I've been a fan of wearables since the original Moto 360 was introduced many years ago. Unfortunately, it was great on paper, but the execution was, well, less than stellar. One area in which Wear OS has suffered has been battery life. Prior to the Ticwatch 3, I have owned 6 different Wear OS devices (back when they were known as Android Wear) and battery life has slowly improved, but was never very good. The other area where it lacked was simple fluid operation. The lagging. Glitches. Stuttering. That was one area that never improved. Not even a little bit. It blew me away that Wear OS was as popular as it was considering how issue-prone every model I had owned seemed to be. It wasn't the problem of the watch manufacturers, it was all due to the OS. Not sure why it took so long to finally accept that it NEEDED at least 1GB of RAM in order to function properly, but thank heaven someone finally figured it out. In the meantime, I switched over to Samsungs Tizen watches-which I absolutely LOVE. They did everything I wanted my Wear OS watches to do, and without the stuttering and glitches...but with a couple of notable exceptions. Those included app selection, notifications weren't as slick and Google Assistant was and still remains head and shoulders above anything Bixby offers.
I had the Gear S2, the S3, the Gear Sport, the Galaxy Watch and now the Galaxy Watch 3. Another area that Tizen ruled was battery life. Especially the original Galaxy Watch. But when I got the GW3 I discovered instead of a bigger battery - or even the same size - they down-sized it. Samsung INSISTED with optimizations I should expect about the same battery life with the Watch 3 as I had with my original GW. I'm sorry, but I don't want "about the same" with a watch that is at least 2 years NEWER. I wanted better and I don't think it was remotely unreasonable to expect that. Well battery life with the Ticwatch 3 has managed to surpass the Galaxy Watch 3, and not by just a little, either.
Whoever came up with the idea of the layered screen is just genius. An LCD panel built on top of an OLED panel offers some truly significant advantages of needing to turn on the watch in order to check the time. That LCD screen just barely sips the battery and still allows an always on display, which is absolutely fantastic. I WILL stipulate that due to that extra layer, the OLED display is slightly affected. Holding it directly next to my GW3, you could plainly see a difference, even though the pixel density is notably better on the Ticwatch. The Samsung is clearer and noticeably brighter, too. I say this full well knowing that it is a trade-off I am absolutely willing to make to enjoy the better battery life. Your needs may vary, so keep that in mind before making your purchase.
I was impressed with how sleek and thin the Ticwatch was. It would be nice to have a rotating crown, though. That is the one thing I believe the watch needs in order to truly be improved. I keep hearing people mention how the silicone band really looks like a leather band with the colored stitching, and I have to echo that. Without touching it, you wouldn't know. I have noticed many reviewers post about how the Ticwatch is mostly unremarkable in looks...and I can't disagree. It doesn't stand out like the Galaxy Watch or the apple watch, but it more than makes up for that by simply WORKING well.
Since I received mine, I have paid extra attention to how well the overall functionality has performed. I am absolutely stunned to say the 1GB of RAM and the Snapdragon 4100 Wearable chip make a formidable combination. I have yet to notice a single hiccup in performance. Apps open quickly. Everything runs fluidly and as expected...in short, the performance is exactly everything I have always wanted out of Wear OS but never could seem to actually find. Kudos to Mobvoi for whatever optimizations they have included to make this experience one that is truly enjoyable. If anything, I would even say it is snappier than the Galaxy Watch 3 has been...which is saying a lot.
The LCD always on display is quite dark, but VERY easily read in direct sunlight...but new to the Ticwatch 3 is a backlight that works quickly each time you tilt your wrist to view the time. Interesting enough though, you have to turn that tilt to wake feature off for the OLED panel in order for this to work with the always on LCD display. But it DOES work quite well.
Mobvoi and the recent Oppo Watch have showed that some specializing in the optimization of Wear OS along with that 1GB RAM can actually make Google's Wearable not just a great platform, but one that rivals apple in virtually all aspects. No, the Ticwatch does not come with an ECG monitor, which I was a little sad to discover, but the addition to the SPO2 reading was a nice addition. From what I gather, the watch has received several updates since initially being released which have helped improve a great deal of problems that apparently were missed at release. Some of those include better and more accurate heart rate monitoring, especially during exercising. Better overall exercising functionality along with a few other tweaks. So far I haven't noticed any glaring problems with mine, which is good to know.
