so slightly scarily it's been a couple
of years almost since huawei launched
its last big wearable the watch
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HUAWEI WATCH 3 Specification- HUAWEI Global
#Unboxing
1.i still remember uh vividly unboxing
2.it in a munich hotel room at 5 am with a
3.with a stinking hangover from
4.about 20 pieces and since then we've
seen a few variants emerge like the onewe watched gt2 pro
the gt2e but only now almost halfway
through 2021 so we finally have a true
successor the huawei watch
3 sporting that fresh new harmony os
this looks like a great bit of wearable
tech pack and all kinds of great new
features not found on earlier models
what i'm going to do now is whip it on
out of the box take you on a full on
tour of the hardware
and the software ahead of my in-depth
review and the best part is this time
around i'm not hungover
in a bloody hotel room so that's always
a bonus and for more on the latest
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cheers so first up of course what do you
actually get in the box well the answer
is one while we watch
three you've also got one proprietary
magnetic charger for powering up
the huawei watch 3 when it's low on
juice looks very similar to the one on
the gt2 except now it's all connected
you can't disconnect the head
from the usb cable and that magnetic
connection seems to be just as strong
here on the while we watch three as on
those earlier models as well take some
serious jiggling to get it to disconnect
despite the fact that the while we watch
three is a bit of a hefty bugger how
many other tech youtubers do the jiggle
test
not many that's right that's why you
come to uncle spurt
and you've also got a saucy bit of qr
code action as well to have you download
that huawei
health app though it's freely available
and likes the google play store and
apple's app store as well and we'll be
using that to set up the huawei watch
three in a jiffy so as of right now the
huawei watch three only comes in this
one
size that is 46 millimeters there might
be a 42 millimeter version
launched in the future but huawei is
remaining tight lipped on that one
first impressions i've got to say are
pretty strong i really like the
aesthetics here on the huawei watch 3
even though it is undeniably one hell of
a chunky godzilla
beast certainly a hefty more for as well
you'll definitely feel that the first
time you slap this thing on your wrist
at least if you've got weedy little
man-boy biceps like i do definitely
check back for my full review for more
on that but the stainless steel casing
looks really nice hopefully will prove
rugged as well
as hopefully will that 3d curved glass
because there's no bezel action to
protect it
from everyday scratches and scuffs if
you fancy more premium finish we'll
definitely check out the huawei watch 3
pro
instead that'll come back in a beefier
price tag of course but what you'll get
is a sapphire
display so that'll be hardier and
tougher to scratch you also get a
titanium body
and a good bit of ceramic backing
instead so in other words very similar
design to the huawei watch gt2 pro
as for the actual strap that you get
bundled with the huawei watch three well
that'll depend on which
model you choose you've got the active
for instance which comes with the flu
raw
elastomer strap which is great for if
you're doing lots of exercise you've
also got a classic
which comes with the nylon strap and the
elite model which comes packing a
stainless steel link bracelet
but just like most other huawei
smartwatches as you can see there
you can actually pull off the bands
detach them entirely and attach a new
pair
uh to suit whatever you're going to be
up to so slap on a leather band if
you're going to be having a
wild night out on the town whatever and
yeah the one we watch three is fully
water resistant you can rock it in the
swimming pool get a good bit of swim
tracking on the go
as you can see here on the side of the
while we watch three driver raw tier 10
crown which also doubles as the power
button and then you've got another
button
down beneath as well so let's just power
up the huawei watch threes if you've got
any juice in the tank
get it all set up and then we can tour
the rest of the features
thankfully pairing up with your
smartphone is an absolute piece of
piddle all you need to do is download
the huawei health app
the two will be connected in less than a
minute so as i mentioned before this is
the first one with small watch to come
rocking a
bit of harmony away so they'll touch but
it seems fairly easy to get to grips
with
if basically used to wear os or any of
the
previous huawei smart watches first up i
really like the main watch face that
comes out as default it's
packed with information although it
doesn't feel too cluttered
so first as it tells you just how active
you've been you've got the main time and
everything on there you've even got
when the sun will set later that day you
can have an alternative
time setup as well if you've got a loved
one in a different time zone and you've
also got shortcuts on there to your call
records if you want to see exactly who's
been ringing and
your bit of heart rate action too if you
tap the little planet icon or simply
swipe
right then you will access the weather
information well
swiping the other way will bring up a
whole bunch of widgets this is fully
customizable showing you all of the
information you want fast access to
unfortunately right now at the time i
shot this video there are very few
actual uh widgets
that you can play around with you
basically got your activity records
you got your heart rate monitor and you
got your spo2 monitor as well
and that is it even if you dive into the
custom section there are no more
that you can add to that selection
hopefully that will improve soon though
and then back at that main watch face
swipe
up in order to access any notifications
that have trickled through either via
