Sports+health+life, 24-hour assistant on wrist, Huawei bracelet 3 Pro evaluation ｜ Titanium geek

In this era of rapid development, heavy work has become a daily routine for young people. However, with the improvement of the quality of life, people’s search for well-being is becoming more and more intense, and such demand has contributed to the increasing richness of wearable devices such as smart bracelets, and the market has gradually been opened.

With the continuous improvement of smart wearable products, the homogenization trend of products is becoming more and more obvious. However, there are many kinds of bracelet products on the market with different functions, so it is difficult to find a product with very comprehensive functions and no obvious shortcomings.

Today, Huawei recently released a product called "Huawei Bracelet 3 Pro". When it was first exposed on the Internet, it attracted the attention of many netizens. Its rich exercise mode, 24-hour heart rate monitoring and independent GPS are very comprehensive.

Before the release of the new product, Titanium Media received the test product of Huawei bracelet 3 Pro in advance. Here, I will show you its actual use test for the first time to see if it can meet your daily needs.

Huawei bracelet 3 Pro inherits the style of Huawei TalkBand B5 in design, and also adopts rectangular screen and minimalist style. At present, Huawei bracelet 3 Pro has three colors: Obsidian Black, Space Blue and Quicksand Gold.

The screen of Huawei bracelet 3 Pro is a 95 inch AMOLED color high-definition large screen with a resolution of 240*120, which makes the screen more full in color and stronger in contrast.

In terms of operation mode, Huawei bracelet 3 Pro adopts "full touch+one-button Home" design, and its entire screen adopts full touch design to select double-layer architecture. Self-contained+mutual-contained touch integrated IC enables users to touch the screen under any circumstances, and its performance is relatively stable. Bracelet supports up and down, left and right sliding+any click.

In order to ensure the experience and accuracy of touch operation, Huawei bracelet 3 Pro screen is treated by 2.5D curved surface technology, and the surface is coated with anti-fingerprint (AF) film, which has strong anti-fouling ability, easy cleaning, and the hardness level reaches 7H, enhancing wear resistance and scratch resistance.

Compared with the black-and-white pill-shaped bracelet, its display effect is clearer and more colorful. With comprehensive information display, it can also display colored icons, and the bracelet displays more words on a single screen.

Although the screen of Huawei bracelet 3 Pro looks square and angular, it is still quite smooth with the touch of skin under the package of metal middle frame. This small metal middle frame has been polished and polished by many processes and iridescent spraying, which ensures smooth and delicate touch and color texture at the same time.

The workmanship of the whole bracelet is very fine, and the sealing performance is very good. According to official data, it has a waterproof capacity of 50 meters, and it is no problem to wear it when taking a bath, getting caught in the rain, washing the car and swimming on weekdays.

Previously, the definition of Huawei’s bracelet has always been the concept of "non-inductive wearing". To achieve this goal, on the one hand, the weight and touch of the dial, on the other hand, the material of the strap is also very important.

Huawei bracelet 3 Pro strap is made of silicone and adopts UV curing technology to make the strap smoother and more comfortable. I wore the bracelet 24 hours during the test, and I didn’t feel particularly heavy or uncomfortable with my skin.

In terms of monitoring hardware, Huawei bracelet 3 Pro has strengthened its ability to monitor heart rate this time. Its new optical path hardware design, through the combination of one PD+four LEDs, the sensors are mainly concentrated on the back of the bracelet.

Huawei bracelet 3 Pro has a built-in 100 mAh battery, and the two metal contacts at the bottom of the back are charging interfaces. The bracelet will be provided with a charging base, which can be directly clamped after being connected through Micro USB, without disassembling the bracelet body every time.

As a bracelet, sports assistance is one of the attributes defined at the beginning of its birth. After several years of development, everyone still recognized this statement. In the upgrade of Huawei bracelet 3 Pro, its auxiliary types for sports have become more comprehensive.

For daily sports, Huawei bracelet 3 Pro combines people’s daily preferences and sports. Running, swimming, cycling, yoga, etc. are several popular sports at this stage.

