Day 1 With The Huawei Watch
by Frank McPherson Friday, July 15, 2016

Today is day 1 for my Android Wear Watch 2.0, featuring the Huawei Watch . The key question to be answered is, does the watch have enough battery life to get through my day. I put the watch on at 9 AM, and at nearly two hours there is 91% battery life.

I am currently wearing the Huawei Watch configured for the screen to be on all the time, which is how you really need it in order to get the most use out of the watch. For example, right now I am using the Outlook watch face, which is connected to Outlook mobile on my phone and that is connected to my work Exchange server. The Outlook face provides me an at-a-glance overview of my meetings throughout the day, along with an indicator of how many unread messages are in my Inbox. 

In dim mode the face shows the time, along with lines around the watch faces where meetings are scheduled, and unread message indicator. In full display I see the current date, the length of time until my next meeting and a snippet of the meeting subject.

The at-a-glance mode of the watch face is most useful when it is always on so I can just look down at it without having to touch the screen or even move my wrist. 

On the Moto 360 this was called ambient mode, and I never used it because it caused drained the batter much too fast. For my testing of the Huawei Watch I figure I should start with the most extreme case to see how it works, and then ratchet down from there.

How good is the Huawei Watch ? Only time will tell!