Huawei Watch is definitely one of the most interesting and the most expensive smart watches available on the market. Its quality is really good, but still not sure if it is worth the money.
You have to admit, however, that the first meeting of Huawei Watch It is very pleasant. All thanks very elegant packaging, all of which are famous products of Huawei high-end. From the outside, it is surprising minimalism. This is because black cardboard cube, in which the smaller cube covered with skin. With this harmony of the pack it looks much nicer than other smart watches running Android Wear.
However, its whole charm of the box shows only after opening the smaller of boxes. Then, because you can see a leather bag, which is surrounded by watch. Below this again is the standard for every smart watch accessory kit, or manual, and charger. Appearance last item is really impressive. Silver metal and white cable prettily presented.
But the most important element is invisible. This is located in the center of the magnet, so that the watch does not run away from the charger. For other models with Android Wear by bad fitting the watch battery charger case could not start charging. The use of the Huawei solution is much more reliable and useful.
Envelope
As the package also watch surprises with its minimalism. Made of forged steel cold envelope is extremely thick and massive. It is also almost perfectly round, and the only elements snapping out of this perfect shape that hooks belt and a button which is standard equipment smartwatchów running Android Wear. Initially, it seemed to me that even in the same envelope there are no additional elements showing the hour, but it turned out that You may find minor grooves.
It’s the details, so that you can further appreciate the appearance of this device. Equally interesting are presented in the back of the watch, which was also made of steel. Wyżłobiono in the names used for the production, and also provided the heart rate monitor and the charging pins. It should be appreciated that even invisible part of Huawei Watch prettily presented. Many other appliances ubieralnych can not boast of such attention to detail.
Sam watch, despite it is not bent, perfectly fits the wrist and wears it really nice. Moreover, it is charged on a hand, as its weight is only 61 g. Although it looks solid and it is not especially large, its dimensions are 42 x 42 x 11.3 mm. Because of the thick cover I can not recommend it to women. On their tiny wrists would look grotesque.
It is impossible to say anything bad about the performance envelope. It is made of forged steel cold-316L, making it a bit nicer and far more durable than aluminum. Huawei swears that his new watch is resistant to scratches, but I did not dare to check it out. Another immune to exploitation element is sapphire crystal, so that scratching the watch will be extremely difficult.
bar
As the test got the cheapest version of the watch, it was fitted with a leather strap. Of course we are talking about real skin, not its synthetic substitutes. Also, he is painfully minimalist. No there even decorative stitches familiar with the Asus ZenWatch. The only distinctive elements of the belt is his inner portion of the light brown in color and located on the Huawei logo and a message testifying to the authenticity of the skin.
This type of belt has its advantages and disadvantages. Although the watch is water-resistant (meets standard IP55), I could not bathe in it, as the band Xiaomi MiBand or watch the LG Watch R. Although on the outside, dark parts of the skin would not be seen traces of water, but on the inside already so. Probably longer meet the water also badly affect the strength of the watch.
The bar itself is very pleasant the touch and flexible. The form of the catch fully in the classic metal buckle used in the vast majority of watches. But this is not a solution as minimalist as a special brace used in smartwatchach ZenWatch Asus and Samsung Gear S.
Yet its color merging with the strap makes it stand out and does not destroy the minimalist design of the device. But I must admit that if I should buy this watch and use it every day, probably would go for the replacement of the leather strap on aluminum, black bracelet.
Huawei Watch: Software
Installed at Huawei Watch system is Android Wear 5.1.1. In this installment of Google wearable placed primarily on improving its graphical views to better fit the design Material Design. Other added features include the ability to change fonts, images emoji support and a new gesture for access to contacts and programs. Now the screen does not fade to black when used with a specific application.
Intelligent usually watch shows the time. Just touch the screen, however, that the more it is highlighted and showed his new opportunities. After making a gesture from the bottom to the top you will display notifications from various applications. To see more information and options of the program, should be done on this notification gesture from right to left. Reverse motion will be thrown notice. The list of notifications can also scroll without touching the screen. You just have to quickly turn away from each wrist and slowly turn it over to your page and then do it again.
After gesture from top to bottom screen is displayed presets. On the first screen, you can select which notifications you want to receive. On the second you turn on the theater mode in which the screen is totally blank. Third, in turn, can increase the screen brightness.
The fourth allows entrance to the classical settings screen. It allows you to exchange the screen brightness, the watch face, font size, enable and disable gestures wrist, connecting Bluetooth devices, setting the continuous incorporation of the screen, enable Airplane mode, mode is enabled for the visually impaired, enable / disable the lock screen, restore the equipment to the factory settings. reset it off and get to know information about the system.
A single touch of the dial to start the application menu. On the first screen you can select the interesting program and run it. Programs on Android Wear can be installed directly from the smartphone, which is paired watch. There are many interesting programs, which are perfectly suited to watch. These include compass, calendar and … Tinder, which, like Android Wear, operates using simple gestures.
After moving the application screen to the left of the screen go to contacts. The renewal of this gesture take the user to a screen voice commands that you need to speak in English. Polish language is unfortunately not supported here. Google on the screen put a few examples of commands that you can say or can simply click, if someone does not want to use your voice.
