HUAWEI Band 3e Fitness Wristband Activity Tracker - Black (Multi-method wearing,5ATM,Up to 21 days usage) 55030407

Great fitness tracker especially for the money! Been using it daily for the last month and its been great would defiantly recommend!PROS- in my opinion it actually looks quite i know its not a work of art but for the price it certainly doesn't look bad- indoor running feature was nice although it doesn't give you Vo2Max on this feature- outdoor running worked well gps locked on straight away and gave you plenty of info on this feature- i haven't used the cycling feature yet although i imagine it to be the same as the running- swimming worked well but very little info only provides calories burnt and time spent swimming but it does have a feature were you knock the watch with your knuckle to activate and deactivate the mode this means the touch button doesn't get activated all the time by the water- waterproofness seems to be great as it is ipx7 it is fully waterproof and i have definatly tested this wearing it in the shower many times and have been swimming with it 3 times so far (once for nearly 2 hours!) so i have no doubt in its waterproof capabilities so far- sleep tracking was great seems very accurate so far and gives you plenty of interesting info like deep sleep, light sleep, rem sleep and breathing quality- heart beet sensor worked okay i don't use it any more to save battery and because i wasnt that interested in the info and it comes on automatically when you activate an activity and thats the only time i care about heart rate, also if you use sleep tracking it will through your average heart rate for the day out because of how low your heart rate is when sleeping.- battery life is pretty good tbf got about 5 days with all day heart sensor and advanced sleep tracking active and about 7 days with just the advanced sleep tracking.CONS- The app wasn't amazing it does the job fine but don't expect anything groundbreaking, it doest do much apart from basics and doesn't sync with many apps like strava for example.- no indoor cycling feature not a big deal but i do like to use the bikes at my local gym so the feature would have been niceThe app doesn't give you too much and doesn't sync with many other apps but it does the job just fine- can defiantly agree with others on a sunny day the screen can be hard to see/read- the screen comes on when you lift your wrist up (feature can be turned on/off) and i found sometimes it would randomly come on even though you didn't want it to just from normal actions not all the time to be fair Its not that bad during the day the only time i found it to be an issue/annoying is if your in bed using it for sleep tracking and you switch positions and suddenly you have got a bright light shining in you eyes from the watch i know everything isn't perfect and iam not complaining because you can turn the feature off i just thought it might be something someone would want to know about

This little gadget does what it says on the tin, the battery life is great - 4 days after the initial charge I'm still on 70%. Setting up the software is made a little tedious by the complete lack of any usable documentation on the device.For one thing, on android initially you have to install the huawei health app, which the immediately asks you to install the huawei mobile app in addition in order for it to communicate to the band. The additional step is not the end of the world, but it is a bit of a pain and does strike me as being a bit odd. Once you've got both set up and installed it will check for and update the firmware on the band - this took 15 minutes to copy from phone to band, it's slow so you'll just have to wait. Total set up time was a rather alarming 30-40 minutes, and thats for an IT guy!One quirk which tripped me up on my first run; before you start running you must start recording the session. I started the exercise session from within the app as opposed to starting it on the watch (by selecting the exercise mode by swiping the button on the device and long-pressing the button on the device to start). If you start the exercise session on the phone, it will take your heart rate from the device but the pedometer reading comes from the phone, so if you're on a treadmill and leave the phone on the stand while running it won't work - at the end of your hour long session it will simply report that you haven't moved and so it will not save results. Once I switched to starting and stopping on the watch only it worked just as intended. Basically always start your sessions from the watch, even though the app has a nice start button within the UI. Nowhere in the documentation (what documentation?) does it say this, though.Google fit integration is also somewhat lacking, it will pick up the pedometer readings from your device but, if you create an "activity" in the huawei health app it does not get created in google fit - google fit simply guesses you've been out for a walk and awards you points associated with that, you can either just edit this entry or you can delete it and re-add it in the same timeframe and it will pick up your pedometer readings and apply them to that activity instead. Also, as of yet, heart-rate readings are not imported in to google fit.That being said, the huawei health app is quite good in it's own right, not quite as slick as google fit but, once set up, perfectly usable. I've also been enjoying the sleep analysis feature as well as the all-day heart rate monitor. I'd say that you can use both the huawei health and google fit apps to complement one another rather than using one over the other.The notifications feature is a nice touch too, allowing you to get a small-but-readable snippet of messages from any app you choose (the huawei health app gives you options to toggle notifications on and off per application) - the band vibrates when you get an incoming message, once the screen is active it shows who sent the message, further swipes allow you to read the message up to a set number of characters, generally enough to give you an indication of what the message is.With regards effects on the "host" phone; I use this with a oneplus 5t, and since leaving bluetooth on 24/7 I have seen no meaningful slow down on my device or increase in battery consumption, so I'm happy with that too.All in all, for anyone with the patience to set it up correctly and fiddle until they have it right, it's fantastic value for money. For those who aren't very tech savvy this perhaps requires a few too many hoops to jump through, though once it's set up it's very hands-free (har har) so if you have a friendly geek in your social circle you should be fine.