As for the senior "cousins" who have contacted some stopwatches in the past, many of them are tired of those professional stopwatches that are really professional but long like toys. When they see smart watches that are suitable for daily wear and have stopwatches, their eyes are still full of joy.
Mobile phone manufacturers are also trying to educate the market and equip mobile phones with smart watches, not only because it is an accessory of mobile phones, but also because it can help us better manage our daily activities and health as an extension of mobile phone sensing and functions.
Unlike headphones, smart watches rely heavily on the operating system and ecology of mobile phones, and the latest trend is that mobile phone manufacturers are more willing to build watch operating systems based on the same underlying technology as mobile phones. So to have a seamless experience, buy whatever brand of mobile phone you have, unless his watch is not comprehensive.
If you have a mobile phone with Huawei HarmonyOS operating system, Huawei WATCH 3 will be the best choice among your smart watches.
It has many advantages. Let's talk about shortcomings first:
It's heavy and the dial is big. When I first got it, it was like getting a P40 oversized cup. A little heavy and uncomfortable.
Only suitable for boyfriend and girlfriend. It is recommended to use Huawei's old GT 2 series or other brands that are more suitable for women.
Only with Huawei's HarmonyOS mobile phone can we have the best experience. When it is connected with other non-Huawei Android phones or iOS phones, many of its advantages cannot be brought into play.
Its application ecology is not prosperous yet, and some interconnection capabilities of HarmonyOS system are not yet online, including the control center for on-demand mobile phone audio content, which relies heavily on Huawei's family barrels.
Next, I would like to introduce the advantages of this watch, and some extra discoveries about HUAWEI Health's ecology during my use.
Compared with WATCH GT 2e, Huawei Watch GT 2 is much more expensive. The price is more than 2000 yuan, largely because of its excellent technology and materials, and it is worth the money.
The screen is a very high-quality organic light-emitting diode touch screen, which is very bright and sensitive to touch. The curved edge makes it feel very warm and comfortable. Parameters: 1.43 inch, 466x466 resolution, 326 PPI, 60Hz refresh rate, peak brightness 1, 000 nits.
The surface is designed with large curvature mirror, which can resist daily slight wear and sweat corrosion after cold forging and hard PVD coating process. For nearly a month, the screen is still brand new.
The design of mirror polishing has extended from the surface to the stainless steel bezel, even the back is made of smooth ceramic material, and the heart rate monitoring sensor area in the center is covered by a piece of sapphire glass. The whole body is polished in a mirror, which is particularly bright. After contact with sweat or dust, wiping is also better.
The focus of the circle-rotating crown, this is the first application case of Huawei smart watch family. In fact, this kind of rotating crown is rare in smart watches other than Apple Watch.
For those who are not familiar with the fancy interaction of smart watches, this knob greatly reduces the threshold for use. It is like the Home button of a smart phone, which can solve many problems in our operation.
The interactive animation of Huawei WATCH 3 basically refers to Apple Watch. The difference is that Huawei puts the "sports" application in the center of the application center.
This visual experience extending from the center to the periphery is also reflected in the design of several functional plates, up and down or so, orderly. It is clearer than the top-down card scroll display design of Apple Watch.
Slide right, service center/slide left, health center/drop down, set up/pull up, notify/press the knob above, apply center/press the button below, and exercise center.
The interactive experience of Huawei WATCH 3 is excellent, not only because of the high-quality display screen, the sensitive rotating crown and the orderly display of functional sections, but also because of the optimization of software and hardware configuration and performance, which makes this watch run very smoothly.
In the past two days, Huawei has just launched an intelligent gesture recognition function. You can open the payment QR code by rubbing your fingers, answer the phone by clenching your fist and opening it again, and mute the call by turning your wrist-it seems to be the kind of black technology that can be shown occasionally! Just when using, you need to do some gesture exercises in the settings, so that the watch can learn first.
Huawei WATCH 3 adopts a dual-chip architecture, which ensures smooth performance while taking into account battery life. At the same time, it also supports the mobile phone to charge the watch separately and reversely, which are the bonus items of this watch.
The highlight of Huawei WATCH 3 is that it adopts the distributed technology of HarmonyOS system and can work seamlessly with the mobile phone ecosystem. Although its predecessor, Huawei WATCH GT 2 Pro, has used the HarmonyOS system, it is the first time that WATCH 3 uses the animation of HarmonyOS system when it is turned on.
HarmonyOS system Internet provides multi-screen interaction for watches. For example, when riding, you can use Baidu map navigation on your mobile phone, set the destination, then navigate on your watch and raise your wrist to see the direction of the destination route.
However, the UI design of WATCH 3 is relatively simple, without the arrow pointing of Apple Watch and some friendly animation and vibration tips.
After the opening of eSIM, Huawei WATCH 3 can be used as a stand-alone device. Without a mobile phone, it can still answer the phone, order music, check the weather, do voice shorthand, lift the wrist and swipe the card.
There are not many third-party watch applications supported by Huawei App Store, and there may be more than a dozen commonly used ones.
