Mobvoi

[1] The core team members include ex-Googlers, AI experts, former Nokia employees, engineers and researchers from top universities such as Johns Hopkins, Harvard, MIT, Cambridge, and Tsinghua or top-tier Internet companies such as Yahoo Beijing, Baidu, Tencent, etc.

[3] In May 2013, Mobvoi released their Voice Search Service featured in the popular messaging app, WeChat.

[4] In 2014, Mobvoi launched their independent voice search app called Chumenwenwen,[5] which covers over 60 vertical domains, providing various types of everyday information.

[6] In 2014, Mobvoi released their own smartwatch operating system, TicWear, based on Google's Wear OS.

[8] In 2015 Google formed a strategic partnership with Mobvoi to work together on the efforts to bring Wear OS to China.

The TicWatch ranked first in sales for Android smartwatches in China, coming in second to Apple Watch on platforms such as JD.com,[11] Tmall, Suning, and Amazon.

[20] It provides users the ability to ask it for directions, restaurant suggestions, news, and weather information, among many other options.

TicAuto is an in-vehicle voice app, integrating speech recognition, semantic analysis, vertical search, TTS and other advanced technology to provide voice navigation, POI search, instant messaging, and on-board entertainment.

TicMirror allows users to perform everything they could with TicAuto and more, with the addition of 7.84-inch touch screen that doubles as a rear view mirror.

TicWatch is Mobvoi's first attempt at creating a smartwatch powered by their TicWear operating system, a modified version of Google's Wear OS.

It features a layered display, combining an AMOLED and LCD screen to extend the battery life.

In "Essential Mode", Wear OS is shut down, and only the LCD is active, only featuring time, date, heart rate, steps and battery display.

[26] In early 2021, a subsequent upgrade was released, the TicWatch Pro S, which again had a very similar specification to its predecessors, but featured improved sports and health tracking capabilities.

An error in a press release given to the media led many to report that the storage capacity had been doubled to 8 GB, but Mobvoi confirmed that this was not the case and the internal storage capacity remained at 4 GB as on the two previous TicWatch Pro models.

The 35 mm (1.39 in) diameter, circular OLED screen measures 979 mm2 (1.517 sq in) with 400×400 pixels giving a resolution of 114.3 dot/cm (290 DPI).

The lugs use standard quick release spring bars and can be swapped with other straps including those sold by Mobvoi.

They are both certified waterproof to a pressure of 5 atm (510 kPa) which means they can withstand a depth of up to 50 m (160 ft) underwater and are suitable for swimming.

[41] It was rated 4/5 by PCMag, who praised the dual-screen functionality, the resolution of the screen itself, and the battery life but criticized the lack of Google Assistant and cellular options, and 7/10 by The Verge, who praised the performance but was highly critical of the potential software support and delayed release.