I have a Huawei Watch, but it got slightly wet and stopped working. It’s my fault and I’m not really mad, but it wasn’t good enough for me to buy another one after only 3 months. I’ve been meaning to find out if it can be sent off to be repaired. They are kind of coy about what level of water resistance it has, but my experience has been to not get it wet, even a little bit, ever.
It was really convenient for dismissing notifications without having to take your phone out, but it also made me realize most of the notifications on my phone are junk so I had to go about figuring out how to disable them since they were now harder to ignore.
The activity tracking features kind of worked. The built in Huawei apps had a different step count that would read about 10% of my wife’s Garmin Forerunner 15, but then I found out the built in Android activity apps had a more accurate step count. Heart rate monitoring was crap. I wanted something that would monitor my heart rate continuously like my mom’s Fitbit Surge, or at least schedule it every half hour or hour. There was nothing to do this natively and I tried a couple apps that claimed to do it and they weren’t able to get a read and left the sensor on 100% of the time, cutting the battery in less than half.
Overall it was only OK, fun to have, but not really life changing, and really disappointing that it broke so easily. After it broke I realized after a few days that I wasn’t really missing out on anything.
