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Tom's Guide
15-05-2025
- Tom's Guide
Huawei's latest sports-focused smartwatch just got a special edition discount — what you need to know
Huawei has just revealed the latest devices in its wearable line-up and has followed up the news with a limited time offer running on its own store. Right now, anyone wanting to pick up the newly-announced Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro can get an exclusive edition from the Huawei store with a £30 off coupon and two extra free straps. The first strap is the brand's Silver Nylon option but the second can be a customizable strap of your choice, letting you personalise the device to your liking. Huawei's Watch Fit 4 Pro is a lightweight and versatile smartwatch designed for active lifestyles. The sapphire glass display and aerospace-grade aluminium alloy body add up to a durable smartwatch that's only 9.3mm thin and weighing only 30.4g. It offers a range of pro sports tracking modes including golf and diving. There's a 10 day battery life and advanced health metrics like ECG readings, heart rate monitoring and SpO2 blood oxygen. Huawei's Fit 4 Pro is the more premium option of the company's Fit 4 smartwatches and offers a thinner and lighter design crafted from sapphire glass, and aviation-grade aluminium body. The case is just 9.3mm thin weighing 30.4 grams, with that same 1.82-inch AMOLED display as the regular variant. However, while the regular Watch Fit 4 has a peak brightness of 2,000 nits, the Pro model ups that to 3,000 for an even better screen experience in broad daylight. Huawei has added a tonne of pro-level sports features including Golf Mode that has access to over 15,000 courses around the world. And anyone that hooks a wayward drive into a water hazard can rest assured; the 40 meters of waterproofing as part of its Diving Mode will come in handy if you fancy trying to retrieve the ball. There's also Trail Running Mode will offline contour maps. Throughout all, the company's TruSense System will deliver vital monitoring like ECG, heart rate and blood oxygen levels. You can easily swap in different straps to suit — whether going to the gym, spending a day at the office or turning in for the night — and Huawei claims it has some of the most abundant strap options in the industry. Which is useful if you want to take this deal up and customise one of your own.
Phone Arena
15-05-2025
- Health
- Phone Arena
Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro review: Fits like a glove
Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro Intro The Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro is the latest member of the Watch Fit family, a spiritual successor to the Huawei Watch Fit 3, and the first wearable from that particular series to sport the "Pro" moniker in its is not just a marketing trick either, because the watch comes with an impressive set of features, rivaling more premium and high-end models both in Huawei's own GT series and also among the with a new tweaked design, the Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro comes with deep health tracking capabilities, such as ECG, arterial stiffness detection, SpO2 measurements, sleep tracking, temperature readings, and the robust battery life Huawei's wearables are known for. All these goodies come at a price, as the Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro now starts at £249.99. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Without further ado, let's dive into the review. New design 1.82-inch AMOLED screen 3000 nits peak brightness Sapphire glass Titanium alloy bezel ECG readings Arterial stiffness detection Temperature sensor HRV tracking Double band GPS/GLONASS/BeiDou/Galileo/QZSS NFC Wireless charging Sleep breathing awareness Table of Contents: In terms of different variants and models, there's only one variant of the Pro version (there's also a non-Pro model), and it's a Bluetooth-only device with no size options and no LTE or Wi-Fi connectivity. Here's a quick look at the Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro specs: Huawei really went all in with the Watch Fit 4 Pro, adding a bunch of features that were normally reserved for the GT Pro series. The watch can now take your ECG, measure arterial stiffness, has a temperature sensor, features a new HRV (heart rate variability) feature, and comes with a new air pressure sensor to measure altitude more no word on the exact silicon used inside, nor do we have info about the RAM on board, but what we've observed is that after the initial boot-up, there's a slight lag until everything is fully loaded into the watch's RAM. After a minute, though, everything starts to run smoothly, and we haven't experienced anything like that about 1.5GB of storage available for music on the watch, which lets you upload around 300 songs in MP3 format with decent quality. You can then connect Bluetooth earbuds and spice up your training sessions with some beats without the need to carry your phone with you. The Watch Fit 4 Pro tweaks the design in comparison to its predecessor. It's a welcome change, as the Watch Fit 3 was often criticized for looking too similar to another popular brand. Huawei has introduced a titanium bezel around the screen, and there are industrial-looking