Honor Band 5: a generous bracelet, in every way

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Why is it generous? Well, because the Honor Band 5 It is one of those physical activity bracelets (fitness tracker) that for such a low cost offers enough functions to know the results of our training.

The demand for these devices increases considerably, hence large and small manufacturers invest more and more to attract the attention of users of this type of product. That’s right, the competition is stiff in this segment of fitness bracelets.

To Honor Band 5 It has to compete with other quality and low-cost devices from renowned houses, such as Xiaomi, Samsung or Huawei; and also from other smaller companies, but they are offering very good quality products.

Here we tell you our opinion about the Honor Band 5, after two months of testing.

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Comfortable, light and cool!

The Honor Band 5 It has little to do with smartwatches: its design and characteristics are more responsive to a physical activity bracelet. Beware of comparisons. It is noticeably simpler and lighter, although many of its functions and advantages are the same as those of the most expensive smartwatches on the market.

Of the Honor Band 5 We liked that the simplicity of its design did not detract from a certain sobriety. In this sense, it quite imitates the Xiaomi Mi Band 4, one of the best views of its range.

The Honor Band 5 It is light, weighing only about 23 grams, and that advantage is felt when, for example, you use it to measure the record of a race. The first thing that catches the attention of the design is its 0.95-inch touch screen, of the AMOLED type, which guarantees better brightness, excellent contrast and more vivid colors. That advantage can be seen outdoors, where we had no problems viewing what the panel was showing. Indeed, it is a small panel where you can only see very basic information. But calm, like the Honor Band 5 It is configured from your mobile phone, here you can see in better detail the information that the bracelet registers.

When the screen is on, it’s amazing. You have to choose several covers or themes (watchface), it depends on your tastes, style or even, to combine with the clothes you are wearing. But calm, like the Honor Band 5 It is configured from your mobile phone, here you can see in better detail the information registered by the bracelet. When the screen is on, it’s amazing. You have to choose several covers or themes (watchface), it depends on your tastes, style or even, to combine with the clothes you are wearing.

The user can choose the screen model that he likes the most.

Another component of the design of the Honor Band 5 is the strap, made of synthetic material, very appropriate for physical activities.

About the software and functions

Let’s go to what you want to know the most about fitness bracelets: the functions. It is very important to know that to activate the Honor Band 5, you must download the application Huawei Health, available on Google Play or in the Chinese giant’s own store. Now, this bracelet is what it is, a low-cost one that, however, more than meets our most important requirements when training. Just by tapping the screen you activate the device. It may not be the best touch screen in the world, but it passes the test, it is efficient.

With the typical scroll, sliding your finger up or down on the screen, you can locate the functions:

  • STEP COUNTER
  • HEART RATE MONITOR
  • MONITORING OXYGEN IN THE BLOOD
  • SLEEP STATE
  • TRAINING
  • NOTIFICATIONS
  • AND CONFIGURATION

The truth is that the interface of the Honor Band 5 rewards the user with easy-to-identify, attractive and highly colorful icons. In addition to seeing the time, you can also know the weather or the battery status.

If you press the Training function, for example, you can see that the bracelet covers a wide range of activities, such as running outdoors, running on the treadmill, cycling, walking outdoors, walking outdoors and indoors, swimming and more. By the way, you can submerge the Honor Band 5. Sure, up to 50 meters. We tested it and it didn’t stop working. Sure, you better not abuse.

This simple little activity tracker has a few very fun and practical features. For the scattered or forgetful, Honor Band 5 is able to locate the mobile phone to which it is connected. Notify incoming calls, text messages or whatsapp. In this case, against it, you cannot read the entire message, if it consists of more than 45 characters. Nor can you answer messages, and less from its minimal screen.

The notifications of messages, emails and calls are quite effective

Conclusions

There are some functions that hardly compete with specialized equipment, for example, heart monitors. However, the Honor Band 5 it is quite accurate in terms of other recording patterns, such as the step counter or the distance traveled. Others, such as the number of calories consumed in exercise, are estimated values ​​that depend on your age, weight and height. But when comparing the bracelet with much more expensive ones, such as the Fitbit Versa Lite, the results were very similar.

Ah, you can control your mobile phone music from the Honor Band 5. On the battery, it is another of its strengths, with a capacity of 100 mAh. In fact, in this section it is one of the best on the market, as it asked us to connect it to the charger after six days of use.

Without a doubt, the Honor Band 5 it is not the most appropriate for an athlete of a certain level who demands more exact information. But, it is still a very good option, and inexpensive, for the thousands that enter the category: occasional athletes or those of “one day yes one day no”. For such a low cost, it is worth it, although we insist that the fight is tough, because there are other bracelets in this range as good or better than the one. Honor Band 5.