the e sim or
via your tethered smartphone and then if
you swipe down you'll access a whole
bunch of toggles
and the settings and it's in here you'll
also be able to check out the current
date the current day of the week if
you're that
out of touch with what's actually going
on uh the battery life and whether
you're connected to the likes of wi-fi
gotta say really liking uh the settings
menu very comprehensive in terms of the
toggles you've got access to all the
usual stuff like do not disturb a torch
feature alarms find my phone even the
ability to drain
the watch if you've been in water give
that a little prod
and basically the speakers will emit a
pulse and that just helps to
spit any liquids out of the orifice
shake until baby oh yeah
and the actual harmony os settings menu
is very dense indeed you can customize
all kinds of stuff on this thing uh so
as you say you've got fast access the
wi-fi
connectivity if you don't have e-sim
support i just want to save your ecm
data
and play around with the mobile and
network settings turn on airplane mode
if you need to
check out the status you've got nfc
support as well although i'm not sure if
the while we watch three supports
contactless pyramids it obviously won't
support the likes of google up here
but i'll check with while wait to see
exactly what that does support you can
fully customize the tiles or widgets as
i mentioned before if you dive into
display and brightness as you can see
that's on automatic
brightness and certainly seems very very
bright and punchy on that default
setting you can change up
the sounds and vibration settings as
well as you can see that change
the ring volume the ai voice volume ring
tones
all kinds of stuff you can also turn on
the likes of
the ultra long battery life as well
which i will touch on later when we
mention the battery and you've got the
huawei assistant on board this thing as
well
you can activate the voice assistant at
any point by saying hey
celia otherwise alternatively you can
press and hold the down button and
speaking of that down button you can
configure exactly
what happens when you tap that as well
you can either completely disable it
or have it bring up a specific feature
and before i forget let's just put that
assistant
to the test so hey celia set a timer for
10 minutes
sorry i didn't understand that uh hey
celia
set a timer for 10 minutes
sorry i didn't understand that okay
let's uh let's maybe try an easier one
hey celia what day is it today
sorry i didn't understand that ah in a
freaking way
i mean frankly she's understanding less
than me after a case of scotch
but uh never mind let's carry on the
actual display is a 1.43
inch amoled panel 326 pixels per inch
so as you can see even tiny little
images and text
nice and crisp and clear got to see the
touch responsiveness
is seeming a little bit iffy certainly
right now it's early software and
everything so i'm hoping that's going to
improve but it does seem that
occasionally certainly when you first
wake up the watch
uh then it occasionally takes a couple
of sort of swipes to actually get it
going
like so but once you do get it going
nice smooth transitions thanks to the 60
hertz refresh rate and as i said before
certainly seems to be nice and bright
uh even on that automatic brightness
level uh should be absolutely fine for
any outdoors use whatsoever
and because it's an oled panel yes you
do have a bit of always on display
action as well as you can see there and
that is also customizable
just like the main watch face all you
got to do is long press on it like so
and then you can choose which one you
want and as you can see you got quite a
few
options on there by default mostly
digital uh but we've got a few analog
style efforts as well
you can set one of your gallery photos
to be the main
watch face in addition to that and
you've also got the option of
downloading or should i say uploading
actually more watch faces to the watch
via that health app to check out the
other watch faces just go into the
huawei health app
and go to uh watch faces obviously and
then there's a big old selection
right there to choose from most of them
will cost you one or two pounds
but there are some free ones in there if
you do a bit of hunting around
if you're a skin flint and basically
something that suits all tastes in there
as well and of course you can get your
own
uh watch face on the go with the gallery
selection here's one i made earlier this
just allows you to choose any folder
you've got on your smartphone use that
as the background you can then change up
the style of the time and the date
from a limited selection unfortunately
you can't actually change up the color
uh just basically the font and the
layout that just basically switches it
from top to bottom
that is it unfortunately there's no
other extra complications or anything
that you can add in there it's quite
basic stuff but nice if you want a you
know a photo of the fam
or a pretty anime girl if you're an
absolute nerd like me
and they also have a different amount of
information as well so basically it's
all about your priorities what you want
to have there on the main watch face
every time
you wake the watch 3 app and so far
really like the neat little animations
that homily os
throws up so for instance when you wake
this particular watch face as you can
see there the temperature bar
at the top springs into life that's a
really neat effect
and the always on display will match the
main watch face as well which is again
a really nice neat touch and the huawei
watch 3 certainly comes packed
with plenty of apps by default as well
as you can see there you can zoom in and
out of this new grid style
setup kind of similar to the apple
watches effort using that rotating dial
and all the stuff you would uh expect to
find on a huawei watch is present and
correct all the stuff you generally find
on those
previous weather watches likes of timers
alarms all your fitness features
