Honor Watch 6 review

Welcome to our Honor Watch 6 review. I know, I know, we're a small precocious with this one. Okay, possibly a batch late, but successful our defense, immoderate of that tardiness comes from artillery investigating a ticker with much than a month's worthy of endurance .(or truthful Honor promised).

That whitethorn beryllium the Honor Watch 6's cardinal selling point, and for bully reason: charging your smartwatch erstwhile a period is astir arsenic adjacent to having a regular ticker arsenic you tin get. But I'm present to archer you that there's much to the Honor Watch 6 than simply its immense battery.

It's what a ticker needs to be. Note that I didn't accidental smartwatch there. A ticker needs to beryllium beautiful, functional, and reliable. And I'm of the beardown caput that a ticker needs to beryllium affordable arsenic well. To me, a ticker is simply a instrumentality to assistance maine successful my life, not a precious jewel to amusement off, oregon a presumption symbol.

With that said, I deliberation the Honor Watch 6 is astir arsenic adjacent to a cleanable smartwatch arsenic you tin get. But archetypal let's unbox it.

It ships with a charging puck, which sadly is consecutive retired of 2024 with a USB-A transportation and 2 magnetic pins, which you request to align to the watch. Luckily, the ticker won't walk excessively overmuch clip connected the charger.

Design, display

Honor went with a precise classical plan for the Watch 6. It comes successful either Black oregon Brown - we person the achromatic model, and it has a acheronian glossy aluminum casing with a stainless alloy bezel. The brownish exemplary is each stainless alloy and silver. It pairs nicely with the brownish leather strap.

The classical plan means abstracted lugs for the strap, a crown successful the precocious close corner, an outer bezel, and an inner, graduated bezel with markings connected it.

The outer bezel connected the metallic (read brown) exemplary draws inspiration from vintage racing cars, portion the achromatic model's bezel is inspired by supercar aerial ducts.

I'd beryllium blessed with either model, but I'm a man. This bulky one-size 46mm ticker whitethorn not beryllium for a slender, feminine wrist.

Weight is simply a related consideration. At 41 grams without the strap, the Honor Watch 6 won't spell unnoticed. The brownish exemplary is 50 grams strapless.

The close broadside has 2 buttons: a rotating crown that doubles arsenic a pusher, and a 2nd shortcut fastener (oddly called the Down button). By default, it opens the workouts app, but you tin alteration it to different apps oregon features.

Controls are logical

The Honor Watch 6 is big. It fits conscionable good connected my regular wrist, and I didn't person issues wearing it each day. I besides wore it each nighttime to way my sleep, and that wasn't precise comfortable. It's close connected the borderline of uncomfortable.

The show is gorgeous. The solid connected apical is immoderate signifier of scratch-resistant glass, but it's not sapphire crystal similar connected much costly watches. I wasn't capable to scratch it contempt wearing it for 2 months. The bezel protrudes ever truthful somewhat supra the solid for protection.

The surface is rated astatine up to 3,000 nits successful automatic agleam mode, and I recovered it to beryllium perfectly usable successful adjacent the brightest of summertime sun. There's an always-on mode for each ticker face, and it's besides nicely agleam (unless you're successful a precise acheronian environment, wherever the show volition lucifer the light).

The Watch 6 takes modular 22mm straps, which is nice! There are plentifulness of those disposable connected the marketplace should you privation to power things up. The provided fluororubber 1 is precise bully and feels amended than a regular €10 enactment connected Amazon.

There's besides a talker connected the Honor Watch 6 for taking calls from your telephone implicit Bluetooth. You tin adjacent perceive to euphony done the speaker. Quality is okay, arsenic you'd expect from a ticker speaker. It volition bash for the occasional concern erstwhile you can't usage your hands.

The ticker lawsuit handled my regular usage without fuss and it's successful pristine information aft 2 months of use. I wore the ticker each time and night, did my workouts with it, and utilized it during a fewer of my play shot matches. It gave maine implicit assurance during my investigating period.

Interface, ticker faces

The Watch 6 runs Honor's proprietary MagicOS 10.0. It follows Honor smartphones' aesthetic with ample semi-transparent UI elements. You tin alteration each of the settings connected the ticker itself oregon astir of them done the Honor Health companion app. Honor Health is readily disposable successful the Google Play Store.

Moving astir the interface is beauteous straightforward. Swipe down for the settings toggles; swipe from the bottommost for notifications. Swipe near oregon close to determination betwixt widgets specified arsenic activity, bosom rate, weather, and sleep. Press the crown to unfastened the app grid (which tin besides beryllium acceptable to a list); rotate the crown to scroll done those apps/lists.

We already discussed the "down" button, which opens the workouts surface by default.

The ticker supports NFC payments done Fidesmo Pay. It supports Visa and Mastercard, and it's disposable successful Europe, but it's taxable to your circumstantial slope being supported.

There are besides wrist gestures to power definite functions, similar answering calls oregon controlling the music. You tin either flip your wrist oregon crook it. It's amended than digit snapping and pinching, but it's inactive not reliable capable to beryllium utilized daily. I tried the gestures and tin accidental they worked for maine lone fractional the time.

Any smartwatch is lone arsenic bully arsenic the faces it has. Yes, you tin download third-party ones (in immoderate cases thousands of them), but they're not arsenic thought retired nor arsenic functional arsenic the authoritative ones. I didn't truly find a ticker look that I emotion connected the Honor Watch 6. Most of the preloaded faces are digital, which (to me) don't suit the ticker arsenic good arsenic an analogue 1 does. After all, it's a classic-styled watch, and it needs a classical ticker face.

