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Huawei Watch 3 Review: Flagship smartwatch with HarmonyOS power
At HarmonyOS operating system and new product launch conference, Huawei introduced the latest Huawei Watch 3 Series alongside a bunch of other products working on HarmonyOS.
Huawei Watch 3 series consist of two models – Watch 3 and Watch 3 Pro with Active, Classic, and Elite editions.
At present, this HarmonyOS product has been put on the pre-sale in different markets, which include the UK, Germany, Spain, France, and Italy besides the Mainland market.
This new smartwatch, Huawei Watch 3 is surpassing the previous flagship Watch GT series in various aspects such as battery life, health management, ecology, and more. Not to mention its unbeatable offerings, it’s a live example of what a flagship power is.
Let’s take an overview of Huawei Watch 3:
- Display: 1.43-inch AMOLED screen
- Weight: 54gram
- Screen Resolution: 466 x 466 pixels
- RAM: 2GB
- Storage: 16GB
- Operating System: HarmonyOS
- Battery: 450 mAh
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 5.2, GPS, WiFi, NFC
- Waterproof Resistance: 5ATM
Physiognomy: An elegant structure suitable for all occasions
As I mentioned earlier, Huawei Watch 3 series comes in a standard and Pro model. The standard version can be found in Active Classic and Elite editions, on the other hand, the Pro version comes in the Classic and Elite editions only.
Moving further on the design, it adopts a round dial with a crown button, an elliptical button, and audio ports on the edge of its circumference. It provides a formal look that is no more different from a traditional classic watch.
At first, it seems as an elegant watch goes well on all occasions like business conferences and social gatherings. Its aesthetics provides a feel of a smartwatch, which’s nowhere to be seen as a smartwatch If you don’t reveal its special features such as making calls, checking notifications, and so on.
This watch has its own design not making the technology obvious and keeping the look stylish. The crown button is used for many 3D interactive features and can turn up, down, and zoom the watch interface by revolving the crown
Coming to the case material, the smartwatch is made of 316L stainless steel and can easily resist scratches, sweat erosion, and other physical damage caused by daily activities. Also, the finely polished design gave the smartwatch a silky apprehension.
To be mentioned the Pro version has Titanium + ceramic frame material with leather and titanium strap options.
Adding to this, the Watch 3 series could be found in Fluoroelastomer, Nylon, Leather, and Stainless Steel Strap variant. While the color options are – Black, Gray Blue, Brown, and Silver, giving us various choices to match the user’s attire.
Features: 100 professional sports modes
The Watch 3 series comes with numerous features for health management and notification management as well. It allows eSIM connectivity and MeeTime calls so you won’t miss any of your important information and stay connected to your important contacts all time.
The control center can be accessed by swiping downwards on the home screen and swipe upwards to open the notification center. From here you can manage your notification or organize your screen shortcuts.
Meanwhile, if you swipe right to left you can access the sports modes, and the left to right swipe will take you to the weather and service center.
Talking about the sports modes, it features more than 100 professional sports modes, which includes 85 customs modes with auto-detection exercises and 19 Pro modes for indoor and outdoor exercises. The Pro modes include exercises such as:
- Running
- Walking
- Mountaineering
- Hiking
- Trail running
- Cycling
- Open water
- Triathlon
- Skiing
- Snowboarding
- Cross-country skiing
- Golf
- Fitness Hoops
- Skipping
- Cycling
- Swimming
- Free training
- Elliptical machine
- Rowing machine
Coming to the health monitoring features, it offers body temperature detection, heart rate monitoring, blood oxygen saturation, sleep monitoring, and pressure monitoring, and more, which helps you to get the closest readings on your health.
Not only this, if you connect this with the Huawei Health app, you’ll get more organized and well-arranged data. You can see your workout data clearly every step of the way, making you more focused on your goal.
