Sporty vogue. Huawei goals to determine new vogue developments with the Watch GT sequence whereas sustaining a excessive degree of sports activities performance, exact sensors, and extended battery life. Dive into our review to seek out out extra!
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The diameter is primarily designed for the male market, whereas the 41-millimeter dimension could also be extra interesting to the feminine viewers. Of course, that is nonetheless a matter of particular person style.
In phrases of worth, the GT sequence begins at ~$265 USD, making it considerably extra inexpensive than the Watch 4. Prices stay an identical to the predecessor GT 3:
Model | Price (MSRP) |
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41 mm with white leather-based strap | $265 USD |
41 mm with Milanese strap | $319 USD |
41 mm with piano look | $425 USD |
46 mm with black fluoroelastomer strap | $265 USD |
46 mm with brown leather-based strap | $287 USD |
46 mm with inexperienced cloth strap | $287 USD |
46 mm in stainless-steel model | $372 USD |
The new octagonal form of the Watch GT 4 distinguishes it from its predecessor, and it now integrates NFC with the latest TruSeen 5.5 sensor, making certain even greater accuracy. Our take a look at system is the 46-mm stainless-metal strap mannequin.
Display
1.43 inch 1:1, 466 x 466 pixel 326 PPI, capacitive, AMOLED, shiny: sure, 60 Hz
Connections
NFC, Brightness Sensor, Sensors: TruSeen 5.5, Acceleromter, Gyroscope, optical Heart Rate, Temperature
Networking
Bluetooth 5.2, GPS
Size
top x width x depth (in mm): 10.9 x 46 x 46 ( = 0.43 x 1.81 x 1.81 in)
Battery
524 mAh Lithium-Polymer
Charging
wi-fi charging
Operating System
Huawei HarmonyOS
Additional options
Speakers: Mono, Wireless Charger, Bracelet hyperlinks, HarmonyOS 4.0.0.88, 24 Months Warranty, Dual-Band-GNSS: GPS, Glonass, Galileo, BeiDou, QZSS, 5 ATM, IP68, fanless, waterproof
Weight
48 g ( = 1.69 oz / 0.11 kilos), Power Supply: 0 g ( = 0 oz / 0 kilos)
The premium version of our take a look at gadget encompasses a 46-millimeter (~1.8 in) diameter, titanium-coated stainless-steel, and a matte end. The high quality is wonderful, and the smartwatch seems to be solid in one piece. Due to its easy contours, the octagonal type is just not excessively cramped and offers a extremely interesting haptically feeling. The show blends in with the bezel, nevertheless, the bezel is not adjustable and lacks any sensors for controlling the Watch GT 4.
A speaker and microphone are additionally built-in into the case. Furthermore, it’s also mud and waterproof, with an IP68 score. Huawei additionally claims a water stress resistance of 5 ATM.
The wristband encompasses a 22-mm fast-launch fastening that may be modified with out using instruments. Individual items on the stainless-metal band may also be eliminated or added, permitting it to be modified to accommodate wrist circumferences starting from 140 to 210 millimeters (~5.5 to eight.3 in).
With up to date algorithms, the a number of sensors not solely allow greater precision but additionally extra options akin to sleep respiratory monitoring and burned energy.
The Huawei Watch GT 4 runs on Harmony OS 4.0. The connection to the smartphone is established through Bluetooth and requires the app Huawei Health, which could be downloaded immediately from the AppGallery or the App Store. If you utilize a Google Android telephone, you may obtain the app by scanning the QR code on the packaging. However, it’s preferable to obtain Huawei’s AppGallery and set up the Health app from it. Otherwise, the system could disable the notification operate on particular units, such because the Pixel fashions.
The Watch GT 4 doesn’t have cell connectivity, however NFC is now on board. Due to commerce restrictions, there may be at the moment no fee performance accessible for the smartwatch. It’s disappointing that Huawei does not even help Chinese fee programs like AliPay, although the Band 8 does.
The consumer can choose from a wide range of watch faces. Thirteen of them are already preinstalled, and several other extra can be found without spending a dime by means of the built-in retailer. The paid choices are additionally fairly inexpensive, with costs starting from $0.50 to $5 USD.
