Speaking of smart wearables, the smart band is definitely the most popular category in terms of its rich fitness-tracking features and great value for money. 

For years, HUAWEI wasn’t probably the first brand name that came into your mind for smart wearables. However, this year, you must seriously consider its latest fitness tracker first, the HUAWEI Band 6. 

Huawei Band 6 Review: Design

In the past few years, we have stopped expecting fancy designs on a smart band product. A simple display with smart features was often enough.

But take a look at the HUAWEI Band 6. It’s interesting that Huawei has revamped the design of the Band 6. Its 1.47-inch AMOLED rectangular display makes it stand out from the competition. This display can almost catch up to the display on the Huawei Watch Fit.  

Compared to another hot smart band, the Mi Band 6, this display form factor is better to show content with reasonable interface layouts. And more importantly, the thinner dial (10.99mm) allows the band to fit to my wrist skin better, which greatly reduces the discomfort I feel when wearing bands for a long time and even sleeping with it. 

The skin-friendly silicone strap is removable. Huawei officially offers the changeable straps in 4 colors (Black, Orange, Green, and Pink). 

Huawei Band 6 Review: Fitness & Health features

It’s obvious that HUAWEI has made great efforts to improve its health-centric products this year. As HUAWEI’s entry-level fitness tracker, the HUAWEI Band 6 is able to track all the basic health data that you can have on a basic wrist wearable, including step count, all-day heart rate, all-day SpO², caloric burn, all-day stress, sleep, and so on. It also supports 96 workout modes, which is quite rare in this price range, although out of the 96, only 85 modes support basic tracking. With the support of Huawei’s professional sports algorithms, the other 11 modes are much detailed and professional in fitness tracking. Under the 11 modes, in addition to basic activity tracking, users can check their maximum oxygen uptake, recovery time, and training stress. 

For example, when tracking a run the band will give you accurate route, pace frequency and length, training stress, recovery time, and more. And all these data will immediately be sync to the connected smartphone, which is even more detailed, and the app can accordingly generate a short video of the dynamic route on the map.  

Besides all-day heart rate tracking, the Huawei Band 6 supports all-day blood oxygen monitoring too, which is not available even on the Mi Band 6. And the all-day blood oxygen monitoring can work well with its professional sleep monitoring, and give users more accurate records and advice for improving sleep quality. In our experience, Huawei’s TruSleep technology was more accurate and detailed in sleep tracking, and the results seem to be better than the Mi Band’s. Actually, it’s rare that a budget tracker can track blood oxygen all day. 

Huawei Band 6 Review: Software

About the band’s software support, the Huawei Health app is one of the most detailed and functional fitness tracking APPs that we’ve seen on the Android platform. But the app in iOS is not as well-optimized as on Android. For example, camera remote control is not available on iOS, and neither is the music control feature. But if you are using an Android phone, especially a Huawei phone, the software support is quite satisfying. Or you can also connect Huawei Health to Google Fit and check all the health data in the Google app. But it seems that the HUAWEI Band 6 doesn’t support the connection with other health Apps. 

Most notably, the software of the band itself is quite simple, which means it doesn’t support the installation of third-party apps. But on the other hand, the lightweight software also leads to a smooth touch response. During oue 10-day use, the band rarely lagged or confused me with its software.

The Band supports 5ATM waterproof rating, which means that it can be used for shallow-water activities such as normal swimming. But it is not suitable for underwater activities like diving. 

Huawei Band 6 Review: Battery Life

As for its battery life, considering that we turned on almost all tracking features, I have no complaints about it since I charged it once around 10 days ago. And it still has 13% of power left. As estimated, it’s quite safe to wear it for around 10 days in a heavy use routine without charging it. 

Considering the HUAWEI Band 6 is a well-functional, inexpensive fitness tracker, by far it is at the top of our recommended list. If you are simply looking for a reliable budget health tracker with good software experience, the Huawei Band 6 is really a safe option for you in 2021.

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Huawei continues to build its patent portfolio with one of its latest patent that has just been revealed. The new patent as published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is a smartwatch strap design which makes for easy swapping of the watch bands. This design is perhaps building on the popularity of smartwatches and how most owners design to personalize their own with their preferred band design. 

