Android smartwatches have a flicker problem. The OnePlus Watch 3 fixed it

Wear OS Weekly

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My weekly column focuses on the state of Wear OS, from new developments and updates to the latest apps and features we want to highlight.

Over the last few years, smartwatch displays have one-upped each other by becoming larger, brighter, and smoother than before. The OnePlus Watch 3 display is only the latest to do so, but it’s actually ahead of other Android watches in one key display category — in a way that most people would never notice.

During my colleague Nick Sutrich’s OnePlus Watch 3 hands-on, he appreciated how the 1.5-inch AMOLED leaped from 600 to 2,200 nits of brightness and hit a smoother 1–60Hz LTPO refresh rate. But that’s fairly standard for mainstream Apple and Android smartwatches in 2025.

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