Get Fit and Stay Active Rain or Shine with This $29.99 Waterproof Fitness Watch – Here's How!
HUAWEI Honor Band 4 Sports Smartband Waterproof
Intro
HUAWEI Honor fitness bands tend to pass unnoticed by many people. However, the brand’s bands are a great way to get more features for less money than you’d pay for, say, a Fitbit.
The Honor Band 4 is the most advanced fitness tracker from Honor yet. Highlights include a bright and cheery color OLED screen, good battery life and a sleek design.
It can receive all sorts of notifications from your phone, but it a watch at such a low price will inevitably come with some compromises and the main one here is using your phone’s location tracking to map your runs (no in-built GPS here).
At $29.99, though, the Honor Band 4 is great value for those after a low maintenance wearable that can do a lot more than a basic tracker.
The Honor Band 4 comes in all-black, and with either a light pink or dark blue strap. In all cases, the main body is black.
Honor’s fitness tracker interface is fairly easy to understand. The Honor Band 4 has several home screens you flick through with up and downward swipes that take you through the tracker’s various features.
There’s dedicated activity tracking, recent messages received from your phone, heart rate, your daily step count, how much you slept last night, the settings menu and the payments menu. it uses NFC to let you make wireless payments with the watch.
Fitness Features
The Honor Band 4 is a mid-tier casual fitness tracker in terms of features. It has modes for actual fitness tracking rather than just day-long step counting, including indoors and outdoors running, and free-form gym work. That said, the Honor Band 4’s low-key run tracking is actually surprisingly good for those who just want to see how far they’ve run mid-exercise, and how fast they are going. By default, it gives you a buzz at each kilometre you reach, which is great for motivation. This can be customized, which you may want to do if your regular run is 10 miles, not 3-5K. As you run, you’ll see your distance, speed, calories burned and your heart rate, arranged over a few different info screens.
Battery
Honor says the Band 4 lasts up to seventeen days, but this is when you’ve turned off some of its most advanced features: proper sleep tracking and 24/7 heart rate. We turned these back on, because it’s how you should use the band if you want to see what it can do. Expect five days of use when using all of the features 24/7 and you shouldn’t be disappointed.
Verdict
The Honor Band 4 is a great budget fitness tracker. Outdoor run tracking is surprisingly good, but serious runners may want to invest in a more expensive watch for connected GPS. The Honor Band 4 is a great fit for those who find Fitbit prices a bit steep or just want to try out a fitness tracker for the first time and are reluctant to spend a lot but still want the main features expected in a smart fitness tracker.
