard GPS and tick exercise does a good job of showing you an accurate map of your run if that's something that you want there's also NFC which enables contactless payments for google pay there's four gigs of internal storage from offline music playback and there is ip68 water resistance which means you can actually track your swimming through tik exercise the tick watch Pro 4G LTE is available from Amazon and mob boys own a website for two hundred and seventy nine dollars it's early adopter pricing so it will cost $2.99 after August 10th which is when LTE service will be available through horizon this first month LTE service is not going to be available that's why they have that promotional pricing remember you have to pay a monthly fee to access cellular connectivity on a SmartWatch that can range from $10 to $20 so you really should give it some thought as to whether a cellular SmartWatch is right for you thanks for watching if you have any thoughts about the mod Voytek watch pro leave it in the comments otherwise like subscribe tap the belt for notifications and head to Digital Trends calm for morehey everyone I'm Joann chica - and LTE watches are few and far between these days that is if you're looking for a watch running Google's we're a West platform at the moment you have to go to Samsung and Apple to find a really good cellular SmartWatch until now ma boy is releasing a 4G LTE version of it stick watch pro and that means it's the most feature packed where OS SmartWatch to date here's what it's like the tick watch Pro 4G is very similar to last year's tick watch Pro there are just some slight differences and I think they make it look a little bit better first off the bezel around the screen has a little bit of a texture to it now and the same is true with the sides of the buttons on the sides of the watch and that's just adds some visual flair it also is only available in black whereas there was another color option last year and it's also more importantly 11 grams lighter which really helps with wearability it's still bulky large and masculine though and I do wish they took that year to slim it down or maybe even have a smaller version for people with smaller wrists even on my wrist it looks pretty large it's still comfortable to wear though and the reduction in weight helps with that and so does the 22 millimeter strap it's a silicone strap and it's soft to the touch though it does tend to attract a lot of dust and lint it's interchangeable so if you don't want to wear this strap and change up the look to leather or something else you can I don't hate the design but I don't feel particularly strong about it either it's not like the Scoggin foster to where I felt happy it was on my wrist here I don't feel anything except for the buzz on my wrist when I get a notification it's clear that mahboy is going for function over form and that's fine if it means two day battery life which I'll get to in a bit what I do hate though is the pre-installed watch faces available for the watch I'm using a google fit one because that's about the only one I really like the rest of mob boys own pre-installed ones are pretty ugly in my opinion but thankfully you can hunt you through the Google Play Store to find something you really like what sets this eCourse pro apart what really is a feature that I think more SmartWatch manufacturers should adopt is the fact that there is a dual layer display now this isn't the first time we've seen this the previous tech watch pro had this and headlined this feature but it's back here on the tick watch Pro 4G LTE essentially you're grading a 1.3 9 inch screen a 400 by 400 resolution and that's with the OLED screen on the bottom when you're interacting with the operating system that's the main display when you switch to ambient mode it switches to a hold on I got to look this up it's called a film compensated super twisted nematic display and it's an LCD screen and that's what's on top that will give you a digital looking clock that will give you the date time step count and battery life the OLED panel is big colorful has deep blacks it's high-res it's pretty easy to read outside the LCD panel as well is easy to read in sunny conditions but the big benefit to this dual layer technology is having much better battery life typical smartwatches just have an OLED panel and they use that for always-on display so that it always presents you with the time no matter what you're doing and that is a huge drain on battery life the LCD panel here sips up a lot less energy so that's how it's able to give you significantly better battery life I use the phone to check notifications respond to notifications control music playback and even use Google Assistant a bit and I ended the day frequently with around 50% left by 9 p.m. that's pretty impressive and I could easily extend that to a second day and have two days of full usage now if you throw in a workout you're gonna limit yourself to about a full day of use maybe a little more but this is easily one of the longer-lasting wireless watch is available to date even better there is a unique feature called essential mode and essentially it turns off the OLED panel and turns off where OS so you can only access the LCD panel which only gives you again the date time step count and battery life and that will extend your battery life to 30 days which again is super impressive but keep in mind that that also depends on when you turn that mode on so if you turn that mode on and you only had like 10% left then you're on you're probably not gonna get 30 days out of it but the ability to not walk around with a dead SmartWatch that is definitely a positive thing but a 4G LTE connection will likely drain the battery life more I haven't been able to test it yet because mah boy has had some trouble setting up that connectivity and actually you're not going to be able to connect to LTE until a full month after this product goes on sale so after August 10th and also keep in mind you can only use the LTE connection on Verizon if you're at Verizon subscribers so if you're planning on buying this watch for the 4G LTE connectivity well you need to be on Verizon though down the road I could see mahboy opening it up to different carriers we just don't know when that will happen or if that will happen what will 4G connectivity enable well you can make phone calls from the watch you can listen to the phone calls straight from the watch's speaker you can stream music and in general you can leave the phone at home and go for that run because all the texts phone calls notifications will all be sent straight to the watch the tick watch pro runs where LS by Google and that just means you can access notifications talk to Google assistant and using it is just not that difficult the latest update adds tiles which makes data more glanceable performance is surprisingly decent considering this watch is running the aging Qualcomm Snapdragon wear 2100 processor I think the culprit is the bump up in ram last year's - quest pro only had a 512 megabytes of RAM now there's a gigabyte and things definitely feel a lot smoother now you will experience performance fluctuations and stutters particularly when you're doing things like downloading apps setting up the watch for the first time or in general accessing Google assistant which is very very slow there are two buttons here and the top one can be used to turn on the display and also accesses the app drawer you can use it as the back button to go back to the home screen or go back and multiple menus the bottom button is customizable I have set it to turn on the essential mode but you can also use it for anything you like such as access to Google pay or google fit you can also use the top button to press and hold it and you'll access Google assistant but it's not always the fastest operation fitness tracking is a little confusing there are two ways you can track your fitness there's the Google fit suite of apps or there's mob boy's own suite of apps there's tick pulse tick exercise tic health versus google fit fit workout and fit breathe I've been using a mix of both services and I like Google's apps for their designs mob boys a ply on the watch but it's mobile app is pretty dreadful but they both capture similar data there are benefits to using mob boys apps though tick pulse for example captures heart rate data much faster than google fit it also works in essential mode I also like using tick exercise because I think it presents the data a little better than Google fit workout tick exercise also does a pretty good job of Auto pausing the workout when it detects that I haven't moved the software it's supposed to automatically track certain workouts but I haven't really gotten this to work it does give me activity reminders though when it recognizes that I've been too sedentary so how accurate is it I tested the tick watch Pro next to the Apple watch series 4 and the data was very similar step camp was only off by around 100 and 200 steps with the mob boy presenting the higher number and it also tended to overcompensate for distance traveled but by around 0.10 miles in a span of two miles heart rate data was also very similar across the board on top of all that you have onboard GPS and tick exercise does a good job of showing you an accurate map of your run if that's something that you want there's also NFC which enables contactless payments for google pay there's four gigs of internal storage from offline music playback and there is ip68 water resistance which means you can actually track your swimming through tik exercise the tick watch Pro 4G LTE is available from Amazon and mob boys own a website for two hundred and seventy nine dollars it's early adopter pricing so it will cost $2.99 after August 10th which is when LTE service will be available through horizon this first month LTE service is not going to be available that's why they have that promotional pricing remember you have to pay a monthly fee to access cellular connectivity on a SmartWatch that can range from $10 to $20 so you really should give it some thought as to whether a cellular SmartWatch is right for you thanks for watching if you have any thoughts about the mod Voytek watch pro leave it in the comments otherwise like subscribe tap the belt for notifications and head to Digital Trends calm for more\n"
