[HONOR Content Crew] Honor Band 5 Reviews

Finaly got time to do some reviews on My Honor christmas gift HONOR Band 5 after using it around 3 weeks. Here are some of my experiences on HONOR Band 5.

I found that scrolling through menus and selecting different options, could be rather slow, and often the Honor Band 5 didn’t respond to my touch at the first attempt. This was particularly noticeable when responding to prompts from the watch, for example when a notification came through or the alarm went off, and it took us a while to clear/open the notification or cancel/snooze the alarm. But the new amoled screen are more clearer then Band 4.

From the watch face, you can scroll up and down to access the step counter , heart rate monitor , sleep tracking ,menus for workout , settings , music control and notifications. the frist three of these are simple counters , but you can select them to access sdditional information. you can also tap anywhere on the home screen for info such as battery life and the current weather software and features.

The downside is In most regions the Honor Band 5 doesn’t have NFC, but an NFC model of the Honor Band 4 was released only in China, so the same could be the case here.

One issue I had in the Honor Band 4 is that notification handling could be hit and miss, and nothing’s changed here. While the Band 5 is snappy to relay messages from your phone (in fact, sometimes they felt simultaneous), it can be hard to see historic notifications.

This is because all notifications get sent to the Messages menu, where you can see a list of the most recent, as well as a snapshot of the information, but too little information is displayed for this to be useful.

Calendar notifications show a time, emails show the headline, and WhatsApp messages show the sender, but you rarely get to see the full message. While the fitness tracker is useful in that it lets you know you’ve got a notification while you’re away from your phone, it’s less helpful when it comes to letting you know what the notification is.

You can’t reply to messages on the Honor Band 5 either, although due to the small screen I can’t really imagine how that would work if you could.

The Honor Band 5 tracks a few different workouts: outdoor run, indoor run, outdoor walk, indoor walk, indoor cycle, cross-trainer, rowing, indoor swimming, and free training. You can customize targets, and when you do so you’ll receive milestone alerts from the device, and once you finish your workout you’ll receive some information on it. 

Yep, that indoor swimming activity means the Band 5 is waterproof, at 5ATM, so it’s all good to swim with, but perhaps don’t go jet-skiing or scuba diving with it.

You won’t receive masses of in-depth information on your workout, but then this tracker isn’t for the serious athlete who needs to see a meticulous breakdown of their efforts. Instead, this is for the everyday exerciser who only needs to know exercise time, distance, heart rate, and other basics.

The best part I like HONOR Band 5 most is the watch face changing function ,you can change the watch face anytime you want using the watch face market in the huawei health app there is more then 20 types of watchface to choose so it won't feel boring. Other thing I like is the battery life , 10-14 days of battery life when connected with bluetooth . if you on the countinuous heart rate monitor the battery only can stand for 5-7 days.

Here is Honor Band 5 spec from HONOR official website 

https://www.hihonor.com/my/product/honor-band-5