In the experience of HarmonyOS's Internet system, the most commonly used way is to take photos by remote control, which is more suitable for people who love taking selfies. Opening the camera application on Huawei Watch can activate the front camera of Huawei mobile phone, and then use the rotating crown to control the zoom-in and zoom-out of the viewfinder.
The Internet of Things control center and audio control center mentioned in the product promotion are not supported by Huawei WATCH 3 at present. Therefore, the full-scene interconnection experience that HarmonyOS Internet imagined that the watch side controls the smart home, the watch side plays music and videos, and seamlessly projects the screen onto the smart screen will have to wait until the firmware upgrade or the next generation.
In HarmonyOS's idea of Internet system, I am looking forward to using my watch to remotely control the air purifier, sweeping robot, reading and writing desk lamp and air conditioner, so that I don't have to take my mobile phone at home.
As for "after getting through the cooperation with the car factory, the car factory will open its authority, access the HarmonyOS system, use the watch to control the car, find the car, open the door, turn on the air conditioner, check the mileage and fuel quantity", let us also look forward to this function.
Comparatively speaking, in terms of sports health and ecology, Huawei is the most mature and close to Apple among domestic mobile phone manufacturers who make watches, and Huawei watches have rich experience in the sports field.
There are not only the 100+ motion mode driven by China, but also six daily motion intelligent recognition and rich motion data tracking.
Disadvantages: the intelligent recognition function is not as sensitive as GT 2 Pro, and the data such as sleep is displayed too little on the watch side, which needs to be viewed by the sports health App of Huawei mobile phone. In addition, the application of data analysis is far from enough, and there is still a long way to go compared with friends.
The new "fatigue detection" function is one of the data applications, which can judge how long it takes to recover after exercise. And this data is also attached to every movement.
"Running Coach" provides offline AI running function. For example, the combination of running and walking training, breathing training and real-time reminding to keep the heart rate within a certain range are very helpful for beginners.
However, due to the loud speaker sound of Huawei watches by default, this staged broadcast is often awkward when running, because in most cases, you don't wear headphones when running.
However, it also varies from person to person. After all, in the domestic environment, it is still very common for mobile phones to raise their voices in public places.
The watch also has a built-in barometer, altimeter, GPS and so on. What is not very useful is that every time an outdoor sport starts, GPS often has to wait an unpredictable time to locate it.
Let's go indoors and have a look.
Huawei has long laid out a set of sports health courses similar to Apple Fitness+. Officials say there are 200 video courses in 9 types. By default, there are 6 common courses, and sports equipment such as skipping rope, treadmill and spinning bike are also supported, all of which are Huawei Hi-Link eco-products.
On-demand yoga, strength training and other courses on the mobile phone, the watch will start the corresponding exercise mode synchronously, and display the exercise data such as pace, heart rate and calories in real time.
Its courses are far less comprehensive than Keep, and there are not many choices. However, in view of the multi-screen collaboration that can be achieved by the Internet in HarmonyOS system, when you look up at the video, you can watch the calorie consumption and other sports in real time through the watch, which is undoubtedly better in the overall experience.
To tell the truth, since I used this watch, I have been quite obsessive-compulsive, and abruptly transferred the yoga practice on Keep to the ecology of HarmonyOS system.
Huawei began to promote sports and health on smart watches from 20 19. In fact, these sports and health monitoring functions we saw on WATCH 3 today were basically found in the previous GT2 series.
This watch 3 adopts the latest TruSeen 4.5 optical heart rate sensor, which can monitor heart rate and pressure around the clock, and provide comprehensive monitoring data for exercise and sleep in combination with SpO2 monitoring.
It is worth mentioning that WATCH 3 also added a temperature sensor, which we experienced at the beginning of the year. At that time, the temperature detection function provided by its competing products was not comprehensive. The temperature detection of WATCH 3 was based on the body temperature estimated by the continuous monitoring algorithm and the skin temperature detected in real time. These two data are combined for reference.
At least for now, Huawei WATCH 3 is best at detecting body temperature with watches. At least for now, Huawei WATCH 3 is best at detecting body temperature with watches. Although we still rely on thermometers or temperature measuring gun in many scenarios, continuous temperature monitoring on the wrist is valuable for health management and paves the way for the development of more health management functions in the future.
As for the blood sugar monitoring and all-weather arrhythmia monitoring mentioned in Huawei's propaganda, additional equipment and application support are needed, which cannot be used for diagnosis and medical treatment. In this regard, the ECG version of Huawei WATCH GT 2 Pro is relatively better.
After a period of wearing-Huawei mobile phone and Huawei watch together, I still have a lot of experience.
For example, I find that they are helping me to get into the habit of using watches to grasp some information, and they are also helping me to get into the habit of paying attention to health conditions such as heart rate, completion of sports goals, calorie consumption and sleep. Especially with Huawei's healthy series of courses, there will be more sports incentives. Generally speaking, with this watch, it is very helpful to develop a healthy life.
I don't simply introduce you to the functions of the product. What I want to share with you is a long-standing feeling that smart watches are changing our lives.
Author: Chen Yiling/Shenzhen Bay