Hi everyone, welcome to Wesknows tech news and reviews! today something exciting is here and that
is the honor band 6! so honor has introduced a new tracker to the market and it's new! it's so new
that i can just say it's revolutionary! forget the usual tiny screens, forget the limitations and
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there's no more squinting at the screen to make out whether that's a number or a letter,
no need to stop on a run to check your heart rate, the numbers and letters here are
big! and why is that? well because the screen is huge! 1.5 inches big, that's unbelievable really.
but before we go into the exciting details let me share my experience with getting this tracker.
now if we talk about the release date of the honor band 6, i was really expecting it end of summer or
maybe autumn 2020. so something around September because if you recall in September we had so many
smart watches, sport watches coming out from the likes of polar with the unite, then we had the
samsung smartwatch range, even honor and huawei came out with new smart and sport watches like
the gs pro or take the hybrid trackers: the huawei watch fit and then Honor Watch ES and where is the
honor band 6? it just wasn't there! and now, right before we get into the full force of christmas
shopping we are getting this revolutionary new tracker which really does make the functionalities
of a smartwatch not that unaffordable. you don't have to have the restrictions and limitations,
you can just get the honor band 6. you get a huge screen you get lots of functionality, almost no
restrictions, lots of downloadable faces, you're going to love it! let's get into it. but before
we do let me just touch upon delivery because i actually got this tracker from aliexpress
and it's not the global version it's the chinese version. because the global version as far as i
know is still not available for sale in europe nor US. now the chinese version that i got, it cost me
a measly 35 pounds and that's like 42 dollars. an additional cost was the delivery charge of five
pounds or seven dollars and basically it got me the tracker from china to london in united kingdom
within five business days and all of that for 40 pounds or $45 - $48. i think that's amazing value!
anyway without further ado let's get into it! let's go through the usual steps, we're going to
be talking about the design, then the display, and then we'll talk about the features and functions!
but i will actually take you through the list of apps and widgets available on the tracker face and
we'll talk about those features and functions that are made available to us, the users of
the honor band 6! let's get into it taking a look at the box. uninspiring to say the least,
inside we get a black tracker and a white charging cable... there's something about white cables...
i love it, really reminds me of apple products and the perception of the product you bought
grows and just looking at the charging pin here, i have a sneaky suspicion that the charger
is actually identical to that on the honor watch ES. and now to the design, so let's call out the
most obvious changes and then we'll go deeper into the details. so finally we see a large surface
area for the tracker face, that's not simply black plastic but a full-size screen stretching
across the top of the tracker! you'll be happy to know there is a 2.5d gorilla glass here,
so it is scratch resistant also there's an anti-fingerprint coating aka oleophobic coating
and i think it works rather well. i'm not leaving as many fingerprints on this screen
as would be expected. another major detail, is that the brand name is now inscripted on the side
of the tracker case and if that would have looked funny on prior models, i think it looks fine now,
because at the end of the day when you wear this most of the people around you will think you're
wearing a full-fledged smartwatch! another major point is that the TPU strap is using a similar
seamless look tapered on the sides of the track, just like Honor band 5 but again slightly more
mature and grown up. the strap thankfully has a watch-like clasp making it so easy to use. another
key change is the addition of a physical button to the watch case, the button acts as a back to home
or go to the apps shortcut. either way once again it does make the tracker feel more mature,
useful and not as restrictive. as we see with most of the fitness trackers and fitness bands
out there today. now the display specs! to say they're impressive is to say nothing at all,
so let's remember that this is an under $50 smart band, fitness band, fitness tracker, whatever you
want to call it... but the price stays under 50 bucks - that's low! and we're getting a 1.47 inch
amoled screen this is huge! so once again it is a 1.47 inch amoled screen with the resolution of 194
by 360 pixels. let's see some of the downloaded faces and you can see they look amazing,
large and just great. there are over 100 that you can download from the huawei health app
and i've actually used my iphone to download most of these. we don't get the auto brightness
sensor but we do get the usual brightness levels: 1-5 and i can say that level 3 or
4 is more than bright enough for any setting, be it outside or inside. going back to faces,
some of the preset faces actually allow for customization of the data on the screen. now
that we covered the changes in the design and the display let's do a walkthrough of the features
and functions and we're actually going to do that by following through the apps and widgets
in the app screen. so let's get to it! first app is the workouts app, there are 10 goal-based
workouts available. there's no on-board gps so you only get distance covered if you have your phone
connected but that's the norm for most fitness trackers under $100. mind you the tracker is
waterproof hence the pool swim mode is also here, set up your goals such as calories to be burned
or distance or time or number of laps and dive in. on top there are four auto recognized activities:
walking, running, elliptical and rower. there's a workout record app, the heart rate and spo2
widgets are what we are used to on the honor smart watches. while the heart rate is a continuous
measurement, the blood oxygen saturation is an on-demand or point-in-time measurement. then
there's a widget for activity records and these summarize your daily and weekly activity data for
easy visual analysis of where you are right now. there is a sleep widget using huawei trusleep,
this shows your summary of sleep data but the details of your light, deep and REM sleep,
the sleep score and recommendations for improving your sleep are all found in the huawei health
app. the stress monitor can be set to continuous tracking in the background, that's what i did,
and i love it it looks great and the detail on the screen is spectacular. there's a guided breathing
app that helps you relax and overcome stress with timed and guided breathing exercises. the rest of
the features are more standard and include things like notifications, your weather, your stopwatch,
your time, etc. you may have noticed that there is an alipay widget which basically
means that nfc is enabled but that's only for the chinese versions. on the global versions
i don't think there will be nfc and even if you do get the chinese version as i did,
well we can't use alipay to make payments anyway. a really cool feature i like is the
torch that's super useful! how many times did you drop your keys in the dark and fumbling for
your phone is just so common? not anymore, with a few taps you get light right from your wrist!
another awesome feature is the varying intensity haptic vibration. now you can actually set the
level from strong to medium, why? well i find it quite useful because i'm a deep sleeper
and i need a very good tug on my wrist to actually wake me up so i set my vibration
intensity to strong. we are going to be comparing this beast to the other trackers from Amazfit,
from xiaomi, and as well as samsung and fitbit and all the rest of them. but do
let me know in the comments below what do you think so far, is it truly revolutionary?
as i think? and do you think this tracker has enough in it to get you to consider ditching
whatever tracker you have and getting the honor band 6. do let me know and thank you for watching
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