hi guys it's Toddy here from tech advisor and 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 watch gt2 so we're going to unbox this take a
look at what you get inside and what's different from the first watch GT 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 they why we watch to
without the GT and they were where OS based 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 a 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 sport model 46
millimeter which you can see on the box there as well
version of the GT 2 there's 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
millimeter 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 a gold foiled embossed kind of frontage there
looks very premium and fold that out and I think I can just pull the watch out
like that and yeah so here's the GT 2 in blacks for just take that out so it's
using a 22 millimeter band this is a standard flexible silicon band which is
quite nice also you can it does have 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 millimeter band and you can swap them out which is
nice you can also see the optical heart rate sensor on the back here and these
charging points and that's about it it's pretty thin
looking on the side and another thing I'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 on 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 C paired 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 a 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 see 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 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 feels 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 a non-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 wire 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 pet it via bluetooth very simple very
easy to do and it tells you what to do 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 on Android 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
traveled 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 a sleep 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 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 a 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 46 millimeter model there's a 42 millimeter
as well with a smaller 20 mil band again quick release again there are multiple
versions with different finishes it's like 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 42 millimeter model you're actually getting
a 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 one at the launch
like I said they both look really good no complaints there really and again
different casings different strata combinations the back is 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 those kind of things in your mind in terms of
changing much 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's not 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 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 nice I've not used like 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 12 watch race is really different styles
analog 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 color 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 harbor 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 color screen OLED SmartWatch 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's 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 a smaller watch it also comes with a
smaller battery and I think while we go it'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 millimeter 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 then the latest gen 5 fossil watches
using this Snapdragon wear 3100 with a gig around so the 46 mil the standard
model is 2 for 9 euros and the smaller 42 millimeter version will retail for 2
to 9 euros both pretty impressive stuff I think for what you're getting here so
long as that user experience stays fluid I'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 a initial look and
unboxing le qua watch GT 2 if you have any questions you can drop us a line
down below in the comment section or hit us up on our social media channels I've
been Toddy thanks for tuning in and I'll see you next time