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Only at Best Buy Stay on top of your exercise routine with this stylish Huawei Fit Titanium Gray fitness tracker. This tracker's advanced battery means you can monitor your heart rate and get call notifications for up to six days on a two hour charge. IP68 certified and water resistant to 50 meters, this Huawei Fit Titanium Gray fitness tracker is perfect for swimmers.
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Very worthy competitor for Fitbit and Garmin
on November 18, 2016
Posted by: Sandankenpo
Context: For comparison to "Huawei Fit", I also own and have extensively used: the new Pebble 2 HR; Garmin Forerunner 235 and Vivosmart HR; the new Fitbit Charge 2 & Surge & Blaze; Microsoft Band 2; and Philips Health Watch.
The Huawei Fit is a very worthy alternative to all the above fitness trackers.
What I LIKE about the Huawei Fit:
- Always-on, readable screen
- Long battery life (after 48 hours of continuous wearing, including continuous HR, I'm still at 80%!).. at only 10% per day decrease, that is on track for 10-day battery life
- Premium looking round form factor! (See pic, where I swapped out the stock 18mm band with a metal 18mm band)
- Auto-backlight (gesture controlled)
- Accurate HR (per "TUV SUD" test specs, it exceeded regulatory requirements, look it up!)
- HR level interval & warning... meaning you can say "buzz me if my HR goes above ___"
- Water rating to 50 meters (165 feet), meaning swimming with it is ok. It even can track swimming as an activity.
- You can fire up a GPS association on your phone through the app, and it will turn on the constant-HR, and blend it all in the app. Although it has no on-board GPS (like Fitbit Surge or Microsoft Band or Forerunner 235) it can use your phone's GPS like Fitbit Blaze... so that's better than nothing.
- Always-on, readable screen
- Long battery life (after 48 hours of continuous wearing, including continuous HR, I'm still at 80%!).. at only 10% per day decrease, that is on track for 10-day battery life
- Premium looking round form factor! (See pic, where I swapped out the stock 18mm band with a metal 18mm band)
- Auto-backlight (gesture controlled)
- Accurate HR (per "TUV SUD" test specs, it exceeded regulatory requirements, look it up!)
- HR level interval & warning... meaning you can say "buzz me if my HR goes above ___"
- Water rating to 50 meters (165 feet), meaning swimming with it is ok. It even can track swimming as an activity.
- You can fire up a GPS association on your phone through the app, and it will turn on the constant-HR, and blend it all in the app. Although it has no on-board GPS (like Fitbit Surge or Microsoft Band or Forerunner 235) it can use your phone's GPS like Fitbit Blaze... so that's better than nothing.
What I DON'T like about the Huawei Fit (aka "what I would change"):
- The HR graphs are not as detailed as Fitbit's or Garmin's.. where you can touch the graph and see the HR reading and the time it was taken anywhere on the graph. Instead, with Huawei, it only shows the highest and lowest reading for the entire day
- The gesture control to change screens (where you turn your wrist to move from clock to HR to step count, etc) is too sensitive. A turn of my wrist to see the time will often flip the screen pages.
- Activities are not "auto"-tracked.
- The HR graphs are not as detailed as Fitbit's or Garmin's.. where you can touch the graph and see the HR reading and the time it was taken anywhere on the graph. Instead, with Huawei, it only shows the highest and lowest reading for the entire day
- The gesture control to change screens (where you turn your wrist to move from clock to HR to step count, etc) is too sensitive. A turn of my wrist to see the time will often flip the screen pages.
- Activities are not "auto"-tracked.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Only at Best Buy Stay on top of your exercise routine with this stylish Huawei Fit Titanium Gray fitness tracker. This tracker's advanced battery means you can monitor your heart rate and get call notifications for up to six days on a two hour charge. IP68 certified and water resistant to 50 meters, this Huawei Fit Titanium Gray fitness tracker is perfect for swimmers.
Sorry that I didn't understand. The band are 20mm or 18mm? Thanks a lot
18mm only. Per my pic, some 20mm bands are only 18mm where the pins are (you can see how my metal band is broader past the lugs). But the pin size for a band to fit this watch is 18mm.
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Only at Best Buy Stay on top of your exercise routine with this stylish Huawei Fit Titanium Gray fitness tracker. This tracker's advanced battery means you can monitor your heart rate and get call notifications for up to six days on a two hour charge. IP68 certified and water resistant to 50 meters, this Huawei Fit Titanium Gray fitness tracker is perfect for swimmers.
I read in news that the HUAWIFI fit could last up to 30 days in standby mode. Is there really a "standby" option in the watch?