Some watch faces permit the consumer to personalize them by including their very own pictures as backgrounds.
The Huawei Watch GT 4 is especially managed by a touchscreen that responds quickly to inputs. Huawei additionally built-in two bodily buttons on the system’s proper facet. The crown is situated above and could also be pressed to modify between the dial and the apps. A double-click on brings up the duty supervisor, permitting you to simply change between beforehand opened apps. The decrease button is pre-programmed for coaching mode, nevertheless, it may be assigned to another software program on it. In phrases of apps, the watch contains an AppGallery, but only a few apps are included.
The swiping gestures on the touchscreen work. A swipe from the higher border brings down the short entry menu, whereas a slide from the left takes the consumer again to the earlier show. From the fitting, the consumer can simply navigate between the widgets, which could be sorted, eliminated, or added to the app. Notifications are displayed from the underside, which the Watch GT 4 pushes by means of very reliably and shortly. However, it is price noting that the standing of notifications learn on the smartphone is just not synchronized with these on the smartwatch, and vice versa.
The widgets show info akin to health targets, the lunar cycle, scheduled appointments, well being information, and different info (see video). The properly-tuned vibration motor offers satisfying haptic suggestions.
The watch has each a microphone and a speaker and might use the related smartphone for calling. Not solely could calls be accepted, however they may also be initiated by means of the smartwatch. You can use the decision checklist or one among your saved favourite contacts. However, the GT 4 doesn’t help Wi-Fi, subsequently the related telephone needs to be inside vary.
The voice high quality is appropriate in quiet areas and serves its function. Our name companions additionally had no complaints. In crowded locations, the watch simply encounters limitations, to not point out compromised privateness.
Notifications are pushed by means of to the watch in a well timed and constant method. You can specify which apps are allowed to take action in the Health app. The learn standing on the watch is synced, however deleted notifications on the smartphone usually are not. Android customers can reply to incoming messages with a quick reply (as much as 36 characters). Based on the consumer’s selections, these may also be sorted, up to date, deleted, or newly written. Emojis may also be used to answer messages. This labored flawlessly through the WhatsApp take a look at. Received messages, together with emojis, could be learn immediately on the watch, whereas footage and movies can solely be seen on the telephone.
AI Voice is Huawei’s major assistant, though it’s only suitable with smartphones working EMUI 10.1 or later.
Unfortunately, customers can not choose extra voice assistants.
The Huawei Watch GT 4 is supplied with superior sensors that consistently acquire physique measurements. In addition to the already required steps and coronary heart price, the Huawei wristwatch measures stress and blood oxygen ranges (SpO2), in addition to pores and skin temperature. TrueSleep also can carry out a radical sleep evaluation, and the VO2Max could be decided for sure exercise varieties, akin to working. A interval tracker, powered by temperature sensor information, can also be included. Additional well being features, together with assessing arterial stiffness, conducting breath checks, and recording ECGs, are unique to the Watch 4 Pro. This is why the Health Glance characteristic, which gathers seven completely different measurements in a row, can also be lacking.
The built-in calorie counter is a model-new characteristic. It won’t appear notably groundbreaking at first, however Huawei depends on machine studying. The consuming habits solely must be documented through the first two weeks for the AI to acknowledge the feeding sample of the consumer based mostly on physique measurements. Using the offered goal weight, a meal plan could also be generated that outlines meals or their calorie content material and suggests exercise periods. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been sufficient time for a radical analysis of this performance. The preliminary impression is that this characteristic remains to be fairly primary, as getting into every meal is a time-consuming and tedious course of due to the extraordinarily restricted meals database.
Data synchronization with Apple Health or Google Fit is just doable to a restricted extent. However, you may hook up with Strava or Komoot to trade health statistics.
Huawei provides solely two methods to set train targets: the usual three rings, which observe energy, standing, and exercising, in addition to the Health Cloverleaf.
The cloverleaf analyzes a number of areas individually: sleep, steps, and temper. This technique is already acquainted from the Watch 4 Pro and could be custom-made in response to the consumer’s preferences.
The new TruSeen sensor is primarily designed to reinforce the accuracy of recorded information. We carried out comparisons between the Huawei Watch GT 4 and comparable units in numerous areas to guage its precision.
