Huawei Watch GT-2

Huawei Watch GT-2, First Impression

 Hi, guys, I have just been to Munich I've just got back and I brought with me a new phone which I'll show you in a little bit but also this the new Huawei watchgt2 so we're going to unbox this take a look at what you get inside and what different from the first watch GT to see in a second so the gt2 if you don't know why away kind of has already done a few smartwatches in the past they had the Pablo watch and them why we watch to without the GT and they were where OSbased smartwatches so they used Android Google's own wearable platform.

 Since then they've moved to a platform called light OS which is their own design it’s much different user experience it's a little bit simpler but it kind of focuses more on the fitness aspects that you might want from a kind of sports-centric SmartWatch as you can see from the front here the design is pretty clean pretty Territorian but they have made a few tweaks and changes between gen 102 that give it a little bit more polish from what I saw at the launch event but yeah let's unbox and actually see what it looks like in person.

 so this is the standard or sports model 46 millimetre which you can see on the box there as well version of the GT 2 there are actually two sizes as well so they have a lot of different finishes I think it's four finishes for each there's a 42-millimetre bottle a smaller model which doesn’t have quite as bold aesthetics if you will not as aggressive aesthetics and this is the black one there's also I think three other finishes in various guises one with leather straps silver bodywork all sorts but this all-black one I quite like anything it's quite nice there's a nice kind of gold foiled embossed kind of frontage there looks very premium and fold that out and think.

 I can just pull the watch out like that and yeah so here's the GT 2 blacks for just take that out so it's using a 22-millimetre band this is a standard flexible silicone band which is quite nice also you can it does have a quick release which is great always get if you want to quickly hot-swap the straps and if I'm not mistaken because of the design you don't actually have to use hallways or iron straps they do offer a bunch of different finishes and strap so you can buy this in and make some match obviously if you want but if you draw these around straps you already got another watch with the 22-millimetre band

 and you can swap them out which is nice you can also see the optical heartrate sensor on the back here and these charging points and that's about it it's pretty thin-looking on the side and another thingI've just noticed is this little hole here this actually unlike the first GT has a loudspeaker built-in and a microphone and over Bluetooth, you can actually take and make calls directly on the watch without headphones or anything like that it's similar to the likes of the new fossil Gen 5, for example, which we’ve just added that functionality into but they are where oh s I'll come more to the hardware that the watch offers later so another thing.

 I did read about beforehand yeah so the charging cradle here which if I have to chew into this one excuse me so a believe it just well yeah magnetically snaps there and also I could feel some resistance there so it only fits one or around nice and easy you can't get it wrong even in the dark so if you want to put on your nightstand or whatever but it's quite nice it uses USB see charging so if you have a USB Cpaired up to say you have a Huawei phone already that's using USB see and you've got like a wireless charger for that you can use the charger from that plug it straight into here and you can charge your watch with the same adapter which is great speaking of which there is I think it’s standard USB a two USBC cable in the Box here - again it found these so well and hopefully being a wearable it looks like a decent length maybe a meter 

I'll - bad but yeah so you've got USB just plug it straight in there like so and you're good to go what else we have in the box probably much left now it's quite a little packaging first Hey anyway Quick Start Guide always appreciated it's got two physical buttons on the side of the watch no other interaction beyond that this whole feel glued in so I'm pretty sure that's everything in the box and put that wall over here see if it's got any power and then we can have a look at light OS which I mentioned earlier so