This new design is pretty different from the conventional design we have on almost all smartwatch and other wristwatches in the market presently whereby you’ll need a flat object that can pick out the hook at the edge of the strap. But it builds on the quick release spring mechanism found in most modern smartwatches. According to the patent, the quick release spring can be moved into the watch housing instead of being part of the watch band. Thus, if the watch band is to be removed, all that needs to be done is to depress two small buttons at the side of the housing and this will, in turn, compress the spring holding the band to the housing.

Read More: Huawei Will Surpass Apple in a Year or Two, Says CEO Richard Yu

W can’t say if Huawei will eventually utilise this patent is their smartwatch any time soon. But if it does, it will be a simple but interesting design.

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Huawei has been known not only for its mobile phones but also for quite a few wearable devices. The Honor Zero is one of them. It is stylish, well-built and it quite affordable. Learn more in our full review.

Thanks to Tomtop for sending Huawei Honor Zero Smart Band for a review. 

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Huawei Honor Zero Smart Band Review: UNBOXING

The smartwatch comes in quite a premium box (the presentation reminds me the Huawei P8’s box).

The contents include some instruction manuals and a magnetic charging cable, which stays firmly when attached to the bracelet.

Huawei Honor Zero Smart Band Review: DESIGN and DISPLAY

As for design, the smart band is similar to a classic watch due to its round shape. The device is very well-built and it uses a metal frame, which goes around the display.

Also, the bracelet is very light (25g) and it is IP-68 certified, meaning that it is water and dust resistant.

On the back, we have pins for charging.

The band is made of textured rubber and it is comfortable to wear. You don’t have that irritating feeling after you wear the watch for a long time.

The smart band does not have any buttons and everything is controlled by tapping the touchscreen.

As for display, it uses Amoled technology. It is bright and has a great sunlight legibility (tested both in a cloudy day and under direct sunlight).

Huawei Honor Zero Smart Band Review: FEATURES and FUNCTIONALITY

In order to light up the display, you have to simply lift and turn your wrist.

The smart band has some basic features like clock with the ability to select from a variety of watch faces.

Also, we can see the number of steps taken and calories burned, sleep quality information, stopwatch and adjust some basic settings.

In order to take a full advantage of the smart band, you have to download the Huawei Wear application. I didn’t have any issues pairing my phone with the bracelet and it offered to upgrade the firmware.

Within the app, you can track your fitness goals, choose different activities, adjust various settings and so on. Also, you can receive calls, SMS, Facebook and some other notifications on the display of the bracelet.

I didn’t have any connectivity/syncing issues with the device.

Huawei Honor Zero Smart Band Review: BATTERY LIFE

The battery life could be better. I could get just over 3 days of moderate use when I used the display quite often.

A great thing is that you can fully charge the device in less than 1 hour.

Huawei Honor Zero Smart Band Review: CONCLUSIONS

At the price of $66, the Huawei Honor Zero may not be the cheapest smart band around but it is worth the price if you are looking for a basic fitness tracker, which is comfortable to wear and has a premium design with a great display.

Also, it tracks your steps accurately, gives you notifications of calls, texts and more.

However, keep in mind that it lacks some extra features like a heart rate monitor. Also, the battery life could be better, especially if you are coming from the Xiaomi Mi Band 2.

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Today, Huawei introduced many new products in its Honor line in Beijing. Besides its new Honor smartphone, they also release trendy yet easy-to-use smartband.

The Huawei Honor Play Smartband has a unibody design and comes in many colors. It can be used by users to look for their phone when they can’t find it. At a certain distance, from the phone, the smartband will sound an alarm notifying you that your phone is somewhere nearby.

This bracelet comes in many features. You can use your phone to take photos with the Huawei Honor Play Smartbandas a remote. It can also tell you how much power your phone has left, and work as an exercise assistant. These are just some of the many features this device has to offer.

The Huawei Honor Play smartband costs around 399 RMB. Pre-orders in Huawei’s official store and other online stores start on October 21 at 10:08.

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