Launched in China at a starting price of CNY 900, the Honor Watch Magic, brings advanced fitness tracking tech to the masses.
Like all things Honor, the Honor Magic Watch also tries to tone down a certain Huawei product, in this case the Huawei Watch GT, to meet its budget aspirations. Launched in China at a starting price of CNY 900, the Honor Watch Magic, brings advanced fitness tracking tech to the masses. Like the Huawei Watch GT, the Honor Watch Magic is also a smarwatch that ditches Google’s Android Wear or Wear OS in favour of a proprietary Lite OS designed to offer a healthy dose of performance and efficiency.
The Honor Watch Magic comes with a 1.2-inch AMOLED display with a 390×390 pixel resolution which is slightly smaller than the 1.39-inch AMOLED screen toting Huawei Watch GT. It comes with body carved out of 316L stainless steel and plastic which is just 9.8mm thin and is compatible with two band options, silicone and leather-rubber. It is 5ATM certified as well. The Honor Watch Magic, like the Huawei Watch GT, comes with GPS, activity, sleep and step tracking. There’s also NFC, hear-rate and blood pressure monitoring on-board the smartwatch.
The 178mAh battery inside the Honor Watch Magic is claimed to offer a week of typical usage on single charge in comparison to the Huawei Watch GT that offers more juice. The Huawei Watch GT is claimed to last up to 2 weeks with heart-rate monitoring on and exercise for 90 minutes per week, up to 30 days if you’re only receiving messages and calls with heart-rate monitoring off, and up to 22 hours with continuous exercise tracking, heart-rate monitoring and GPS on. These are crazy numbers, but, considering the Huawei Watch GT packs a 420mAh battery and the company’s own hardware and software, chances are it might just pull it off. The Honor Watch Magic brings much of the same deal — including custom hardware and software — in a smaller body with a smaller screen, so chances are, it may not disappoint either when it comes to battery life.
The Honor Watch Magic was launched alongside the Honor Magic 2 phone and Honor’s take on the Apple AirPods, aka FlyPods. The Honor Magic 2 is a flagship phone with slider full-screen design without any notch, a Kirin 980 processor, 6 cameras in all (3 on the front and 3 on the back) and an in-screen fingerprint scanner. Both the Honor Magic 2 and the FlyPods pack Honor’s own YoYo voice assistant and are exclusive to China for now.