No, not specifically a choice you can select. After 2 full days of continuous wearing, literally, the battery has only decreased from 100% to 80%... meaning 10% per day. That equals 10 days with normal used (few dozen notifications per day, 1 alarm per day, continuous HR, sleep tracking, and 30 mins of workout per day). Therefore, "standby" likely means if you take it off and don't wear it at all... thus "standing by"... it can sit there and still hold a battery charge for a month. Since it seems to last 10 days with normal usage, I can see how 30 days of zero usage would still have a charge. LOL
7 years, 5 months ago
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Sandankenpo
Only at Best Buy Stay on top of your exercise routine with this stylish Huawei Fit Titanium Gray fitness tracker. This tracker's advanced battery means you can monitor your heart rate and get call notifications for up to six days on a two hour charge. IP68 certified and water resistant to 50 meters, this Huawei Fit Titanium Gray fitness tracker is perfect for swimmers.
Will this device track my paces with no phone connection? For example, I want to wear it and go for a walk without my phone. Does it work?
Yes, it will absolutely count steps on the watch itself, independent of your phone. There is no onboard GPS, though, so without your phone you will not see a map of where you walked. But the steps themselves? Yes, that is all tracked on the watch, stored on the watch, and can be synced to the app when you get back near your phone.
7 years, 5 months ago
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Sandankenpo
Only at Best Buy Stay on top of your exercise routine with this stylish Huawei Fit Titanium Gray fitness tracker. This tracker's advanced battery means you can monitor your heart rate and get call notifications for up to six days on a two hour charge. IP68 certified and water resistant to 50 meters, this Huawei Fit Titanium Gray fitness tracker is perfect for swimmers.
Hi, I read that comes in 2 sizes (bands). I am not expert on it. The Large size, fits with 20mm bands? and small with 18mm bands? Thanks!
I thought the same thing at first... 20mm for the large and 18mm for the small. Not true. I bought the large and the lugs can accommodate ONLY 18mm width pins. I am sure the small is therefore also 18mm. Since the stock band "flares out" beyond the lugs... actually allowing the band to be "thicker" like a 20mm band would be... that is probably where the media got confused and said "either 18 or 20mm". You can see from my pic that the band is broader than the section that goes into the lugs... meaning the lugs are only 18mm... but the band widens to 20mm. Bottom line: the part where the pins fit into the lugs is only 18mm.
7 years, 5 months ago
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Sandankenpo
Only at Best Buy Stay on top of your exercise routine with this stylish Huawei Fit Titanium Gray fitness tracker. This tracker's advanced battery means you can monitor your heart rate and get call notifications for up to six days on a two hour charge. IP68 certified and water resistant to 50 meters, this Huawei Fit Titanium Gray fitness tracker is perfect for swimmers.
In description it says "Water-resistant design Suitable for pool swimming. Maximum depth of 4.92' of water for up to 30 minutes". Is that true? I swim about an hour. I read that the watch can track my strokes, laps, etc. but why it is only 30 min?
The "30 minutes" just refers to the test procedure that is universally used to rate water intrusion. If a watch can withstand the simulated pressure of being in 50 meters (165 feet) of water for 30 minutes without water leaking into the unit, then it is rated "5ATM" or 5 atmospheres... which means 50 meters. In this case, the Huawei Fit is rated at 50 meters, per their website. (I think the 4.92 feet of water in the description is a typo.) Since swimming is generally done on/near the surface... meaning in 1 meter of water... I am sure a watch that can withstand 50 meters of pressure for 30 mins can handle 1 meter of pressure for 60 mins. You will be fine.
7 years, 5 months ago
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Sandankenpo
Only at Best Buy Stay on top of your exercise routine with this stylish Huawei Fit Titanium Gray fitness tracker. This tracker's advanced battery means you can monitor your heart rate and get call notifications for up to six days on a two hour charge. IP68 certified and water resistant to 50 meters, this Huawei Fit Titanium Gray fitness tracker is perfect for swimmers.
Can I put music on it in get notifications on it how about making phone calls and can I go swimming with it and take a shower with it in a built-in GPS?
Music cannot be stored or loaded on the Huawei Fit; Yes you can receive notifications (about incoming texts, emails, calls, etc) on the watch; yes it is water resistant to 50 meters meaning you can swim with it... it even tracks swimming activity; yes you can also shower with it; no it does not have built-in GPS... but it can connect to your phone's GPS when you go for a run or walk and show you the map.
7 years, 5 months ago
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Sandankenpo
Only at Best Buy Stay on top of your exercise routine with this stylish Huawei Fit Titanium Gray fitness tracker. This tracker's advanced battery means you can monitor your heart rate and get call notifications for up to six days on a two hour charge. IP68 certified and water resistant to 50 meters, this Huawei Fit Titanium Gray fitness tracker is perfect for swimmers.
All this come with different band sizes????
Only 1 band comes with the watch... but it is a standard 18mm width and has quick-release pins... so the band can be changed very easily.
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