Oh, and one more thing: I can't tell you how nice it is to have Google functionality back after suffering through Bixby for so long. Finally an assistant that actually WORKS, and pretty snappily, too. Absolutely leapfrogging ahead of Samsung in actual functionality by comparison.
While Wear OS has a ridiculous number of apps to choose from, especially when compared to Samsung's Tizen, I have to say that aside from a very small number of apps, this really isn't a big deal to me. Let me explain: While having a large number of apps to choose from is nice in theory, actually using an app on a watch that has such a small screen is not quite the same thing as using your phone. The screen real estate just isn't all that big enough to make the use of very many apps plausible to use regularly. Sure, there are a few notable exceptions, but for the most part, Samsung still has almost all of those necessary apps, too. So claiming a larger app selection is one thing, but in actual implementation, at least for ME, having a hundred thousand apps vs a couple thousand simply does not tell the whole story. You may feel different and that's okay. This is just my .02.
Long story short, the Ticwatch is the very first Wear OS smart watch that I not only highly recommend, but actually look forward to strapping to my wrist daily. Congrats to Mobvoi for what they have finally achieved...and while I'm still a little miffed that it took so long to finally see decent and reliable functionality from Wear OS, at least it finally happened. I was worried for a while that it wouldn't. It's nice to be proven wrong here.
***UPDATE***
I am absolutely THRILLED to say that Mobvoi has answered a LOT of users pleas, and in an update that happened at the beginning of February 2021, allowed us to turn off the backlight on the LCD panel display! I loved it - at first. But it doesn't take long for the little honeymoon to end. Suddenly you notice the backlight turning on when you barely move your wrist to do virtually anything. Whether you are looking to see what time it is or just moving your hand to scratch, or well, almost ANY movement triggered it. Kudos to Mobvoi for making the tilt-to-wake feature ultra responsive and pretty swift, too...but that damn backlight though. I KNOW it contributes to lower battery life, too. Now that we finally have a Wear OS device that has decent battery life, I hate to see it diminish even more simply because I reached up to scratch my chin too often each day. I have looked and found numerous forums of Ticwatch 3 owners who have this exact same complaint, too. It seems like an easy fix, and thankfully, they actually LISTENED. Before this, I discovered if you hit the "do not disturb" function the backlight would not engage unless you pressed one of the buttons...unfortunately, you would also not get any notifications...which kind of defeats the purpose of a smartwatch now doesn't it? In the new update, Mobvoi gives us an honest-to-goodness option of turning off the backlight totally, while keeping the LCD panel still up and running. Yes, that means under some circumstances it will be more difficult to read, but I am perfectly happy with this option. My only problem was located where this option actually was...because it wasn't where I thought it would be. Now you may find it obvious, but it wasn't to me. The option is within the Essential App. I just (stupidly) assumed that they meant the mobvoi app on my phone. Nope. You won't find it there at all. Go into the Essential App on your WATCH (I feel dumb that I didn't figure this out immediately...so if you haven't either, just know you are not alone). Scroll to the right and on the second page I believe, the option will be there to turn off the backlight in Essential mode. Voila! Bye-bye backlight. The Amoled panel still activates as usual when you press a button, so no worries there.
Also, I have noticed slight screen sensitivity improvements with this update as well. If I'm being honest, the Amoled panel has never been the absolute most touch-responsive smart watch I have ever used, but what it lacks in that (and let's be honest, it isn't bad by ANY stretch, just not quite AS responsive as my Oppo Watch or my Galaxy Watch 3) it more than makes up for within the Google eco-system...which I must admit, before the Ticwatch, I never truly explored much. The previous Wear OS watches I've owned have been so glitch-filled and issue-prone, I simply gave up on the OS altogether. I am finding it is way more robust, and user-friendly than I ever had experienced before. If only all the watch makers before this had started off releasing watches with no less than 1GB of RAM from the beginning and who knows where Wear OS would be today? Course, it doesn't help that Google hasn't lived up to their own commitment like they "claimed" they would from the beginning. Optimizing your own software so those glitches never became an issue to begin with would have been a nice place to start. Instead, all those who adopted the software had to figure out their own work-arounds, and thankfully, it seems as though all that work has paid off. ANY Wear OS device running the 4100 chip and 1GB of RAM will see an astonishing improvement in ways that I find difficult to truly describe. All I can say is, it just works. FINALLY.
