Look, I pushed it gently and the cover opened.
This is not how I help girls to screw the bottle cap, but how to use Huawei WATCH Buds.
Huawei WATCH Buds, unveiled at the new product launch conference for the winter full-scene of Huawei on December 9, integrates watches and headphones to create the industry's first elastic-cover magnetic headphone watch. Simply put, it is to put a pair of TWS headphones in a normal-specification watch.
When I first heard of this design, I was worried that Huawei was innovating for innovation and finally made a "four-no-like" product. But after all, Huawei has successfully created many successful innovative products before, and foldable screen mobile phones have occupied half of this category. Huawei's innovation this time comes with sincerity and many mature innovative technologies. Two-in-one watches and headphones may sound like a very simple thing at first glance, but in fact, it requires many difficulties.
First, the headset and watch are integrated into a hardware product, and whether the battery life can be maintained; second, the thickness and weight control effect of the watch while ensuring battery life; third, how much value it is to consumers is, which is also the most important question.
A deformable smart watch
Whether it is real innovation or innovation for innovation, form is the basis of innovation. Huawei WATCH Buds has made a drastic change in form this time.
Compared with other Huawei smartwatches, the biggest difference between Huawei WATCH Buds is its pop-up design. There is an area with a texture different from the watch body under the watch mirror. This part is the drill-cut key that opens the cover. Press and hold it and push it gently, and then open the mirror. At this time, what catches your eyes is a built-in pair of true wireless earphones, which are attached to the inside of the body in a magnetic form.
As a dynamic "mechanism", Huawei WATCH Buds cover uses a super-micro precision shaft. In terms of material, it is made of high-strength steel material, with a flexible circuit board inside. It uses high-end copper materials consistent with folding mobile phone , and has also passed the laboratory's repeated opening and closing tests, so you don't have to worry about its service life.
In addition, the screen will play a headphone animation when the mirror pops up. After opening the pops up, the watch screen can still be used normally. Data such as time, weather, heart rate , blood oxygen and other data can also be displayed as usual, and the function will not be suspended because the pops up is opened. Relatively, the elastic cover design means that its waterproof performance is not as good as other Huawei smart watch , so you should pay attention to this point when using it.
Therefore, Huawei WATCH Buds did not affect the function of the watch itself because of the addition of a pair of headphones inside. More importantly, all of this is done at a thickness of 14.99mm, which includes the necessary eight-channel photoelectric sensors, precision shaft modules, headphone charging units, open-cover magnetic suction units, and open-cover key modules for Huawei smart watches. What is the level of
4.99mm? This thickness is basically the same as the Huawei WATCH 3 Pro new without headphones (14mm thick), which shows how much the internal architecture of Huawei WATCH Buds is compressed. All this can be achieved thanks to the high-integration design solution to put in a three-dimensional stack of 21-layer structures. However, after internal compression, what is more worrying is its battery life, one is its own battery capacity, and the other is that in addition to the watch itself, the battery also needs to charge the headphones.
After actual testing, Huawei WATCH Buds functions are fully turned on, including real-time heart rate, continuous blood oxygen, sleep monitoring, headphone charging, etc. It is used for 3 consecutive days, and the battery remains about 50%. Then its battery life is similar to that of Huawei WATCH GT3 46mm version, and its full function is turned on for about 7 days.
However, if this is the basis, there is a higher intensity of use, such as more than 30 minutes of calls every day, exercise monitoring for about 30 minutes of daily, and the turning on screen is always on. At this time, the battery life of Huawei WATCH Buds is about 3 days.
Huawei WATCH Buds has a power saving mode. After turning on, the watch battery no longer supplies power to the headphones, and the battery life will be significantly improved.
In other aspects, the parameters and shapes of Huawei WATCH Buds are basically the same as those of Huawei WATCH 3. The front is equipped with a 1.43-inch AMOLED screen with a resolution of 466 x 466, and the screen surface is covered with a layer of 3D arc glass. The difference is that only one crown is retained on the right side of the watch body, but the system menu zoom and slide cannot be controlled at present. The shortcut keys are cancelled, and it will be a little bit troublesome when it comes to quick start function than the GT3 series and WATCH 3 series.
