As a digital product enthusiast, I have successively used a lot of wearable smart devices, of which only smart watches have been used for a long time (if you don't count wireless headphones). In my opinion, today's smart watches have a good functionality, in addition to the regular heart rate, exercise records, today's smart watches will generally add such as blood oxygen monitoring, information reminders and other functions, and more comprehensive is to be able to install third-party Apps to achieve more functions.
However, the current smart watch in the balance of function and battery life has not found a suitable answer, most of the real smart watch life is only 2-3 days, a fruit of the smart watch in normal use is only about 1 day of battery life, for users who need short-term travel this point of endurance is certainly not able to meet the needs, and even daily use needs to always pay attention to the power situation.
Although manufacturers are also aware of the battery life problem of smart watches, it is not easy to solve, whether it is to expand the battery capacity or limit the performance of the watch, it will inevitably bring about a decline in experience, which is obviously unacceptable to users. However, recently I received the Honor watch GS 3 sent by Honor, and unexpectedly found that Honor already has its own answer to the battery life problem of smart watches.
When smartwatches meet thin and light
Honor watch GS 3 is quite similar to the traditional watch in terms of design, the round dial and round button design can be said to be quite classic, with the various dials in the supporting App, you can instantly incarnate into a smart version of the "green water ghost", retro LED electronic watch and other classic shapes.
In the material of the watch frame, Honor chose the steel material commonly used in watches, and in order to avoid the intergranular corrosion problem of ordinary steel materials, the same level of 316L model steel of high-end watch brands was selected, and the steel of this model added metal molybdenum, which can effectively prevent the occurrence of intergranular corrosion.
In terms of technology, Honor chooses a full polishing treatment, with a circular edge treatment, at the same time, Honor also uses a highly wear-resistant 3D thin curved glass as the dial mirror, with a curved 3D mirror with the frame can be said to complement each other, so that the overall touch of the watch is quite smooth.
In my opinion, smart watches have a very key design requirements - thin and light, early smart watches in order to tuck into a variety of sensors and screens, often resulting in fuselage thickness, weight is much larger than the traditional watch, after wearing can obviously feel the presence of pressure on the wrist, in the movement of the side of the wrist will also feel the constraint.
Even in the current smart watch, there are many smart watches with a lot of weight and thickness, and after wearing it for a period of time, you need to take off your wrist to take a break, and there is a problem in another domestic brand smart watch I wore before experiencing the glory watch GS 3.
The Honor watch GS 3 still controls the thickness at 10.5mm in the case of a large number of sensors, screens and other hardware, and the weight is only 44g (excluding the strap). In the process of experiencing the Honor Watch GS 3, I largely ignored the fact that I was still wearing a smart watch on my hand, and I could only occasionally feel the existence of the Honor Watch GS 3 when typing on the keyboard and paying more attention.
This honor watch GS 3 has a total of three different color styles, my one is a racing pioneer, so it is also suitable for sports use of the fluoroelastomer strap, light at the same time, in the wrist sweat also has an excellent anti-slip effect, and do not worry about the corrosion effect of sweat stains damage the appearance of the strap.
Of course, like other smartwatches, the Honor GS 3 supports self-replacement of the strap, and you can feel free to match it with other official watches to adapt to different dress styles and occasions. Moreover, in the App's watch face store you can also find a variety of styles of watch faces, including many dynamic and classic design styles, which are worth a try in my opinion.
Super long battery life + flash charge, and no electricity to say goodbye
For users of traditional watches, it may be difficult to quickly adapt to the use habits of smart watches, in addition to adding many functions that need to be operated, that is, it needs to be charged every two or three days. Traditional high-end mechanical watches can be used almost permanently by relying on mechanical structures such as oscillating weights in the process of use, while smart watches can be basically equivalent to a pure ornament once they forget to charge.
Moreover, friends who often need to travel on business or are usually busy (it is easy to forget things when busy), it is also difficult to remember to bring a special charger or regular charging on a business trip. Therefore, in my opinion, battery life is an important factor in testing a smart watch, and too short battery life is a devastating disadvantage for the user experience.
So, how does Honor solve the endurance problem? Honor watch GS 3 starts from two aspects, one is through the deep optimization of power-consuming hardware such as sensors, functions, chip power consumption, etc., combined with AI technology to intelligently monitor and control the consumption of power, so that the power consumption of the hardware is significantly reduced, and finally the battery life of up to 14 days in the typical mode is achieved.
The second is to optimize the charging module in depth, so that the watch can be charged with enough power to support a day's use in about 5 minutes, even if you suddenly find that the watch is out of power, you can also restore it to the normal state of use in a short period of time, and the full charge only takes 55 minutes, and the time to take a bath and eat a meal can complete the entire charging process.
In the process of testing, the ultra-long endurance of the Honor Watch GS 3 has brought me a lot of trouble, in order to exhaust the power of the watch, I had to frequently open the continuous bright screen and GPS positioning, and finally it took two or three days to consume less than 50% of the power to 0%. Subsequently, in a completely powerless shutdown state, I tested the charging speed of the Honor Watch GS 3 and charged 16% in just 5 minutes, according to my previous experience, a day of use is definitely more than enough.
Moreover, unlike other watches that limit a large number of functions in exchange for battery life, the Honor watch GS 3 in the typical mode is quite complete in function, basically supporting all the resident monitoring functions enabled, and only after starting to turn on the GPS positioning mode will it be transferred to high-energy consumption mode, which allows users to carry out more accurate movement monitoring when leaving the phone.
