Honor Watch GS Pro Smartwatch Detailed Hands-on Review - 5ATM RUGGED - Only £249 - Any Good? By Chigz Tech Reviews

What's up guys high here from chicks tech reviews. So today I've got my hands on the latest on a watch gs pro, so this is honors. First rugged smartwatch, it's built with durability in mind, with military standard 810g rating, along with 5 ATM water resistance, built-in dual satellite GPS supports Bluetooth phone calls and has a massive battery life. Yes, as soon as this was announced, I was super excited. You guys already know that I love my smartwatches and I think you can tell in the way that I actually review them now check out that screen quality. Now we are talking about a 1.39 inch, AMOLED display with a screen resolution of 454 by 454, so a higher screen resolution than the usual 300 by 300, smartwatches that we are used to seeing, and you can absolutely tell the difference. Look at that beautiful screen now.

This watch is powered by the energy efficient, Karin a1 chipset, and this watch promises a 25-day battery life, which is already incredible in its own right. But that's not all if you were to keep GPS on constantly in outdoor GPS mode. Be that for a very long outdoor activity or hike, this watch will last around 100 hours, that's over four day battery life with GPS outdoor mode constantly on, and I can tell you right now: this beats most of the competing outdoor smartwatches out there in terms of battery performance now build quality. You have stainless steel, bezel with time markings going all the way around and finished in black they're, calling it charcoal black, and you can also pick this up in mild white and camo blue, so beautiful, looking screen, lovely bezels, really nice design. It doesn't feel really bulky like most outdoor sports watches.

Do this almost seems perfect size wise, especially for my wrist. Now here's the interesting part. The body is actually made from reinforced polycarbonate fiber, which means you have a lighter watch which feels more comfortable to wear, but at the same time, military standard, durability, tested and in case you're wondering the watch weighs 75 grams with the straps on now talking about the straps, we have silicon straps finished in black. They can be removed and replaced, but it looks like you're going to be replacing them with honor bands until universal straps become available, which I'm sure they will- and this is how the watch looks on my wrist. So you can see it's quite a big watch, but it's not bigger than the Samsung Galaxy watch, which I have on my other wrist.

So you can see they're fairly similar in size, and I do like how the watch feels on the wrist it's comfortable. It's light. It looks the business and the best part is its durable um. If I accidentally hit my hand against certain surfaces, it's not going to damage the watch it's built to last, and it's not that heavy, so my hand is not getting weighed down and if you're wondering I have a wrist circumference of seven inches. So yes, it is a large watch.

Big screen watch, um, ultra tough, ultra, durable and, above all, it is comfortable. So very nice. Indeed, now on the side, we have two buttons. The top one is a power button and the bottom one is a workout button. On the other side, there is nothing and at the bottom you will find your all-day heart rate sensor and charger pins I'll quickly, show you the charger.

So in the box you get a standard charging plate and a type c to type c cable and the charging plate is the same that we've seen in the past magic watch, 2 and also the Huawei gt watch. So it's the same charger. You just place it on top, it's a magnetic charger, and you can then just plug in the USB cable. Now it does take two hours to fully charge the 790 William hour battery. That's right, 790, William hours, people so big battery in the smartwatch, and I'm glad to see that the watch is not that thick we're looking at around 13.6, millimeters, thickness, so good job by honor. They managed to give us a big battery and still keep things nice and compact.

Now the watch is running on us. Customers which are smooth and fast in operation very easy to use, and the touchscreen is very responsive. Now this watch is jam-packed with health features. You have over a hundred workout modes to choose from and also exclusive features for, hiking, skiing and swimming, and especially for outdoor activity. This smartwatch can determine sunset and sunrise, mo onset and moonrise tide conditions and give you alerts for bad weather.

You also have root back, so the integrated dual satellite GPS enables you to route back to your starting location without even needing your smartphone and another incredible feature is whilst swimming this smartwatch will be able to check your heart rate underwater. I have not seen that done before, so I have to test it out right now, so water's filled up here, watches on, so we're going to see if the heart rate sensor works underwater. So let's activate pool swim so as if we are so as if we are going for a swim as soon as that shows a reading. I want to drop my arm into the water, so here we go, so you can see underwater. We are getting a reading, so 97 right now, 96 93 and the screen turns off the screen activated underwater when I flicked it, and you can see my heart rate is being calculated in real time, so quite impressed.

Heart rate sensor is working underwater people, so you are pretty much covered for your daily health, which includes step counter calories, distance, automatic sleep and stress tracking, and lots more. Now. All your health activities can be viewed from the smartphone app, which is called Huawei health, and it's available for both android and iOS. So quick, look at the smartphone app. You can see the activities that I've done so far.

