Amazon.com: Customer reviews: HUAWEI Band 3 Pro All-in-One Fitness Activity Tracker, 5ATM Water Resistance for Swim, 24/7 Heart Rate Monitor, Built-in GPS, Multi-Sports Mode, Sleep Tracking, Black, One Size

Loaded with features at an amazing price.

Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2019

I'm so glad I purchased the Hauwei pro band 3. Hauwei is not a well known company in the US, though it's huge in the rest of the world. So I was a little nervous.
I have owned several trackers from fitbit to tomtom. I've had the pro band 3 for about several weeks now and This is by far my favorite.
To start, it fits comfortably on my wrist. No gaps, and the laser sits perfectly against my skin. I know watch size and style is pure preference but I'm happy with it. The screen is clear and bright and easy to read.
The battery life is great. It lasts 5 to 7 days with sleep monitoring and notifications on.
The heart rate monitor seems to be accurate most of the time. I work at a gym that uses heat rate monitors, the scosche rhythm, and it matches them perfectly. The only problems comes when I'm weightlifting it doesn't read correctly. I love the 24/7 motoring. I can see my true resting heart rate. After my workouts it does a great job of braking down how much time was spent in each heart rate zone. It even tells you how long it should take your body to recover from the workout. It gives an estimated VO2 max. The GPS seems to be accurate on my outdoor runs and it connects very quickly. The watch also has training programs built in to help you if you are training from anything like a 5k to a full Marathon.
The main reason I purchased the pro band 3 is because of the sleep monitoring function. So far, I have been very impressed. It seems to do a very good job of detecting when I go to sleep and when I wake up. It tells me how much time I spent in deep Sleep, light sleep, and REM sleep. It also tells me how many times I woke up each night. In the morning it gives me a sleep score based on all of my numbers, and it tells me how to improve my sleep based on what it noticed. I find this to be very useful and I'm trying to make changes to some of my habits based on its recommendations. I also really love the smart awake alarm it will wake you up close to your alarm time if it notices you are in light sleep. It's a gentle vibration on my wrist that wakes me up, and not allowed alarm that wakes my spouse up.
Some of the other functions that I really like are the find your phone. No more searching around the house trying to figure out where I laid my phone down. The notifications also works well. In the settings you can decide which apps can send you notifications, and which ones don't.
I'm sure I'm forgetting some of the other benefits of this watch. For the price and the features that it has, the Pro Band 3 absolutely cannot be beat. I got mine from the Amazon warehouse and saved a few extra dollars.

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Johnboatcat

Good for the price, but has limits. (Limits fixed by firmware update)

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2018

Color: Obsidian BlackVerified Purchase

Observations: (Update) (Update 2 at bottom.)
Nice looking and comfortable. Easy to set up and connects well with Samsung S7. (Stays connected.)
Has only two clock/home screens. (Now 3, but original is best anyway with F temperature.)
Shows temperature in Celsius only. (Fixed.)
Camera shutter remote only works with Huawei phones. (It is what it is.)
Timer is quite tedious to set so almost worthless. (by the time you set it the time is up. Really no other way to do it on a band anyway so not faulting them on this.)
Water from the shower head turns it on and scrolls the screen and starts actions not wanted. (Seems to have settled down on this. Not really a problem now.)
Sleep tracking worked very well and is comprehensive. (Not perfect but better than all my other friends tracker bands.)
Bluetooth notification seems to have good range. (I get notifications farther away than I can hear my loud Samsung phone ring and notifications.)
Charge clip can take a bit of getting used to to get it to set correctly. Just get the tab on the clip bottom into the notch on the band and then press down. Don't force it. When correctly aligned it snaps right in with minimal effort.
Will update as I test it more. (Updated.) Still looks like new after 24/7 wear since I got it. No scratches on screen. Charges fast from 50%. Band solid and no irritation with my allergy prone skin. App is the best!

(Update 2) Band turns itself off after I sit and read in the sun for about half an hour. Has happened 4 times. Outside temp. in the 60's F. so it is just getting hot from sun exposure. Must connect charger to get it going again. Pulse rate off so band was not doing anything to heat it up. I am very impressed with the blue tooth range for notifications.

(Update 3) I sent my band in as instructed for repair for the sun heat shut off problem. They sent a brand new band and it still shuts off when I sit and read in the sun. It may last a bit longer before shutting down (45 minutes), but it still shuts off. Probably shut down much quicker in summer when it is not cool outside.

