Honor Magic Watch 2 review, is it worth it?

The Honor Magic Watch 2 is a smart watch with a price tag that is a bit high and with specifications that seem like you have seen it in other devices. Among the things that distinguish smart watches, between luxury and necessity, we will talk about the Honor Magic Watch 2 and review it fully from our experience with it, and we will answer complex questions that cross your mind, such as the difference between it and smart bracelets and others, so follow us.

Honor Magic Watch 2 specifications

the screen :

  1.39-inch OLED, with a resolution of 454 x 454, circular in shape

the design :

Glass screen with ceramic back and stainless steel frame

Connection :

Bluetooth 5.1 . support

Support for calls via Bluetooth in the 46mm version

acoustics:

There are headphones in the version with a diameter of 46 millimeters

Sensors:

Accelerometer, heart rate, barometric pressure, compass, gyroscope

GPS support:

GPS support with navigation systems GLONASS, GALILEO

the battery :

455mah battery

Honor Magic Watch 2 Review - Screen

The screen in the beginning is excellent, the OLED screen is distinguished by its very good colors and wonderful brightness, but more than wonderful under direct sunlight, the watch is clear in all its details, you do not need to look closely at it, the screen is excellent in any lighting conditions with support for 5 levels of lighting, but believe me you will not feel That you will want to change the lighting, just leave the automatic brightness working alone and you will find the watch does what is required, I do not remember that I ever turned off the automatic brightness and did not complain about the vision at all, so do not be afraid in terms of the brightness of the screen itself, but as for the screen response, it sometimes does not respond as you expect It responds, yes its response is excellent 90% of the time, but there is still a time when you will feel that the screen is not perfectly responsive, but all I was doing was ignoring this weak response and when I used it the next time I don't face any problem.

The screen pattern designs here are varied; The Huawei store for Watch faces is rich and full of good and amazing designs in my opinion, the free designs are many, not all of the type that I prefer, but there are a lot of free designs, the paid designs store is full of distinctive designs that you will definitely like, and if you are a fan of buying paid designs, you will buy a lot of them, so I I think the point of customizing the watch face here is very excellent.

Honor Magic Watch 2 Review - Battery

The battery life in smart watches varies. This watch gives you a week of use with all the sensors activated. I leave it using the heart rate sensor all the time. It also measures stress levels all the time, and it still lasts for a week with me, but when I use its GPS, the battery drops to a while Less time, about 5 days, and let me burn you part of the review, the GPS here is more than excellent, the battery charges 100% in less than two hours via the charger that came with it, this is very good

Honor Magic Watch 2 Review - Sensors and Connectivity

heart rate sensor

The heart rate sensor in the watch is accurate, compared to the old Galaxy Fit 2 smart bracelet. The watch gives almost the same readings, with the difference that the watch reads on the wrist as close as possible to reading it on the finger, in general this is a good indicator because heart rate devices read the pulses on the finger Not on the wrist, and in exercises, I find the watch largely reflects my heart rate, if the training is intense and I really feel that my heartbeat is fast, I find the watch shows me that my heart rate is high, if I am resting and feel that my pulse is weak or a little slow, I find it really less than Normal rates on the watch, I tested the sensor in almost every situation whether resting, heavy exercise, light exercise or even walking and it always hit my heart rate.

blood oxygen sensor

This sensor was not placed with me in a real test because I did not suffer from any health conditions that cause a low level of oxygen in the blood, the reading was always between 98% to 100%, which is normal for me, the main factor to confirm the reading here is still the point of comparison between the reading From the wrist and reading from the finger, the reading was the same, this means that the accuracy of the watch is good in this respect. The blood oxygen sensor was very useful and gained a wide mediation due to the spread of the Corona virus and how it was affecting the patient with a weak percentage of oxygen in the blood, So this sensor is important.