For the average user, 14 days of battery life is enough to meet the short-term travel needs, in daily use does not need to charge every two to three days, the number of more than ten times a month directly reduced to twice a month, for the user experience to improve quite obviously.
Exercise and health, one table to master
As the most basic function of the smart watch, the exercise and health monitoring function is naturally indispensable, how does the Honor Watch GS 3 perform in these two basic functions? In the sport mode, the Honor Watch GS 3 supports dual-band GPS positioning and five major satellite positioning systems, which can theoretically be supported by GPS positioning around the world, and the domestic mainstream GPS and Beidou system are naturally perfect support.
In addition, whether in the state of exercise or life, heart rate is an important parameter to assess the state of the body, so the Honor Watch GS 3 is equipped with an 8-channel heart rate AI engine, with a high-precision heart rate sensor, more accurate recording of the heart rate change process, combined with blood oxygen sensor and intelligent AI algorithm, can get more accurate body data, so that users can better understand their physical state.
In the process of exercise, heart rate is a data that can intuitively display the current state of exercise, the higher the heart rate means that the more intense the body's state of movement, requiring the heart to provide more oxygen and blood supply to the whole body to maintain muscle contraction and movement. Therefore, heart rate has become an important basis for recording the user's state in the sports mode, on the Honor watch GS 3, when you start exercising, in addition to visually seeing the heart rate data, there is also an outer ring that shows the heart rate data range.
The five color intervals on the outer ring represent different heart rate intervals, the blue area is warm-up, the green area is fat burning, and the yellow area is aerobic endurance, representing different stages of exercise, allowing users to more intuitively understand the movement state of the body at this time. At the same time, when the heart rate is too high, the pointer will reach the orange or even red range, at which time the watch will directly warn the athlete to pay attention to the physical state, so as not to cause physical damage.
Without opening the GPS mode, I simply tested indoor sports, outdoor sports and other projects, and the accuracy of the data was not lost to open another domestic high-end smart watch in the full intelligent mode. In addition to the regular exercise time, calorie consumption, average pace of these data, there are such as average cadence, average stride length and other data, allowing users to more intuitively and accurately understand their own sports status and exercise posture, and make targeted adjustments.
In addition, the Honor Watch GS 3 supports up to 104 sports modes, in addition to the indoor sports modes mentioned earlier, there are also modes such as indoor free movement, and also supports a variety of outdoor sports modes, combined with GPS positioning to perform well in data accuracy. In addition, the Honor Watch GS 3 has also added a professional ski mode and a fun skipping mode for this year's popular ski and skipping rope, in which the skipping rope mode will be upgraded through OTA push later.
In professional ski mode, users can also choose between normal skiing, snowboarding and cross-country skiing to adapt to different skiing gameplay. In addition to recording the physical state, speed and number of times of the jump rope process, the fun jump rope is also configured with a "one-minute mode" for the competition, which can be used in the jump rope competition, eliminating the error caused by manual timing and counting.
In addition to motion monitoring, sleep mode is probably the most used function by smart watch users, honor watch GS 3 through the built-in multiple sensors, can be used with the mobile phone to record snoring and other conditions and finally summarize the analysis. In order to test the sleep mode of the Honor watch GS 3, I went to sleep later than usual and got feedback from the app the next morning.
Honor watch GS 3 comprehensively evaluates the sleep state of the human body through various sensors such as blood oxygen and heart rate, and then scores the quality of the entire sleep process in combination with the reference value, and finally obtains a comprehensive score and improvement suggestions. Because of the late fall asleep, the night sleep time of the day is only 5 hours and 41 minutes, the score after the app comprehensive evaluation is displayed as low, click to see the science and improvement suggestions about the data, for friends with poor sleep quality can effectively find their sleep problems, and improve.
Personally, the Honor Watch GS 3 is well enough to meet the daily sleep and heart health monitoring needs of most people in combination with a professional AI analysis system.
In addition, in addition to the smart watch's regular information reminder and other functions, the Honor Watch GS 3 also supports answering the phone without touching the phone, with the support of the built-in speaker and microphone, users can directly answer the phone without picking up the phone, eliminating the trouble of looking for a mobile phone when a sudden call comes.
Moreover, honor watch GS 3 also supports third-party App installation, users can expand the functions supported by the watch through the application, such as AutoNavi map can provide watch navigation services, as well as such as air travel, drinking water reminders, handheld high-speed rail, etc., greatly expanding the scope of use of smart watches.
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Write at the end
Honor watch GS 3 in the wearing experience, is the top of the smart watches I have used recently, in my opinion, a smart watch is not only powerful, whether it can make users wear more comfortable is actually very critical. Otherwise, over time, users will feel resistant to wearing smart watches, and then put smart watches on the shelf, and now many smart watch designers are not actually aware of this.
Moreover, the Honor Watch GS 3 does not weaken other aspects of the experience in order to remain thin and light, whether it is a large touch screen or a built-in speaker, or a perfect heart rate, blood oxygen, and exercise monitoring, many functions are thicker and larger than the watch does not have. It also has an excellent battery life and flash charging experience, which largely solves the problem of battery life anxiety of smart watches.
As a smart watch sold from 1299 yuan, the Honor watch GS 3 has given me an unexpected experience, and it is also a satisfactory answer sheet handed over by Honor in the smart watch market at the beginning of the year.