This is Huawei's new wearable it is called the watch gt runner now the gt runner is very similar
to the watch gt3 they're almost identical the hardware inside and the system everything similar
but this watch here is focused on running so set up for runners we've got more in software
here in the menus through the watch for runners and a lighter weight this weighs about half that
of the metal version of the watch gt3 it's got 50 meters of water resistance we still have the
very accurate eight photodiode sensor heart rate monitoring which can be set up to be
continually on we've got the five system gps dual frequency that's really accurate too with this
and the other features well we've still got a very good stunning display on this
which has a 466 by 466 resolution amoled very bright and a fast fluid ui and the huawei watch
gt runner box so nice presentation you'll see that they have it just in there i've not turned it on
yet just recording this to start with and in the pouch here in the side you will find our extras
so it does have a wireless charger which is in this little bag right here and i'll just quickly
show you that it's like the other model so no change to that oh that's our silicon strap okay
so that's the first thing and there is a spare strap there but it comes of course as you can see
with one of them already on it and here it is our wireless charger so opening this up just give you
a quick look so magnetically this will clip onto the underside of the watch and it's using the chi
standard so you can actually charge it with other charges out there too now charge time it does have
a 455 milliamp hour battery it's going to take about three hours or just under so it is a little
slow to charge but that's what it is with the watches and here we have some paperwork so this
is a warranty card okay and in here we then have a quick start guide that is in various
different languages so this watch is a lot lighter than the previous models that i have
reviewed and covered in the channel so the watch gt3 that's the middle version 112 grams and you
notice that this one is just so much lighter because of its plastic frame around the outside
the watch itself is 38.5 grams and with the strap all up 52 grams so that's a huge difference there
in weight and when you're running with it trust me that makes a big difference there here i have the
gt runner next to the watch gt3 you can see the difference here in the build quality so
metal frame on this one scratch resistant glass we have the same scratch resistant glass in this
so 46 millimeters is the size of them the screen is 1.43 inches the resolution hasn't changed so
basically same hardware as the last gen so it's 466 pixels by 466 of course it'd been
round there and that translates into 326 ppi so you cannot see the pixels in these screens at all
you'll see as i bring it up close to the camera that it's amoled so those blacks are super deep
and the brightness is great now i've had a bit of trouble trying to measure it because it's such a
small screen with my meter but it translates into somewhere around about 500 400 nits and
in direct sunlight you can make this out now with my camera you get a bit of banding but trust me
that in person you're not going to see that banding it's just on the camera it was doing that
now compared to the watch gt same location so we do have the crown here that does spin for
the ui you can use that speaker here and it's just located on the side so the frame around
the outside of this is plastic that's why it's so much lighter and i do prefer this
and there are some gaps in it along the top just giving us a little bit more ventilation
we get extra holes there too with the strap so these straps very strong no problems with them at
all you can get that real good pull and i've even snagged other watches of theirs on things and i've
never had a problem with them breaking and the most susceptible part with these watches is right
here where that joins up so to remove those straps you see it's just got little easy clips on either
side and here we have the heart rate sensor so there's a lot of changes to this from the previous
model and that's come through with this too so that's the eight channel heart rate monitoring
and apparently they've got a 66 reduction in external light here with the new coating on it
and it has eight photo diodes within this and two sets of led rings so this is why the accuracy they
claim to be as good as one of those belts that you wear around your chest one of the heart rate
monitors which is quite a claim but so far in my testing i have found it to be very accurate
compared to my polar strap that i used to use the left side of it you'll see that we do have
a little hole there so this is either a microphone because there's a mic built into this
and then with that speaker on the side you can handle voice calls on us
so haptic feedback motor within it it's got a lot packed into it a lot of tech so gps tracking
high accuracy dual channel so dual frequency gps five systems so it's got your glonass gps
galileo a bds and then qzss which i believe is another chinese one there so a lot of satellites
that this does see and later on i will test it out and i'll let you know the accuracy
of that gps that's built within it there's a barometer in here and even a skin temperature
sensor so there's a lot going on in this watch for the compact size of course you've got that
continual heart rate monitoring sleep monitoring and even sp o2 can be monitored with this
and these silicon straps the buckle is made out of metal so that's nice and strong it's not plastic
and that shouldn't break it feels very hard to me to my hands at least giving that a bit of a stress
and then just like the other version here we do have that 50 meters of water
resistance so yes you can shower with it on you can swim with it
and it's got a lot of sports tracking features so when you take a look at the screens here
what is the difference between both of these well it's the ui even though they're all powered by the
same chipset they've all got four gigabytes of ram stored on them it is very fluid and no lag
with this okay on both of them but you see this is geared up towards runners that's what it's
about so this is the difference between them with the software because you see when you swipe here
to the left you get straight away our heart rate monitoring okay then you get our blood saturation
levels and it goes into the other sports modes there and then the weather whereas with this one
with the gt runner you see now especially this is the stock the main watch face here i really
do like it it presents everything there so we've got our barometer there the altitude and you can
see a lot of the fitness orientated stuff there where they're there too so when you start to swipe
you go into this information that you can take a quick look through so your recovery with your run