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Dylan Hemer

Good fitness tracker, average/flawed running device

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2019

Color: Obsidian BlackVerified Purchase

I have had the Band 3 Pro for a 2 months and have tested the features fairly thoroughly in that time. The device has received one firmware update during this period. I bought it to replace a Tom Tom runner 2 which was a much more running focused device.

In short it is good for fitness and activity tracking but falls short as a running device.

Firstly the PROs

Value for money: Great if you are looking for a fitness tracker that also includes GPS functionality.
Battery life: Good (5-6 days) with continuous heart rate monitoring turned off and some GPS use. This drops to around 4 days with heart rate on sensor turned on all the time.
GPS: It is accurate in my experience with fairly quick acquisition of signal.
App: This is pretty easy to use and displays data well but could do with some improvments

CONs, based on my usage and experience
Sleep tracking: It will record time spent reading in bed before sleep or after waking as sleep.
Heart rate monitoring: The device is accurate in my experience at moderate intensity levels but at high intensity it is unreliable. For me this is above 170-175 bpm, the device will sometimes show a decrease in heart rate when intensity is high like pushing hard up the last hill of a running race.
Displayed Pace: When running one metric shown is current pace/km or mile. This information is Garbage. It is embarrassingly inaccurate and does not match at all with the actual average pace of a run. The graph shown in the app displays what the watch records and a fit for this data would not match the actual time/distance average(see attached example)
V02 Max estimate: This may be incorrect due to using calculation based on the above pace and heart rate issues. I have a displayed estimated V02 max of 49 and the app suggests a possible 10km time of 50+min based on this value. However after running a 10km in 45min the app still estimates a V02 max of 49.
Altitude: The app and device do not seem to support altitude data. It is useful to be able to overlay the elevation profile of a run to the speed or to compare running routes. This is an odd omission in my opinion.

In summary it is a cheap device that falls short of my expectations as a runner but in day to day use it performs well.

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J. Sauder

Decent Watch Killed by the App

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2021

Color: Obsidian BlackVerified Purchase

The watch itself is actually alright. It seems to track steps, sleep, and heart rate reasonably well. The battery life is decent. It actually has a lot of potential.
However the app totally kills it. You can no longer even add this model watch to the app. When you go to update the device list on the app, it fails. Looking at their website, the recommended path is to download and install the .apk from their site instead of using the verified version available on the Play Store. Huawei is already a Chinese company with a checkered history of privacy/security - definitely not interested in putting their un-vetted app on my device. No thanks!
It's a shame because the app is, in many ways, far more intuitive than its FitBit counter-part.

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McDaniken

Lots of features for the money

Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2019

Color: Obsidian BlackVerified Purchase

I was kind of suspicious when i saw this band. It had a GPS built in, was waterproof, had a swimming workout app, heartbeat sensor, sleep monitor, various stopwatches and alarms and would flash your calls and texts to the screen. All for $54. But the reviews on amazon and elsewhere were pretty good, so I took the plunge.
It does all of the things it says it does. The battery goes nearly a week between recharges. The sleep program says that I have too much light sleep and not enough deep sleep and misses some of the multiple time a night that I get up. But, i have always been a light sleeper and it says my sleep quality is ok to good and I agree.
It seems to do a good job of matching the steps that Samsung health says I walk. When i get on the treadmill, it automatically starts recording a workout.
Overall, I like it. Would buy again.

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R Clauer

Disappointing if you are a swimmer

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2018

Color: Obsidian BlackVerified Purchase

I have been using a Moov Now for swimming and cycling and was looking for something that combined a watch with tracking functions. Band 3 seemed to fit the bill so I gave it a try. The band fits well and is very comfortable. The watch part is bright and nice. I don't care about the lack of faces and the fact that is shows temp in Centigrade is humorous but unimportant. You don't even know you have it on. Setup was painless and it works well with my Motorola phone (haven't tried the remote shutter feature). The find phone feature is very cool Battery life looks like about 3-4 days if you use the heart monitoring and Sleep tracking. My phone messages came to the fitness band just fine. Alarms work well and are easy to set up. The heart monitoring works well. The sleep tracking is much better than Moov Now and works pretty well although it looks like if you lie down to read in bed before you go to sleep it thinks that you are asleep (haven't fully figured this out yet). It has a nice feature where it identifies "naps" as opposed to sleep.

