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Review on HONOR Band 5 Global Smart Bracelet, Black by Barbara Sikora ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Not a bad buy, well worth the money.

Regarding the night mode: you can not set its time frame, it turns on at 10 pm; Also, the night mode brightness cannot be adjusted separately, it depends on the main brightness (the higher the main brightness, the higher the night mode brightness). Initially, for users from 2022, the choice of additional dials in the huawei health application was not available and there was no synchronization with cloud storage, I had to tinker a little to make it appear. It may have been fixed by now, I don't know for sure. IMHO, the phases of sleep determined here are arbitrary: I had such that the bracelet recorded a deep phase at a time when I, already waking up in the morning, waslying in bed. Therefore, I believe that the phase tracking accuracy is low here, but I did not place any hopes on this at all before buying. After 15 months from the beginning of use, the end stopper of the strap broke. It didn't work to glue it. Instead, he began to use a small elastic band. The stopwatch canrun no longer than an hour. A maximum of 8-10 watch faces can be loaded into the bracelet memory (depending on their weight) in addition to one non-removable standard watch face. With the function ofcomnstant heart rate monitoring turned off, I charge it once a week. When enabled - once every 5 days. Was purchased in August 2022. I switched to it from mi band 2. I chose between mi band 4 and honor band 5 for a long time. There are significant advantages for me here and there, but honor eventually attracted a little more. I ordered it on Aliexpresscomplete with an additional white strap, which in the end turned out to be physically impossible to use. It is informal, flimsy and clumsy. Screenshot of all available watch faces (ated periodically): I will ate the review as I use it. For all questions, write to FB.

Pros
  • 1) captures daytime sleep 2) shows the current weather on the main screen, or when you click on it (depending on the watch face) 3) night mode function at the display (automatic dimming at night) 4) it is possible to reset an incoming call 5) detailed sleep statistics in huawei health app 6) fastening latch of the end of the strap (3rd photo) 7) it is convenient to view the received notifications without taking out the phone (but the amount of text shown is limited) 8) Relatively convenient charging connection 9) the ability to pause and switch music tracks and videos (from the gallery, from youtube, movies) played on a smartphone (with and without headphones, as well as with a connected bluetooth speaker), and control their volume 10) high maximum brightness: everything is visible on the screen in bright sunlight 11) you can turn on and off the display of icons in the menu and change their position (today's sleep time, measurement of oxygen in the blood, measurement of heart rate, music control, activation of any training mode, message center, statistics of steps and distance traveled)
Cons
  • 1) the display does not always light up when turning the wrist (when lifting and turning it usually lights up), which is sometimes very annoying, especially if the second hand is busy: you have to press the button with your nose (for mi band 2 also); but over time you get used to it 2) if the hand is in a vertical position (the angle of inclination of the hand relative to the horizontal is more than 45 °), then the display does not light up after turning the hand (for mi band 2 also) 3) there is no way to edit the time of falling asleep and waking up 4) if you stay in a motionless and relaxed state, then the bracelet can attribute this to sleep, due to which the total sleep time will be overestimated: • if you lie in bed for some time after waking up, then this time the bracelet often refers to sleep (mi band 2 also has it, but in mi fit you can manually adjust the duration of sleep) • the bracelet considered that I was dozing when I was sitting in a chair at the hairdresser's 5) if you fall asleep before 20:00, then this interval of sleep until 20:00 in the statistics is added to the sleep of the previous day 6) the vibration is unpleasant, unlike mi band 2: it is both stronger and more pleasant 7) the step of changing the volume level from the bracelet is too large (4 divisions (27%) for Meizu 15 and 10 divisions (66%) for Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro), which makes this function useless 8) after viewing the notifications on the phone, they are not removed from the bracelet themselves, you need to clear the bracelet from them manually 9) you can not set alarms and manage them through the bracelet itself, only through the huawei health application 10) you can not change the position of the settings in the bracelet menu (they always go to the third icon if you scroll up the menu) 11) over time, the strap strap often began to fall out of the strap end lock 12) the bracelet considers that it is on the arm of the sleeping owner, and records sleep with phase tracking, lying disassembled on the nightstand with the heart rate sensor down 13) may lower heart rate readings during intense exercise