Once again, thank you to Mobvoi for listening to us users and giving us what we asked for. That means a whole lot more than what we've got from Google in the last 7 years or so.
***UPDATE #2***
I feel it necessary to say that I have noticed another thing which I prefer over my Galaxy Watch 3. The bluetooth connection seems to be stronger for further distance. At my work, if I leave my phone at my desk, I can always count on having it vibrate to let me know it lost connection every time I reach the break room. However, with the TicWatch Pro 3, I have noticed I can go almost 10 solid yards further before losing connection...which is pretty amazing since the GW3 has bluetooth 5.0 which has a pretty great distance connection rate. Not sure how important that is to making a decision, but I felt it important enough to at least point out in case anyone is interested.
I am STILL frustrated at the haptic motor though. It is super annoying that it is so weak. I miss messages and emails quite frequently because of how weak it is. Dang it.
***UPDATE #3***
After all is said and done, I'm not super impressed with the battery life like I thought I would be. Even with an LCD panel to help battery life and the Snapdragon 4100 chip, it has much worse battery life than my Oppo Watch and my Galaxy Watch 3...which itself has poor battery life compared to the original Galaxy Watch.
It's still a great watch, but that battery life NEEDS to be better optimized. Oh, and the poor haptic motor? I STILL HATE IT. Honestly, it is just shy of not having one at all. Anyone who says it's good is a LIAR.
***UPDATE***
In the year since I bought TWP3, I have also bought the Galaxy Watch 4, running the newest version of Wear OS which the TicWatch will reportedly receive at some point in 2022. I had HIGH hopes that this newer, updated OS would do what Tizen has done essentially since the Gear S2. After using the new watch for 3 months now, I can say without reservation, that the TicWatch Pro 3's performance is better overall. This GENUINELY displeases me to admit, too. I am a HUGE Samsung fan, and I was immediately furious discovering that they were abandoning Tizen for Wear OS. It was the SOLE reason that I bought into their ecosystem, because it worked REALLY well. But, the reviews began pouring in and I did an about face and got one. It stutters, glitches and has issues on a degree that is FAR WORSE than any issue I have ever had with the TicWatch. I DO prefer the natural and SIMPLE way Samsung allows you to download music to the watch to use while exercising or doing whatever. For some reason, Wear OS makes you jump through so many hoops in order to use the extra memory for music storage and it's just silly. Other than that, the TicWatch still has much better battery life (though it should since the battery is positively gigantic by comparison to the GW4 44mm version I have). Performance is flat-out better all the way around. In fact, there are only 3 things that I truly believe the GW4 does better, vibration haptics and download music for playback is simply a breeze with the Samsung app, and navigation on the screen using the digital crown to scroll (the physical rotating bezel on the GW4 Classic is even better)...otherwise, in my opinion, the TicWatch Pro 3 is easily more smooth, has less glitches and just plain operates better. I need to save up for the TicWatch Pro 4, I can only imagine how much better that will be than what we have now.
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I love this watch. I’ve been wearing it for about a month now and have given it a run through the paces. I love the design and feel, it hits the sweet spot between a dress watch and a sports watch. The best thing is the battery life. Incredible. It has two screens, a colorful AMOLED screen that is great for indoors, and an FSTN black and white screen which is perfect for use in bright sunlight. Smartwatch performance is fast and smooth with great hardware specs. I paired it with a pair of TicPod ANC earphones and the music playback in fantastic. I had an issue with my original charging cable and the MobVoi customer service was very helpful and responsive. Like all great products there are always areas for improvement – read down to the end of this review for those.