Gesture and Voice Controls:
Huawei Watch 3 comes with handy gesture features to make the management effortless. Users are allowed to set frequently used applications under dial controls that can be accessed by just raising the wrist.
Furthermore, answering a call is easier with this smartwatch. A user only needs to keep the watch screen upside and keeping the palm downside and then quickly make a fist and release it once to answer any call.
In addition, Huawei also installed the virtual voice assistant – Celia voice assistant in this smartwatch. It allows a user to check notifications, set alarms, make payments, and command other IoT devices in your home for additional interactions.
Battery life: A long-lasting battery experience
This latest lineup of Huawei smartwatches comes with high-end features, gesture controls, and display animations to provide a more enhanced user experience. Undoubtedly, it needed more battery to provide 466 x 466 pixels screen resolutions as well as the above-mentioned features.
If we talk specifically about the battery section, Huawei Watch 3 Pro packs an ultra-long battery life, that runs up to five days on smart mode and provides up to 21 days of long life in ultra-long battery life mode.
On other hand, the Watch 3 can stay up to 3 days on smart mode, while 14 days in the ultra-long battery-saving model. It provides load platform switching according to the situation to save power consumption.
Hm…, How to charge this smartwatch? Well, this smartwatch lineup comes with wireless charging support, which helps you get rid of extra wires.
Third-party app compatibility: Full house of third-party apps
This latest smartwatch not only comes with built-in system apps but users can also jump to AppGallery and download third-party apps. This is all made possible with the distributed capability of HarmonyOS and its solution to provide maximum app compatibility.
Some of the popular third-party app options on the AppGallery alongside the system apps related to your daily requirements. We can expect that Huawei will continue to add new apps and services to Huawei Watch 3 lineup and give it a completely new user experience.
Conclusion: A flagship smartwatch with HarmonyOS power
Huawei Watch 3 is undoubtedly coming as a beast in terms of features and a power-packed smartwatch with lots of improvements over its predecessor.
This new smartwatch delivers all, it has a brand new operating system – HarmonyOS, which provides all new features. The watch delivers all-around health and fitness trackers, has a premium design that looks astoundingly beautiful.
Furthermore, the new eSIM capability to provide you native network connectivity without even requiring to touch your phone and lastly a battery capacity that could easily help you to spend days and carry these task without a recharge.
From looks to features to battery life, everything became more convenient and long-lasting with this flagship smartwatch – Huawei Watch 3 powered by HarmonyOS.
Special thanks to Newsdriver senior author – Daoshu
Huawei FreeBuds 5 is coming and soon it will meet the consumers, of course, the plans for this are hidden but the latest inputs will help us to understand its soon-to-release schedule.
According to the details shared by tipster classmateguan, Huawei FreeBuds 5 will launch soon and will continue to wear a semi-in-ear design, which is a marquee style of the earbuds pair. The tipster predicts that March could be the month to bring these earbuds out in the open. It’s possible that the recently leaked FreeBuds Pro 2+ may also share the stage with FreeBuds 5.
It’s been over 2 years since the launch of Huawei FreeBuds 4 earbuds and the tech company, in the time between, has released a new model – FreeBuds 5i. However, that’s just a filler, while the customers have been waiting for a mainstream pair of earbuds.
As for now, we don’t have the specs of the next FreeBuds lineup but we can surely know more about its predecessor.
Huawei FreeBuds 4 brings an open-fit active noise cancellation 2.0 technology. It has adaptive ear-matching technology to detect your in-ear shape and how you wear the earbuds. Then it smartly selects a variety of noise-cancellation presets.
Huawei FreeBuds 4 comes in two aesthetically awesome colors – Ceramic White and Silver Frost. These earbuds are light and each of them weighs just 4.1 grams. It supports gestures and tap support, tap twice to answer and end calls, play/pause music, previous/next song or enable voice assistant. It has a swipe up and down to increase or decrease volume.