The detailed options in the exercise mode include: outdoor running, indoor running, outdoor walking, outdoor cycling, indoor cycling, free training, swimming in the pool and open water.

The GPS function of Huawei bracelet 3 Pro can help athletes observe their position, adjust their speed in time and extend their endurance. At the same time, for people who like long-distance running, the GPS function of the bracelet can also help athletes to locate and plan their routes, warn of accidents and let users get help in time.

Built-in independent GPS allows users to put down their mobile phones and enjoy outdoor sports in a more free way, ensuring that users can get good GPS signals during sports.

Realizing independent GPS positioning on such a compact device, Huawei bracelet 3 Pro can refresh the precise positioning every second, check the more accurate distance and pace on the bracelet, and record the motion trajectory independently.

Thanks to the upgraded heart rate monitoring function, Huawei bracelet 3 Pro is really comprehensive in sports data statistics. It is equipped with 6-axis inertial sensor and self-developed high-precision discrete PPG heart rate sensor.

On this basis, the bracelet adopts the Firstbeat exercise algorithm based on heart rate, which can provide users with professional data reports after exercise, and provide professional exercise guidance around the data to make running plans. After running, the bracelet can also provide effect evaluation, including VO2max (maximum oxygen uptake), recovery time suggestion, training effect score and so on.

Swimming is a kind of exercise that can metabolize calories quickly, enhance heart and lung function, and reduce body fat level, and also help improve joint condition. It is an ideal exercise category and is favored by sports lovers, especially female friends.

Therefore, smart wearable brands have launched many bracelet products with waterproof function, but not all waterproof bracelets are suitable for swimming. Huawei bracelet 3 Pro supports swimming in swimming pools and open waters, and can recognize swimming postures (such as freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, etc.).

In the bottom algorithm of the hand ring, single stroke backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly stroke and freestyle can be reported when it is realized, and multi-stroke swimming will be judged as medley if there are multiple movement modes, and calories, stroke times, stroke frequency, pace, stroke number, distance and average SWOLF will be calculated to help users adjust their swimming posture.

Unfortunately, the author is a landlubber … … I can’t even swim, let alone so many postures. However, the author also simulated some movements in the air, which can be accurately analyzed, and I also found the operation details of a swimming mode.

After selecting the open water option, if you want to unlock the bracelet, you need to slide from bottom to top, and then slide from top to bottom to unlock it. The design estimate here is that the data statistics will be interrupted for fear of accidental contact caused by water waves.

Of course, statistics only look at whether you exercise scientifically and how much you exercise. If you want to lose weight/fitness reasonably, then different fitness courses are indispensable.

In the sports health APP matched with the bracelet, Huawei has also prepared some sports courses with different grades, different functions and different times. All courses are free, and users can match them and focus on different positions of the body.

In addition to upgrading the exercise mode and monitoring, the Huawei bracelet 3 Pro has also been upgraded for health monitoring. This time, Huawei proposed the concept of TruSeen 3.0 heart rate monitoring.

Because of the innovation of optical hardware design, Huawei bracelet 3 Pro can ensure faster and more accurate heart rate monitoring through the combination of one PD+four LEDs, and realize accurate value output 24 hours per second. Big data machine learning, self-study human body characteristics, make heart rate monitoring more accurate.

At this stage, heart rate monitoring of bracelet can be divided into two parts:

Exercise application: real-time value of exercise heart rate/exercise heart rate interval/upper limit warning of heart rate/maximum oxygen uptake.

Health application: resting heart rate/scientific sleep/heart rate elevation reminder (inactive state)

In addition to 24-hour monitoring, for groups with bad hearts or the elderly, the bracelet can also open the "Heart Rate Alarm" in the APP, and when the user’s heart rate rises, the bracelet will intelligently remind. When the user’s heart rate is within the normal range, it can guide the user to start low-intensity exercise, get started easily and develop exercise habits.

Huawei Bracelet 3 Series also fully supports the heart health research plan of 301 Hospital, a well-known domestic third-class hospital. Through the cooperation of the accurate heart rate monitoring function of the bracelet and the heart health research APP, it helps users to understand the heart health status and provide one-stop service for arrhythmia.

