Huawei's latest smartwatch is here the Watch GT 3 with some big improvements over the previous
gen we've got now gps tracking that does see a lot more satellites it's supporting up to
five different systems and dual carrier frequency the heart rate monitoring there's a big area of
improvement they've doubled the amount of sensors on the underside of the watch so instead of having
four sensors like the watch three and the watts three pro it now incorporates eight it has a new
nano coating improved ai accuracy this one that i've got is the stainless steel version it's the
46 millimeter model and we have that same great battery life up to eight days of heavy use and 14
with lighter use the watch comes in the box really nicely presented so obviously
i've got the stainless steel version here with the strap and i'll show you that in detail but
it is stunning that watch so here on the side you will find a little pouch that you open up
they do include this right here which is a package with some extra links there so if what they have
already on the strap the stainless steel strap here is too small for you you can add a few more
additional links there to it our wireless charger so of course it does charge wisely just like the
watch three and hear a little bit of paperwork in various different languages
what you'll find in the first page there is just a qr code to scan and that is how you then get
the quick start guide for it but it's very basic got to pair it up to the application huawei health
and i will be going through that app so there's nothing else in there let's take a look now at the
design of this watch but first how it wirelessly charges it uses magnets to hold the qi wireless
charger in place so the little pad right here you simply place it underneath and then it clips on
and will start to charge now charge time is approximately about an hour with this watch
so an excellent design from huawei with this watch it is just as good as their other models if not
better i really do like the stainless steel finish they've gone with now i do also still have of
course the watch three now that's the titanium one now the titanium ends up looking a little bit more
dirty but it really depends on what is your style what you do prefer titanium is very nice here but
i find of course it just gets a little dirtier looking and harder to maintain and keep clean
whereas the stainless steel i think just looks a lot better so what they've done with the finish
on the links here which is exquisite by the way there's the craftsmanship on this is absolutely
perfect there's no flaws whatsoever with it is they've given it this nice brushed look to it and
then around the outside frame they've also brushed that too so this is all that stainless steel now
the links on these can be removed just the first five links there you can take out from either
side to try and get your size there of course the buckle here that clips in really nice and again
we've got that nice brushed look to it the huawei branding right there and very good the workmanship
on this is just spot on there great so the screen we still have that same 466 by 466. this is 1.43
inches it is an amoled screen okay and very bright with scratch resistant glass over the top of it
now the links here of course you can change the strap by just pressing on the back there
and you're able to just pull that right out then now do be careful with this that scratch
i have on my thumb that was not actually my cat vera which can sometimes happen that was me just
removing the strap on this one with the titanium i ended up scratching myself right on the corner
with it so yeah just be careful with that so here on the back big changes they've gone with now
upgraded heart rate sensor this is the big move they've gone for the big change here compared
to the previous model which is the watch three you can clearly see with the watch three there we have
those four little tiny rectangles right that's to do with the optics there the sensor and the way
it measures the movement of your blood and now we have eight so they've doubled the sensors they've
gone now with a new coating nano coating on the back of it here too so that means it's going to
be a lot more accurate the heart rate monitoring from it and you see the difference there too so
we've got ceramic on the back here with the watch 3 and the titanium more premium materials it is a
more premium watch that one but then the upgrade here too with this and side on you can see there
that it is very thin so this is only 11 millimeters which is great and then on the
other side there you can see we've got our little dial and the buttons the two buttons so just like
the watch three so tapping this you're gonna get it into your your apps and if you scroll it you
can zoom in and out there with all those different apps now the ui performance and fluidity of this
it's very smooth it's nothing like what the the watch two gt was like which was just a little bit
laggy so this one here we've got the 32 gigabytes of ram i think it is they're using that same kirin
chipset and harmony os with this model too so the button at the bottom here tapping that will get me
into all those different sports and workout modes but just to say again on the build quality of this
very good i really do like it it is flawless the finish and i really like the look of the
stainless steel strap what about the weight well it's very similar to that of my watch
3 because that one has the titanium and this with the stainless steel strap is 117 grams
but overall i like the feel of this one on my wrist because it is slimmer so here is
the titanium with the watch 3 and that's lighter of course using the titanium strap
now remember the straps are interchangeable you can get silicone straps leather straps as well
if you wanted something a little bit lighter or if you didn't want the stainless steel strap all the
time you can swap it out so when you start to do something like sports or whatever use the silicon
so let me just run through now some of the basic settings and the apps and bits and pieces we have
with this watch so if you flick your wrist it will turn on automatically now i've already just set it
to be on for five minutes now for the purposes of this video but when you have the screen on more
of course it chews through the battery bit more so this is our menu system it does feel very
fast fluid and you've got all your different apps through there that you can go through and control
now i wanted to show you some of the settings but first with this if you swipe from the left
to the right when you're in an app that's to go back okay out of the app but i can just bring that
tap that go back home to our watch faces here which you're able to adjust so if you tap and
hold you can go through and cycle through these different watch faces which is great depending
on your mood or what you're doing for example you're training you want a more sports orientated
watch face you can do that going out to dinner with someone you want something that looks more
traditional watch face there like an analog watch that's the one that is stock by the way this one
here that's why i'm showing it a little bit more which i actually do like i think it's quite a good
one but you want something that's uh versatile there so we can even see the pressure we can see
calories uh heart rate and inversion information they're like steps to you can configure this and
change that too so if you want settings you just swipe down from the top and again it's fast it's
fluid and you can go through all of this now the toggle for the screen on i have turned on you've
got alarms do not disturb mode find my phone which is actually rather handy i'm someone that's a bit
clumsy sometimes with where i place my phone so pressing this now i should hear my huawei nova 9.