The coronary heart price information was collected throughout a motorcycle trip and in comparison with the Polar H10 chest strap. In the resting vary, the recorded coronary heart charges are an identical, and the numbers barely change through the trip. The Watch GT 4 is all the time just one heartbeat off, which suggests a deviation of 0.17% – wonderful.
The measurement of blood oxygen ranges can also be extremely dependable. The variance stays minimal, at roughly 2 p.c, with the Huawei smartwatch constantly registering barely greater values than Braun’s pulse oximeter 1 reference values.
Sleep monitoring on the Watch GT 4 has seen vital enhancements. The smartwatch can now detect waking levels and distinguish between gentle, deep, and REM sleep. The breath recognition characteristic is a brand new addition that’s meant to determine disturbances throughout sleep. It can also be doable to report loud night breathing or chatting whereas sleeping, however a smartphone should be close by (round 50 cm/~20 in).
The sleep monitoring characteristic offers an in depth breakdown of the outcomes, provides recommendation for bettering sleep high quality, and likewise soundscapes that will help you go to sleep.
The prior evening’s information could also be learn instantly on the watch, and previous days, weeks, months, or years could be accessed utilizing the app. The findings seem sensible, nevertheless waking levels usually are not all the time exactly recognized. There isn’t any good alarm clock, however the watch could retailer as much as 10 consumer-outlined alarms.
The Huawei Watch GT 4 can observe greater than 100 completely different sports activities. Running is split into outside, indoor, and sports activities area classes. Rowing, golf, cross-coaching, cross-nation snowboarding, snowboarding, mountain trekking, and plenty of extra at the moment are accessible. Depending on the exercise, numerous sorts of information are recorded and evaluated. Those who prepare outside have to attend for the GNSS connection to be established earlier than they will start.
Running is among the most information-amassing actions. This covers the foot placing sample, distance coated, energy burned, velocity, stride cadence, and period, floor contact occasions, and plenty of different components. Furthermore, particular efficiency are highlighted, which can be utilized to outline your individual finest coaching rhythm, and VO2Max is calculated. Swimmers can monitor their lane protection, pull price, swimming approach, and extra. Free coaching can also be accessible, which primarily tracks coronary heart price and energy burned. The watch helps numerous different sports activities as properly.
A second all the time-on operate could be configured completely for exercises, enabling you to look on the coloured rings at any time to entry details about your present coaching. You also can monitor your restoration coronary heart price after the exercise.
The program additionally offers customers with coaching schedules, akin to marathon preps, and video steerage workouts.
For location monitoring, the Huawei Watch GT 4 is utilizing all 5 world satellite tv for pc networks with twin-band expertise, offering distinctive accuracy. Additionally, it contains directional positioning expertise for the primary time, making certain that the antennas are repeatedly oriented in the direction of the sky to supply the very best doable reception high quality.
During our take a look at trip with the bike, this characteristic carried out comparatively poorly, because the recorded route indicated that the Watch GT 4 has room for enchancment in phrases of accuracy. However, since we had been utilizing an early software program model, Huawei is prone to improve this by means of a future replace.
If desired, you too can use the look ahead to navigation. However, this solely works when related to a smartphone that gives the map information. The Watch GT 4 depends on Petal Maps, which is suitable with each Android and iOS.
The 1.43-inch spherical AMOLED show of the Huawei Watch GT 4 provides a formidable decision and stays simply readable in most lighting conditions. It reaches as much as 605 cd/m2 with the ambient gentle sensor enabled, and as much as 553 cd/m2 even with guide management. However, the show’s minimal brightness of 11.43 cd/m2 is comparatively excessive, which could be bothersome in darkish environments. In sleep mode, the panel can solely be activated through a button press.
The show performs properly outside and stays legible even on sunny days, though we might recognize barely greater brightness ranges. Additionally, an all the time-on show could be optionally enabled in the settings.
Similar to all OLED shows, the AMOLED display of the GT 4 additionally sparkles. Its frequency is just not notably excessive, however the amplitude curve may be very flat, and the size of time specializing in a watch is just not very lengthy, so there needs to be no main issues.