so i've gone for a run with this and it's telling me my recovery time is going to be i think it was
about 64 hours from my 4k run and you're able to scroll scroll through this so v02 max this
is a little bit low for some reason it should be a bit better but i just had my booster and i wasn't
in the peak kind of fitness and you can see more information on that half marathon it's worked out
so they've got um a running assistant on this and everything some predicted times they're pretty bad
i'm a little bit slow there i haven't been running for a while it's all that information's built in
there training load too as well so that's from the again from the run there today so going back just
into the main menu and go past those again you'll see the training plan is in there so this is where
it's all different my running ability so it's telling me that my running ability is higher than
67.9 percent of my peers oh well that's pretty good and a b level honestly i would say it was a c
level at the moment anyway heart rate monitor you can see that there is as well then and the
resting heart rate or recovery heart rate there too that's coming through no that's the wrist
thing there sorry and then a weather which you can go into and see a lot of detail about that
too so if i click on here the weather i can get a lot more information on it it's telling me a
few days there what it's going to be like for our weather and you can go through that even tells you
the sunset sunrise moon 2 and the moon phase so a lot of information oh and even the tides i forgot
about that one so there's a lot packed into it and then of course you have all your different apps
and of course you've got notifications with this now the good thing with their app support now is
you can actually answer whatsapp messages facebook messages and i think it's telegram another one on
the watch itself so that is great answer your calls on it and it does have that flick to wake
so if the screen's off and then you were to just i've got it on the timer at the moment so you
can turn it off so if you flick your wrist once it times out you flick it around that will then
bring it on automatically so that's there it's got the built-in sensors for that accelerometer
so the screen response is very good i've had no problems with the touch it does not lag at all
performance with harmony os with this particular watch is working great now it does support android
and also ios so you don't have to have a huawei watch or anything like that but it works with
huawei health i'll get onto that app soon so swiping down from the top you can go into some
more little settings right there drain that's to drain out the speaker it makes that noise try and
pump out a bit of water when it falls in there when you've been swimming do not disturb alarm
pretty straightforward and then on settings just go for that very quickly there's a lot of things
you can do in here i won't go through most of them there but you can do your update system there
and also you can connect up with bluetooth you're able to connect up all sorts of other tech with
this so you can select the type you've got headphones heart rate sensors that does support
and other meters there so there's a lot going on there now with the control straight forward
top button is to get into your different apps and you can go through and scroll through all
of them there okay you can see there's a lot in there health stress breathing
exercises call log contacts music remote shutter barometer compass notification weather wallet
and has nfc built into it stopwatch timer alarm torch find phone settings and even maps now you
can load more apps onto this with the application now the bottom one you can change this button here
to designate it to whatever you want but normally it's the workout mode so just tapping that you go
into all our workouts so it's not just for runners okay you've got courses and well for the running
there but when you go through it you see outdoor running walking indoor cycling pool
there's a huge list and you can add more to it so this goes on and on a hundred different modes that
can be tracked workout settings that you can go through too okay when it broadcasts it with the
voice you can set all of that up and the volume of it and i'll give you a sample that of that later
on too now swiping from the left to the right here that's to go back there you can see it always on
display but that really does kill our battery life so i won't be doing that auto detect workouts i
haven't bothered with that one so there's huge amounts of customization you can do with this
and then the notifications if you swipe up you can see them come through there okay this is telling
me about that exercise i did watch faces there are plenty of them you can download but i do like
this the default one which is called data pack there's customization that you can set up with it
do all sorts of things so you see we've got a lot of them that are the standard ones i've seen
before with the watch gt3 and yes mentioned you can download and get a whole lot of them different
ones there and some of them can be very vibrant stands out and again this screen is stunning
for a watch i really do like it it's bright and it's clear and it's amoled and that 326 ppi means
that you just don't see any pixels so i'll put it back on the default which is my preferred one
so far with this watch now it's time to test out the gt runners performance here so what
i'm gonna do is go for a run along the coast here approximately three kilometers i think that's all
i can do because i haven't been running now for about three weeks last time was in new zealand
i'll see how it performs and we can have a look at the stats that it does give me my heart rate
and then the distance and everything i'll show you then with the application the map and how it
has tracked it all with its dual frequency gps that it has and with the plastic body of this
gt runner now it should actually get really good signal strength and should be very accurate
okay so i made it halfway now with my run watch
has been really good tracking everything heart rate up to 171
and it's giving me those feedback so i'll give you a sample of the voice feedback this is what
it sounds like one kilometer pace is six minutes and 30 seconds your current heart rate is 173
okay so i managed to do four kilometers and it probably wasn't a good idea just after my booster
shot which i got yesterday not quite feeling 100 anyway let's take a look at the results of my four
kilometer run this is in the app which i'll show you more about the app just after this so 4.05
kilometers was my distance that i managed to run there so i did a bit of a loop around the coast
here and went back of course now the gps accuracy looks very very good as i stated before that it's
got that dual frequency gps five systems and you normally only see that in flagships like this but