The authoritative ticker look was the champion I could find. The Honor Health app has a conception for third-party faces and you tin filter them by escaped and paid ones. There are immoderate truly good-looking options and installing 1 is casual enough. But astir aren't precise customizable - yes, you tin alteration 1 oregon 2 complications to lucifer a diagnostic oregon app you privation to person a shortcut to. But immoderate third-party faces don't springiness you the enactment to alteration complications nor the colors of the ticker face.

Swapping ticker faces

It's a half-baked solution. And determination doesn't look to beryllium a bully ticker look exertion to usage to marque your ain ticker faces (like Facer, Pujie, oregon Watch Face Studio).

Health and fittingness tracking

The Honor Watch 6 comes with what Honor calls an upgraded Intelligent Sense System. The ticker volition way your bosom rate, humor oxygen (SpO2), bosom complaint variability, stress, and slumber tracking, and it tin adjacent way your humor unit trends utilizing the optical sensors connected its bottommost (unlike the Huawei Watch D3, which uses unit for a much close reading).

The Honor Watch 6 combines each of this information to springiness you a Body Energy assessment, akin to Garmin's Body Battery.

Sleep tracking is beauteous implicit for a watch. You get readings connected slumber stages (light, REM, and deep), whether you were awake, breathing quality, and of course, your overnight bosom trends. Keep successful caput that by default, the ticker volition usage basal tracking, and you request to alteration Healthy Sleep to adhd much in-depth analysis.

I utilized the ticker to way my slumber during my investigating play and tin accidental that, trend-wise, it seems to beryllium close for me. I've been tracking my slumber utilizing my smartwatch of prime for years and recovered the Honor Watch 6's readings to beryllium accordant - astir an hr and a fractional to 2 hours of heavy slumber connected astir nights that aren't Saturday-Sunday (when I tin spot 3 hours, sometimes).

Sleep tracking

The Honor Watch 6 premieres Pro Badminton and Football tracking, on with much than 120 different sports tracking modes. The ticker has dual-band GPS, which, successful conjunction with lactate-threshold heart-rate estimation, moving posture analysis, and an AI moving coach, makes this ticker a top-tier moving companion (if you're good with the size).

Football tracking is beauteous amusive if, again, you tin carnivore the watch's size connected your wrist. It could beryllium utilized arsenic rather the limb during tackle situations (though you shouldn't). The ticker uses some accelerometer and GPS information to size the shot transportation you're on, and aboriginal asks you to corroborate it earlier getting your metrics. It tin prevention a acquainted transportation for adjacent week's game.

After you're done, you tin cheque retired your full distance, maximum sprint speed, mean speed, steps, and a amusive vigor representation that tells you successful which conception you played astir - defensive, middle, oregon attacking third.

Football mode

It's a beardown summation for users who bask shot each week, and it's a genuine limb up connected astir different mainstream watches. You'll besides beryllium hard-pressed to find a akin football-focused bundle connected different watch: Garmin watches person a dedicated "soccer" mode, but it lacks immoderate of the heavy analysis, specified arsenic sprint trajectory and vigor maps. The Apple Watch offers shot tracking apps, though we can't accidental whether they're arsenic bully arsenic the Honor Watch 6.

Football metrics

And astir different smartwatches, including Garmin's Venu line, can't interaction the benignant of artillery endurance the Honor Watch 6 tin promise.

Battery life, charging

Which leads america neatly to artillery life. The Honor Watch 6 packs an immense 980mAh battery, which is rated for 35 days of "long-endurance usage" and up to 17 days of "typical usage". In my use, which is simply a substance of 3 to 5 workouts per week (two of which are 1:30 hours of aggravated football), changeless wearing during the time (with raise-to-wake enabled and always-on show disabled), and slumber tracking each night, the Honor Watch 6 lasted 23 days. That's beyond impressive.

The ticker took astir an hr and a fractional to complaint backmost up to 100%.

Verdict

What's a cleanable smartwatch? To this reviewer, it's smart, it looks good, it's good made, it's affordable, and it gets retired of the way. So, let's summarize. The Honor Watch 6 ticks each of my boxes. It looks great, particularly successful brown. There's thing timeless successful its classical design. It's affordable - the black exemplary is €170, portion the brownish is €190. It's smart, with broad fittingness and wellness tracking and a coagulated database of abilities.

It's precise good made (once again, particularly the brownish model) with a premix of aluminum and stainless steel. And it feels robust. It besides gets retired of the way. You tin usage it immoderate mode you like, arsenic intensely arsenic you like, and it volition conscionable spell for weeks and weeks. There are those precocious and mighty users that volition effort and person you that you should warrant a two-to-four time artillery beingness connected a wrist wearable for immoderate perceived superiority and smarts connected a Wear OS oregon WatchOS device, and that's mostly rubbish.

The Honor Watch 6 volition archer the time, way your sleep, aftermath you up successful the morning, show your runs, workout sessions, shot matches, badminton games, enactment day, and repeat, for weeks, portion looking large and lasting each the while. For little than €200. What's not to like?

Just 1 thing, really: it's a large watch. There's nary getting astir this. It's not suited for each wrist, and it lone comes successful L.

Pros

• Classic design, feels precise robust
• Immense artillery beingness - much than 20 days with aggravated regular use
• Competitively priced
• Display is big, bright, and legible successful sunny conditions
• Football tracking is simply a amusive addition.
• Takes modular 22mm straps.
• The ticker works with each phones, offers NFC payments (region and slope dependent).

Cons

• It's a large watch.
• There's nary smaller exemplary (yet).
• USB-A charging cablegram with a two-pin plan is annoying successful 2026.