 I just hold the top out on the side thank you various in there so I'm gonna go through the setup process get it all up and running and then we can look around like oh s and what kind of features functions this watch has to offer so I've just run through the setup process really quickly and I'm assaulting the relative apps on anon-lawyer device certain things like Huawei health which is the main app that you need to run the gt2 will actually come installed on if you already have a wired phone I'm using a Samsung for this video, yeah usually you don't through install extra bits this time I did I've stopped at this point at the setup process just to show you that you actually have during the setup once you put it via Bluetooth very simple very easy to do,

and it tells you what to viola watch as well and says which apps to go and saw learn all that good stuff you can customize exactly what notifications hit the watch so this can echo despite not being where OS can echo every notification from any app on the phone that you have it paired to which is nice and it's just a toggle menu, for now, I'm looking use the basic messages you want so I just get text messages notifications and then to allow health wai-wait health just telling you here thank you for it measurement please tighten the watch which is typical for any watch that uses a heart rate sensor any fitness tracker really they want a decent I guess read on your wrist and on your heart rate it's quite hard using this optical technology to get that kind of stuff so the tighter you wear the watch to a comfortable point the better the reading is going to be the more accurate it's going to be in theory that's the idea anyway the app itself also has it resembles where

 OS if you've ever used the companion where iOS app onAndroid it shows you various watch faces you can throw to the watch just from your phone it shows you the current battery percentage and it shows you all of the kind of health's are so distance travelled calories steps etc so it’s pretty in-depth out the gate this does also support hallway to sleep which we’ve seen in their other products as well like their band range

 so it does asleep tracking built into and activity reminders if you’re wearing and watch and you're sitting down like for too long in one place I'll tell you to get up all that good stuff you can also customize the heart rate monitoring certain watches do it sporadically or when you tell it to more accurate is to have it constantly check it pings depending on the watch and the product and the setup of the app between every 20 minutes to every hour and it just gives you a better rate it depends how accurate and how much detail you want to drill down to into your fitness data but yeah in an initial look at the app it seems like a really nice well-rounded experience and adds a lot of nice functionality to our highlights lot of the nice functionality Ron you've watched gt2

 I won't put it on just yet but I'll just run through some of the software features here so the default watch face on this black model is like kind of complementary and I’m pretty sure whichever model you go for if you get the one with the leather strap that I mentioned earlier it comes with a different default watch face screen time that's pretty quick too looking at the design it's got a nice brushed metal casing which is pretty good like I said this is the 46millimeter model there's a 42 millimetre as well with a smaller 20 mil band again quick release again there are multiple versions with different finishes it'slike I think a mesh strap which it's rather nice

 I think it's the elegant range pricing is a little bit different between the two but get to that in a bit one thing I have noticed is Huawei this time has actually had the bezel which has a kind of a coronagraph kind of numbering system around the edge emerge almost directly into the cover glass on this fully circular display the display itself looks really good viewing angles really strong and brightness in this pretty bright room with big windows it seems pretty clear to see which is quite nice it's a 1.3 9 inch AMOLED panel with

 I believe it's a 4 5 4 by 4 5 full-resolution same as the first-gen watch GT if you do go for the smaller 42millimeter model you're actually getting smaller I believe it's a 1.2-inch display with 390 by 390 resolution but relatively speaking both are really good both I saw the smaller ones at the launch like I said they both look really good no complaints there really and again different casings different strata combination the back does feel like plastic which is actually really good against your skin as is the silicon band the leather band looks good but if you’re working out a lot and you gonna use this as a fitness product you might want to consider what material your strap is made from metal and silicon are usually the best leather probably going to be problematic for irritation and for sweat the leather will probably parity but have that kind of things in your mind in terms of changing many faces

 I'm not exactly sure how you do that if you swipe around by default there's a bunch of kind of different screens here out the gate so I can swipe and it's on a constant carousel just like you would on your home screen on your smartphone so the watch face is the main screen continuous heart rate monitoring is just one swipe away then you have your stress it can actually analyze your stress levels we have weather and location data so right now it's cloudy and 18 degrees which gives us some lovely fat lighting to film by and also music controls so I can play music directly on the watch

 I don't know whether this song is on load device now might be so listening to a speaker through a microphone in the camera it'snot the best way to understand how good the speaker is but for a watch the quality isn't too bad it's for a watch that's a huge caveat but the fact that has a loudspeaker is you know fine you could use it to listen to a podcast if you’re sitting at your desk and you're not going to disturb anyone it might be useful for those sorts of things if you do want to enjoy music

