Hi everyone! welcome to Wesknows tech news and reviews! today we are doing the unthinkable! six
months ago it would have been unimaginable and completely nonsensical! today we'll be putting
a tracker in a head-to-head comparison against a full-fledged smart watch, the honor band 6
will take on the amazfit gts! if you are new to wesknows tech news and reviews, we talk
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can you imagine it even three months ago that somebody would put up a video on
youtube about a smart tracker or fitness band in a head-to-head comparison against a smartwatch?!
no way! well with the release of honor band 6 i think it's finally possible to put it up
against a smartwatch. in order to baseline our discussion today, let's get this straight
so the honor band 6 is a $40 tracker while the Amazfit gts is a $120 smart watch. in 2019 the
norm for trackers or activity bands well the display size would have been 0.95 of an inch
so in 2020 the likes of samsung galaxy fit2 or the me band 5 they've actually risen the
stakes and they've gone from the 0.95 inch to 1.1 inch that's a 15 hike in screen size well
the honor band 6 did that with a hike of 60 percent now it's a 1.47 inch display size
and no more do you get the little display in the middle of a huge black pellet oh no now it's an
edge-to-edge design just as a note the amazfit gts is no slouch it was one of the main competitors to
the very famous and very well marketed on a magic watch too the gts has a lot of great features
so it is a very good smartwatch now that we've set the scene and introduced the competitors
let's dive into the comparison we have structured the review and comparison in the usual fashion so
firstly we will go into the design then we'll talk about the display and then we'll focus on
the features and functions we'll be discussing the overlaps and exploring the gaps between the
two wearables and now to the design starting with the obvious both wearables have huge faces
the gts is more squarish with the band 6 is more long and slim the dimensions of the band 6 are 43
by 25.4 by 10.8 millimeters while the gts is 43.25 by 36.25 by 9.4 millimeters so it's actually
just as long yet wider and thinner both feature a single button on the right side of the watch face
the gts watch case is made from aircraft grade aluminium alloy as a result it's feather light and
durable at the same time only 24 grams the honor band 6 has a plastic case with an inscription on
the left side of the watch face it's even lighter at just 18.3 grams let's touch upon straps the
gts comes with 20 millimeters quick release and replaceable straps you can easily find third-party
leather silicon and steel straps with honor the story is different straps are unique to the band
and most likely will not be sold by many third parties both thankfully feature the classic type
clasp for easy slip-ons and slip-offs so now let's summarize the design well what we have on the gts
is that it is wider and it is thinner another big plus is that the replaceable straps are
widely available with third-party sellers now the straps also replaceable on on a band six but they
are quite unique another thumbs up for the gts is the fact that the case material is actually an
aluminium alloy while with honor band 6 it's plain plastic now let's dive in into the display specs
the gts features a 2.5 d gorilla glass it's plastered in a bezel-less design over the
watch face covering the 1.64 inch amoled display resolution is up there with 348 by 442 pixels
resulting in a 341 ppi the watch is touch activated recognizing touches swipes and
tap and hold motions now honor band 6 also gets 2.5 d glass covering the tracker's face
from edge to edge the display size is 1.47 inch so 10 smaller than the one of the gts
and the resolution is also lower with 194 by 368 pixels bringing in just 283 ppi
the gts display is very crisp and sharp the band 6 display is slightly more saturated
yet the difference is hardly desceptible you will notice that the gts is slightly
quicker in responding to wrist flicks and lighting up the screen both feature a wide
area of options for downloadable faces the main differences are though in the always-on display
and auto brightness so while the gts features the always on display the honor band 6 has a time
always on display in fact it can have the screen on anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes
also the gts does have a light sensor and thus has auto brightness while the band 6 is stuck with
just 5 brightness levels to choose from so now let's summarize the display specs well with the
gts we do see it does have a high resolution with ppi versus the 283 and the honor band 6. of course
the display size does matter 1.64 inches on the amazfit gts 1.47 on the honor band 6. both are big
very big but again the honor band 6 is slightly thinner another big plus for the gts is the fact
it does have always on display now the honor band 6 doesn't have a full-fledged always-on display
you do have an option of either putting it always on from five to twenty minutes another plus for
the gts again is the auto brightness and that does save quite a lot of battery life so the honor band
six just has the five levels to choose from let's get into the features and functions if we're going
to touch about the core or basic functionalities well i think the honor band 6 meets the gts
there's no issue no main differences because again they have the timers the stopwatch the
continuous heart rate monitoring there's alarms there's notification management all of that is
quite basic and core functionality we would find them in almost any wearables today so let's focus
this part of the conversation on the advanced features we'll be talking about the sports and
we'll be talking about the health features first up is sport modes availability and their functions
the gts has 12 gold based sport modes available the honor band 6 has 10 gold base sport modes
the gts also has inbuilt gps which is great for distance tracking honor band 6 has only
connected gps via smartphone considering the gts does not have storage for music downloads
i doubt anybody would be taking the watch out for a run without their smartphone with them
in this case i really don't see the advantage of having inbuilt gps versus connected gps
and by the way music controls are actually available on both wearables
honor band 6 has four auto recognized sport modes while the gts has none also the workout
records after a workout are much more insightful on the band 6 you get plots and charts that are
available for the amazfit only in the zepp app. in regards to sleep well both wearables actually
offer insights into three sleep stages so your light your deep and rem sleep also
both provide sleep scores as well as advice on how to improve your sleep quality
but a very big positive is the fact that the honor band 6 actually has a dedicated screen
that summarizes your previous night's sleep and that's quite handy because it means you don't have
to go to your app to have a look at how many hours you've actually slept now we get to the really
interesting features the health functionality now the gts offers PAI. pai is a metric a single value
metric that actually measures your cardiovascular health in just one number and to cut it short
basically if you keep your value over 100 that means that statistically you're 25 percent less
prone to getting heart disease that's a very handy metric in fact this metric is available on all of
the xiaomi as well as the amazfit wearables. the honor band 6 does not get the PAI metric
but it does get some things which the gts simply doesn't have and let's cover those right now.
the honor band 6 gets a stress level monitor it also has a guided breathing app
then there is an on-demand spo2 monitor to track your blood oxygen saturation. the manufacturer
claims a 14-day battery life for the gts as well as the honor band 6. now real life is slightly
different so i usually experience eight to ten days of battery life for either of the trackers
so i think now we're ready to summarize basically a mass fit costs three times as much as the honor
band six it has a ten percent larger display slightly better resolution it offers auto
brightness and always on display design wise it's a bit wider than the band 6. so i think
the design and display rounds go to the amazfit gts in regards to what the watches can do for you
in terms of health and fitness i think that's what the honor band 6 really shows its colors
and i think it takes the upper hand here the honor band 6 may not feature inbuilt gps but it also
detects four sports walking running elliptical and rolling workouts you miss out on pi but you get a
stress level monitor a guided breathing app and an spo2 monitor as you can see it's a close one!
the gts and the honor band 6 are great products! now it's time for you to decide which features
and functions are actually more important to yourself are you looking at the display
and the design specs more because if so then you probably need to go for the gts
but if you're looking at the health and fitness monitoring features i would say
that the honor band 6 is slightly stronger here. thanks for watching! if you did find
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