As a consequence of ongoing restrictions, Huawei doesn’t officially sell its products in the US. That is too unhealthy, as the corporate is bringing a fantastic Apple Watch Series 11 different to the remainder of the world, the place it may possibly promote its units. The corporate’s newest Watch GT 6 Professional is a strong all-around smartwatch promising deep well being and sports activities monitoring together with sturdy battery life. These options are all wrapped up in a premium-feeling design.
I have been utilizing the watch round my dwelling of Edinburgh, Scotland, for the previous few days, and I need to say, I prefer it. I am usually not a lot of a smartwatch person, however I’ve loved having it on my wrist this week, and I am seemingly going to maintain on utilizing it and see how I get on.
The Watch GT 6 Professional is on sale within the UK for £329, with the bottom mannequin coming in at a extra inexpensive £229. Then there’s the Huawei Watch Final 2, which options many of the identical monitoring options, together with additional diving tech — together with the power to be worn at 150-meter depths and ship messages to different Watch Final 2 fashions utilizing sonar. The Final 2 will price much more, however actual pricing wasn’t out there on the time of writing. For reference, that £329 worth converts to $449.
The physique and bezel has an angular design that I like.
There are a couple of the reason why I’ve loved utilizing the GT 6 Professional to this point so let’s take a more in-depth look.
Snug design
At the start, it is really comfy to put on. The rubber strap that got here with it is extremely comfortable, permitting it to kind naturally to my wrist, and its 46mm round show is not so huge as to really feel unwieldy. I’ve usually not worn a watch just because I do not like the texture of it, however I’ve discovered this to be fairly bodily inconspicuous.
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Besides in mattress, that’s. I nonetheless despise sporting something on my wrists after I’m attempting to sleep — I even put my marriage ceremony ring on my bedside desk in mattress as I discover it off-putting. It is an issue for each me and the watch because it means I’ve to forgo any form of sleep evaluation. Sleep monitoring, like on most smartwatches, is a serious a part of its perform. Perhaps someday I will discover a wearable I can put on in mattress.
The rubber strap makes it comfy to put on.
Well being and health monitoring
Talking of monitoring, the watch can observe all kinds of knowledge factors that can assist you obtain your health targets or just keep a wholesome way of life. Alongside the same old coronary heart charge and step counters, it will observe Sp02, pores and skin temperature and a CE-certified pulse-wave arrhythmia evaluation perform.
Huawei boasts that the GT 6 Professional has new biking monitoring metrics, together with real-time gradient monitoring and a digital energy metric, which the corporate says is the primary time such a characteristic has been seen on a smartwatch. It additionally boasts deeper ski monitoring (together with automated ski carry detection) and deeper golf metrics for these of you who like spending your time hitting balls with golf equipment on stretches of turf.
Huawei reckons it has considerably improved GPS accuracy for higher monitoring of your operating routes, whereas its new wheelchair mode counts wheel rotations as an alternative of steps and totally different algorithms are used to trace energy burned.
The show is vivid sufficient for use outdoor.
I have never used the well being monitoring options but, so I can not touch upon how properly they carry out in opposition to the Apple Watch or every other machine. Actually, the good characteristic I’ve loved utilizing essentially the most is just having the ability to view incoming notifications on my iPhone. It is a easy process, positive, however it’s the primary motive I get pleasure from sporting a smartwatch over an everyday analog watch.
Talking of which, the watch will work with iOS or Android. I paired it simply with my iPhone 16 Professional utilizing a beta model of Huawei’s Well being app, which presents a dashboard for all of your collected metrics and exercises as you do them. Which I did not.
Battery life
Huawei reckons the GT 6 Professional will rise up to 21 days of battery in “lite” mode or round 12 days of typical use. That is a wild declare and one which far outstrips even the Apple Watch Collection 11, which can seemingly conk out after round a day and a half of normal use.
I really consider the declare, although — I’ve used Huawei’s first-generation Watch Final for a while (extra as a wise timepiece than as a health tracker), and its battery simply lasts over every week between fees. Nonetheless, 12 days is an enormous declare, and I will sit up for placing it to the check after I spend extra time with the watch.
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