hi everyone welcome back to wesknows tech news and reviews today we'll be doing another test
and comparison and why do we do them well because there's so much more fun
and insightful than just looking at the two smart trackers or smart watches okay so today
we'll be testing the heart rate accuracy of the gts2 mini as well as the who are we
band six so without further ado let's get into it
being fair the weather has been absolutely shocking the last couple of days but finally we
do have a dry spot so i'm out here in the forest and we're going to be talking about the gts2 mini
which is just a wow smartwatch so that's the cheapest smartwatch in the amazfit smartwatch
range but nonetheless it just keeps kicking ass it basically destroyed the gtr 2e as well as
the gts2i by heart rate accuracy as well as gps accuracy on top of that it's very close
to the heart rate accuracy of the flagships that's the gts2 as well as the gtr2 and then of course we
do have the all new huawei band 6. now the huawei band 6 is famous for all the different reasons
mostly because it is one of the cheapest trackers in the world to offer continuous spo2 monitoring
so today we're taking these two giants well in a sense and we're comparing them and testing them
for their heart rate accuracy let me tell you quickly about the two trackers and then we'll get
into the numbers and now quickly about the gts2 mini so as we mentioned this this is the cheapest
smartwatch in the amazfit smartwatch lineup and what does it have well it's got a huge 1.55 inch
amoled display now that's 288 ppi so that's 288 pixels per inch that's quite a good resolution for
such a budget smartwatch when i'm talking budget i do mean budget as in cheap it's only 69 pounds or
80 bucks so this is as cheap as it gets for a smart watch we've got over 70 sport modes
it's got inbuilt dual gps it can track your sleep with three sleep stages so you like your
deep and rem sleep it's got continued stress monitoring continuous heart rate monitoring
it can help you manage your time with the pomodoro tracker it's got a compass it's
got a barometer it's got a lot of functionality it can actually measure spo2 as well even though
just in spot mode or on demand now that's not as helpful as what the huawei band 6 can do
with continuous spo2 monitoring but nonetheless it's very useful as well as that the gts2 mini
actually has alexa so that's your onboard assistant which you can use to set alarms
record your shopping list and ask for the weather and so forth because right now i'd be asking is it
going to rain in the next 15 20 minutes while i'm filming this particular review anyway let's talk
about the huawei band 6. so the huawei band six is basically a look-alike of the more expensive
huawei watch fit but if the huawei watch fit costs just above the gts2 mini
this bad boy is half the price now i would say that the biggest difference between the huawei
band 6 and the gts2 mini apart from the looks and some other functionalities is the lack of inbuilt
gps but what it does have is a huge 1.47 inch amoled display and it's also edge to edge
there's no fat lip it looks good but if the gts2 mini is actually sitting in an aluminium frame
the huawei band 6 is actually sitting in a plastic frame that looks like it's metal but it's not it's
plastic well it's got 95 sport modes that's a whole lot of sport modes
it's also water resistant it can track your stress both all day stress as well as on demand stress
it can monitor your sleep also in three sleep stages so you like your deep and rem sleep
in fact using true sleep technology now what true sleep technology is famous for in the huawei world
is that this technology was actually developed in conjunction or with the harvard medical school
and when we're doing our sleep analysis and sleep tests it does seem that true sleep technology is
one of the most accurate ones you can get on the market today so it's got your alarms it's
got your weather widgets it's got all the usual things but for the most advanced bit it might
not have dual gps as the gts2 mini it might not get alexa but what it does have is continuous
spo2 monitoring now continuous spo2 monitoring means that while at rest or while you're asleep
the watch is actually tracking your blood oxygen saturation and only in this way can you actually
pick up things like sleep apnea or lung problems or problems with your respiratory system now this
is a very very functional tool anyways so that's these two watches and it does seem like it began
pouring down so i'm gonna go and stand under the canopy of a tree and we'll get into the numbers
right i found some trees i found some cover well still wet but we have to finish
this accuracy test so basically the benchmark for the accuracy test was as per usual the polar h10
ecg chest strap so i wear it on my chest while i'm doing a particular exercise and in this particular
case i was actually recording my heart rate while i was at the gym so for just under 30
minutes i was on the treadmill then doing some exercises with weights as well as core exercises
so something like lunges squats and so forth let's see what the polar h10 actually recorded
and we can see that we've got the heart rate average sitting at 117 beats per minute while
the max was actually registered at 137 beats per minute let's take a look at what the gts2 mini has
come up with and as always the gts2 mini basically wows us it came up with almost amazing results
so we have to understand that we're actually talking about the optical heart rate sensor on
the back of the smart watch now the optical heart rate sensor is really not as accurate
as a full-on chest strap simply because the chest strap is actually sitting right on our chest right
next to the heart while the optical heart rate sensor is actually registering your heartbeat
by emitting green led light onto your skin and catching its reflection rate and how much
green light is actually reflecting back to the photodiode so basically we really should not be
seeing such a great heart rate accuracy but we do because the gts2 mini just wows us with the
results anyway let's take a look so it actually came up with an average heart rate of 119 beats
per minute and the max was 139 beats per minute so we are talking about two beats per minute
overstatement on both the average as well as the max and that means on the average
that's an overstating by 1.7 percent while on the max that's an overstatement by just 1.4
this is just astounding results okay so now let's take a look at the who are we band six and
its results well what can i tell you the huawei band six actually does use true scene 2.0 what's
true scene so true scene is the technology with which your heart rate is actually registered so
if previously on the prior models we have the true scene 1.0 now this is the next generation
and it should mean that we're expecting better results well let's take a look at the numbers
so we see an average heart rate registered at 117 beats per minute that's on the dot that's just wow
but the max is overstated by four beats per minute at 141 beats per minute what does that mean well
that means that we do have an overstatement by just under three percent but that's for the max
and that's basically an overstatement on one or two of the peaks but the average is on the dot so
what can we say we've got the gts2 mini which is a great smart watch and if you do need a gps tracker
well the gts2 mini is the most budget and one most accurate gps trackers out there
with smartwatch capability and 70 sport modes but if you don't need the gps capability you
just need a lot of sport modes you've got 90 plus on the huawei band 6 and you don't want to spend
an arm and a leg just go for the tracker because additionally you'll also have continuous spo2
and we can see that both trackers are very accurate indeed anyway thank you for watching
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