Now for the disappointing part. I tried the swim workout for the first time. It does work BUT the results are quite inaccurate. My Moov Now showed 113 laps and since I have over 100 workouts with Moov Now I am sure it is reasonably accurate (about 95% correct). That is also about what I counted manually. Band 3 shows 109 but it shows the pool length at 24 yards even though I set it 25 yards. If you add 113 (to account for the lost yards) to the Band 3 yard count you get very close to the Moov now yards. Contacted Tech support and they confirmed that it was just inaccurate. The second issue is that I was looking for something that could show me the intensity of my swim workout. Moov Now can only do that with an additional Heart monitor. It turns out that Band 3 disables Heart monitoring during swimming so you don't get any intensity either. Sort of defeats the purpose of the heart monitor. The graphs are nice and you can super impose them on each other so you can look at your SWOLF against stroke rate. However it looks like it doesn't understand sets and rests. If you look at the graphs you will see stroke counts for when you aren't swimming as well as very high SWOLF scores. You also see wide swings. Like the first length has a SWOLF of 119 and the second length had a SWOLF of 41. I swim reasonably evenly so I think this is due to including all of the rest time in the first length.

The lap statistics are not set based so they are of questionable value. For example, if I swim 200 yards Freestyle, rest for a minute and then swim 200 yards breaststroke, I want to see the time for each set and the amount of time I rested. Moov Now does this but Band 3 does not. All you get is time for each lap and when you over over the rest periods it shows stroke counts while you are resting. I think you would have to manually pause the workout each time you rested which is very clumsy (and not too accurate if you want real times). The good news it it did accurately detect the correct strokes although I didn't try butterfly.

Finally the device appears to be very step oriented. While it did record my work out I didn't get any "credit" for activity. Moov Now has an activity concept (which admittedly is a little bit of a black box) but it gives you activity minutes for swimming, cycling etc so you can compare non step activities as part of your fitness plan. Not sure what Band 3 does for cycling but clearly nothing for swimming.

So if you are a runner or a walker then this might be a great device but if you a semi serious swimmer you probably should look elsewhere.

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glsbound

Great fitness tracker at a reasonable price!

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2019

Color: Obsidian BlackVerified Purchase

So far I'm happy with this tracker after a week of use. It's easy to set up and I'm no whiz at that stuff. The sleep tracking is really amazing and I would say fairly accurate. Step counting is also fairly accurate as well as heart rate monitor. That being said nothing out there is perfect. But this one is much better than the last one I had and sent back because it was counting steps when I was sitting and not counting when I was walking. The app is great too. The more I play with the app the more things I find. I would definitely recommend this tracker. I never had a fitbit but according to the reviews, this one is just as good if not better at half the price.

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Ray G.

Good but...

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2018

Color: Obsidian BlackVerified Purchase

I bought this as a replacement for my old Wear OS watch. I have only had the tracker for about a week and I must say I like it.

I was hoping to be able to draft a thoroughly positive review of this device, but sadly I cannot. I will just give a synopsis of what I have found to be the pros and cons.

Pros:
The materials are good and the device feels solid;
The display is beautiful and responsive;
The heart rate tracker seems to be accurate;
The step tracker seems to be accurate; and
The sleep tracker seems to be accurate and thorough.

Now for the cons (in no particular order):
Temperature is only shown in Celsius;
Limited Workout selection (no elliptical, free weight, etc...);
Does not fully sync with Google Fit (i.e... step count, HR and exercises do not transfer);
The tracker does not agree with the Huawei Health app step counts;
No means of submitting written feed back to the OEM;
A lack of Watch Face/Home Screen options;
Cannot disable Tilt to wake without putting the device in DND; and
Even though I have a Huawei phone, I cannot use this as a Trusted Device to keep my phone unlocked.

I do like the look and feel of this tracker, however it certainly is not the "all-in-one, multi-sport" device it claims to be.

I am not certain if I am going to keep the tracker or not. I will wait to see if there are any firmware updates to address some of these issues.

I will update the review if anything changes.

UPDATE 12/6/2018***
I had an issue with the lens for the HR sensor on the unit becoming clouded. Huawei's customer service has been top-notch so far.

