The category of smart watches has been around for many years. If the scenes are used separately, they can be roughly divided into two categories. One is the main "wrist intelligence", including Apple Watch and α launched by Nubia. The concept is to try to replace the mobile phone through the interaction of watches.
The other is wearable accessories with health, sports and other attributes as the core. It is mainly monitored by sensors, and information processing is mainly based on reminders. The ultimate event handling ability is still on the mobile phone. Among them, the products of Songtuo and Jiaming are relatively extreme in sports monitoring, while manufacturers such as Huami Technology will take into account some daily functions (such as NFC payment and bus card) and add sports and health monitoring.
As far as the current battery technology and processor technology are concerned, the biggest difference brought by these two different design ideas is the daily experience: battery life. Because of fluency and more functions, the former usually only has a battery life of 1~2 days, while the latter benefits from distributing most high-intensity computing applications to mobile phones. After light use, the battery life can reach about 2 weeks. Professional outdoor smart watches can also be further castrated through functions and added with solar charging technology to achieve a battery life of up to 60 days.
Huawei WATCH 3 series released not long ago can be regarded as a comprehensive intelligent wearable product brought by Huawei based on HarmonyOS system ecology. Not only has the independent information processing ability brought by Wi-Fi connection and eSIM communication technology, but also has a battery capacity of 450mAh. It can also achieve a longer battery life.
Surface edge design
The design of Huawei WATCH 3 basically continues the style of the previous generation, but the newly launched Pro version further expands the dial to 48mm, and the 46mm Huawei WATCH 3 light obtained by titanium media is indeed highly consistent with the previous generation in size. The round dial and rubber strap are not much different from the mainstream smart watch products on the market at first glance.
Left Huawei WATCH 3 right Huawei WATCH GT
Here, titanium media also found a Huawei WATCH GT, which can be seen that the dial sizes of the two are the same, but in contrast, the latest Huawei WATCH 3 makes the overall appearance more integrated due to the integrated glass cover on the front and the 3D arc treatment on the edge, which is more in line with today's streamlined aesthetics visually, and the arc treatment also reduces the visual volume of the dial.
There are no metal contacts on the back.
Rotatable crown
In order to combine the newly designed UI operation logic of the system, this time Huawei WATCH 3 changed the past physical pressing buttons on the side to a new design of pressing knobs and single buttons. The rotatable crown plays the role of scrolling and adjusting up and down in the system. The button at the bottom is a user-defined function, and the default is to open the "Sports" application.
Heart rate monitoring
Huawei's smart wearable products have also experienced many iterations. Since the release of the first generation of products, each generation of new products has focused on improving the ability of health and exercise monitoring, from the previous heart rate and sleep monitoring to 30 1 hospital heart health research and all-weather oxygen saturation monitoring. It can be said that each generation of products is deepening the health scene through the upgrade of hardware+algorithm.
Air pressure monitoring
The same is true for Huawei WATCH 3. The integrated sensors of this product include optical heart rate sensor, air pressure sensor, gyroscope and so on. And the temperature sensor is the newly added hardware. It should be noted that it only provides one of the judgment data for human health management, not medical-grade body temperature data. If you want to judge whether you have a fever, you should use a special thermometer to measure your temperature.
Open the application selection interface.
As mentioned earlier, with Harmony OS2.0, Huawei WATCH 3 has a completely different interface design from the previous generation. Due to the increase of intelligent functions, if the traditional list UI faces more than 30 applications, the search efficiency will become very low. On Huawei WATCH 3, you only need to press the crown to enter a flat application interface. At this time, the rotating crown will be partially enlarged or reduced.
Rich number of applications
Another advantage of HarmonyOS system ecology is completely independent application design. In the past, the biggest dilemma in the field of smart watches was that no application developer was willing to adapt to this small screen. Huawei's developer encouragement program and HarmonyOS's multi-platform collaboration are also expected to improve the application ecology of smart wearable devices in the future.
Vertical and horizontal interfaces for navigation and travel
At present, in the app store in the watch, you can already see many specially adapted applications, such as ink weather, straight flush, sailing, lazy listening to books and so on. At the same time, with the help of the eSIM function of mobile phones, the data of these applications can be updated in real time. For example, you don't have to turn on your mobile phone to check airline flight information. At present, the information that can be viewed above includes flight take-off and landing time, departure/arrival location, aircraft type, etc.
Mj weather
During this period of experience, in addition to business trips, ink weather and Baidu maps are also commonly used applications. The display information of ink weather is perfect, and you don't need to look at your mobile phone at all. At present, Baidu map is more linked to the information of mobile app, so you can choose not to take out your mobile phone and look up when you take the vehicle.
Remote control photography
Huawei has also developed some functions that can be linked with mobile phones based on HarmonyOS system. For example, a watch can be turned into a "viewfinder" of a mobile phone to take pictures remotely, which is very useful when many people take pictures and want to take some interesting angles.
Voice assistant
Intelligent voice assistants have also become a more interesting part of everyday experience. Through the microphone and speaker hardware of the watch, in addition to long press, it also supports voice wake-up, so that the operation of setting alarm clock and controlling smart home can be handed over to Xiao Yi.
Sports health APP interface
In addition, through the development of several generations of products, the dial richness of Huawei WATCH series can also be regarded as the head level in the field of smart watches. There are many paid/free dials to choose from in the mall, and many dials support the display functions of the above parts. Adjust.
Rich dial
For users, the significance of the pay dial is mainly to embody personalization. At the same time, it can also help the platform attract more developers to join the design ecology. If there is not much demand for this, the quantity and quality of free dials can fully meet the daily needs.
Cardiac health test
In the research of heart rate monitoring, blood oxygen saturation monitoring and heart health, Huawei WATCH 3 has also been upgraded, and the hardware adopts 6-in-6 1 lens LED light-emitting chip+multi-channel light-receiving design.
Mobile application
At the same time, it has TruSeen 4.5 heart rate monitoring technology, which supports 24-hour continuous heart rate detection and real-time oxygen saturation detection. You can also find a special heart health research APP in the watch system. If you want to understand the data more comprehensively, you can also enter the APP on your mobile phone.
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In terms of battery life, it can basically take 4~5 days to open the notice, check the daily news+heart rate monitoring+check the daily application. If you always turn on Wi-Fi and frequently load/manage applications, you can basically reach the battery life of 1.5~2 days, which is already a very good performance for a fully functional smart watch.
As the first product of HarmonyOS smart wearable system, Huawei WATCH 3 continues the previous product design and strengthens the experience of application ecology and health monitoring. The emergence of Huawei App Store in the watch system also provides unlimited possibilities for the future application expansion of HarmonyOS system.
As a new system ecosystem that can span smart screens, tablets, mobile phones, smart wear and smart homes, the future development prospects of Huawei WATCH 3 have been further opened. It can be used not only as a mobile phone substitute for light travel scenes, but also as a linkage tool for smart home scenes at home. At the same time, it can also provide perfect monitoring support for health and sports. This smart watch is developing in a more multifunctional direction.