i'm here i'm here so it's telling me where my phone is and trust me that actually does come
in handy if you're forgetful like me where you put things down so in settings there's a lot to
go through and i won't go through all of it here obviously because the video would be too long
but brightness talk a little bit about that auto brightness with the ambient sensor i find to be
excellent really good no problems it's just like the watch 3 pro that i've got sleep you can change
that the screen on time and auto brightness uh i tend to actually just leave that on but i'll show
you here you can manually control that brightness too so perhaps it's a little bit too bright for my
video i can turn it down just a fraction there okay it's going back and then just swiping back
so those are all the display settings you've got vibration haptic feedback pin you can set up smart
assistant so it does have that on board you can also hold down the bottom a button right there to
do that i'll demonstrate that right now actually so hold this down what's the weather today
and here we go it's going to give me the weather you can issue all sorts of commands and do lots
of things with that if you needed that because the microphone's on board of course it's going
to be listening to or you're doing there so other settings in here well pretty much
straightforward your workout settings down button you can assign that to something else
it's normally just always by default the workout i actually prefer that system system updates about
your firmware peering it up things like that so the apps that we've got there's a lot on board
here as you can see and again i'm not going to go through them all so we've got our temperature
sensor there we have our sleep monitoring too you can look at that information but i'll go
through the application to show you a lot of this anyway our workout so that's just advising us our
basic fitness summary there of the day all sorts of things you've got breathing exercises you've
got your alarm clock you can set up stopwatch there's even a compass okay and once you calibrate
it it does seem to work quite well you move that around you see now you do need to have the watch
strap on quite tight for these to work properly so first test out my oxygen saturation levels you can
see i've had it on now for a few days it's been monitoring that last time was 20 minutes ago so
measure it now this can take a little bit so let's just skip ahead because it sometimes can be up to
about a minute to measure this there we go so 95 that was not even a minute it took 30 seconds so
it is faster than the watch 3 pro that i do have so the heart rate monitor go into that and that's
pretty obvious which one that is you can see there heart that's been monitoring that and why is there
a big gap there well that's because i've been taking the watch off i've been filming b-roll and
i've been recording this stuff here so currently at 59.60 i'm only just sitting down and talking so
that is normal but i will test it out later on when i show you the application and there's also
this which is our skin temperature sensor to get the accurate reading here though you should be
wearing it for at least 10 minutes so take a look at that so you can see it's giving me a graph of
the previous readings there maximum was 35.5 and the loss was 28. now that 28 was when i wasn't
even wearing the watch i think when it did end up measuring that so that's why it's dropped right
down not accurate again because i haven't been continually wearing it as i'm filming it right now
and finally to show you the workouts on the watch here you can add more you can tweak and customize
a lot of them too and through the application you can also do this so tapping the bottom button
easiest way to get into this workout settings so this is to do with the broadcasts we get which
are very handy so when you're running it will tell you how long you've been running for your distance
your heart rate and that's really good and then how much you've climbed all that information i
do find very handy you can set the volume for that you could also set the display to also be always
on when you're doing the workouts but i wouldn't do that because it kills the battery a lot more
but hey it depends if you're you need that information constantly there otherwise you can
simply just tap the button to see it when you're doing your workout so what about the workouts
what do we have we've got a custom workout here we have other rower elliptical triathlon cross
country skiing snowboarding even and jump rope trail run hiking mountain hiking pool swim open
uh water indoor cycling outdoor cycling indoor walk outdoor walk indoor run outdoor run and then
there are those running courses and plans you can do it through the watch itself or the app
and now time to test out the gps tracking and the heart rate monitor i'm just going to go
for a short mountain bike ride and what about in direct sunlight how visible is it it looks
worse than what the watch is showing it there that banding you're seeing that's just on camera
now the first gps lock was extremely quick especially compared to the watch 3 pro i own and
you can see just like the other models there we've got all our workout information so that short ride
i'm just going to start now and we'll see the results we get and here's our application so this
runs on android and also ios for you apple users out there currently i'm running it on the huawei
nova 9 now i have a review of this new release from them so check the channel for that but it
summarizes all your information in here we've got little widgets that we can change so i've got skin
