Mobvoi we know it very well for wearable solutions equipped with the WearOS operating system, made available to all users at affordable prices without sacrificing quality. Among the most popular and particular products of the Asian brand we find the TicWatch Pro 4G which introduces a real revolution in the field of WearOS smartwatches, which generally lack on the autonomy side, engineering a double display, which if necessary allows you to switch from a color display to a monochrome LCD one, emulating old digital watches (Casio style) . This solution allows us to save many mAh of battery, a truly brilliant solution that caught the attention of JerryRigEverything, who shows us what is hidden at the hardware level on this TicWatch Pro 4G.
TicWatch Pro 4G stripped from the JerryRigEverything teardown
It starts right from the battery, a 415 mAh unit, a value rather similar to what the competition offers, but as we said before, what improves the autonomy is the display, a double layer solution, which allows mixed use of get to 2 days of use, certainly not a record duration but certainly better than all the other WearOS solutions on the market, but the possibility of switching to a monochrome display means that the autonomy rises to 30 days. In fact, when using the color display, the AMOLED technology is exploited while with the monochrome vision an FSTN layer comes into play. Another peculiarity in favor of the Mobvoi smart watch is the use of a scratch-resistant glass to protect the two displays, very resistant despite the stresses of the JerryRigEverything cutter.
To show us the technology used on the TicWatch Pro 4G, the YouTuber had to literally destroy the body of the watch, also leading to the destruction of the AMOLED panel, showing us only the FSTN layer which is actually barely visible since the acronym FSTN stands for Film Super Twisted Nematic, so all things considered we are in the presence of an almost transparent screen, also because otherwise it would not be possible to see the AMOLED one underneath. We could define it as a sort of physical Always On Display, which activates only the black and white pixels for low energy consumption. Definitely interesting and we can't wait to see it used on other smartwatches too.
