what's happening everyone my name is alex and welcome back in today's video we're checking
out the latest fitness tracker from huawei called the band 6. now unlike most other fitness trackers
available on the market this one gets a larger screen so in a way this is a hybrid between
a smartwatch and a fitness tracker so on the front here we have a 1.47 inches amoled screen
that has adjustable brightness unfortunately there is no auto brightness available but you
can easily change the brightness so if you go outdoors you can still see the screen
so overall this is one of the best looking screens on any fitness tracker we also get a feature that
you don't typically see for any other affordable fitness tracker you normally need a more expensive
smartwatch to measure this so the band 6 right here can also measure the oxygen saturation in
your blood and it can also do this automatically throughout the day once again i don't think i've
seen this feature for any other affordable fitness tracker aside from that it will track all the
steps that you do throughout the day we have 24 7 heart rate monitoring and it will also monitor
your levels of stress and of course all that information gets synced right on your smartphone
so this can be used with an iphone or any android device um by installing the huawei health app on
your smartphone the band itself looks much better than all the other fitness trackers available
on the market at least in my opinion and of course that has a lot to do with the larger
screen now this looks more like a smartwatch than a fitness tracker definitely a good thing
the device's body is made out of plastic we have a button on the side the screen is covered by glass
and the straps are made out of rubber on the back we have the sensors for the hard drive monitoring
and all the other functions of the band and we also have the connectors for the charger so the
charger attaches to the back of the bandwidth magnets and it takes about an hour and a half to
charge it now on one charge you can typically get between 10 and 18 days of usage depending how you
use the band personally i've been using this for about eight days and i'm currently at 36 percent
but i have all the notifications turned on to hard right monitoring 24 7 so everything is turned on
so i'm expecting to get about 10 days um the way i use it but if you turn some of those features
off you can probably get more than two weeks on one charge the band is also waterproof so you
can take it in the shower you can swim with it and we have a variety of sporting activities available
now unfortunately this doesn't have a gps unit inside it now if you do have the phone with you
whenever you go for a run or for a bike ride the band will use your phone's gps but if you don't
have your phone dude it doesn't have a gps unit inside so it will kind of guess how many steps
the distance and so on now there are a lot of sporting activities available personally i only go
for walks and every so often for bike rides so i didn't actually experience all the sporting
activities available but if you're into running or other um crazier activities there are definitely
a lot of activities that you can choose from as i mentioned earlier all the information from the
band gets synced to your phone so if you want to see how many steps you've done for that particular
day if you wanna see your heart rate throughout the day if you wanna see your stress levels if
you want to see your oxygen saturation throughout the day you can check everything out right on the
app and of course all those sporting activities will also be synced on your phone and you can
also check the maps so let's say you went for a long run then you can look on the map and
see where you actually went for that particular run but for that um to happen you definitely need
to have the phone with you because otherwise as i said the band doesn't have a gps unit inside
if you sleep with the band it will also track your sleep so you can see how many hours of deep sleep
you got how many hours of light sleep you got and so on so you can basically wear this 24 7 and it
will basically track everything about you the band also supports that feature where the screen comes
on every time you turn the arm towards yourself and this one works really good it takes maybe
less than half a second for the screen to come on every time you turn the arm on towards yourself
and you can also change the watch faces so there are some watch faces available and some of them
are also customizable unfortunately there is no always-on display so the screen will be black
most of the time unless you actually look at the band then the screen turns on by itself but other
than that the screen will be black and this way it will save battery of course the band will also
display the notifications that show up on your phone of course there is a section in the app
there where you can turn on or off certain apps so you don't get notifications from every single app
but you're not going to be able to reply to any notifications so you can see them you can scroll
up button you cannot reply to them the same goes if you receive a phone call you can see
who's calling but you're not going to be able to talk on the band so you still have to take your
phone out every single time on you on a reply to notification or answer a call and of course using
the band is also super simple all you have to do is swipe left right up or down we have that button
on the side if you want to access some settings if you want to start a new sporting activity and as i
said there are a variety of sporting activities available so super simple um to use as well
so after using this for about eight days i have to say that i am impressed i'm super happy to see
that we have that feature the oxygen saturation um blood saturation feature something that i
haven't actually seen for any other affordable fitness tracker before i love that bigger screen
the great battery life so you can't really go wrong on the huawei band 6. alright guys
hopefully you enjoyed this video thanks for watching and i'll see you in the next one