Smart watches Huawei Watch

Overview Huawei Watch

Huawei released its first smart watch at the end of 2015, but they can not be called very very new to this field - the company has produced fitness bracelets, similar in functionality and capabilities. For the first time Huawei Watch shown at  MWC 2015 , and then at  IFA 2015 , but each time the release was delayed. As a result, the market already when they came on the market is already enough competition with the clock from the major manufacturers.

In this case, Huawei obviously decided to bet on the design - a beautiful and expensive watch, c bright AMOLED-display and protection of sapphire glass. Bonus that will be compatible heart rate monitor and watch with Android and iOS.

But there are disadvantages too: the lack of GPS and NFC, as well as an ordinary autonomy. Above the operating system also have to work, it is not intuitive, and the notification settings are minimal, but this is Google care (device runs on OS Android Wear). Also, not everyone will like the large size and weight: on the female wrist krupnovat they look, and the thickness of the shell can make your shirt to puff up. And they are not cheap, on April 2016 Huawei Watch can be bought at the price of 30 000 rubles. If you want to choose a smart watch , you can look for cheaper model, but Huawei Watch can be bought at least for their beautiful appearance.

Design, appearance

Design can be called the strength of the Huawei Watch, although it would seem, everything is simple. While most manufacturers released smart watches that look serious or deliberate in the email, in Huawei took and used a classic design "normal" round hours. In our opinion, this is a good and a win-win move that highlights the device on a background of direct competitors.

The watch case is made ​​of stainless steel jewelry 316L, a circular screen protected by sapphire glass (like Apple Watch lenses or iPhone 6 ). Case diameter of about 42 mm, thickness of 11.8 mm, is thicker than most competitors. Although the overall watch is comfortable to wear on the wrist, they look feminine krupnovat and hardly coexist with the shirt, it begins to puff up. Huawei Watch impressive Weight - 61.3 grams, which is quite typical for the category. Like most similar devices, Huawei Watch has received protection from water and dust (IP67), they can withstand short-term immersion in water to a depth of 1 meter.

We should also talk about the display, in the case of his clock may well be attributed to the appearance and design. Firstly, it is a round 1.4-inch screen, and secondly, it is juicy and bright AMOLED matrix, and thirdly, it is clear by the standards of its dimensions - 400 × 400 pixels. The viewing angles can not be considered the maximum, but they are wide, sun-readable display well. Moreover, the screen is almost spoiled the finger slides easily on it - apparently used qualitative oleophobic coating.

Watches can be purchased in three colors - steel, gold and black. Furthermore they are different colors bezel (rim around the screen) in the first case it is smooth, the second - a large number of texture scratches, and black etoprosto pointers 12 for each hour. With the clock uses three types of straps - a mesh of metal and two of the skin (smooth or textured). They are all interchangeable and easily removed. Build quality - high, the materials used are different, look for fans of the classic design, this criterion is one of the most attractive smart watches in the market.

Interface

The clock is controlled primarily through the touch screen. Besides him, there is also a mechanical key (it opens the application menu or include silent mode). The interface on the Huawei Watch can be called typical, because the clock is running on Android Wear, which is used on a large number of such devices (eg, Asus ZenWatch or Motorola Moto 360). In our opinion, this system is buggy and not finalized, can not be called a job with hours intuitive, you need to learn to use them and get used to the interface. Some applications will have to run them at the same time and on the  phone .

In terms of communications capabilities typical of hours - you can connect to your smartphone via Bluetooth 4.1 and Wi-Fi (for communication over long distances). The clock operates with phones on iOS (version 8 or later) and Android (4.3 and higher).

notice

The main objective of smart watches, in addition how to show time - delivering a notification on your smartphone. Huawei Watch can be customized so that they vibrate when the phone receiving messages in instant messengers and social networks or email, or calendar event, or something else. This can simplify life and not to get a smartphone whenever you someone writes. Despite such possible notice, by and large, sypyatsya the clock randomly, without the possibility of some sort or a complete disregard for at least some of them.

Hardware and applications

As a platform for wearable Huawei Watch is used Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 chipset (1.2GHz), a year or two ago, these were used in the mid-range smartphones (for example, the LG the G2 the Mini ). Huawei Watch is equipped with 512 MB ​​of RAM and 4 GB of internal memory for data storage. Features typical of hours, enough for brisk work unpretentious "time" applications. Initially their bit on the clock, but you will appreciate the choice of dials - Initially you will be available to about 40. They can be used as "wallpaper", radically changing the appearance of the screen, and with it the device. Also the dials have a set of standard Android Wear apps and more for fitness - "Pulse", "Load" and "Monitoring". In the company store to choose from there are about 4 thousand different applications: various dials, unpretentious toys, tools, news feeds, instant messengers, social networking software for fitness, and so on.

Fitness

Huawei Watch Smart Watch is quite suitable for the gym, not enough unless the GPS to track the movement route. The device is equipped with a number of sensors: accelerometer, gyroscope, light sensor, digital compass and heart rate monitor. More or less unusual here it is only the last of them, the rest of the set is quite typical. Thus, the clock can count the number of the done steps, distance traveled and how many calories it took. To this end, Huawei Watch preinstalled apps for fitness, "Pulse", "Load" and "Monitoring". With the first all is clear, it's just a measurement of the pulse, and the second simply counts the time of exercise, and the last - something like a statement of calories burned and distance traveled. All these data are stored in the history hours, it can be displayed in the form of diagrams or graphs, if desired.

Battery

Autonomy Huawei Watch can not be called outstanding, more typical. The watch uses a non-removable battery capacity of 300 mAh, on average, we missed them by about half of the day with the included screen.But if you use them is very active, it is easy to plant and per day. These results are comparable with the Apple Watch and other All Android-hours, but much inferior to the clock with black and white screen, and a fitness bracelet.

To charge using your own charger - circular magnetic platform with four pins. Put on their watch - and the process has begun. Frankly, we would prefer the presence of a universal connector, for example, a full-size USB, as in  Alcatel's Watch, . Watch charged pretty fast, in about half an hour.