Smart Watch Replace Mobile Phone? - Honor Magic Watch 2 Review

Compared with the previous generation Watch, the Honor Magic Watch 2 not only brings better endurance performance, richer sports management and intelligent health management, but also it is equipped with Huawei Kirin A1 chip, which brings more humane and comprehensive daily services.

The Honor Magic Watch 2 has two different specifications of 46mm and 42mm. This article mainly introduces the 46mm sports version. The design of the 46mm version continues the first generation, and adds a lot of optimizations and upgrades. The overall body of the Honor Magic Watch 2 still uses the traditional classic circular dial design, but also incorporates smart and trendy elements. In addition, the Honor Magic Watch 2 also uses an integrated glass surface design, which is thinner and more stylish, further capturing the public's aesthetic.

The Honor Magic Watch 2 is equipped with a 1.39-inch round AMOLED touch display, with a resolution of 454 × 454 and a high brightness of 800nits. No matter the appearance or usability, the Honor Magic Watch 2 is very good. The user even can raise his or her hand gently to see the notification message just received under the hot sun.

The body of the Honor Magic Watch 2 is made of metal + plastic. It weighs about 41g (w/o strap) and has a thickness of 9.4mm (w/o the sensor area). There are two crown buttons at the right side of the watch body. Short press the two buttons to start the system menu and exercise menu respectively. Long press the upper button to realize the power on / off operation, and long press the lower button to bring up the voice assistant quickly .

The strap of the Honor Magic Watch 2 46mm sports version is made of black rubber + leather, which feels extremely smooth and delicate, just like a baby's face. At the back of the watch, we can see 4 sensors, including heart rate sensors, ambient light sensors, etc. There are also two small metal contacts, which is the spouse of the charging base. When it is successfully paired with the charging base, it means It is ready for charging..

Good battery life can make the user's experience more comfortable. Honor Magic Watch2 uses Huawei's first self-developed wearable chip Kirin A1, which has passed the world's first Bluetooth dual-mode 5.1 certification, and has the advantages of fast and stable connection and reduced power consumption. At the same time, it also uses a new intelligent power-saving algorithm 2.0 mode, which can intelligently identify the user's use scene, and also can allocate energy consumption reasonably according to different states such as resting, wearing, and sports, to achieve the perfect balance of performance and power consumption. The Honor Magic Watch 2 can achieve a long battery life of 2 weeks in the scenario of ordinary use. Even when the independent GPS is turned on, it can achieve continuous exercise for more than 30 hours.

Honor Magic Watch 2 also has many and comfortable daily services that can become the life manager on our wrists.

1.Smart message notification
The smart notification function of Honor Magic Watch 2 eliminates the tediousness of swiping a mobile phone to read messages, and directly displays caller information and push messages on the dial, so that the importance of things can be distinguished through the watch.

2.Use Your Wrist like a Phone
Honor Magic Watch 2 built-In speaker. Stay connected with friends, colleagues, and loved ones right on your wrist. The built-in speaker and microphone are ideal for quick chats with seamless switching to your HONOR smartphone if needed.

3.More Useful Smart Features
Continue to live in the moment. At your convenience, Magic Watch 2 lets you access commonly used smartphone features like checking the weather app, setting the alarm, or starting the stopwatch timer, all without even touching your HONOR smartphone.

4. Convenient payment
Nowadays almost everyone uses electronic payment every day, but the operation process is a bit tedious: take out the phone-unlock-open Alipay-click to pay. The Honor Magic Watch 2 only requires the user to bind Alipay in advance, and simple swipe the watch will display the Alipay payment code when the user need to make a payment.

5.Finding your mobile phone
Many people may have faced this situation: the mobile phone is placed at home, but you can’t find it when you are in a hurry, and the Honor Magic Watch 2 perfectly solves this problem. Just start the "Find your phone" mode from the watch, and when the phone receives the message, it will send a clear soundto remind the user.

From the above introduction, we can see that the Honor Magic Watch 2 has shown its charm from various places such as appearance design, functional experience, and life services. If you also want to have a life manager who knows you so well, it is better to buy one directly.