Review on Smart bracelet HONOR Band 5, blue by Yusri Mohd ᠌

Name: Smart bracelet HONOR Band 5, blue
Item: Smart bracelet HONOR Band 5, blue
Rating: 4

April 13, 2023

I am not disappointed, the quality is satisfying.

I took it mainly as a heart rate monitor to control cardio training on the track, since the built-in one often breaks in my club. Specifically, this model additionally attracted the ability to determine oxygen in the blood; in a normal situation, the function is not particularly useful, but with a coronovirus it allows you to independently determine the onset of pneumonia and go to the hospital without wasting time.

At the very beginning of use, I was very disappointed when I found that the bracelet greatly underestimates the pulse: instead of 150, it shows 100-110. However, then I realized that in fact you just need to tighten the strap really tightly, then the readings become adequate.
As a result, I was satisfied with the quality of work in training, plus the long-standing problem with skipping calls / messages when the phone is in my pocket was solved as a bonus. I am satisfied with the purchase.

Pros

The bracelet is light, rather thin, rarely touches something when worn. The strap is comfortable to the touch, fastens quite conveniently. Nothing really sticks out from below, the pressure is distributed evenly over the arm and the bracelet does not rub The screen is quite bright even on the lowest settings; you can install interchangeable screens. The interface is normal, intuitive, but some of the functionality, such as setting up training programs, is rather poor. There is a pulse meter, which is important in the era of Covid. There is a native application from Huawei with settings, statistics and trendy graphs.

Cons

The heart rate monitor is capricious, the pedometer too. How well sleep monitoring works in this case is not clear, but the statistics are similar to the truth. Not a very convenient charging connector; Blindly, it is not possible to connect the bracelet with charging. If this can be done easily and naturally, then at least how is not obvious. The set of programs in the application is poor, it is not possible to find a suitable one for all purposes; since the interpretation of the readings from the bracelet depends on them, it turns out that not in all cases it is possible to calculate the steps. For example, there is no walking on the track, the distance traveled is underestimated by 20-30%