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OnePlus Watch 2 review: Amazing Wear OS battery life, annoying software issues

The Watch 2 runs Wear OS with a unique dual-chip system to maximize battery life, but it has unintended consequences.

(Image credit: Apoorva Bhardwaj / Android Central)OnePlus unveiled the Watch 2 at a launch event at Mobile World Congress on February 26, and the smartwatch will go up for sale globally starting March 4. (Image credit: Apoorva Bhardwaj / Android Central)The key differentiator with the Watch 2 is that it uses a dual-chip design, with the Snapdragon W5 handling Wear OS tasks, and the 12nm Bestechnic BES2700 running RTOS and all the sensor logging and activity monitoring. (Image credit: Apoorva Bhardwaj / Android Central)Rounding out the hardware, the Watch 2 has 32GB of internal storage along with 2GB of RAM, and if you want to, there is the possibility of putting songs locally on the smartwatch and streaming them to Bluetooth earbuds.

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