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The user interface on the phone is simple.
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Standard fitness band fare. A central circle on the display acts as the soft home button. While swiping there is a noticeable delay but nothing which ruins the experience.
Also, it takes a while to switch between different menus. In the settings section, you also get a stopwatch and timer functionality. You can select from a range of watch faces, some of which are plain boring. In terms of responsiveness, things could have been snappier. For instance, when you raise your wrist to check the time or see your stats, it takes a second to register and light up the display.
On a few instances, I had to shake my wrists to activate the accelerometer, so be prepared to live with that. Once the Honor Band 5 is paired with your phone, every time you get a call your Band 5 will notify you by vibrating. To attend the call, you will actually have to take out your phone. Honor Band 5 is water-resistant for up to 50 metres underwater and has a 5 ATM rating. This makes it ideal for tracking your swims. The sleep tracking data is quite detailed though. You get to know the quality of sleep with granular details such as REM sleep, light sleep, deep sleep and so on.
You also get contextual cards based on the amount you have slept or if you have slept abnormally late.
When it comes to activity tracking or heart rate monitoring, the Honor Band 5 does a good job. Yes, the tracker does register false steps when you are on a flight or driven around.
Total Protection Service is a month protection service for smartphones covering accidental out of warranty damages, like a broken screen or liquid damages. To call the Honor 9x Pro feature-rich in terms of software would be an understatement. Obviously, if you are looking to track your HONOR phone, then you cannot access the internet by using it! Protect your smartphone from accidental damages. That speaks volumes for a phone that only just finds itself out of the budget category in terms of pricing.
Both these features are not present on the Indian edition of the Band 5. The Honor Band 5 houses a mAh battery which lasted a good five days on a single charge with daily use, including wearing it while sleeping. This is pretty good battery life for a colour display sporting fitness band.
But one thing that is a bit of a bother is the proprietary charging connector. You just have to lock the Honor Band 5 in place on the power adapter.
It takes around 90 mins to charge completely if you are using a USB port on your laptop or desktop. Is Honor Band 5 the best fitness band around? Is Honor Band 5 worth the price?
Is Honor Band 5 a smartwatch replacement? This did not make a noticeable difference to the battery life of our smartphone. The Health app lets you keep a track of your fitness on the smartphone. The app also tracks steps using the smartphone's own sensors, independent of the steps recorded by the band.
We found the step counter in the app to be inaccurate as it kept counting steps while we were riding a motorcycle. We tested the accuracy of the Honor Band 5 by counting steps while walking, and it recorded steps which is good. We found the tracking to be accurate enough to rely on. Unlike the Honor Band 4, the step counter did not record steps while we were driving around. To check the distance tracking accuracy of the Honor Band 5, we walked a distance that we knew was exactly 1km.
The Honor Band 5 recorded the distance as 1. If you aren't looking to train professionally, this level of accuracy will probably do. Sleep tracking was also reliable. The Health app uses Huawei's Trusleep algorithms for tracking. Different sleep periods are also graded, and the app gave us tips on how to improve the quality of our sleep.
The smartband also has a vibrating alarm function to wake you up. Setting an alarm required us to fiddle with the app. We would have liked the ability to set it from the band itself. The Honor Band 5 is capable of continuous heart-rate tracking and has two modes to choose from. Smart mode automatically adjusts the frequency of measurements based on the your activity level. The other mode is Real-time, which keeps tracking on constantly.
The latter is more demanding on the battery of the Honor Band 5. We compared the heart rate readings with those of an Apple Watch Series 1 and a Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus Review , and we found them all to be in the same range. We also tested our SpO 2 levels using the band and found the readings to be slightly off when compared to those taken by a Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus. The Band 5 takes a little over an hour to charge.
Honor claims that the Band 5 will deliver the same kind of battery life as its predecessor, i. However, in our experience with heart rate tracking set to Smart, notifications switched on for calls and WhatsApp, and Huawei's TruSleep sleep tracking enabled, the band lasted us for only one full week. We also performed another battery test by switching the heart rate tracking to Real-time while keeping other settings unchanged.
This dropped the battery life of the band to a little over three days. The proprietary charger took a little over 1 hour 20 minutes to charge the band completely. The Honor Band 5 is an incremental upgrade over the Band 4, which it replaces. Honor has retained all the positive attributes of the previous model, such as accurate sleep tracking and that bright AMOLED display, and has now made the device swimproof.
It also has the ability to track swims, which the earlier version lacked. However, battery life is still the same, and this is something that could've done with improvement. You'll also need to carry the proprietary charger around carefully. Priced at Rs.
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Honor Band 5 Review. Honor Band 5 is an incremental upgrade over the Honor Band 4. The Honor Band 5 is priced at Rs. Honor Band 5 design and software Honor hasn't changed the design of this device at all compared to its predecessor. Verdict The Honor Band 5 is an incremental upgrade over the Band 4, which it replaces. Honor Band 5. Read detailed Honor Band 5 review.
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