elements on the watch, such as the protruding microphone placed between the rotating crown and the quick access button. The sides are flat, and the Watch 4 Pro now looks and feels like it has its own identity. In terms of materials, there are some surprises—along with the titanium bezel around the screen, we have a sapphire crystal glass on top of the gorgeous 1.82-inch AMOLED. It's a great quality of life improvement, as this synthetic sapphire material is very hard and almost unscratchable. Compared to the previous model, the Watch 4 Pro is a tad thinner (9.3 vs 9.9 mm) but also a few grams heavier at 30 grams (without the strap). It's a comfortable watch to wear, the ceramic bottom is smooth and doesn't irritate your skin, and the overall weight feels decent on the hand, not feather-light but not heavy by any means. The 1.82-inch AMOLED display has been upgraded and can now output up to 3000 nits of peak brightness, which on a sunny day does wonders, and it is on par with much more expensive smartwatches. The resolution of 480x408 pixels results in around 350 PPI, which is pretty crisp. Overall, the screen is a pleasure to lay your eyes on, and there are really no downsides. The Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro comes in three color options, and each one goes with a different strap. The Black and Blue models feature sports fluoroelastomer straps in matching colors, while the Green variant comes equipped with a woven nylon strap. The first two options feature a proprietary mechanism to attach to the body of the watch, and the Green one comes with lugs attached to the watch via the same mechanism. You can swap the bands on that model easily with standard 20mm ones, but the first two require an adapter bought separately. Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro Software & Features The Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro runs on HarmonyOS version 5.1. It requires the Huawei Health app, but it will work with both Android- and iOS-based phones once you have the app installed. The pairing process is simple enough; you scan a QR code with your phone and follow the steps afterward. The apps you can install are still limited, but there are some third-party ones you can use through AppGallery, such as Petal Maps, Navigation (G-Maps Viewer), Voice Recorder, camera control app, an app that syncs with your Google Calendar, Spotify controls, a decent variety of watch faces, most of which are free, and you can add, arrange, and customize different widgets to show you important info with just a left swipe. Another cool thing is the QWERTY keyboard you can use to answer messages. It supports some of the popular apps, such as WhatsApp, Instagram, and Viber, and it's a great step up from predefined drawback worth mentioning is that Huawei Health can't talk to Google Fit, so if you want the data to be synchronized with other apps through Google Fit, that's not possible at the moment. With that out of the way, let's go through all the features available. In terms of workouts, the Watch Fit 4 Pro supports a robust set of activities, including outdoor run, indoor run, outdoor cycle, indoor cycle, pool swim, open water swim, skipping, trail run, skiing, and many more. The list includes over 100 activities, and there are exotic ones as well, such as ballet, e-Sports, laser tag, kite flying, and more. Running aficionados will be pleased, as special care has been taken to elevate their experience. There are running courses and plans you can use to get your 5k times where you want them or finally do that half-marathon. There are useful tools on tap, such as the metronome that lets you run to a beat and keep a steady tempo, a smart companion with a customizable pace you can set, and you can also listen to music while you run or work out. There are some advanced metrics now regarding running. Along with the normal splits, average heart rate, average pace, elevation, and descent, you now get asymmetry readings between your right and left foot, vertical oscillation, and ground contact time. You can link the Komoot app and import courses you want to run or hike, or draw your own. Huawei Health can also talk to Strava, so for serious runners, that's a nice bonus feature. The dual-band GPS is also pretty accurate; we've tested it against a reference Garmin bike GPS system and a smartphone as well, and it was on par. Health tracking uses Huawei's TruSense technology, and this applies to sleep tracking as well. You get the usual sleep duration broken down into the different sleep zones (deep, light, REM) and an overall sleep score with recommendations for improvements. There's one new feature called Sleep Breathing Awareness, aimed at tracking abnormalities tied to sleep apnea. This uses metrics such as HRV (heart rate variability) and SpO2 to recognize breathing problems during your sleep. Sleep tracking is always an approximation when we talk about smartwatches. It uses your heart rate, blood oxygen readings, your movement during the night, and noises you make to paint a picture of what your sleep was. It's good to get an overall picture, but you shouldn't rely on it too much. Along with your usual heart rate tracking, the Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro offers ECG readings (for