The tracker itself has been great, as far as "all day HR" and "sleep tracking."

If I was a runner, cyclist or swimmer this would probably be the near perfect activity tracker.

I will update more as needed.

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Bryn Jones

Great Tracker Despite Some Issues

Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2019

Color: Obsidian BlackVerified Purchase

I bought the Huawei Band 3 primarily because I wanted to track my swimming workouts. And I didn’t want to spend over $100 to do that. So, I’ll start with that function. I found it easy to set the pool length to 25 yards, and the tracking seems to be pretty good, with a slight complaint. I notice that at times I lose 25 yards here and there on the wristband. So, I warm up with a 500 free, and it tracks fine. I then do 100, and I’m good. Then, I’ll do a 50 and it will show 25 yards. Then, it tracks from there. Interestingly, it will record the distance on the app when it syncs. But then, there’s an odd thing that when I do 2,000 yards, or 1,500, it will show 1,999, or 1,499 on the app. Not sure why it does that. But, it does track the calories burned, the number of strokes a minute, the average pace (which would include the rest time unless you pause it—which is a bit hard because sometimes the wet screen isn’t responsive to the finger). The efficiency is noted, which is a nice metric to capture.

On to the app—There was an issue for a week or so that the steps on the device were recording properly, but they’d add up the week’s steps for each day. I was getting “credit” for hitting my goal every day because it was adding them up. The tech folks fixed this, so it records properly, but there were a lot of people affected by that. During that time, the swim tracking, biking tracking, etc. was fine.

The sleep tracking seems to be very accurate and quite comprehensive. No idea how it does it, but it tracks your breathing and REM sleep, too, when you turn on the TrueSleep tracking. The heart rate monitor will tell you when you are in fat burning, anaerobic, etc.

Overall, this is an amazing fitness tracker for $60. Before this I had a $30 tracker that was fine for steps and basic sleep tracking. But, this one is wonderful for more tracking and for the details on swimming, in particular (which is a rate feature).

One other issue I found is that it doesn’t sync well with MyFitnessPal. When it synced, it would multiply my calories burned so that my workouts were recorded at 100X the calories burned. So, 580 calories turned into 58,000 calories. MyFitnessPal informed me that if I did that for a week I’d weigh zero pounds!

Other than those few mark-downs, and now that the step tracker is fixed on the app, I can say I’m happy with this tracker. I’d recommend it to some one looking for a budget-friendly tracker that can capture swimming data.

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Drew Richard

Solid for the money, but not amazing

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2018

Color: Obsidian BlackVerified Purchase

Good instance of you get what you pay for.

Pros:
HR sensor works fairly well
Sleep tracker is pretty thorough
Battery life - started wearing at 90% 2.5 days ago and still have half the battery left
Exercise tracker is fairly good
Find your phone feature is nice
Can send almost any notification to the band
Comfortable on my wrist and the clasp is secure

Cons:
Remote shutter doesn't work with many phones
Screen is fairly low res and limited color
Right now it's sending duplicate notifications (may be user error, not sure)
Only 2 faces at this point (neither of which are that great)
Only shows temps in Celsius and can't display negatives (only shows a C -)
I'm personally not a fan of the colors they chose for the UI

Most of the cons should be able to be fixed with further firmware and software updates. If you need something similar to a smartwatch (most are too large for my wrist), but don't want to spend that much money or don't need the functionality, this is a solid alternative.

UPDATE (1/30/2019): As another rater noted, the Fahrenheit temperature option has been added. Still not in love with the watch faces, but they've added one face, so maybe they'll add more or tweak the originals. I'm not getting as many duplicate notifications, so that's good. However, the messages section is still incredibly slow. I've actually stopped looking at messages on my band unless my phone isn't nearby...it doesn't display many characters and the screen isn't responsive at all on that app. Takes about 4 seconds to load the list of messages (which is already limited to 10) and swiping messages away takes 2-3 seconds. I know that doesn't sound horrible, but during that time I'm left wondering if it's registering my swipes at all... Battery still lasting a few days (although using GPS burns through the battery like crazy). I'm leaving my rating at 4 starts, but would probably do 3.5 if I could. If you're comparing this to a new Fitbit...this isn't nearly that quality, but is also much cheaper. Again, as I said originally, you get what you pay for.

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