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Review on HONOR MagicWatch 2 Smartwatch 42mm, Agate Black by Adam Nowak ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

It was a reasonable purchase, will order more.

When you turn on the workout, you need to confirm the start, sometimes you forget about it, and then you can’t manually change the start time, as a result, progress is stupidly lost + because of this, the watch’s idea of ​​\u200b\u200bnormal heart rate and automatic detection of the start of the workout are most likely lost (the watch thinks that the training pulse is norm option). For example, it seems to me that the longer I use it, the later they automatically offer to turn on the walk mode from the moment I start walking (but most likely this works more accurately with running). Notifications. They come, but you can enable / disable only a certain list, where there is rather an unnecessary twitter and God forgive me snapchat and there is no more necessary telegram (+ for someone important viber / vk). You turn on the delivery of all notifications => everything comes GENERALLY, including games, advertising notifications, etc (although this can be reconfigured on the phone). Compared to the phone, the response to swipes feels a little slow, but in general, this is not very significant. By default, the voice istant mode is enabled in training, which turns on at some specific minutes and starts to speak out loud (in English) like you have been doing it for dofig minutes, you have such and such a pulse, so many calories, etc. If the headphones are not connected, then when you just walk, after 10 minutes they aloud offer to start training, and if you agree, then after another 10 they begin to list all the indicators. Thank you for turning this off. By default, the application collects step data from the watch and from the Health application on the iPhone, and then sums them up somehow crookedly, so that the figure always turns out to be higher. It was decided by disabling reading from Health. You cannot reply to messages. Download add. applications cannot. It seems to be possible to talk, but I didn’t have a chance to test it. All in all, it's a good watch, once you get used to all its oddities. I like. But in terms of functionality, they differ little from the bracelet (it seems to be only gps during walking, receiving calls, well, and appearance).

Pros
  • Lots of workout modes. They hold a charge for a long time (I have about a week with the monitoring of everything turned on). They charge quickly (about an hour and a half it seems), they warn about the need to charge. They just look good. For me, they don’t really feel on my arm, they don’t interfere with sleep (I use an alarm clock and sleep ysis). Waterproof. The application tracks a lot of parameters (heart rate, oxygenation, sleep, stress, steps, training history). With the honor phone (from the father) they are synchronized well. Pulse ysis is accurate most of the time. They are turned on by a show of hands, and at night it can be turned off according to a schedule. You can buy extra straps from alik, they are normally fastened (some are less convenient, but this is a problem of alik). Many people write that they get scratched, but they haven’t had time for me for more than a month (+ there are protective gles from the same alik). The lack of NFC does not bother, because. in almost all stores, bonus cards are stored in the phone, and you still need to get it.
Cons
  • Synchronization with iOS. There is no library of watch faces, and among the pre-installed ones, half looks like a mockery. I found for myself 1 cute and a couple more potentially acceptable. I do not use the always on display function, because olways-on dials are different, and the way one picture of a clock with hands is replaced by another picture of a clock with hands looks kind of stupid. No music download => 2GB of memory in the watch is absolutely useless. At the same time, there has long been a habit of listening to music from streaming, and this built-in memory itself is some kind of hello from the time of hares. no. At first I thought to ask one of my friends for an Android phone to upload music there, then I presented the amount of zapara and scored. Maybe for those who run, and the phone gets in the way, this is a more fundamental point. The app keeps crashing. If you do not close it completely, but simply collapse it, the next time there will be a black screen, and you have to close and open it again. The only app in my experience that does this. Tracking of mestrual cycles is not supported, although honor promised to include it in an ate a year and a half ago, along with Spo2 (the second one works). I don’t know if this is also due to iOS, or just like that. Sleep ysis looks random, the sequence of sleep phases does not look like any logical cycles at all. There is a "smart" alarm clock, but in fact it just always works for me 30, 20 and 10 minutes before the set time. The Spo2 measurement also looks like a random number every time from 95 to 100. I don’t know if the watch even reacts to noticeable problems with oxygenation. The same goes for stress levels. Most of the time it shows "normal" stress, sometimes "relaxed" (usually in the morning, still in a dream), sometimes it shows "average" sporadically, but by what principle it is never clear. In short, from reliable measurements, only steps and, it seems, the pulse.