My heart rate, my sleep now quickly have a look at the sleep monitoring. I was in bed by midnight and I woke up at 6 37. It gives you a score and gives you advice on how to improve your sleep. I think sleep tracking is one of the most important features in a smartwatch, and it has to be accurate. If you can get good sleep and tips on how to sleep better, then your performance throughout the day, be it for work or whatever you do will be much better.

So sleep is very important. This tracks, your sleep automatic, but it also tracks your stress so check out the stress levels. It gives you a little pie chart at the bottom, telling you what the different colors stand for so high medium, normal and relaxed. So it looks like my stress levels: are normal and relaxed mostly normal? So that's my range and that's my average 31. Spo2 levels can also be checked.

It will tell you your lowest and you're highest. That's your health at a glance right at the top. You'll get your step counter. So tell you the steps you've taken in the day with your distance calories and the stairs and timing as well. Now, if you click on exercises, you can initiate an exercise directly from the phone.

If you click on devices, you can select your watch model number, and then it will give you information like battery steps, calories, distance again watch faces now you can install watch faces directly on the watch, or you can install them from the smartphone app so from here. You can actually download a massive library of watch faces and there are a lot to choose from and a lot of different styles there's something for everyone, and once you install it, if you click on mine, these are all the watch faces that I already have on the watch. You can then manage them, remove what you don't want or keep, and you can save hundreds of watch faces you're not going to run out of storage. As such, you have options for health monitoring, music, alarm weather and favorite contacts. I'll show you your health monitoring options, so Huawei true sleep is for your sleep tracking, and I've got that on activity reminder.

So if you haven't moved much for over an hour, it will remind you to start moving now. You've got continuous heart rate monitoring, I've enabled it automatic stress test, and I've enabled that too. Now, if you didn't, want continuous heart rate testing on, you can easily change that to smart, real time, and you can set alerts when the heart rate reaches a certain level and so on and so forth. Now you've got your notifications, device settings, restore factory and firmware updates. So those are your basic options.

You've got a section over here as well, where you can actually check out your medals. Your achievements um your profile, your plans, and there are also experimental features which you can test out a bit like um, better testing, some new features, if you want to so time for a closer look at the watch features. So here is your default watch face, and it's one of my favorites. Actually it's actually a nice informative watch face so default watch face. If you want to change, keep the center pressed, you would feel some haptic feedback to any of these watch faces by simply tapping on them, and I will now give you a few examples of the selection of watch faces available on this watch so and if you're wondering how long it takes to actually download a watch face, let's do one right now in real time.

So let's select a watch face that looks interesting. Let's do this one. This is the watch face. I want to download, you can see the size, 361 KB, so that's less than half a megabyte so hit installation installing and done. That is it.

That is how fast it downloaded instantly just transferring it from the phone to the watch is what we were waiting for, and you can see the watch face is downloaded. So it's very fast. Let's do another one, and there is a never-ending list of watch faces. They just keep loading you're, definitely not going to get bored with these watch faces. So let's try one of these colorful ones just to see how it looks so this one here, it's exactly half a megabyte.

So, let's try this one out: shall we install, so it's already downloaded it's now transferring to the watch and boom it's done and look how nice these watch faces. Look amazing, amazing. I'm absolutely amazed by this watch. The honor watch gs pro has already blowed my mind, and I've only got halfway through the video okay. Let's just change to the camo watch face that looks pretty cool.

I like this watch face. This looks nice now, let's keep going through the features I'm going to swipe down from the top, and that will give you your quick, toggles so screen on, find my phone alarms settings and do not disturb along with some connection, information and battery. Now, if we swipe to the right, you've got your health rings, so the more active you are, the more they will close. If we keep going you've got your music, so you can play music directly from your phone, or you can have music stored on the internal storage. Now this is something that I should have shown you.

So, let's hit music manage music so from the smartphone app it will tell you watch storage, two gigs. So you've got two gigs of space to store your music, so there is one track I copied over. I'm just going to play it briefly. So you've got volume control the name of the track at the top I'll pause it you can skip tracks, and you can change the storage so that song was stored on the internal storage. I copied it over using the software, so you just hit add songs and any song you have saved on your phone.

You can transfer it over mp3s. Now the other options you have is phone, so you can control the music playing directly on your phone, so that becomes a music remote control. Now you've got your local weather stress levels, so I got stress levels automatic, so we'll be constantly testing my stress levels throughout the day. You've got your all-day heart rate sensor again, you can see the timings at the bottom, and that brings you back. If you swipe to the left, you've got the same functions: heart rate, stress, weather, music and your health rings, and then you're back to the watch face.