the first time in a device from the Fit lineup). Another cool feature that has been brought from the upper echelon of models is the arterial stiffness detection. Both of these features use electrical signals through your upper body (left arm through right arm) and record heart activity and estimate arterial stiffness based on results of these measurements are for reference only and shouldn't be used as a base for any diagnosis or treatment, as you are constantly reminded when you use the services. But it's a nice addition that can help you with the overall assessment of your health. You can also easily download and send these to your GP if the need arises. There's also SpO2 tracking on board, and a couple of years into training these algorithms, it's pretty accurate and on par with dedicated devices. You also get stress tracking and evaluation, but that's much more subjective, and it's based on metrics such as heart rate variability. Finally, there's a temperature sensor on the Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro, giving you wrist temperature readings, which are generally not very useful, as human temperature on that particular spot can vary a lot. But it's there and semi-useful during sleep when it can detect abnormalities and sudden changes that can be an indicator of a problem. The battery inside the Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro is rated at 400 mAh. The company advertises seven days on a single charge with regular use and up to ten days max. What we've been able to achieve was around five full days with two hours of GPS-tracked exercise each day, every tracking sensor turned to real-time, a couple of calls, and a couple of sessions where we listened to music from the watch for an hour or two. That's a pretty decent result, and even though it falls a bit short of the advertised seven days, we used the watch with the AOD on all the time and with tracking frequency maxed out on all sensors, so that's pretty much the minimum you can expect. If you switch to smart tracking and auto-brightness, you can easily stretch that to seven days, we reckon. A huge quality of life improvement is the wireless charging capabilities. The previous model used a two-pin magnetic clip charger, and it was very fiddly. Now you can just place it on a Qi charger (it works with most of the big brands) or use the wireless charger included in the retail box. The watch charges to full in a tad less than one hour. There's a loudspeaker on the Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro along with a mic, which means you can use it for voice calls. The quality is surprisingly good; we managed to fool a lot of people that we were using a regular phone to make the course, there's no LTE connectivity, so you need to have your phone nearby, paired with the watch and connected via Bluetooth. Nevertheless, it's a nice feature to have, and you can also use the loudspeaker to play music. The rotating crown supports haptic feedback, and you can choose the level of vibration from three settings: strong, soft, and off completely. It's nice and tight, but not super strong. You won't miss a notification or an alarm, though. The obvious ones are your Apple Watch SE devices and base models of Galaxy Watches, as they have been immensely popular among the general public. You can use the Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro as an alternative to both, as it doesn't suffer the same limitations as Huawei smartphones after the US ban. The Galaxy Watch models have one additional metric that the Huawei device can't do: body composition. So if you're into that, you'd probably be better off getting a Galaxy Watch 7. Now the Apple Watch SE situation is much more difficult. Huawei offers more features both in the health department and in terms of workouts. The battery life on the Watch Fit 4 Pro is much better than both the Apple Watch SE and the Galaxy Watch 7 , and the screen is also brighter (at the level of the Apple Watch Ultra). There's a consideration regarding Huawei Health and how it communicates with other services on your phone. If you want your data shared through other services and apps, you might have troubles, but if you're okay getting everything in the Huawei Health app, then it can absolutely be an alternative to the aforementioned models. We can definitely recommend the Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro. It ticks a lot of boxes. It has a very bright and crisp AMOLED screen, high-end building materials such as titanium and sapphire glass, amazing battery life, and new health and fitness tracking features that rival much more expensive drawbacks aren't that many, and they're all tied to the software. HarmonyOS is still limited when it comes to third-party apps, and Huawei Health can't communicate well with other apps due to security limitations. Speaking of drawback, we should mention the price, as the watch now matches the aforementioned Galaxy Watch 7 and Apple Watch SE when it comes to starting price. But if you want a comfortable, stylish, and potent all-around smartwatch that finds itself outside the usual wearable suspects, so to speak, and you're prepared to deal with the aforementioned limitations, the Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro is a great choice.