Phone call quality - bluetooth quality

In this regard, do not worry, the watch uses Bluetooth 5.1 and the watch works perfectly, the range is approximately 10 meters without barriers, less in the presence of any barriers or obstacles that prevent communication with the watch, you will not live without the phone in the presence of this watch, you will need the phone with you, the range is not an obstacle You have, the watch can connect to wireless headphones and I tried it with the old Honor Choice X headphones, I did not feel a difference between the sound quality with the phone or with the watch, the sound is excellent and does not suffer from any problems, even the usual Bluetooth noise is not audible, this is good.

GPS

The GPS here is excellent and I'm seriously speaking, very accurate and very good at tracking exercises, I used it with my wheel, I totally depended on it, and it was so accurate it could be more accurate than my phone - the Galaxy Note 10 Lite - at times, no matter if The GPS consumes a not small or weak percentage of the battery, but it is a bright spot in this watch. The tracking is very accurate with a good compass as well. The disadvantage of the GPS here is that it takes some time to give you a complete indication that it has picked up your location, and you must be in an open place -obviously- Until it works properly, other than that is a good point in the watch.

Honor Magic Watch 2 Review - Audio and Headphones

Here, the talk applies to the 46mm version only, not the smaller version, because it carries two speakers in the watch frame. The sound of the headphones is good in an open space with medium crowds, unreliable in high crowds, the headphones are definitely not the best thing. The headphones are not the most suitable for listening to music on a daily basis, there is no Bass is excellent, I mean in the end you will not use them to listen to songs all the time, on calls these headphones are more than excellent and will do the job perfectly.

Honor Magic Watch 2 Review - Software

The software here is a software dedicated to the watch, unfortunately the watch is not a Wear OS system from Google, which means that the term “smart watch” is not fully realized here, but in terms of the software, the Huawei watch system has many and sufficient features, you have here a weather application that shows you weather forecasts around the clock The clock, and throughout the week, you have an application for alarms specifically for that, with the ability to add contacts to call them through the watch, there is a special application for the Barometer to display your altitude above sea level and atmospheric pressure, with a Stopwatch and Timer and a searchlight that illuminates the watch’s screen itself so that you can use it as a lamp in the dark and finally There is a compass built into the watch, and we have tried all these applications, they all work efficiently, unfortunately the software is not a completely smart system, it is not like the Galaxy Watch 4 for example, the software is suitable for it and does its purpose on it, it is not the best but it is very good.

Huawei Health app

As we said, unfortunately, the software is for the watch, so most of the controls are made through the application, and the Huawei Health application is so bad that it is difficult to compete with the rest of the applications. Look, I am not biased, but the Samsung Health application was an integrated health library. The Huawei application has some problems, to the point that at times Many were telling me that I had completed the number of steps 10 thousand steps, although the watch recorded about 9400 steps, but the application does not have controls on the watch only a few, and it cannot be synchronized with any other applications, the Huawei Health application in my opinion is the problem of this watch.

Honor Magic Watch 2 Review – Design

The watch has a circular design, of course, it has two buttons. The bottom button can be programmed to any application you want from the watch applications. I made it for the scout, but by default it is dedicated to the application of exercises, which we will talk about later in the review. The watch is metal with a glass screen and a plastic back, the strap attached to the copy The black one comes from silicone, the silver version of the watch comes with an additional leather strap - which is more expensive - and the watch uses any strap with a width of 22 millimeters, so you can buy different straps to install it on the watch.

Honor Magic Watch 2 Review - Exercise and Health Benefits

Use in exercises

This point bothers me in order to evaluate the watch, I am not the most professional person in the field of training, but I have to commend it, I had a Galaxy Fit 2 bracelet before and I love the Samsung readings in exercises, this watch gives more accurate readings, in terms of burning calories In terms of the high pulse rate, it also tells you the value of the intensity of the exercises and whether you need a rest period after exercises and for how long, all the charts that you will love about training will be displayed to you in the same hour, the same watch supports a wide range of different exercises between weightlifting exercises and Fittnes Crossfit, swimming, yoga and many other exercises believe me, I can't list them in this article.

