The Honor Band 3 is a functional activity tracker.
It’s functional and colorful and does the things we expect from a fitness
tracker. It is priced pretty good compared to the rest of the market, given
what Honor has paced into the band –
essentially, it’s a Fitbit rival that doesn’t cost as much as fit bit.
Honor Band 3 price
If you’re looking to keep an eye on your steps,
runs, swims and sleeps, then this band will only set you back $39 /Rs 2799. It’s
priced in affordable territory for many, and given the abilities it packs punch
above the price which suits well for it.
Design
There’s a rubberised strap that attaches with
proprietary connectors to the main tracking unit. It’s
thankfully soft rubber, sitting nice and snugly on the wrist, without any
Microsoft Band-esque hard curves to worry about.
The unit itself holds a monochrome screen – it is
OLED. This is a black and white display designed to consumer very little power,
and you can clearly see every individual pixel.
That’s no bad thing – the display is clear and
bright enough, and the whole unit only weighs 18 grams, so it would actually be
fairly easy to forget you’re wearing it day to day.
However, tapping the button below the display
instantly flicks it between the screens
- assuming they’re options to see how many steps you’ve taken each day
or calories burned, the method of scrolling through the interface feels crisp
and clean.
In terms of what this can do, the Honor Band 3 can
track your sleep, monitor a run or swim, work out your calorie burn, have a look at how many steps you’re taking
or register your heart rate.
On the latter one, Honor reckons that it’s as good
as a chest strap in terms of accuracy for counting your heart beats every minute,
although that’s only at rest – it’ll be interesting to see how that works out
when you’re jogging along with this strapped to your wrist.
Sadly – although not really surprisingly for the
price – the Honor Band 3 does not feature GPS inside, so any runs will be
worked out using the three axis accelerometer, which is a bit low-spec for
today’s motion-monitoring wearables.
It’ll do the job, but we doubt that the Band 3 will
be able to work out how far you’ve run or swum accurately – it’ll just be a
vague metric that will help you as you graduate to a more dedicated fitness
brand. The same can be said about sleeping – sure, it can tell how well you’ve
slept.
Then again, it goes back to the price – are you
really that bothered about how much it can do when it costs so little?
Verdict
The Honor Band 3 is a good activity tracker –
nothing more, nothing less. If you want to see how far you’ve walked or get an
idea of your daily fitness without having to spend a lot of money, you’ll enjoy
this device.
The colors are interesting, the weight low and the
cost is negligible in comparison to a lot of other devices out there which do
the same thing (the Fitbit Charge 2, for instance).
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