Screen Flickering / PWM (Pulse-Width Modulation)
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To dim the display, some notebooks will merely cycle the backlight on and off in fast succession – a way known as Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) . This biking frequency ought to ideally be undetectable to the human eye. If stated frequency is simply too low, customers with delicate eyes could expertise pressure or complications and even discover the flickering altogether.
Screen flickering / PWM detected | 60 Hz | ||
The show backlight sparkles at 60 Hz (Likely using PWM) . The frequency of 60 Hz may be very low, so the flickering could trigger eyestrain and complications after extended use. In comparability: 54 % of all examined units don’t use PWM to dim the show. If PWM was detected, a median of 19019 (minimal: 5 – most: 3846000) Hz was measured. |
Huawei refuses to reveal info concerning the Watch GT 4’s RAM or storage capability. It is protected to imagine that this would possibly not be lower than that of the earlier GT 3, which had 4 GB of inside flash storage. As a outcome, round 2 GB will most certainly be accessible for music saved to the watch.
In each day use, the smartwatch’s system works easily and with none bothersome stutters. Because the GT 4 lacks a browser, we’re unable to supply any benchmarks right now.
Without the all the time-on show (AoD), Huawei claims a battery life of as much as two weeks, which appears fairly achievable, assuming that some steady metrics are disabled. During testing, the GT 4 lasted a complete of 9 days and nights, even with full well being monitoring enabled and a weekly bike trip. However, enabling the elective AoD can noticeably scale back the battery life.
Using the offered charging station, the 524 mAh battery could be absolutely recharged in simply over an hour. The Watch GT 4 options wi-fi charging and connects magnetically to the charging pad.
Pros
+ smooth and trendy design
+ extended battery life
+ exact sensors
+ Bluetooth calling
+ loads of sports activities features
Cons
– no WLAN
– restricted app retailer
– absence of fee performance
The Huawei Watch GT 4 is as soon as once more a really trendy smartwatch, showing much more subtle than its predecessor. In phrases of performance, it offers quite a few important options, together with an efficient notification system, Bluetooth calling, a sexy show, dependable sensors, and, most notably, spectacular battery life.
The Huawei Watch GT 4 is a modest improve over its predecessor, but impresses with its engaging design and lengthy battery life.
The correct sensors are notably convincing through the checks and supply correct measurements for sports activities actions. In phrases of software program, Huawei has improved the interval tracker, which is anticipated to supply extra correct predictions because of AI and the information collected from the watch. Additionally, new options embrace a calorie tracker and sleep breath monitoring.
LTE, ECG, and arterial stiffness evaluation options on the Watch 4 Pro usually are not included. Furthermore, the GNSS location, whereas nominally correct, confirmed vital instability all through testing. While the show is vibrant sufficient, Samsung and Apple supply higher brightness capabilities, though with considerably shorter battery life. The Amazfit GTR 4 is one other possible choice, however its sensors could also be much less exact.
In Germany, the Huawei Watch GT 4 is now accessible for buy immediately from the Huawei Store. Customers who pre-order between September 14 and October 15, 2023 will obtain the FreeBuds SE 2 headphones in addition to an extended one-yr guarantee without spending a dime.
The watch doesn’t look like accessible in the US as of September 16. The identical applies to the UK and to India. However, the Watch 4 Pro can be had for £474 on Amazon UK.
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Editor of the unique article: Daniel Schmidt – Managing Editor Mobile – 536 articles printed on Notebookcheck since 2013
As a baby I used to be fascinated by my Commodore 16, and this sparked my enthusiasm for computer systems. Using my first modem, I surfed the BTX videotext system and later the World Wide Web. I’ve all the time been captivated by the most recent applied sciences, and that is very true for cell units akin to smartphones and tablets. I’ve been a part of the Notebookcheck group since 2013 and have additionally from time to time written for Notebookinfo.de, and I’m wanting ahead to testing new improvements for our readers. I prefer to spend my spare time indulging in images and barbecues and being with my household.
Translator: Carmen Pol – Translator – 7 articles printed on Notebookcheck since 2023
Having spent the higher a part of my early years in Germany facilitated my upbringing as a bilingual child.
In 2007, I discovered myself having to reinstall my Windows weekly … So, someday I purchased a MacBook Black.
It was throughout this era that I developed a profound appreciation for expertise, which considerably improved my life.
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