If you swipe up from the bottom, your emails and notifications will come through, they are read only so you can open them, and you can read them, but you can't reply on them, and you can see that the text is nice and big and easy to read. Now before we have a look at the apps, you've got Bluetooth phone calls, so what that means is. If someone calls me, I am going to test this right now we're going to test the call quality. Okay, I'll answer the call. I can't show you the screen, because it's got my phone number on the.

So here is an example of the audio quality, with Bluetooth phone course. So I am calling myself from one phone to another phone, and I've taken the call directly on my watch, and this is what you can expect in terms of audio quality. Now, let's reverse things, so now I've switched things around. I am now talking directly into my watch with my smartphone on loudspeaker, so this should give you a good idea of what the microphone is like in the actual smartwatch now, whilst you're at the home screen. If you tap the top button, it will show you all your apps, and I'll go through them with you.

You have workout records, workout status, heart rate, spo2 activity, records, sleep stress, breathing exercises call log contacts. So if you want you can go into contacts, and you can directly choose a contact and initiate a phone call directly to them and of course it will use Bluetooth connection with your smartphone in order to make that phone call. You've got music, remote shutter, and I will test that out for you right now. So, no matter what you're doing on your phone, if you hit remote shutter the camera just opens, and it does what it says on the tin, it's a remote shutter, so you can take pictures. So that's your remote shutter you've got air pressure built in compass, notifications, weather stopwatch, timer, alarm, torch, fine phone and settings, and I'll quickly.

Skim through the settings. You've got earbuds, so you can actually connect to your Bluetooth, earbuds or earphones by simply tapping that it will search and connect. You've got display, settings sounds vibration, do not disturb down. Button can be customized. So right now it's set on workouts, but you can cut.

You can customize it to do anything you like from this list. So music notifications stopwatch alarm torch, fine phone settings. Any of these functions can be activated by just pressing the bottom button. I think workout is good. Now, if we keep going, you've got one hop which is inactive.

If I tap it, so that's a custom feature. I've not heard of this. It's called one hop. I'm going to test this out right now, so it's activated right. So I've got an image that I want to share.

So it's saying hold your watch against the back of your phone to create and transfer custom watch faces, so you're telling me. I can just do that loading. I felt a vibration by the way. That's why wow? That is incredible. It actually worked, so one hop a feature which I've never heard of.

I just tried this out by chance. You can create. Custom watch faces using pictures, so that's me making some chicken curry people- that's right. I like to cook in my spare time and that's spare time I don't get. I put scotch bonnet chilies in that, and it came out really nice so anyway, scotch bonnet chili wallpaper is in front of me right now.

That's crazy! You know that is crazy. Okay, I better change it. We've got system about click on system, and you've got your usual options there, including disconnect and reset, and you've got about so already. I've done two firmware updates, whilst testing this watch. So I've had this watch on my wrist for a few days, and I've been testing it out.

I've been testing the sleep tracking and the stress tracking, which is why I do have quite a bit of information on this watch and the battery doesn't look like it wants to get rinsed anytime soon. So long, lasting battery is definitely what you can expect in this watch. If you guys follow my channel, you know what it's time for it's time for our simultaneous heart rate tests, so I'm wearing two smartwatches, so the honor watch gs pro versus the Samsung Galaxy watch three now the honor watch is priced 249 pounds and the galaxy watch is priced 409 pounds so huge difference in price. But what we want to know is how accurate is the heart rate sensor on the honor watch. Now, from my experience I already know the honor watches have great heart rate sensors, but you know me guys.

I can't help myself. I have to compare, and I have to test so 103 on the honor watch, gs pro and the Samsung Galaxy watch.3 is now 99 spot on people, so accurate heart rate sensor is what you're going to get in the honor watch gs pro. So, while we're here we're gonna, do a simultaneous screen on hand raised test. Okay, I'm going to raise my hand, and we're going to see which one turns on quicker. So one two three here we go, so galaxy watch took that one.

Let's try again one two three here we go that looked like the same time to me exactly the same time so, third time lucky we're going to see who takes this exactly the same guys. So the Samsung Galaxy watch and the Apple Watch have the fastest screen on hand rays you can get and the honor gs pro does not disappoint. It has an equally fast screen on hand race. Now there is another feature that needs to be mentioned: it's the always-on display you can select you're always on display, so you can choose. Any of these watch faces to be you're, always on display.