Polished look and feel
The TicWatch Pro 3 looks good and feels good. It’s thinner and lighter than the Garmin Fenix series or the TicWatch Pro 4G (I have both), and at 12mm thick it will fit nicely under the cuffs of a long sleeve shirt or a cool weather jacket with elasticized wrists, just like a dress watch. The screen is big – 48mm across -- but very light, which makes all the difference. It comes with a decent 22mm quick release watch band made of silicone. The band looks like leather and feels good against the skin. It has been great for summertime wear on the beach, but I’ll probably swap it out for a leather band this winter, or for going out, if restaurants ever open back up. The TicWatch Pro 3 – like its predecessors -- sports a unique double screen – a pretty bright color AMOLED screen which is great for indoors or cloudy days, and a more austere black and white FSTN/LCD screen which is great for reading your workout stats on bright sunlight (see my pics). A welcome new feature is the backlight on the FSTN screen which activates when you turn up your wrist to look at the watch. Very nice. To switch to the AMOLED I just tap the screen or press one of the buttons. (You can also set the AMOLED screen to always on, or to turn on with a wrist turn, but I prefer my current set up.)
Excellent Smart Watch Performance
There are plenty of performance reviews out there about this watch because it has made quite a splash with the new QUALCOMM 4100 chipset, a full gigabyte of RAM and 8 gigabytes of storage. The memory and chipset boosts are huge upgrades. Suffice it to say the smart watch features are all very fast and very smooth as you would expect with these specs. I love the new layout of Android Wear apps on the screen, 2x2 instead of one at a time. There are plenty of cool features under the hood as well: The TicWatch Pro 3 has a microphone and speaker so you can take take calls on the phone like Dick Tracy, play music on the watch if you don’t have headphones, receive and respond to texts, and get notifications for your emails and messaging apps on your phone. Or talk to “OK Google.” I did not use the NFC or google pay features, but it has that too. The media features are excellent – 8 GB is more than enough for a decent music library. I connected the TicWatch Pro 3 with a pair of high end bluetooth earphones (the TicPod ANC’s) and the sound was incredible. However, with the disappearance of Google Play, there is no easy way to transfer music from your phone to any Android watch, including this one. I tried a couple of third party apps available in the Play Store and found NavExplore and NavMusic to be not perfect but good enough. I’d like to see MobVoi build a TicWatch app with file transfer and music playback functionality.
Strong Fitness Features
The watch comes loaded with the Google suite of fitness apps (Fit Breathe, Fit Goals, Fit Heart Rate, Fit Workout) and an extensive Mobvoi suite as well (Tic Health, Tic Exercise, Tic Pulse, Tic Sleep, Tic Breathe, Tic Zen, Tic Oxygen, Tic Hearing). After trying both, I actually prefer the Mobvoi Tic Exercise app to the Google Fit Workout app. The AMOLED display on the Mobvoi apps is more attractive and useful than the display of the Google app, and the Mobvoi app works on the FSTN display which is perfect in bright sunlight. For some reason third party apps – including Google Fit Workout -- do not display on the FSTN screen, which is a shortcoming. The built-in GPS locks on to satellites quickly, so no waiting around before you start your workout. The built-in optical heart rate monitor is accurate and gives me about the same readings as my Garmin Fenix with a chest strap. Unfortunately the TicFitness apps do not support connection to a blue-tooth chest strap heart rate monitor, which is what I prefer for cycling or rowing. In theory Google Fit Workout does support a bluetooth HRM, but my experience on the TicWatch Pro 3 with a Garmin dual BT HRM strap was disappointing – Google Fit kept losing the bluetooth connection to the chest strap. I suspect it's the apps fault as I had better -- but still spotty results -- with a third party app (Adidas Runtastic). I'll keep looking for a good app for connecting a BT HRM to the TicWatch and will update when I find it. For syncing your workouts you can upload to all the usual third party fitness apps (Strava, IConnect, etc.), and they work well. When using the Tic Exercise app the FSTN data display is easy to read in bright sunlight, and provides all the data you could need, but the layout of the data on the screen is not user configurable, so you get a big read out of your workout’s duration, but you literally have to read the fine print on the watch screen to see your heart rate, pace, distance traveled, etc. It would be nice if the FSTN display played nicely with third party apps, and allowed users to configure what data fields appear where on the screen, like on a Garmin watch. The TicWatch Pro 3 like its predecessor is IP68 water resistant so it can handle rain or sweat no problem.
Incredible Battery Life
Hands down this is the best thing about the TicWatch Pro 3. It comes with a massive 577 mAh battery shoe horned into its skinny case. For me, with an hour or so a day of fitness use and plenty of smartwatch and step counting use all day long, it easily handled 3 days between charges. All my other smartwatches required daily recharges so this is a huge upgrade. The TicWatch Pro 3 will even run for a month on Essential Mode (telling the date and time and counting steps), if you’re ever off the grid.