it's in the watch itself which is great to have and going along here you see that's followed all
along the coast where it was running and then back again great i've got no complaints about
that i do think it's quite accurate so here with the running you can see my pace it's broken down
into the fastest pace was only oh okay six points three uh per kilometer minutes per kilometer there
not amazing um and then the segments too can be broken down uh and you see all that information
there the total time there charts able to view the chart of my heart here i did push it quite hard
and got my heart up to 182 maximum which when i really start to to sprint i was doing some little
sprints at some areas uh that makes sense that's that's what i've seen before my polar chested
heart monitor that i do have that i don't use anymore because these watches are just
good enough i feel and more details on that too you can see the descent elevation steps average
heart rate average stride speed there's a lot of information when you scroll down you can then see
the performance so anaerobic training stress has improved and you can see my vo2 max which yeah
it's not actually that good and finally a recovery time there at the bottom that 69 hours that i
should be fully recovered from this run and ready to go on saturday now application so this is the
p50 pro i have a review of that in my channel too if you're interested in that it's the new flagship
so the app we want is health now this works on any android phone you don't have to have a
huawei phone at all for it and it even does work on iphone if you have an iphone it's going to be
working on that too health so once you get into it there's a lot we can go through here
to set it up and you have to add your personal details and things like that which i've done most
of that so there's a lot in this this really has not changed it's just and just been improving over
the last couple of years with it since i've been using it and i've been very happy with it so you
can see the heart rate monitor you can take a look at that over the various different days the months
you've got it all broken down there i get into the sleep tracking so you take a look at this
and you can see that uh well last night i slept only five hours and 20 minutes but
such as life with tech reviewers you've got four or three embargo things due on friday
so yeah you get the idea you've got to burn the midnight oil woke up at eight o'clock and that's
pretty accurate because eight is exactly where my alarm went off and that's when i jumped up
out of bed so we'll rate that you can see that the different phases of my sleep deep sleep
light split sleep and then rapid eye movement stage sleep there too as well and it will rate
it too so my rating there is 73 points which is not brilliant um and it even lists when you got
out oh okay wake one time yeah i think i woke up in the middle of night as you do of course
so that's all there now skin temperature this one you have to be wearing the watch for quite a long
time to make this accurate you can see right now if my skin temperature was 25.9 degrees i'd have
some health issues there'd be something definitely wrong with me now the reason is because i've been
taking this watch off a lot shooting a bit of b-roll testing it out recording this kind of
footage with you now so that's why stress reading so you can fill that in and it will give you a
stress rating how you've been over time you can check that out which is good and even got healthy
living in here and we exercises can be done up the top here it's told me the time i've been training
so 30 minutes i've done 7853 steps 7 kilometers 7.29 kilometers and burnt 512 calories there
this is the watch i believe for runners if you're training for a marathon if you run
a lot the extra screens we get the extra info this is great this is the best thing about it
is not actually that is the weight too so the difference in weight is about half compared to
the steel frame the steel strap i've got with my watch gt3 you notice that difference you may
think oh yeah 50 grams on your wrist is going to mean nothing but when trust me when you're running
big distances too you are going to notice that weight so it's really good to see now even though
it's all get up towards runners out there it is still for people that do your general sports we've
still got all those typical trackings on that sports tracking so we've got 100 different modes
so anywhere from mountain climbing to mountain biking to swimming skiing it is on this watch
here and they do a good job i think of tracking that speaking of which when i looked at the
gps that information i showed you from my short four kilometer run it looks very accurate to me
followed me around the coast really great so it's got accurate gps heart rate monitoring they claim
is as accurate as those chest straps now i do have one of those polish chest straps and
this watch is almost identical very very close there it's only out by sometimes about five or
so beats per minute which is really nothing so they've i think they've nailed it with this if
you're a runner this is probably the watch to get now one of the things i don't like about it well
very little i mean the battery life is amazing some of the other brands out there are they only
go for two or three days right you have to charge them but this thing just goes and goes and goes so
battery life definitely is not a con it's one of the big positives too i don't like the charge time
i think three hours is a little too slow i hope with the next models they can up that a little
bit now i i know it's not really a problem right you just charge this at night when it's getting
a little bit low you see you're better at 20 or 15 which would still last another whole day for me at
10 percent even put it on a charge when you go to bed and you wake up it's fully charged so really
not a big issue there the other is a third-party app support so we can now answer like whatsapp
alerts when you get them through notifications you can answer some of them on the watch which
a lot of people have been asking for which is great uh telegram and facebook messenger i think
is another one too that's supported there but we still don't have a huge range of third-party app
support with this it's not a we're os watch either if you needed that no if you've got your where os
apps your banking apps to put it onto a watch like this sadly that's one area that definitely it does
fall short there but very few cons i think this is a fantastic watch and not just for runners too but
if you're interested make sure you do check out my review of the watch gt3 if you want something that
a little bit more premium with the metal around it but a little heavier of course it really is
it's the same kind of watch here but this being the runner focused of the watches so thanks a
lot for watching my watch gt runner review and i hope to see you in the next one bye for now