That is quite awesome, so this is going to be my always-on display. This will cut your battery time in half and will also disable raise to wake okay, so we're waiting for the always-on display. Let's see what happens there, we always go on display, and it's in color. I like that. Yes, it's gonna half your battery, but sometimes you just want an always on display in it and for those occasions.

Why not? You know what I'm actually going to try a different one, because that also impressed me always on. Let's try this one light speed. Okay, so when the screen times out the always-on kicks in there, we go it's like having two different screens that is cool, but when you raise your hand, it no longer does anything that feature is switched off while you always got on, but you can always double tap the display or press any button on the side and that will activate the watch. So that has to be one of the best, always on screens that I've experienced so far a game changing feature right there. Now I'm going to do a workout just to show you how it works.

Simple, outdoor walk is what we're going to do so, I'm going to select it, it says: wear your watch, a fingers' width above your wrist fingers width above your wrist. That's exactly what I've done it gives you. The GPS status heart rate is on. It says: please go outdoors to collaborate, the GPS! Obviously I'm not outdoors, but I am going right now. So, let's go, so that's my workout done and when you stop walking you can see it stops counting.

So I'm going to stop. The workout now hit stop end workout and that's it. That's my outdoor walk logged, so you can see I've done, 0.37, kilometers, six minutes, 51 calories and that was my fastest pace. Average speed average pace keep going. You got your steps, 457 steps, you can see my average stride, 81, centimeters, wow, and you've got your altitude heart rate, so maximum heart rate went to 144 and minimum went to 87 and some of you are going to be thinking.

Man, you were walking, and you went to 144 heart rate. No, the watch is not faulty. This is true. If you watch my other smartwatch videos, you will know that high is kind of unhealthy at the moment. But anyway, let's keep going you've got your heart rate zones.

You can see. Fat burning is maxed out there, which is a good thing. So, when you're unhealthy, like me, um your fat burning will accelerate fast, because your heart rate will jump to 140 and when your heart rate is that high you're going to be burning the calories much faster, so it works positively as well. So, let's keep going you've got your pace. Look how detailed the report is.

I thought it will end soon, but it keeps going training effect, recovery time, your vo2 max, and then you can share your fitness records via the health app I'm going to show you the smartphone app, and we are going to very quickly sync that, and you can see it's already. Synced exercise records tap it and there you go. These are all my exercises. It will show you the root of your walk, and I was only going up and down my driveway and over here you can see the details, duration and calories. If we hit charts, you can get detailed information, as shown on the watch, but of course you can view it all on a bigger screen.

So here are all the details as well, so it gives you a performance report at the end, so letting you know how well you did etc. So the fitness features are great, and I really like how much detail it gives you so there you have it guys that was the honor watch gs pro now. This watch is an inspiration. It's a giant leap from their last smartwatch. This is a company which strives forward to give the people not only their money's worth but technology to improve the quality of your life.

Yes, honor you've done it right now. The honor watch gs pro will be priced around 250, and I don't even know how that's possible. You have a stunning flagship, AMOLED display with a higher resolution than Samsung's and apple's flagship, smartwatches. Now the honor watch gs pro also has a long list of features. We are talking about: 580 and water, resistance, military standard durability, sp02 stainless steel, bezels automatic sleep, tracking, automatic stress, tracking, dual satellite GPS, lots of sensors, Kiran a1, chipset, Bluetooth phone calls 25 day battery life and, as you saw in my demonstrations, extensive health features, and you also have a surprising underwater heart rate sensor and lots more.

There are too many features to list and mention right now. So when you start using the watch, you will discover new things every day. Now, if you want to see where this watch ranks in my smartwatch chart, then head over to chigztech. com and view my charts at your leisure, so bottom line an affordable premium, flagship smartwatch designed for fitness, sports and outdoor activities. Now I must say this is the most attractive rugged smartwatch I have come across so far now.

Usually rugged durable smartwatches are big and bulky and don't look very smart just check out the design of the smartwatch. They went for a minimalistic look with stainless steel bezels. This smartwatch will look good on any occasion. It means the honor watch. Gs pro can easily be your all-rounder daily driver smartwatch and I have to say the price is perfect.

You cannot get a smartwatch like this. This quality with these features for 250. That is the ultimate bottom line right there, bang for your buck on your wrist everyone's happy. I can tell you right now. This one is going to sell out fast, and I just hope that the price stays at 250 and with that being said, I will leave the links in the description, so you guys can check it out for yourselves.

That's all for this video if you have any questions fire them in the comments, and I'll do my best to reply. I hope you enjoyed the video. Thank you so much for watching, and I'll see you guys in the next one. You.

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