The one I got started is a stainless steel case with a cowhide strap. Huawei WATCH Buds has two straps, khaki and black, and also supports 22mm size HUAWEI EasyFit strap. The range of optional accessories is comparable to other Huawei smartwatch series, which can meet the different wearing styles of most users.
To sum up, Huawei WATCH Buds has made great changes in the basic form, but it has not ignored one thing and affected the basic experience of smart watches. On the premise of powering the watch and headphones at the same time, the watch has a heavy battery life of about 7 days and a light battery life of about 7 days. The thickness has not become exaggerated, and it is still within a reasonable range.
Therefore, there is no problem with the daily use of Huawei WATCH Buds. So with the addition of a pair of built-in headphones, can it really meet or even create the needs of consumers?
A pretty good pair of TWS headphones
Generally speaking, in order to facilitate users to get, true wireless headphones will increase the exposed area of the headphones. The disadvantage is that they will waste a lot of product space, not to mention in watches with very limited volume.
Regarding this point, Huawei has made a magnetic array in the Huawei WATCH Buds headphones and watch cover part, which uses magnetic suction to help users take out the headphones from the watch, saving the most troublesome links directly, and without sacrificing the lack of space to increase the exposed area of the headphones.
has a wider space to access, so headphones are naturally more convenient than conventional true wireless headphones. From this point of view, it has to be said that Huawei has really been constantly innovating from the perspective of user experience to create products that solve users' pain points. After all, it is a headset placed in the watch, and Huawei has also made some changes to the shape of the headset first.
headphones are made into 8-sided cylindrical shapes. Customized miniaturized precision devices make the single headphone weigh only 4g. There are two 360° wraparound platinum star rings on the surface of the headphones. On the one hand, it is decoration, and on the other hand, it is also a medium for charging. The headphone handle has also been removed, and the center of gravity of the headphones is closer to the inside. Although it is small, it is firmly worn and does not affect the comfort of wearing.
It is worth noting that the appearance and shape of the two Huawei WATCH Buds earphones are exactly the same. Compared with traditional TWS earphones, it also saves the process of distinguishing left and right ears. When using them, you don’t need to deliberately distinguish left and right ears. The earphones themselves also support the adaptive recognition function of left and right earphones. Even if they are really worn in reverse, there is no need to take them off. The earphones intelligently correct the left and right sound channels.
In terms of functionality, this pair of headphones, like the Huawei FreeBuds series, has three modes: off, transparent, and noise reduction. The noise reduction performance can meet the needs of normal calls, listening to songs, and watching videos. The environment is more noise-free, such as the typing sound of mechanical keyboard , which can actually be heard.
listening experience part, headphones are the mainstream level of real wireless headphones now. The hardware is equipped with a full-band micro-tablet unit, and the algorithm supports triple real-time listening experience optimization, allowing small headphones to burst out with a good listening experience. If it is not a music enthusiast, its sound quality can meet the needs of entertainment. But for it, I think the most important thing is the call quality.
I tested using this pair of headphones to make calls, WeChat calls, and QQ calls. Under the premise of normal signal, the call quality of the headphones is very excellent, the sound is clean and clear, and there is no problem of noise floor or word swallowing.
This is because Huawei WATCH Buds supports AI noise reduction calls. Through two built-in sound pickup microphones and a bone conduction sensor, two microphones inside and outside the ears can pick up voices and ambient sounds. Bone conduction accurately recognizes and collects voices on the phone through head bone vibrations, separating the voices of people around them and ambient sounds. The picked up multi-channel sound information will be further processed by the deep neural network call noise reduction algorithm, thereby effectively canceling noise and enhancing the voice. Just to this point, its call quality is already better than that of some flagship phones.
In the headset control, it can be controlled through the new interactive wrist audio control center or Huawei's sports and health headset. In addition, Huawei WATCH Buds has another cooler control method.
Huawei WATCH Buds' headphone control has a wide-area auricle touch function, which is the first feature adopted by Huawei. That is, the earphones, auricle or cheek areas close to the tragus can be controlled. Double-click to hang up the phone, play/pause music, and triple-click to switch the noise reduction function. This function not only sounds beautiful, but it is also very good to use and has good accuracy. In this way, even if the carriages shake and crowds are dense on the subway during the morning and evening rush hour, you don’t have to take out your phone, let alone fiddle with your watch. Just tap around the ears, and the related operations can be easily achieved.