 

I used the watch for training several times, once while I was riding a bike, and I used it in the gym to track exercises, especially when you use it to track running or bike and you need to use a very accurate GPS, only there was a point that I noticed that the watch sometimes shows me that my speed has reached To 60 kilometers per hour while I am on the bike, which is a completely illogical number as it is impossible to reach this speed, my average speed does not exceed 30 kilometers per hour, this is a strange point, but the watch itself when I use it to track my movement shows me very accurate results from the GPS This is an excellent point.

Other than that, the readings of the heart rate are completely logical compared to the Galaxy Fit 2, the heart rate is logical as the watch divides it into exercise zones, whether the pulses indicate that you are in the warm-up phase, fat burning, aerobics, etc., everything is accurate in terms of training reading, intensity and fatigue level And the time required to rest after exercise, if you are a sports person, you will definitely use this watch.

Health Benefits - Heart Rate Recording

In terms of recording the heart rate, the Honor Magic Watch 2 is good at this point, as we said when we talked about the sensors that the sensor is accurate. It is also distinguished that the watch measures the heart rate throughout the day and collects all the measurements for you in a chart that you can access through the watch or from Through the application, the watch can be trusted with regard to measuring the heart rate because of its accuracy and because of its continuous measurement of the heart rate, and of course, the watch will give a warning when your heart rate reaches an abnormally high number, so you start looking for the reason for this high pulse

Health benefits - records stress levels

The point of recording stress levels in the watch is excellent, the watch can measure your stress rate around the clock, as well as give you an alert when this level reaches a high number so that you start to be careful and start breathing a little - and yes there are breathing exercises that the watch helps you with - but it is additionally special It is the calibration process that you do before you start measuring anything, where the application asks you some questions and follows how your pulse rate changes and how nervous you are when you answer these questions, and it comes out to you with a measurement that is very close to exact.

Health Advantages - Sleep State Recording

Huawei relies on a technology called Huawei True sleep that helps track your sleep, recording your sleep stages between REM, deep and light sleep, and of course the moments of awakening, all of this also based on the pulse rate scale and motion sensors inside the watch, from my experience with it, the readings are really accurate that the watch can Predicting when you actually fall asleep and you can get sleep periods very accurately, even periods of simple naps are recorded so the watch is excellent in this regard.

Honor Magic Watch 2 price

The price of Honor Magic Watch 2 is 3300 pounds for the black version, the silver version is priced at 3800 Egyptian pounds, and here we enter into the dilemma: is the watch worth its price? I see this watch as closer to the Smartband than to being a smart watch, it is the Band, but with greater advantages, I cannot classify it as an integrated smart watch because of this point, if it was with Wear OS, for example, or even Harmony OS from Huawei, it would have had a greater feature, but here the applications are fixed and do not change , you do not have the freedom to modify it, no applications from the store, it is the way you use it as it is, this makes me classify it as a smart bracelet closer to being a smart watch, but the watch is good in everything it offers, you pay 3000 pounds for features that work efficiently, you pay 3000 pounds in Excellent materials and a great screen, you pay 3000 pounds for a high-accuracy GPS and a great help, although I classify it as a smart bracelet that is closer to being a smart watch, but I think that it is worth the price at which it is issued, I see it as a good smart watch even though it is incomplete

The difference between a smart watch and a smart bracelet

The difference between the smart watch and the smart bracelet should start with the software, the smart watch software is closer to the phone software, you are supposed to have a set of applications and the ability to install other applications, you can access a smart assistant as well and use it in various payments, but for the bracelet it has a software that focuses on reaching Various exercises and some shortcuts that will benefit you such as weather, sleep, and calendar. The design also must be taken into consideration. The watch with a larger design with more buttons can accommodate a larger battery or more complex components, while the bracelet is light in small size, the bracelet is its main function of fitness tracking and health monitoring with the application It supports it, while the watch’s main function is to use it as a substitute for the mobile phone in many times. These are the main differences between the bracelet and the smart watch. In exchange for the watch’s features, you pay a higher and greater price. All of this is normal.