What you need to know
- OnePlus announced in a press release that it will delay the open sale of its Watch 3.
- This move came after the company realized that the back panel of the watch stated "Meda in China" instead of Made in China.
- Official open sales of the wearable have now been pushed to April 2025, but the company continues to accept pre-orders for the wearable.
OnePlus announced in a press release that it will be pushing the open sale of the Watch 3 to April 2025. The wearable was supposed to go on sale today (Feb. 25), but instead the company is buying time to rectify a typo on the back panel of the Watch 3.
"The delay comes as a result of a minor typographical error identified below the watch face, which the company is addressing with a new batch," OnePlus said in the presser.
For those who need to catch up, last week a Reddit user noticed a minor error with the wearable. The company ended up engraving "Meda in China" instead of "Made in China" on the first batch of wearables that went out.
Following mixed reactions to this hilarious typo, with some questioning how the wearable passed final quality checks, the company took to X (formerly Twitter) to put the chatter to rest.
It stated that "a typo slipped through," and "it was totally unintentional." Anyone who received a wearable stamped "Meda" has two options: They can either keep it as a 'super limited edition' model or return it to the company for a brand new one — minus the typo, of course.
OnePlus further thanked users for their understanding while the company "gets everything back in check!" Which now seems like a two-month delay. We are yet to learn an exact date for open sales, but it's important to note that pre-orders for the corrected device are said to run from Feb. to April.
That said, the OnePlus Watch 3 looks like a major hardware upgrade over the OnePlus Watch 2. According to Android Central's Michael Hicks, the "active crown, fixed health tracking, eye-friendly display, smarter coprocessor, and larger battery capacity," takes it a notch higher than its predecessor.
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