Honor Band 5
Honor Band 5 is one of the most reliable activity trackers right now in the market!
Honor Band 5 has multiple functions and a really affordable price.(about £30.00)
Honor Band 5 seems to gain ground against the newest Xiaomi activity tracker, Xiaomi Mi Band 4. The most interesting feature of Honor Band 5 is the SpO2 monitor. What does this mean? The SpO2 monitor counts the portion of the oxygen inside the blood. You can find more information about SpO2 here. As far as the step monitor is concerned, it could be characterized extremely accurate as it counts every single step! In case of running or training it's still a very accurate counter. The owners of Honor Band 5 have the opportunity to choose between a lot of training programs in order to keep fit. Both Honor Band 5 and Huawei Health app provide a great number of training drills such as cycling, indoor/outdoor running, pool training, indoor/outdoor walking and so on. Another useful feature of Honor Band 5 is the music player controller. You can control music by Spotify, Youtube and music library.
Features
Sleep monitor
Honor Band 5 sleep monitor is able to provide you with the best advises. As it tracks your sleep quality, it can inform you about REM sleep, Deep sleep, Light sleep. In addition, Honor Band sleep monitor has the ability to inform you about the time you were awake.
You can find your sleep score, your sleep graphics and some advises through the app!
Workout
You can choose between various training drills either through the app or through Honor Band 5. Some of the training drills can be used on the gym like rower and cross trainer. You can set your goal by calories, distance and time as it happens with the most activity trackers. Honor Band 5 does not include GPS, so if you wish to record your trip you have to take your smartphone with you. Moreover, you can check your weight but a Smart Scale is needed. Find a cheap Smart Scale, compatible with Honor Band 5 here.
Other features
Honor Band 5 detects and notifies you when you are sitting for more than an hour. You can turn on this feature on Huawei Health app. Continuous heart rate monitoring is another great feature which monitors your heart rate throughout the 24-hour day. Honor Band 5 provides two modes for continuous heart rate monitoring. Smart heart rate monitoring automatically adjusts the frequency of measurements depending on your state of activity. Real-time heart rate monitoring checks your heart rate in real time and gives you more details but it uses up more battery.
Battery
Having tested Ηonor Band 5 for a few weeks, we could claim that battery is completely satisfying. When we turn on notifications on apps like Messenger, Facebook, Instagram, Chrome, Contacts, Clock, Spotify, Youtube and Gmail battery does not run out quickly. In addition, when HUAWEI TruSleep, Continuous heart rate monitoring, weather reports, music playback control and activity reminder are switched on battery does not run out after some hours like a great number of activity trackers do. Honor Band 5 needs just 1.30-2 hours to be completely recharged. Eventually, battery life lasts for about 4-5 days when the most features are switched on.
Technical Characteristics
- Compatible with: Android, iOS
- Full colour 0.95 Amoled screen(120x140)
- Weight: 22.7g
- Bluetooth 4.2
- Water resistant up to 50m
- 6-axis accelerometer
- 100mAh battery
- Gyro sensor
- Sleep tracking
- Continuous heart rate monitor
- Rubber-plastic constructed
- SpO2 monitor
- App notifications
- Music player control
- Incoming call cancellation