so the honour band 6 has just arrived for a review and unboxing and i have to say i think
huawei have done an excellent job on this one i even think it overshadows more popular fitness
trackers such as the galaxy fit 2 and the xiaomi mi band 5. and they've definitely broken the
boundaries of what we consider to be normal with fitness trackers so let's take a detailed look
at the honor band 6 and see why in my opinion it might just be the best fitness tracker ever
hello and welcome back to tech it easy so the honor band 6 what a surprise huawei have gone
and fixed a lot of the problems that i had with popular fitness trackers such as the galaxy fit 2
and the mi band 5. i want to start by talking about the physical changes to the underband 6
since their last version the honor band 5. the first and probably most noticeable one is that
screen size this time around we're getting a 1.47 inch amoled display which i think is much better
for exercising it's a lot better than the usual thin slim designs we see on fitness trackers such
as the galaxy fit too and i'm not gonna lie when i've got it on my wrist it actually feels like
i'm wearing an apple watch but for a fraction of the price the next physical change will be the
button on the side now i said in my honor band 5 that i really would have wanted a physical
button on there and i think i mentioned it on the galaxy fit 2 and me band 5 reviews too i get
a lot of comments on my fitness tracker reviews asking how do i turn it on how do i turn it off
and usually what you have to do is plug in the charger and then you have to detach it
for the fitness tracker to actually turn on this time around with the honor band 6 all
you have to do is hold the button on the side as you would with say a smart watch
and it will power on you can also use this button to step back and bring up more menu options and
lastly another big change is the charger now i also said that i hated the plastic chargers
those sort of cases that you have to clip in they're fiddly and they're not easy to use when
you're in a rush this time around they've opted for a magnetic charger which is similar to the
mi band 5 which is one thing i really did love about that fitness tracker it's so much easier
to use and a lot quicker as well as having some excellent physical changes to the fitness tracker
they haven't lost any of the features that made the underband 5 a great choice you've still got
that spo2 monitoring and of course your heart rate monitoring steps tracking sleep and stress
what you also get is a nice choice of watch faces they're very similar to what you had on the honor
band 5 but just resize for that larger screen there's nothing particularly special about them
i for one prefer this stock watch face but it is nice to have the option and it does bring it again
closer to a smartwatch experience so pre-installed on the honor band 6 you'll get a choice of eight
different watch faces which i'm showing off now now one big question i always get asked when i do
fitness tracker reviews is how accurate is it so i went ahead and tested the heart rate monitoring
and the steps tracking for the steps tracking i went on a 40 minute walk with my galaxy watch 3
and my honor band 6 one on each wrist galaxy watch 3 did have about 400 steps on it before i went out
so all in all there was actually less than 200 steps unaccounted for on the honor band
6. to me that's not too much of a problem because there's so many things that could have happened
on that walk it could have been the galaxy watch 3 overcompensating or it could have been the honor
band 6 undercompensated but still for a 40 minute walk less than 200 steps unaccounted for isn't a
problem for me especially at this price point one thing that i wasn't too impressed with though was
the automatic workout detection now it does have it but it detected the workout around 15 minutes
after my galaxy watch 3 did it also started the timer from zero which when the galaxy watch three
detects your workout it stops the timer from when you actually set off usually it's about 10 minutes
into your workout i think this is something that could be improved on in a software update and
it's probably the first thing that really sort of disappointed me about the iron man 6. so for the
heart rate test i had both the honor band 6 and my galaxy watch 3 on my left wrist now sometimes
they would come out with the same readings but the results were a little bit inconsistent i was
a little bit worried that my honor band 6 or even my galaxy watch 3 was slightly lifted off my wrist
when i was trying to put it in front of the camera so in the end i decided to put one on each wrist
and then test it first time around they both came out with almost the exact same readings
now i don't have any more professional equipment tested against but at least with my much more
expensive flagship galaxy watch three the results were consistent so all i can say is the heart
rate tracking is accurate enough for me and it is consistent with a much more expensive smartwatch
i am in talks with a company who make professional monitoring equipment so hopefully soon i'm going
to do a video testing the accuracy of all the fitness trackers and smart watches i own so
with all this information you need somewhere to store it and consolidate it this is where
the huawei health app comes in it's very similar to the samsung health app and it just gives you
a much clearer view of all your analytics yes the device does have a really nice big screen
but even then it's quite difficult to see all that information in one go and i have to say i really
do like the ui of the huawei health app so on your first page you'll get things like your heart rate
sleep weight stress and sp02 once you click on one of these you'll get all your detailed analytics
and tracking for them on the next page is your exercise so you don't actually necessarily need to
be wearing your honor band 6 to make use of these basic features you can just go out with your phone
so you have four options outdoor run indoor run walk and cycle so as long as you have your phone
with you it will continue to track things and even make use of your gps and whilst we're on
the subject it is worth mentioning that the honor band 6 does not have a built-in gps
so that is something to bear in mind after that you have your devices page which is pretty obvious
and then the last page is your profile where you can actually earn medals and you have links to
your achievements data and your weekly monthly report you can also scroll down to a bit that
says my plans where i'll actually give you some running plans which i found to be quite helpful
so for example you have your five kilometer training plan starting with a five kilometer to
ease yourself in gently and it goes all the way up to a marathon training plan this seems to me
quite an advanced feature to have to come with a fitness tracker and i'm sure many of you will find
some use in this it's just a shame again that the workout section is lacking and there isn't
a little bit more choice but that could change in a future update and i really do hope it does
so a few more things i want to touch on before we finish first one being the battery life now huawei
state you're gonna get 14 days of battery life which is pretty standard across fitness trackers
very similar to the galaxy fit 2 the mi band 5 and their honor band 5. now do i think that i'm going
to get 14 days of battery life out of the honor band 6. i'm not hopeful generally i'm instantly
very impressed by the battery life drain on a fitness tracker when i get it through it's the
first thing i noticed that how little it's gone down over the few days but since i first turned
this on which has been about five to six days it has lost almost 60 percent battery life now that
is with heavy usage and the screen brightness maxed out so i would say that you're good for
at least a week with this but whether or not it's going to reach that 14 days mark i'm not too sure
another thing you might be interested in is that the honor band 6 is water resistant so you can
take it swimming with you if that's what you want to do with it now i've praised the honor band 6 a
lot in this review and that's because i genuinely am really really pleased with it so does its price
point bring my opinion of it down absolutely not so at the moment is rumored to be going between
30 and 40 pounds so up to around 50 maximum if you're in the us i did pay over 50 pounds
for this but that was because i was importing it from somewhere it's not officially out yet it has
just done a china release for now so my overall conclusion and opinion of this product is that you
get a hell of a lot of fitness tracker for your money and really it's a no-brainer if you want to
get as close to a smart watch experience without paying the premium smart watch price tag then the
honor band 6 is your best choice here okay so that was huawei's honor band 6 fitness tracker
as always let me know in the comment section what you thought of it i'm personally absolutely blown
away with it and i am going to start recommending it to people also before we go if you are new here
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