As for headphones, Huawei WATCH Buds is also good. As for its application scenarios, there is actually no need to worry about it. Huawei WATCH Buds is a two-in-one product that can cover the usage scenarios of watches and headphones at the same time. How to use headphones and watches on weekdays, Huawei WATCH Buds will be used. The difference from our daily use is that you can bring less headphones when you go out and less charging box in your pocket, making it more convenient to go out.
The functions are all
Huawei WATCH Buds Due to changes in internal structure, it will have fewer small functions than pure Huawei smartwatches. For example, it has less body temperature measurement function than GT3, but sports health and other functions are consistent with other Huawei smartwatches. It even uses TruSeen™ 5.0+ heart rate monitoring, as well as TruSleep™ 3.0 sleep monitoring (which will be upgraded through OTA in the future) to bring more accurate sleep monitoring.
watch pre-installed with HarmonyOS 3, and you can also obtain applications from the Huawei watch application market, such as the WeChat watch version. After wearing the headphones, you can directly and quickly reply to WeChat voice information through the watch; other functions such as Alipay /WeChat Payment, NFC, transportation cards, car keys, etc. are supported.
At the exercise level, Huawei WATCH Buds supports 80+ exercise modes and 200+ professional fitness courses, covering more exercise methods; at the same time, Huawei WATCH Buds cooperates with Huawei Sports and Health App to support professional fitness courses such as yoga, fitness, strength training, etc. During the training process, you can also use headphones to practice while listening, and the happiness of exercise continues to double.
In addition, Huawei has also launched many value-added services, and launched an accidental service treasure (including headphones without worry) for Huawei's WATCH Buds smart wearable. During the validity period of one year, the equipment will be out of warranty caused by accidental falls, collisions, squeezing, and liquid inlet during normal use. You can enjoy a service fee of only 69 yuan for repair services at one time, and a 50% discount on purchase of spare parts for a single headphone. At the same time, when purchasing Huawei WATCH Buds, you will also get a new user gift package worth 100 yuan provided by Huawei Music , and listen to tens of millions of genuine music libraries and selected audio content. The dial market also provides a variety of new dials such as "Sonic Buds" and "Property Buds" to choose from.
What Huawei has done is a very new attempt. When I started using Huawei WATCH Buds, I remembered the Huawei Call B6 that I had launched before, which combined the functions of the two product to enhance competitiveness and differentiate with competitors.
Then Huawei WATCH Buds is the same. Through the superposition of two products of watches and headphones, a smart watch that can cover both products at the same time is created, covering the usage scenarios of the two products. For consumers, it may be just the difference between the merger of watches and headphones into one object, but for the entire smart watch industry, this is not a new track.
From this experience, not only is the battery life and thickness of the watch itself guaranteed, but the functions of the watch and earphones themselves are not sacrificed, and you can bring less things when you go out, which is a 1+12 experience for consumers. For Huawei WATCH Buds, it is unreasonable, but only by breaking the rules can we create products that meet user needs.
Also unveiled at this press conference is Huawei WATCH GT 3 Pro classic smart watch. Its body is made of black bright nano microcrystalline ceramic . The crown adopts diamond-cut design, embedded with black spinel 3D rotating crown, and paired with a golden shell-patterned steel bezel, dazzling and shining. Huawei WATCH GT 3 Pro collection also inherits Huawei's excellent genes for sports and health. In addition to lung function assessment and COPD risk screening, TruSleep™ 3.0 sleep monitoring technology will also be pushed after subsequent OTA upgrades.
In addition to watch products, Huawei also brought the first smart movie viewing glasses - HUAWEI Vision Glass, which combines the light and portable sunglasses form with mature and reliable AR display technology to project a 120-inch giant screen in an equivalent 4-meter virtual space. The picture is clear and the colors are vivid. With the open dual speakers, it creates a very immersive "giant screen" movie viewing experience for users. Supports quick connection with mobile phones, tablets, laptops and other devices. Hardware-grade low blue light Rhine certified comfortable eye protection, 0-500 degree refractive adjustment available for the whole family.
