Xiaomi has used its own, new software for the Watch S1 Pro, and it turns out Google could learn plenty from it. In several ways, it's better than Wear OS.
While we continue to wait for Wear OS 3 to make a substantial impact on smartwatches, Xiaomi has gone its own way with the Xiaomi Watch S1 Pro and used its own in-house-designed operating system.
Related What does Xiaomi do differently? It uses widgets on each “tile” when you swipe across the screen, giving you more information on a single screen, and providing large, obvious places to tap so you can find out more. It sounds like it shouldn’t make much of a difference, but it genuinely does, and it’s a far more effective use of space than one tile showing data from a single source.
There isn’t a specific blood oxygen tile, but the data is available when you explore the daily activity tile. This is a big part of the problem because I don’t really want to explore anything on a smartwatch screen. I’d like to see the data I want quickly and easily — and not have to tap, scroll, and squint at the screen. I also don’t want to reach for my phone, as this defeats the objective of using a smartwatch in the first place.
Wear OS is still supreme in certain areas Does this make the Xiaomi Watch S1 Pro better all-around than the Pixel Watch? No, it’s not all good news for MIUI Watch, and there is still plenty that the Pixel Watch does better. The fact that neither smartwatch gets everything right shows how far Android-based models are from matching — let alone beating — the Apple Watch.
I’m indifferent about the choice of a scrolling main menu on the Pixel Watch, or Xiaomi’s WatchOS-style icons, but quickly became tired of the Pixel Watch’s small screen and even tinier viewing area. The Xiaomi Watch S1 Pro’s bigger screen shows so much more information, and it’s all much quicker to access and read, which makes it a less frustrating experience to use.
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