The health expert around you Honor Play Band A2 experience

IT168 Review As people’s living standards improve day by day, everyone is paying more and more attention to their physical condition. Moreover, in this era of intelligent everything, the channels for people to obtain body information are becoming more and more diversified. Smart bracelets, body fat scales and other intelligent devices that monitor their own conditions are also favored by many users. As a veteran product of smart devices, smart bracelets have become indispensable in the daily lives of many users. Especially after several generations of updates, smart bracelets have greatly improved both in appearance and function.

Recently, I got a smart bracelet from Honor: Honor Play Band A2. Before experiencing this product, I had used some similar products from other brands, and they gave me The impression was not particularly great. Before getting this Honor Play A2, several friends recommended this product to me, which also gave me some expectations for this product.

Honor Play Band A2 experience: Appearance part

▲Honor Play Band A2 outer packaging

From the outer packaging, it adopts Honor The consistent light blue simple packaging has a rendering of the Honor Play A2 printed on the front. At the same time, the color of the rendering also shows that the Honor Band A2 we got this time is a red version. For such a sexy color, the author rejects it from the bottom of my heart.

▲Appearance of Honor Band A2

In terms of appearance design, the overall design of Honor Band A2 is not much different from other bracelets. Among them, the strap of Honor Play A2 continues the diamond diamond pattern design of Honor bracelet, which is more personalized. The anti-allergic material and sweat-wicking grooves make it quite comfortable to wear.

▲Honor Play Band A2

▲Honor Play Band A2

At the same time, in order to further improve the comfort of the bracelet, Honor Play Band A2 The upper and lower sides of Ring A2 are slightly curved, which also allows the sensor on the back to fit more closely into the arm, improving data accuracy. There is also a similarly curved metal strip in the middle of the bracelet. It can be said that adding the metal strip gives it a "finishing touch" feeling.

▲Getting started

As one of the biggest selling points of this product, the Honor Band A2 uses a 0.96-inch OLED screen and supports touch screen functions. You can control the bracelet to realize various functions by sliding it. At the same time, the touch screen also makes the front of Honor Play A2 more simple without the need for button control.

Honor Play Band A2 experience: operation and functions

First of all, let’s take a look at how much data the 0.96-inch screen of Honor Play A2 can display.

▲A list of the data that Honor Play A2 can display

▲It can display a variety of messages

As you can see, the benefits of having a larger screen are obvious. Honor Play A2 can display basic information such as time, date, battery, step count and Bluetooth. Not only that, after connecting to the mobile phone’s Bluetooth and turning on synchronization, Honor Play A2 can also display phone calls, messages, QQ, WeChat and other information.

▲Raise your wrist to light up the screen demonstration

▲Click to light up the screen demonstration

In terms of interaction mode, Honor Play Band A2 has other common methods of clicking on the screen to light up the screen. In addition to the function, it also supports the function of raising the wrist to brighten the screen. After the APP is opened (enabled by default), you only need to raise the wrist, and the bracelet will automatically light up. The author believes that this bright-screen solution is both convenient for users’ daily use and can achieve For the purpose of power saving.

▲Real-time monitoring of heart rate

▲Two functions of exercise and heart rate can be used offline

In offline mode, Honor Play Band A2 can be used There are two functions: exercise and heart rate. Turning on the exercise function will display basic information such as your specific exercise time and number of steps in real time, and will be synchronized to the phone after connecting to the phone. The heart rate function is also a highlight. Compared with Instead of manually turning on the heart rate on a traditional bracelet, the Honor Play Band A2 supports real-time heart rate monitoring, allowing you to know your heart rate in real time while exercising, which is very convenient.

Honor Play Band A2 experience: APP trial

Of course, if you want to fully experience the various functions of the band, you still need to connect it to your mobile phone.

▲You need to download two APPs on the Android side (Huawei/Honor comes with these two APPs)

For the connection, if you are a user using a Huawei/Honor mobile phone , then you can directly find the "Sports and Health" APP in the built-in APP, and you can directly connect to the bracelet through the APP; but if you are a user of another mobile phone brand, you need to first download an APP called "Huawei Wear" to connect bracelet, and then download the "Sports Health" APP for daily tracking and management.

▲If the connection is successful, you can see the basic information of the bracelet

The "Huawei Wear" APP is the first medium for the bracelet to connect to the mobile phone, such as alarm clock settings, sedentary reminders, and do not disturb , message reminders, Bluetooth disconnection reminders, and raising the wrist to light up the screen all need to be turned on on this APP.

▲ "Huawei Wear" APP function list

In addition, there is another function that is also very practical, that is, the "find mobile phone" function. After connecting to the mobile phone , just click on the search phone icon on the watch, and the phone will emit the corresponding distress sound effect. The author said that this function is really practical. In the past few days, I have used this function many times to find my mobile phone. I no longer have to call to find my mobile phone!

▲"Find mobile phone" function demonstration

If "Huawei Wear" is the function of managing the bracelet, then "Sports Health" is an APP that allows users to obtain their own exercise status. In this APP, we can clearly see the number of steps we take throughout the day and the calories we consume. At the same time, through the APP, we can also learn about our overall exercise status for a month, so that we can quickly understand our own status.

▲"Sports and Health" APP

▲You can learn about your exercise status in real time through the Sports and Health APP

Of course, we can also make plans for ourselves through the APP own exercise goals to facilitate users to manage their bodies on a daily basis. At the same time, the APP also integrates social functions. For example, on the My Transcript page, in addition to displaying your own exercise status, you can also share it with other friends with one click, adding to the fun of exercise.

▲"Start Exercise" interface

▲"Sports Health" APP experience

In general, "Huawei Wear" and "Sports Health" APPs The experience is already quite excellent, whether it is the management of the wristband or the management of body data through the bracelet.

Honor Play Band A2 experience: article summary

▲Honor Play Band A2

Compared with other products of the same type, Honor Play Band A2 The bracelet A2 has excellent appearance and wearing comfort, and the full-touch screen also makes it easier to control. The real-time heart rate monitoring, information reminders and mobile phone retrieval functions combined with more comprehensive data analysis and monitoring on the software side also make it more practical. Speaking of which, the author believes that it is worth it to have a little health expert of your own for only 199 yuan.