Huawei Watch review: Smart and pretty

Introduction

You get some case color choices, every with a alternative of a animal skin strap or a steel bracelet and you'll grab commonplace aftermarket replacements and swap them during a matter of seconds along with your clean hands, or fingernails, really. Not specifically Motomaker customizability however not strapped (punny...) for choices either.

Under the fashionable surface it's as standard-issue as they are available, though. The overwhelming majority of automaton smartwatches currently ar high-powered by the flower four hundred paired with [*fr1] a gig of RAM and 4GB of storage, and also the Huawei Watch is not any exception.

There's the same old options, however nothing extraordinary - dirt and water ingress protection, motion and vital sign sensors, vibration. the best bit is maybe the Sapphire crystal glass - associate exclusive feature outside of the Apple realm (where it does not come back low-cost, either).

Smartwatche provide few good uses, have terrible battery life, and unit very little quite plasticky toys - you have detected the rants. Well, whereas we're expecting developments on the primary 2 counts, the Huawei Watch addresses the last one.

Universally accepted as a results of the foremost attractive smartwatch existing upon its announcement in March, the Huawei Watch sure took its time to create it to consumers' wrists. Its classical measuring instrument vogue is as relevant presently as a results of it completely was on day one, that is it's main attract - the Huawei Watch simply look and feels heaps sort of a daily watch.  daily watch

Huawei Watch key features

1.4" AMOLED display, 400 x 400 pixels, 286ppi

Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 (MSM8926), quad-core 1.2GHz Cortex-A7 CPU, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage

300mAh Li-Ion battery, rated at 1.5 days of uptime, 80% fast charge in 45 minutes

42 x 42 x 11.3mm, 60.5-136g depending on strap/bracelet option, interchangeable standard 18mm straps

Stainless steel casing, IP-67 certified, water-resistant for 30 minutes, up to 1 meter deep

Android Wear OS, compatible with smartphones, running Android 4.3 or iOS 8.2 and up

PPG Heart rate sensor, 6-axis motion sensor (gyro + accelerometer), barometer

Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.1 BLE

Vibration

Main disadvantages

Expensive

No close lightweight detector

Android Wear still has restricted practicality

The price to buy having the classiest smartwatch is actually a fairly steep one. For a similar quantity of money you'll be able to simply get a fairly smart Swiss-made regular watch, that in contrast to the Huawei Watch will not be obsolete at intervals a year. Or ten.

We're conjointly quite bummed by the dearth of associate degree close light-weight device. The claim for style issues does not extremely stand - each Apple and Samsung have enforced one beneath the show while not spoiling the appearance.