Real Live Customer service
I had an issue with the original watch shipped from Amazon in September. The charging cable failed. I reached out to the folks at Mobvoi and they sent me a new charging cable and a brand new watch, and so far no problems. The customer service was responsive, and helpful, and that for me is fundamental.
Areas for improvement
I love this watch and recommend it highly. I upgraded from the previous version and expect I’ll be sticking with this brand for a while. But there’s always room for improvement. Here’s what I’d like to see in the next iteration of the TicWatch Pro. The Mobvoi developers seem to be very attentive to user feedback so I’m hoping they’ll read this list:
- A Mobvoi app to transfer and play music files to the watch (RIP Google Play).
- Support for connection to a blue tooth chest strap heart rate monitor in the Tic Exercise app.
- Support for display of third party fitness apps on the FSTN screen, and ability to configure the screen display data by quadrants, like on a Garmin watch.
Polished look and feel
The TicWatch Pro 3 looks good and feels good. It’s thinner and lighter than the Garmin Fenix series or the TicWatch Pro 4G (I have both), and at 12mm thick it will fit nicely under the cuffs of a long sleeve shirt or a cool weather jacket with elasticized wrists, just like a dress watch. The screen is big – 48mm across -- but very light, which makes all the difference. It comes with a decent 22mm quick release watch band made of silicone. The band looks like leather and feels good against the skin. It has been great for summertime wear on the beach, but I’ll probably swap it out for a leather band this winter, or for going out, if restaurants ever open back up. The TicWatch Pro 3 – like its predecessors -- sports a unique double screen – a pretty bright color AMOLED screen which is great for indoors or cloudy days, and a more austere black and white FSTN/LCD screen which is great for reading your workout stats on bright sunlight (see my pics). A welcome new feature is the backlight on the FSTN screen which activates when you turn up your wrist to look at the watch. Very nice. To switch to the AMOLED I just tap the screen or press one of the buttons. (You can also set the AMOLED screen to always on, or to turn on with a wrist turn, but I prefer my current set up.)
Excellent Smart Watch Performance
There are plenty of performance reviews out there about this watch because it has made quite a splash with the new QUALCOMM 4100 chipset, a full gigabyte of RAM and 8 gigabytes of storage. The memory and chipset boosts are huge upgrades. Suffice it to say the smart watch features are all very fast and very smooth as you would expect with these specs. I love the new layout of Android Wear apps on the screen, 2x2 instead of one at a time. There are plenty of cool features under the hood as well: The TicWatch Pro 3 has a microphone and speaker so you can take take calls on the phone like Dick Tracy, play music on the watch if you don’t have headphones, receive and respond to texts, and get notifications for your emails and messaging apps on your phone. Or talk to “OK Google.” I did not use the NFC or google pay features, but it has that too. The media features are excellent – 8 GB is more than enough for a decent music library. I connected the TicWatch Pro 3 with a pair of high end bluetooth earphones (the TicPod ANC’s) and the sound was incredible. However, with the disappearance of Google Play, there is no easy way to transfer music from your phone to any Android watch, including this one. I tried a couple of third party apps available in the Play Store and found NavExplore and NavMusic to be not perfect but good enough. I’d like to see MobVoi build a TicWatch app with file transfer and music playback functionality.
