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Review on HONOR MagicWatch 2 Smartwatch 46mm Charcoal Black by Boyan Mechkov ᠌

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Unsuccessful purchase, I am disappointed.

The value of the watch would be higher if not for the skewed software and the manufacturer's basic apathy. After two weeks of use and many time spent on setup that I was unable to complete, I decided to get the GTR2 as soon as it went on sale and sell this one on eBay. I doubt that I will ever again make a purchase with Honar / Highway.

Pros
  • A solid set of features at a fair price was advertised. Gorgeous design, even when the display is turned off. The excellent resolution of the screen produces an outstanding image. I appreciated the following subtleties that are rarely praised: A few of the native dials are usable, taking after so-called "smart watches" with their ability to show eight to ten different parameters. In addition, you can adjust all four of these display parameters with just one dial. You may easily cycle among recorded audio files or play them back one at a time. The screen promptly shuts off in the event of a false positive when the function to activate it by turning the hand is activated. Holding it up to your eyes is the only way it will keep working.
Cons
  • Poor reliability of the program and a lack of transparency from the company. As an illustration. Screen time can be enabled in the settings. The screen keeps going black no matter how many times I turn it on. It turns out that if you want the screen to turn off 20 seconds before sleep mode, you also need to set the backlight to stay on for 20 minutes. They conflated the units of time minute and second. See if you can make an educated guess. Unfortunately, the Market provides an extremely out-of-date version of the Health app, which is required on a smartphone in order to utilize the watch. In order to function properly, services need to be set up. The manufacturer has not issued any such statement. The Market's services, too, have fallen behind the times. The tenth Aneroid is completely incompatible with them. Everything is left up to your own best guesses or research on the Internet. There is essentially no technical help available. I was unable to establish connection to the server. Specifically, access is denied for good either 30 minutes or 2 hours after installation or reinstallation. The application itself offers no diagnostic tools beyond a laughable suggestion to test network connectivity. When I phoned for help, they told me to contact China because I hadn't purchased the watch in 2022. It makes no difference that the original product is bought for the international market. Vibra. There is only a slight squeak, like a mosquito, that is scarcely audible after tuning in. I've never been able to pick up on it in the wild. The clock is completely vibration free. The Health app is the only way to exchange audio files, however numerous posts discuss this limitation. However, they fail to include the data transfer rate. It took me over 3! hours to copy over 100 songs that weighed in at over 300 MB. It's still fine, though. The biggest surprise is that the clock's output sounds perfectly fine through the headphones. the equivalent of one hundred pairs of headphones. There are around a dozen built-in knobs, and another two dozen in the software itself. And you can find tens of thousands more online. However, putting them on is a major hassle. Long, careful, and deliberate study of w3bsit3-dns.com or other related resources is required.