Digital Trends
15-05-2025
- Digital Trends
Huawei goes wearable mad, reveals four new smartwatches
Huawei has gone wearable mad for its latest releases, with the Huawei Watch 5 leading the charge and coming in two sizes, closely followed by the Watch Fit 4 and Watch Fit 4 Pro. All follow the announcement of the Huawei Watch GT 5, GT 5 Pro, and Watch Ultimate at the end of 2024. Here's what you need to know about these interesting new smartwatches. Huawei Watch 5 The Huawei Watch 5 has a circular screen paired to integrated lugs and a strap, giving it a sporty style. For the first time Huawei has made two sizes — 42mm and 46mm — of its mid-range smartwatch, which will help more people find one that suits their wrist. The 42mm version is made from stainless steel, while the 46mm is made from titanium, and each has a spherical sapphire crystal over the screen. The 42mm version has a 1.38-inch screen, while the 46mm model has a 1.5-inch screen. Recommended Videos There are eight different models in total to choose from, with case colors ranging from purple to gold or green, along with the more expected white, black, and silver options. You get a choice of strap type too, including a metal bracelet and sportier leather and rubber options. The Watch 5 doesn't run Google's Wear OS software, and instead uses Huawei's own HarmonyOS, and it's inside the software where most of the new features are found. Its new X Tap technology is top of the list. It uses a pressure sensitive side button with electrocardiogram (ECG) and heart rate sensors in it to provide a complete overview of your current health in more detail than it would by only using the rear sensor array. A one-tap Health Glance feature requires just three seconds to return 10 different data points, making it quicker and less complex than finding a menu option in the software. The pressure sensitive button also enables new gesture controls — a swipe and a double tap — to confirm actions or cycle through menus. Elsewhere the Watch 5 returns faster blood oxygen readings and 24-hour heart rate variability (HRV) data, plus it can track 100 different workout types, supports free diving, and offline color maps too. The watch supports both Wi-Fi 6 and eSIM connections, and the battery should last between three and four days in normal mode, or up to 12 days in Battery Saver mode. The Huawei Watch 5 starts from 400 British pounds (about $530) and is available to purchase through the Huawei store now. Huawei does not sell its smartwatches in the U.S.. Huawei Watch Fit 4 and Watch Fit 4 Pro Continuing on from its redesign of the Watch Fit series, the Watch Fit 4 and Watch Fit 4 Pro are shaped to appeal to those also interested in the Apple Watch Series 10 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 respectively. Both have a 1.82-inch rectangular screen, which the Fit 4 Pro covers in sapphire crystal, and also sports a titanium bezel on top of the aluminum case. The Fit 4 Pro's screen has a higher peak brightness of 3,000 nits compared to the Fit 4's 2,000 nits. The Fit 4 Pro's larger button guard and more angular case separate it from the standard Fit 4, and it's impressively thin at 9.3mm compared to the Fit 4's 9.5mm thick case, but it is slightly heavier at 32 grams compared to 27 grams. Still, this is light for a smartwatch, and should make both excellent for 24-hour wear. The Fit 4 comes in green, purple, white, black, or grey colors. The Fit 4 Pro comes in blue, black, or green. There are different straps to go with each, and they have a propriety connection system. New features include a barometer, a depth sensor enabling a dive computer to 40 meters, 3D maps for 15,000 different golf courses, a trail running mode with check points, and running form analysis. The battery is expected to last for seven days in normal mode, and up to 10 days with some features deactivated. The L1 and L5 GPS makes a return, there are 100 different workout modes to track, and a range of watch faces that go heavy on information displayed to try out. The Huawei Watch Fit 4 starts at 150 British pounds (about $200), and the Fit 4 Pro starts at 250 pounds (about $332). Both the Watch 5 and Watch Fit 4 series are compatible with both Android and iOS smartphones using the Huawei Health app.
