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Honor Watch GS Pro is Honor's first rugged smartwatch. When it was announced, I was most excited because I am a fan of smartwatches especially when it was from my favorite brand so my expectations were so high for it. when it launched and I had the chance to experience it, it strikes right at my expectations. No disappointments at all, How? Let's start the review -
For me Honor Watch GS Pro is the second name of durability (MIL-STD-810G Rated), It has 5 ATM water resistance, built-in dual satellite GPS supports, Bluetooth calling, and has a massive battery life, etc but first, we should talk about the unboxing experience and what we get in the box.
Here is an unboxing video that I created for it -
So in the box, we get a magnetic charging dock and a type C cable (Do I really need to mention the amazing Honor Watch GS Pro?). The charging dock is the same as the previous one for Honor Magic watches. The magnetic charger makes it so easy to charge your smartwatch, you just place it on top and then just plug in the USB C cable into it.
I used this watch for around two months and from my experience, I can say that this beats most of the competing outdoor smartwatches out there in terms of battery, performance, and price.
Let's start with the build quality and comforts of this watch. What you have here is the stainless steel bezel with time markings going all the way around in a black finish. The screen looks beautiful with the lovely bezels all around. The overall design is really nice, It doesn't feel too bulky like most other outdoor smartwatches. Watch is big but not too even I found it perfect for my wrist.
The body is actually made from reinforced polycarbonate fiber, which means you have a lighter watch, which feels more comfortable to wear and at the same time more durable because of the military standard ratings. Watch weighs around 75 grams with the straps. If we talk about the straps we have silicone straps finished in black, they are removable and you can easily change them as you like with any other aftermarket straps once available.
I do like how the watch feels on the wrist. It's comfortable, it's light, the best part is it's durable. If I hit my hand against anything accidentally, it's not going to damage the watch. it's super tough and super durable.
Now, what about Screen quality? In Honor Watch GS Pro we get a 1.39 inch AMOLED display with a screen resolution of 454 x 454 which is a phenomenal screen. I really like the fact that how bright and clear it can be. The touchscreen is very responsive and also works nicely in wet conditions.
Honor Watch GS Pro is powered by the energy-efficient Kirin A1 chip which promises a 25-day battery life which is incredible. But that's not all. you can keep GPS on constantly in outdoor GPS mode for outdoor activity like hiking, this watch will last around 100 hours. That's over four-day battery life with GPS, Incredible again.
It does take around one and a half hours to fully charge the 790 mAh battery. yes, you read it right, 790 mAh battery is really a big battery for a smartwatch and I'm happy to see that the watch is not that thick. this is just around 13.6 millimeters of thickness. Don't know how they managed to give us a big battery and still keep things nice and compact.
On the side, we have two buttons. The top one is a power button or menu button and it will show you all your apps and options like the workout, workout records, workout status, heart rate, SPO2, activity records, sleep tracking, stress tracking, breathing exercises, contacts, etc. and the bottom one is a workout button which can be customized. By default, it's set on workouts, but you can customize it to do anything you like from music, notifications, stopwatch, alarm torch, find my phone, settings, and many more functions that can be activated by just pressing the bottom button.
On the other side, there is nothing and on the rear side, you will find a heart rate sensor and charging pins.
Honor Watch GS Pro is packed with so many health features. It has over 100 workout modes to choose from, and some exclusive features for hiking, skiing, and swimming. And for outdoor activities, this smartwatch can determine sunset, sunrise, moonset, moonrise, and tidal conditions and give you alerts for bad weather.
One of the main features is the Route back, 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.
Honor Watch GS Pro pretty much covered everything for your daily health, which includes step count, calories count, automatic sleep and stress tracking, and lots more. All your health activities can be viewed from the smartphone app called Huawei health. And it's available for both Android and iOS.
Now come to my favorite fun part, The watch faces. If we talk about the default watch face it is a nice and informative watch face but if you want to change, keep the center pressed. You'd feel haptic feedback and a grid of watch faces appear, you can choose any of these watches faces by simply tapping on them. But the real thing is in the Huawei Health app, there is a never-ending list of watch faces, they just keep loading, you're definitely not going to get bored of these watch faces. I really had fun exploring them.
On the main screen if you swipe down from the top that will give you some quick options on the screen like find my phone, alarms, settings, and do not disturb along with Bluetooth connection and battery information. If you swipe to the right or left, you will get your health and activity analytics, heart rate, stress, weather, music.
Talking about music control. You can play music directly from your phone or you can have music stored on the internal storage. From the smartphone app, you can transfer some of your best songs to the watch so you can listen even when you don't have your phone with you, and the best thing is that you can pair a pair of Bluetooth enabled earphones to it to listen to those songs and if not it has a speaker too so you can start blasting music from it anywhere anytime. One more thing that I should mention is that it has 2 GB of space to store your music.
You can control the volume, see the name of the track at the top, pause it, you can skip tracks, and choose between controlling music stored in the watch or use it as a music remote control for your phone.
If you swipe up from the bottom, your messages and notifications will appear. You can open and read them, but you can't reply. And the text is clear, big, and easy to read.
Honor Watch GS Pro also supports the Bluetooth calling feature It has a good quality microphone and loudspeaker for this purpose and if you don't want it to be public then you can connect your Bluetooth earbuds or earphones as I mentioned earlier. you can even make calls direct from this watch and add your favorite contacts to it and of course, it will use a Bluetooth connection with your smartphone in order to make that phone call.
Honor Watch GS Pro is NFC enabled, You will find an option named OneHop in the settings, and the way you can use it as described in this video by me -
There another feature that needs to be mentioned it's the AOD always-on display. Aways on display is quite awesome but it cuts your battery life in half and also disables the raise to wake feature. But as we have a huge battery so I can compromise on my battery life for these cool AOD faces.
Here is a tutorial video on How to set AODs in Honor Watch GS Pro, check it-
Honor Watch GS Pro has so many health features and I really like that it gives us so much information about them. Honor Watch GS Pro is a great outdoor smartwatch and it's really worth the price. Honor has done a great job at it, We get a flagship AMOLED screen with a resolution more than any flagship smartwatches out there.
Honor Watch GS Pro also has a long list of features like 5 ATM water resistance, military standard durability, SPO2, Stainless steel bezels, sleep tracking, stress tracking, dual satellite GPS, many other important sensors, Kirin A1 chipset, Bluetooth calling, 25-day battery life, etc they are too many and I am pretty sure that I left some features to mention so once you start using it you'll discover new things every day.
This smartwatch will look good on any occasion. usually rugged, durable smartwatches are big and bulky and don't look very smart in appearance but I must say this is the most attractive rugged smartwatch. It is the best affordable premium flagship smartwatch for fitness and outdoor activities. It has a minimalistic design that can easily be your all-rounder daily driver smartwatch.
I hope you like my review of the Honor Watch GS Pro, If you have any questions do let me know in the comment section below.
Thanks, Kurama
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