Another gesture is longer hold your finger on the dial of the watch for a long time. This way you can easily change the dials of the clock. New disks can be installed from the Android Wear applications. This in turn can be installed on smartphones equipped with the Android 4.3 or later.
Display
Huawei Watch is equipped with a 1.4-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 400 x 400 pixels, reflected in the density of pixels at 286 ppi. The observation on the individual pixels is only possible at high zoom him to his face during everyday use will be virtually impossible. This display is sufficiently large and responsive, and operate using that system Android Wear is extremely comfortable.
I had a problem with visibility in sunlight, which can be regarded as sufficient to read the notification and checking hours. I liked so much that had never been forced to use the mode of operation in bright sunlight, or sunlight. It is worth mentioning again that the screen of the watch was covered with glass, sapphire, so the vast majority of people will not be able to accidentally go scratch.
Huawei Watch: working time
This is one with few weaknesses Huawei Watch. Although it was used quite large and very detailed display, the Chinese company has decided to install the battery pack with a capacity of 300 mAh. It’s a small value, so it is not surprising that, according to Huawei the expected running time is 1.5 days. In practice, it was not so bad, and tested the watch landed at regular two-day intervals.
Charging watch lasted about an hour. The charger is made of plastic, and also its sides coated with aluminum. Due to the necessity of placing at the bottom of many technical information does not represent it as minimalist as watch, but in everyday use will not be that visible.
The visible part of the charger stand out pins of charge and depression logo Huawei solutions to match her watch. In addition, inside the charger uses a magnet, so that Huawei Watch does not fall from it. But it is not strong enough to cause problems when releasing the watch from the charger.
Performance and Support
The components contained in the watch is a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 and 512 MB of RAM. It’s a good combination, so that Huawei Watch runs smoothly. It is a standard feature of smart watches running Android Wear, which is used in most new models smartwatchów and turns out to be absolutely sufficient to support them.
Clearing the interface to virtually do not exist, and the use of Huawei Watch is a pleasure . Google eliminated the previously encountered minor problems with liquidity and now support Android Wear is completely seamless. The watch can be operated not only a finger but also voice. This allows the microphone located at the upper belt clip. With it, you can dictate text messages and take notes, of course if we do not mind the lack of punctuation.
The microphone can not be used here to hold talks, as in watches Samsung. It is interesting for the fact that Huawei Watch is not only a microphone but also a speaker, whose Android Wear does not need. Probably in this way, the Chinese company has prepared itself for a possible extension of the capabilities of watches from the Google system.
Health Functions
Features health Huawei Watch work well. The watch counts steps when we go and do it while riding public transport, cycling or beat chops. It is true that there were differences in the measurements between the smartphone LG G4 kept in your pocket, armband and tested Xiaomi MiBand watch, but they amounted to a few percent. Is if you go 10 thousand. – 15 thousand. Steps that you are interested in the 100 – 300 steps a difference? I absolutely do not, the ground that it went at all.
The watch is also equipped with a heart rate monitor on the back of the watch. It is his standard positioning, which allows the use to him during the exercise. Note, however, that Huawei Watch is not an enhancement of health and should not be served by its values are for guidance only. I compared the measurements with test clock and a pressure gauge and the differences between them amounted to more than a dozen individuals. That’s a lot.
Huawei Watch: summary
Huawei Watch is definitely top shelf clocks running Android Wear. It is a device performance impeccably, one of the few that can aspire to premium shelf. Although even the Asus ZenWatch and the LG G Watch R is very good watches, but lacked the minimalist style that feel when associating with Huawei Watch.
Steel casing, no-frills and simplicity are its main advantages, thanks a watch that you can wear without embarrassment to even the most elegant dress. This does not mean, however, that will not fit also to a more sporty clothing, though here more suited to LG G Watch R.
Huawei Watch is a typically masculine watch. While the aforementioned ZenWatch or Moto 360 is a unisex watches that just appeal to almost anyone, regardless of their gender, the Huawei Watch is simply too massive to well present on a woman’s wrist. Of course, this is not a defect of the device. It just takes your character, that may not fit some people.
It is worth keep in mind before purchasing and make sure that the person who is endowed him, he wants to wear it. I would have wanted, although I must admit that the more one suited me his gold-plated version, which will be much more expensive and hit to our editorial only for two months.
This does not mean, however, that reviewed my version Huawei Watch is cheap, the price is as high as 399 euros, which will translate into about 1,700 zlotys. Is it worth it to spend so much on a smart watch? I do not think, because at this price you can buy a very nice and well-made classic device of this type which can withstand years. Simply a pity it would be me money on a gadget extension smartphone which is not only to me essential to life, but also for a year or couple of years, it will become useless.
So he probably decide to buy a cheaper watch with Android Wear, even second generation Asus ZenWatch 2, the price is almost three times lower than the reviewed my model. However, if someone can afford such a large amount of expenditure on ubieralny gadget works with Android, should buy exactly that watch. Huawei Watch is in fact the most polished clock running Android Wear’ve ever visited in my wrist.
* The photos were taken by Marcin Połowianiuk
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