Huawei FreeBuds 4 include a special touch of tap and hold, which allows you to enable or disable noise cancellation. This pair of earbuds bring a big battery, it will boast 22 hours of battery with a charging case and ANC off. While you will get 4 hours from FreeBuds only.
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Huawei has finally launched the detachable Huawei Watch GT Cyber in the global market, it has a unique design with a separate watch face mechanism.
Mexico is the first country in the global market to get the Huawei Watch GT Cyber for the people and it is priced at 5699 pesos. However, under a pre-sale offer, customers can take benefit of the gifts and discounts.
According to the information, the Huawei Watch GT Cyber pre-sale starts from February 6 to February 13, 2023, with a 100 pesos pre-sale deposit. While the first sale is scheduled for February 13, followed by the shipments.
People who reserve the watch will get 300 pesos extra after they make the payment. On the other hand, the watch is available at no-cost EMIs. Pre-reservation will also bring a 30% off coupon on Huawei cases and a free Black Gold cyber case for free (worth 1699 pesos).
Other than these, Huawei Watch comes in four separate cases, which are sold separately. These have colors, Black, Gray, Yellow, and Golden, while the price per case is 699 pesos. However, the offer on the watch along with gifts is limited time only.
Huawei Watch GT Cyber:
The watch is known for its unique capability of a detachable watch dial and features a 1.32-inch AMOLED color screen with 466 x 466 pixels resolution and PPI 352. The case is made of Nano microcrystalline ceramic + 316L stainless steel and the strap is made of high-performance rubber.
Looking at the side, you’ll find a rotating crown and support for long and short press actions for various features. Huawei Watch GT Cyber is filled with various health monitoring and fitness capabilities including Accelerometer, Gyro sensor, Geomagnetic sensor, Optical heart rate sensor, and air pressure sensor.
The watch has HarmonyOS 2 operating system pre-installed with various new watch faces. In terms of connectivity, the watch will get you GPS, NFC, and Bluetooth support.
It’s good to see the detachable Huawei Watch GT Cyber entering in the global market and soon it will expand to more consumers.
It’s been two long years of the Huawei Watch 3 series launch and it seems like Huawei has finally begun the preparations for the upcoming Huawei Watch 4 lineup, as its codename is now leaked.
Huawei Watch series recently completed the WiFi certification with the codename ARC (Arch) and MDS (Medusa) for Watch 4 and Watch 4 Pro respectively. However, there are no specifications or details available about any of these models at the moment.
Past leaks:
A few days ago, a mysterious watch model appeared on the Huawei Health app with AOD-B19, which is likely to be a brand new smartwatch lineup but none of the information has been confirmed from the official channel so far.
Looking at the fact that Huawei Watch 3 series has some first-time technologies in smartwatches, we are expecting a better battery life with the upcoming duo.
Huawei Watch 3 series:
Huawei Watch 3 and 3 Pro are the first smartwatch to feature the HarmonyOS operating system. Other than that, the lineup has unique native LTE connectivity, which allows you to make calls and quickly reply to the SMS.
Huawei Watch 3 devices are a mixture of all of the past released smartwatches and a combination of design and aesthetics in one package.
In terms of standalone connectivity, Huawei Watch 3 series provides eSIM service, through which, you can share the phone number as well as voice and data plans between the smartphone and smartwatch.
That’s not it, Huawei Watch 3 models offer important map and taxi services right into the wrist. Furthermore, it’s the first smartwatch to support third-party app installation directly from AppGallery.
Moreover, Huawei Watch 3 has a big library of workout modes and fitness activities, it has Skin temperature detection, heart rate monitoring, SpO2, sleep tracking, and more. The Huawei Watch 3 Pro offers an ultra-long battery life, that could go up to 5 days back up in a smart mode and 21 days in ultra-long battery mode.
We hope that Huawei Watch 4 series will get us some big upgrades over its predecessor and we’ll keep you posted on the developments.
(Source – Huaweiailesi)