temperature stress monitoring there's the oxygen saturation level there too okay monitors that
my sleep so let's have a look first at the gps tracking that workout that i just did before
you can see the results of that right in here so it shows you the map the different points there
you've got your speed chart heart rate's the interesting one so any areas where it's dropped
off very quick or looks a little funny there that was because the watch was a little bit loose
and i had to tighten it up once it was tight especially on the climb there with the elevation
you can see i got my heart rate to peak at 170. now i have checked this and compared it with a
polar chest strap heart rate monitor and it seems pretty spot on so the heart rate monitoring now
because i've increased the sensor count from four to eight the new aia algorithm they've
got with it and the nano coating still the glass on the back of it where the sensors are
it seems to be a lot faster and the gps certainly i noticed that straight away with gps that when i
turned the watch on started that workout that it got a lock so quick it would normally take
uh could be a little bit slow on the other models and it's so much quicker now it's really just like
a phone so a lot of information in there you can see previous workouts with this account i've got
another account with my personal one this is a well basically one for just the channel here uh
your weight you can model that of course sleep tracking so i think it's pretty accurate because
i was up a few times we've got one of my young girls as a bit of a cough at the moment so we're
always up and down and sorting them out so not a very good night's sleep the other day of tracking
two as well you can go over and just change the days uh again even worse like five hours well tech
youtubers we're up really late yeah that's that's kind of normal and then you can see also in here
we've got our heart rate monitoring separate from that too you've got your different exercise modes
so training modes too you can go through there's all these different courses for you for walking
for running and you can cycle through that okay all the different modes there cycling discover
so if there's any activities events and what not going on near you that pops up in here too as well
your devices is where you can get the firmware updates change the watch faces load on your music
to the watch okay and you can connect up and hear your songs through that and app gallery
is where you can get the different applications and load them over onto the watch there so yes it
does support the apps with harmony os with huawei but it's not an android wear os watch so you can't
use those apps on this unfortunately and finally you've got your profile with all your information
in there so it's a fully featured app and then you get notifications on the watch you just go into
the application and you select what notifications you actually want to see to pull through onto the
watch so any app you've got installed basically you can get then notifications that will be
on the phone transferred over to the watch you just need to have it connected up continuously
via bluetooth like any other smartwatch battery life now on this is just like the predecessors
it is fantastic so it goes for a long time i'm losing at the moment 13 one day 14 the next and
i'm still looking at the screen a lot so i have to classify my use at the moment as heavy now
they claim you should be able to get eight days of heavy use huawei now if i disabled
a few more things so if i disabled the constant heart rate monitoring or i turned off the sp02
or the skin temperature monitor on this then i would extend my battery life of course the
less things that it's monitoring continually the better the battery life is going to be so if you
start turning those things off they claim 14 days that you should be able to squeeze out of
this two weeks that's incredible i know with the previous model that i've got still the gt
the two gt sorry uh i can go for a week without charging and then the three pro with it's got
a esim support on it it's a lot less that battery life even though it has a larger battery
in it so the big thing for me the key takeaway here with the newer watch is that gps support
is so much better it's seeing a lot more now different gps systems out there so not only just
gps itself but then glow nas and you've got the russian one you've got the chinese one you've got
five different groups now that it can see and then the dual carrier frequency the first initial lock
when you go out to train is so quick compared to the previous models the heart rate monitoring
greatly improved double the sensors that they have versus the older models that's another key reason
why you should probably go for this instead of the watch 3 otherwise 3 pro for those improvements
the rest of the watch the display uh the operating system the fluidity of it's quite fluid and smooth
is basically the same as the watch 3 or the watch 3 pro it's just those two big key improvements and
then some newer changes coming through with the application 2 of course so what other things then
i don't like about this watch well we don't have great third party support with these unfortunately
it does not support where os and notifications we cannot reply to them either so if you get a text
message or whats app you can see the notifications you can go through and enable them to come through
all of those the trouble is you cannot reply to it on the watch itself which would have
been great but sadly no not there okay so there we go that is huawei's new Watch GT 3 thank you
so much for watching my review i do hope to see you in the next one bye for now