 I wouldn't listen to it through the watch but the whole point of the speaker is that you can make it take calls to say you're driving quickly you just want to tap your wrist you can just answer it you don't need to have Bluetooth headphones don't need to reach for your phone so it definitely has its uses if I tap the top button you go back to the home screen and see what other swiping gestures can we do swiping down similarly to where OS gives you a quick overview of all of the quick settings so you can just have

 Showtime find your phone so you can jump straight to finding a phone on the watch which is niceI've not used as the West before I didn't review the first-gen GT I have to say whilst and it also your notifications are at the bottom whilst it’s comparatively limited for third-party apps the default out the boxing experience actually seems pretty nice and I presume maybe if I press the holds yeah for president hold we have a bunch of watch faces pre-installed out the box it looks like we have a load yeah there's about as about 10 to 12watch race is really different styles analogue and digital there are widgets on the watch faces things like your heart rate monitoring your step count you can glance straight from the default watch rates which is really nice some of them have a bit of customization if you want to tweak the colour so what we've given you a lot of control over the experience 

that the GT offers out the box with regards to the user experience both with that notification management I showed earlier and with the software that we can see here another thing that they've added is you could already track your workouts and they were already a whole host of different workouts that it could track but they've added more so now there are new types of run tracking trail running or different swim tracking as well so now you can do I believe open water swimming and indoor pool swimming so they've expanded the fitness capabilities as few user experience the hardware I think to give the phone its power efficiency the phone. the watch its power efficiency the harbour isn't the most powerful out there I think where OS with its now with this gig of ram and the Apple Watch and the Galaxy watch range all look to offer a more fluid experience in 2019 but it's still perfectly usable out the box.

 I do want to have this all fair down the line once you use it for a bit and some of that memory gets heating up but that kind of remains to be seen maybe once we've done a full review we'll be able to tell you more about just how it works over a longer period of usage another thing I should mention is the battery life so as with the first GT GT excuse me Huawei says 14 days on a single charge with the default settings which is really impressive stuff I believe if you use GPS I think it's something like 10 hours use which is still very very good if you use the Bluetooth calling feature.

 I believe they're quoted about 30 hours use if you use it regularly which most people probably aren't likely to do but just to give you an indication but 14 days for a full-colour screen OLEDSmartWatch is pretty impressive my biggest disappointment is that this watch doesn't have any kind of mobile payment features no NFC no Android pay or Google Google pay kind of equivalent service it is tricky outside of Apple pay and Google paid for manufacturers to get a payment service up and running with partners so that's probably why,

 I know that in China this watch does launch with NFC and you can use it for payments but that is definitely relative to the market that you're in so bear that in mind also that actually life equation of 14 days is for the 46 Milverton because the 42 ml is obviously smaller watch it also comes with a smaller battery and I think while we goit's 7 days so for your money there's only 20 years difference between these two devices I would say you get a lot more especially in with regards to longevity from the 46 millimetres if you don't mind wearing a bigger watch on your wrist now let's talk price both of these actually,

 I think undercut Samsung and Apple and kind of here around the same price point a little bit cheaper than the latest gen 5 fossil watches using this Snapdragon wear 3100 with ageing around so the 46 mils the standard model is 2 for 9 euros and the smaller42 millimetre version will retail for 2 to 9 euros both pretty impressive stuff think for what you're getting here so long as that user experience stays fluidI'd say that's a decent buy the question now is how is it in real-world use and also when can you get it well I only mentioned on stage at this watches launch that it would be coming sometime in October 2019 they didn't say when or where exactly so we don't know which markets it's gonna be in just yet but we’re hoping it's coming to the UK soon we'll know more as and when the watch launches so that's an initial look and unboxing le qua watch GT 2.

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