The new smartwatch<\/a> is positioned as the brand\u2019s first entry-level option, promising flagship health and fitness features at an even more affordable price.<\/p>\n The Watch Lite will debut alongside the OnePlus 15R smartphone at a global event scheduled for December 17th, and it\u2019s set to go on sale in Europe initially in a single silver steel finish.<\/p>\n Aside from this, though, the full details are still unknown\u2014and that means we don\u2019t know exactly how cheap the budget-friendly smartwatch<\/a> will be. Or, really, what it will even look like.<\/p>\n An unexpected arrival<\/p>\n This new model seems to offer an interesting twist on what we expected from the initial teaser. At first, we speculated that the \u2018New Watch\u2019 would be a global version of the ultra-slim Oppo Watch S<\/a>, which measures just 8.9mm thick. <\/p>\n \n Advertisement <\/p>\n However, given the focus on affordability rather than specs in this initial announcement, it now feels very unlikely that the Watch Lite will arrive with a sleek profile. <\/p>\n If anything, it\u2019ll likely be a slightly inferior design to the company\u2019s flagship OnePlus Watch 3<\/a>. <\/p>\n But, again, with so little to go on in this initial announcement\u2014and only a zoomed-out shot of the device shown above\u2014it\u2019s anybody\u2019s guess what the Watch Lite will really look like on the wrist.<\/p>\n The go-to pick for those on a budget?<\/p>\n Whatever the case, an entry-level Watch Lite fills a significant void in the modern Android smartwatch<\/a> ecosystem.<\/p>\n After all, Wear OS has long suffered from a scarcity of good, affordable options, with consumers often forced to choose between older-generation flagships (like the Galaxy Watch 6 or Pixel Watch 2).<\/p>\n Instead, this could become the de facto budget smartwatch for Android; a true competitor to the Apple Watch SE 3<\/a> on the iOS side, and the natural successor to aging budget devices like the Xiaomi Watch 2<\/a>. <\/p>\n \n Advertisement <\/p>\n We\u2019ll know more on 17 December, so stay tuned for the full details and our review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new smartwatch arrives next month and provides Android users with a much-needed budget option OnePlus has officially…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[356,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-152807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-gadgets","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/oneplus-watch-lite-820x461.jpg\")
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