stress busters all presented really
neatly in a really
colorful bold fashion as well you do
also have a huawei music app
as well which allows you to actually
stream music direct from the cloud if
you like using your e-sim or
the wi-fi connection but you will need a
plus
premium membership or whatever to
actually get this working and
unfortunately this doesn't work with
other third-party services like diesel
music
and something that all the well-way
watchers would not allow you to do is
download new apps actually onto the
watch but now you can do that
thanks to the inclusion of huawei's app
gallery so just like samsung
smartwatches uh wear os devices etc you
can actually download apps directly onto
the watch
uh via wi-fi or using that e-sim
connectivity you don't even have to be
tethered
to your smartphone however because
harmony os is obviously
quite young compared to the likes of
watch os and
wear os the selection on offer is
uh not exactly particularly great is uh
there's a few gaps in there shall we say
unlike previous huawei wearables as well
lots of fitness support here on the
huawei watch three as well including of
course the good old workout
uh tracking and i'm not kidding when i
say it that pretty much anything you
could possibly imagine
is tracked by this thing you've got over
a hundred different types of custom
workout covering pretty much anything
you could possibly think of i'm not
kidding when i say that all
tastes are cared for hula hoop frisbee
darts does that even count
as a sport laser tag tug of war
swinging way and then basically select
your chosen activity
and then give a little tap to begin
you'll get the funky dutch sounding guy
telling you to start your workout i'll
tell you exactly how long you've been
exercising for how your heart rate's
doing as you can see i'm really enjoying
doing this video
and how many calories you've burnt so
far and you can also get some other uh
stats of the goal sort of depending on
obviously what activity
you are doing and then you can pause it
at any time and then
cancel the workout as well you've got
the usual gps smarts built in there of
course as you'd expect if you upgrade to
the pro model you've actually got dual
channel gps for pin point precision and
like previous generations of huawei
watches well the huawei watch 3 can
automatically detect when you start to
do an exercise and start tracking that
for you with your
permission although i'm not sure how
good it'll be previous generations
occasionally you'd be walking
for a good mile or so before it actually
clocked that you weren't just sitting on
your ass anymore so again stay tuned for
my full in-depth review for more and all
that
you've got plenty of the health smarts
built into this so you've got the usual
24-hour uh heart rate tracking
of course just leave it there on your
wrist it will see how your pulse is
doing throughout the day
you've also got a temperature sensor
built in there for continuous skin
temperature tracking and continuous uh
24-hour
seven days a week sp02 monitoring as
well
there's also the obligatory stress
tracking and i'm not actually sure how
good that really is because i just had a
mini meltdown over a brand new
microphone not working and as you can
see that
didn't even register on the scale and a
good bit of sleep tracking as you can
see there i got about eight hours of
sleep last night that's actually fairly
accurate
um it didn't register when i was just
plonked on the sofa just watching tv
which is good because a lot of the
the lesser sleep trackers do do that as
you can see there yeah pretty much
accurately tracked how much kip i got
you don't get much information actually
on the watch itself
but if you jump on into the huawei
health app again you can see a bit more
detail as you can see there light and
deep sleep it gives you a score on how
good your sleeping abilities are
breaks down into rem sleep all of that
good stuff and considering i had my
first corvette job yesterday but i
apparently slept
all right now when it comes to your
battery life the one we watch three is
definitely a step
down from previous huawei watches but
that's only because it's got a built-in
e
sim support as well so if you've got the
e-sim active then huawei reckons
you'll get probably about three days of
full-on use with all the features
going in the background as well i've
just been using the wi-fi and obviously
the partnership
with my smartphone on this thing so far
and it looks like around three to four
days of used is actually probably what
i'll get
with that even without the esim action
on the go
because if that's not good enough for
you you can turn on the ultra long
battery mode this will extend the
battery life up to
two weeks but that will deactivate most
of the features like the e-sim but if
the wi-fi gets knocked off it just uses
the tethered features
and all it gives you is basically the
animated watch faces and a couple of the
other sort of standard features you
would use and that is it the fitness
tracking is severely curtailed there as
well you've still got access to about
sort of 14
15 activity modes i believe it is but
that's it if that does seriously put you
off though you could always upgrade to
that pro model because apparently that will
extend the battery life to five days of
standard use or up to
three weeks 21 days with that ultra long
battery mode so anyway that in a
nutshell is the huawei
watch three and as i see i will keep it
slapped on my wrist for the next sort of
week or two fully test out the fitness tracking
features the battery life all that good
stuff to see how good they really
are and hopefully bring you that
in-depth review soon in the meantime it
would be fantastic to hear your own
thoughts on the huawei watch three or
you're tempted by it don't have an official uk pricing
or released it just yet because i'm
covering this ahead of the official launch
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