[Huawei Mate 9 Accessories] atldsl:
Huawei Fit pretty much fits the bill

I now have the Huawei Fit. Previously I had the Microsoft Band that I paid $90 for at Best Buy. I like the Huawei product pretty well, and it does surpass the original Band in some areas yet falls short in others.

The Fit does not have built in GPS, so I get quite a different result walking a trail in the park with my phone in my pocket and when I walk without the phone. If I have the phone then Huawei picks up the GPS and is quite accurate. The Band had a built in GPS and was quite accurate in my opinion.

The Huawei is water proof allowing you to swim with it, so that is a plus for some people.

For sleep tracking, I still preferred Microsofts implementation where it showed you the data and also showed the heartrate throughout the night. I could see exactly where I got up like when there was a lightning strike or had to go to the bathroom. The Huawei perhaps tracks a little more data when sleeping and is good, but I got much more satisfaction with the Microsoft implementation.

I like that the Huawei has the time always showing except while sleeping. The fact that it's not color is not a negative for me. It is very clear and easy to read in bright sunlight. It is backlit for night time and the bands are easy to replace. Really, Microsoft having a non replaceable band is really without excuse as I have a perfectly good Band but no way to wear it since the band broke. It also does well with notifications and I like that it lets you set what apps you want the Fit to notify for. The Band was excellent at notifications but only did text and phone call notifications.

The alarm for instance was easy to set and easy to stop and had a really strong vibration. On the Huawei, the alarm vibration is not very strong but it does wake me up since I'm a light sleeper, however, I have had numerous times trying to stop the alarm and instead it puts the alarm into snooze. As far as I can tell there is no way to then stop the alarm but to wait till it goes off 10 minutes later and try again. The reason I have this issue is perhaps the worst feature of Huawei Fit which is the touch only screen. It is at best 90% for touch and flick navigation. I don't know if my fingers have more oil or something, though I rarely have this issue with my samsung phone navigation. Microsoft Band put buttons on it for navigation and that pretty much made things fool proof.

It seems like you flick through some menus and suddenly it will go into a submenu. As annoying as that is, you can be stuck in that submenu until you successfully back out of it. There needs to be a home button, flick or gesture that will let you go back to the first screen which is the clock area.

Another thing is if I get several notifications, I must flick through each one before Huawei allows me to delete them all. So, I like to get the notifications and might glance at them, but for instance, when I get on a google hangout thread and people are chatting back and forth, I don't want to look at all of these on my Fit. Instead I probably already have my pc on so I can view or participate in the thread from there. But later when I want to delete these notifications from the Fit, I must navigate through each one until I finally get to the screen that says Clear All. It does group them which helps but why can't I quickly get to the delete messages area or have some gesture to bring that up?

I paid $69 on Prime Day for the Huawei Fit so I'm not complaining. I think it is well worth that price and I think Huawei is one of the top brands in the future. However, if I was looking at $100 or above then I would most likely get the samsung product.

I wish Microsoft would have sold their technology to another player rather then bury it as I think they had a very good product, but since they didn't I'm overall satisfied with Huawei!