Strong Fitness Features
The watch comes loaded with the Google suite of fitness apps (Fit Breathe, Fit Goals, Fit Heart Rate, Fit Workout) and an extensive Mobvoi suite as well (Tic Health, Tic Exercise, Tic Pulse, Tic Sleep, Tic Breathe, Tic Zen, Tic Oxygen, Tic Hearing). After trying both, I actually prefer the Mobvoi Tic Exercise app to the Google Fit Workout app. The AMOLED display on the Mobvoi apps is more attractive and useful than the display of the Google app, and the Mobvoi app works on the FSTN display which is perfect in bright sunlight. For some reason third party apps – including Google Fit Workout -- do not display on the FSTN screen, which is a shortcoming. The built-in GPS locks on to satellites quickly, so no waiting around before you start your workout. The built-in optical heart rate monitor is accurate and gives me about the same readings as my Garmin Fenix with a chest strap. Unfortunately the TicFitness apps do not support connection to a blue-tooth chest strap heart rate monitor, which is what I prefer for cycling or rowing. In theory Google Fit Workout does support a bluetooth HRM, but my experience on the TicWatch Pro 3 with a Garmin dual BT HRM strap was disappointing – Google Fit kept losing the bluetooth connection to the chest strap. I suspect it's the apps fault as I had better -- but still spotty results -- with a third party app (Adidas Runtastic). I'll keep looking for a good app for connecting a BT HRM to the TicWatch and will update when I find it. For syncing your workouts you can upload to all the usual third party fitness apps (Strava, IConnect, etc.), and they work well. When using the Tic Exercise app the FSTN data display is easy to read in bright sunlight, and provides all the data you could need, but the layout of the data on the screen is not user configurable, so you get a big read out of your workout’s duration, but you literally have to read the fine print on the watch screen to see your heart rate, pace, distance traveled, etc. It would be nice if the FSTN display played nicely with third party apps, and allowed users to configure what data fields appear where on the screen, like on a Garmin watch. The TicWatch Pro 3 like its predecessor is IP68 water resistant so it can handle rain or sweat no problem.
Incredible Battery Life
Hands down this is the best thing about the TicWatch Pro 3. It comes with a massive 577 mAh battery shoe horned into its skinny case. For me, with an hour or so a day of fitness use and plenty of smartwatch and step counting use all day long, it easily handled 3 days between charges. All my other smartwatches required daily recharges so this is a huge upgrade. The TicWatch Pro 3 will even run for a month on Essential Mode (telling the date and time and counting steps), if you’re ever off the grid.
Real Live Customer service
I had an issue with the original watch shipped from Amazon in September. The charging cable failed. I reached out to the folks at Mobvoi and they sent me a new charging cable and a brand new watch, and so far no problems. The customer service was responsive, and helpful, and that for me is fundamental.
Areas for improvement
I love this watch and recommend it highly. I upgraded from the previous version and expect I’ll be sticking with this brand for a while. But there’s always room for improvement. Here’s what I’d like to see in the next iteration of the TicWatch Pro. The Mobvoi developers seem to be very attentive to user feedback so I’m hoping they’ll read this list:
- A Mobvoi app to transfer and play music files to the watch (RIP Google Play).
- Support for connection to a blue tooth chest strap heart rate monitor in the Tic Exercise app.
- Support for display of third party fitness apps on the FSTN screen, and ability to configure the screen display data by quadrants, like on a Garmin watch.
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I have always been a Samsung guy, coming from Galaxy Watch 3, I was skeptical jumping ship.
Read every possible review and complaints/issues online. Visiting the Mobvoi forum and reading the various problems reported by users there
made me back track multiple times, especially the charging dock issues.
Did not want to order through their site due to long delivery dates and fallback issues.
The skepticism lasted until the package arrived, one day later than promised due to Amazon's negligence.
PROS:
1. For me a smartwatch is of no use if the time/display is not visible in direct sunlight. No, I'm not talking about the FTSN secondary display,
Yes, It serves the purpose but the true AOD implementation on this watch is the best implementation ever.
The ambient light sensor work even on AOD mode and adapts accordingly, making it visible everywhere.
2. Snapdragon 4100 just flies
3. Battery on AOD mode, full brightness lasted me 3 full days on first charge.
4. The strap being plastic/silicone looks regal
5. Being WearOS, choice of watch faces are abundant.
6. Sleek design (Plastic + Steel) reminds me of my rooster alarm yesteryear childhood watch.
CONS:
1. WearOS is still work in progress, OK Google detection doesn’t work.(Nothing to do with Mobvoi/Ticwatch)
2. The secondary display is not comfortable viewing indoors. Ticwatch Pro 2020 was better.
3. Bluetooth v4.2 (nitpicking)
4. Lack of a rotating crown or bezel (nitpicking)
I'm still on my second charge, hope this watch lasts me a full 2 years of usage without any issues.
PS:
1. I do not use smartwatches for its fitness features and the first thing I do is disable them when I receive the watch.
2. Huawei watch GT 2 46mm tempered glass fits perfectly (All images attached are with the tempered glass installed).
3. No pairing issues on my Note 20 ultra.
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