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Used for: 6–12 months
I charge it on Sunday evenings and think about it no further
Getting the data out into Strava is awkward
Ordered this after my old Fossil died and I decided I never wanted to charge a watch on a nightstand again. Eight months in, the routine is a top-up on Sunday evenings while I cook, and I have never once seen it below 20 per cent. The health side has been more use than I expected. My GP mentioned getting steps up after a blood pressure reading, and having the thing nag me at ten to the hour has genuinely put a walk into every working day. Not everything is perfect. The Health app is fine but the exported data is awkward if you want it in Strava, and the sleep breakdown is confident about deep sleep in a way I do not entirely believe. Still the best watch I have owned.
Used for: 6–12 months
A fortnight between charges with normal use
Charged it on the first of the month and forgot about it
Used for: 1–3 months
The green bezel is ceramic and it looks like a proper watch rather than a gadget, which was the whole reason I picked it over an Apple. Nobody at work has asked me why I am wearing a computer. Battery is the headline and it is not a lie. Off the charger on a Sunday night, tracking two gym sessions and a swim, and it was still showing 60 per cent the following Saturday. The always-on face knocks a chunk off that, but it still gets me from one Sunday to the next!
Used for: 1–3 months
Bright enough to read on the handlebars at noon
Huawei Health wants an account before it will do anything
Bright enough on the handlebars in July that I never shade it with my other hand, which the Garmin I borrowed always needed. Two months in, the only faff has been the Huawei account and the pile of permissions it wanted.
Used for: 1–3 months
Changing phone meant pairing it all over again
Changing to a new phone meant unpairing and starting again from scratch, and the watch would not hand over the workout history until the account had been signed into again. An hour of faffing that Apple would not have made me do. Everything since has been faultless, hence the stars
Used for: More than a year
Sapphire and ceramic that shrug off a building site
Slow to find satellites between blocks of flats
The bezel still looks new after a year of building site and gym, which says something for the sapphire and the ceramic. What has worn is my patience with the app situation. There is no store worth the name on the watch itself, so what you get is what Huawei ships, and a couple of updates have moved menus about for no reason I can see. GPS also takes its time in town: standing between two blocks of flats at the start of a run it can sit there for a minute and a half before it finds itself, which is long enough to be irritating.
Used for: Less than a month
Feels like a diver's watch rather than a fitness tracker
Straps use Huawei's own fitting, not a standard bar
Came from a Garmin Instinct that I never liked the look of, and this is the first watch I have worn to a wedding without changing it. Solid, heavy, and the crown clicks properly. Two early gripes. Paired to an iPhone it will show messages but will not let me reply, which the Apple crowd at work find hilarious. And the strap fitting is Huawei's own, so the box of spare 22mm straps in my drawer is useless without an adapter. Neither is a surprise if you read the small print first.
Used for: 1–3 months
Golf and dive modes I did not expect to use and now do
Bought for the battery, kept for the golf mode, which knows the course at Ferndown and saved me squinting at a phone in the rain. The green suits it better than the photos suggest. My daughter calls it a tank and she is not wrong!
Used for: 1–3 months
Replaced a band that only ever counted steps
A lot of watch for a slim wrist
My wife had a Fitbit Inspire that told her how many steps she had done and nothing else, so this was a birthday present with an agenda. It has been better than I hoped. The route map after a walk is the thing she shows people, and the heart rate figures line up with the chest strap I bought years ago, within a beat or two at rest and a bit further apart on hills. The size is the honest problem. On a slim wrist the 48mm case sits proud of the bone and catches on coat sleeves, and the smallest hole on the strap is only just small enough. She wears it anyway.