[Huawei Watch] il876ani:
Hello and good day everyone.

In this post i will provide my full first impression of the watch.

Buying the Watch:

First of all i was using Fitbit Ionic for almost 2 years now and was thinking of an upgrade.

Huawei GT 2 Caught my eye mainly because of its battery life which most watches lack. I've done my research on the watch but there were couple of important things that i've missed.

The Price of the watch was fair compared to others.

First Impression:

- The watch material was good and felt like premium quality build, screen was beautiful.

- Supports Multiple Languages in notifications ( unlike Fitbit ).

- I cant see or view the whole notification ( so when i receive a text message or a whatsapp message i cant read all of it unlike fitbit which is shocking to me).

- Its a shame that you cant reply with a voice to whatsapp notifications at least.

- Watch Faces :

- Pre-installed Watch Faces are beautiful and well designed.​

- Not Lot of official Watch Faces ( You can install custom watch faces using the Xposed model mentioned in this forum but to remove the custom face you will have to reset the watch which i see as a waste of time ).​

- Heart Rate feels pretty accurate.

- Raise wrist to wake feature is just terrible and extremely sensitive which will bother you at night.

- LiteOS is fast in terms of startup but while using the watch i can see a slightly sluggish performance.

- LiteOS needs alot alot alot of working to be nearly as good as advertised by huawei.

- The support in huawei community forum is just terrible where i mostly see the reply from their representatives as "we highly advised you to call our Huawei Customer service team in your country for further assistance." when the guy is just requesting them to add features or fixing a bug.

- Battery life is still to be determined as its been a day since i got the watch.

- Sleep tracking still to determined.

- Step Counter:

- Step Counter accuracy is off by 10-50 steps, sometimes even more.

- I noticed it recorded 90 steps while am sleeping.​

- Huawei F***ing Health Application:

Now thats what i forgot to research about.

First of all Huawei is stepping away from google so who knows how that will affect the compatibility in the future.

Secondly, to download Huawei Health App you need to download HMS Core 4.0+ which you can only get from Huawei AppGallery ( its like PlayStore but designed by Huawei ).

Now they claim that the Health App works with dark mode which is true but not perfectly. Alot of times i had to switch back to light mode just to read the text from the app.

The Main page is beautifully designed and looks good, but the overall User Experience of the app is terrible.

AND THE MOST ANNOYING PART is the step counter dashboard which takes the step count source from both the watch and the phone, and to make things worse you cant select a single source as Huawei claimed that it intelligently calculates a composite results which will show you inaccurate step count. I saw people complaining about this issue to huawei and there response is

" You can view your watch by going to Devices > select your watch and you can see the fitness data "

(which is only registered for Current day ) .

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Overall:

I do believe that Huawei GT2 is something amazing and has alot of potential, BUT there were too quick with releasing it same as the LiteOS development.

It needs a TON of work to get the satisfaction of a truly smartwatch.

Huawei must listen to what the customers are requesting and work with them rather than just leaving them hanging with stupid reply.

If your wondering wether you want to buy it or not here is my recommendation: if you desire a fully good working watch go with [Apple Watch, Samsung Galaxy Watch, Fitbit Ionic or Versa ] i tried all four these and so far they are better ( NOTE : fitbit is weak in terms of watch faces. )

TO BE FAIR

I experienced similiar issues with Fitbit but i saw rapid development from their end across the 2 years i used the Ionic watch.

I will update the post as i continue my journey with this watch, wishing it will be a good one.

Thank you all, and Hope you find this Helpful.