The second obvious improvement is sleep monitoring. Huawei TruSleep 2.0 scientific sleep has been added to Huawei bracelet 3 Pro. This function realizes accurate sleep staging detection through accurate PPG monitoring technology, and its monitoring method principle is consistent with CPC technology (the concept of cardiopulmonary coupling put forward by CDB Center of Harvard Medical College in 2005).

Aside from these verbose terms, what we can see from the data is that by monitoring the complete sleep structure including sleep (rapid eye movement), we can judge the time and proportion of each sleep stage, thus accurately describing the sleep structure, including sleep awakening time, light sleep, deep sleep, REM (sleep time) and wakefulness, which can prompt users whether there is a sleep problem.

According to the official, Huawei TruSleep technology has now passed the certification test of CDB Center of Harvard Medical School.

Based on the user’s sleep structure and breathing during sleep, Huawei analyzes and looks for the influence of bad sleep habits or psychological, physiological and environmental factors on sleep quality, and identifies six typical sleep problems: difficulty in falling asleep/shallow sleep/easy waking at night/early waking/dreaminess/irregular work and rest.

In addition to the two application functions of sports and health, Huawei bracelet 3 Pro has formed a 24-hour accompanying state in use. As the closest intelligent hardware, the smart bracelet also has more linkage functions with the mobile phone.

First of all, it is natural to collect push notifications. After being bound to the mobile phone, the bracelet can receive push notifications from the mobile APP, so that even if the mobile phone is not around, it will not miss important news.

In addition, Huawei bracelet 3 Pro also supports NFC bus and subway payment, which is convenient to travel, covering 165+ cities across the country, that is, brush and leave, eliminating the trouble of card picking and card loading.

The function of notification and reminder, after the bracelet is connected to the mobile phone, the user can set it separately in the APP to confirm that an APP is allowed to prompt. When the phone receives a call, the bracelet will continue to vibrate and display the caller. However, the bracelet can’t realize the dialogue function, but it can be quickly rejected, which is quite convenient when encountering harassing calls.

Huawei bracelet 3 Pro also supports Alipay offline payment, which makes it easier and more convenient to raise your hand to meet the daily payment needs of users.

Alipay of the bracelet does not need to be linked with the mobile phone. After this function is turned on, it will be prompted to deposit a customized amount of money into the bracelet, which will form a separate "wallet" state, and you can scan the code directly every time you pay.

If the bracelet is accidentally lost, the user can also untie it remotely through the mobile phone, and refund the money anytime and anywhere to ensure the safety of the property.

Since the advent of the smart bracelet, the genes of exercise and health have been defined, and these two usage scenarios have been further deepened in the process of continuous iterative development. Huawei bracelet 3 Pro has taken it to the next level in these two aspects. Whether it is the mode richness during exercise or the 24-hour real-time heart rate monitoring, it can help people to know the general health status of their bodies at any time and make a reasonable exercise plan.

In addition, as one of the most intimate smart devices, Huawei bracelet 3 Pro has also been supplemented in terms of original functionality. Whether it is the instant reminder and operation of messages, payment and NFC ride, it has increased the convenience for users, and the function of the mobile phone has been transferred to the bracelet reasonably.

For the battery life problem that people care about, Huawei’s bracelet 3 Pro also performed very well. When all the functions are fully open (mainly for scientific sleep & continuous heart rate consumes more electricity), the bracelet can last for 5 days. If there is no need for real-time monitoring, Huawei bracelet 3 Pro can handle a week or even longer.

To sum up, Huawei bracelet 3 Pro is a smart bracelet product with no obvious shortcomings. It is more inclined to young fashion sports people in terms of design and functional positioning. If you happen to be here, then I believe Huawei bracelet 3 Pro will meet your daily needs very well.

The price of Huawei bracelet 3Pro is 399 yuan, which is very cost-effective. It will be officially launched on mainstream e-commerce platforms such as Huawei Mall and JD.COM on March 21st, so interested friends can pay attention to it in time.(This article is the first titanium media, photography, author /Kiwi)