Huawei GT2 vs TicWatch Pro 3 Review for CrossFit/HIIT Training FitGearHunter.com By Fit Gear Hunter

Hey, it's fifth gear hunter here with a review for the tic watch pro 3 compared to the Huawei gt2. So I'm going to come out with the tic watch pro 3 full review and then probably the next week, I'm finishing up the optical heart rate analysis now and comparing it in a workout. But I wanted to get this head-to-head comparison out of the way, because I really feel like there's a lot of similarities and a couple of viewers have asked about it, and I really feel like these are the two top dogs when it comes to AMOLED watches, with different differing iOS systems, different operating systems, so the tic watch pro 3 wears uses, Wear OS and the Huawei gt2 uses the Huawei system OS. They use different primary components and different details. So what we're going to do is we're going to look at a hands-on of the watch side by side talk about their feature, differences, their size, differences, their weight, differences, the battery life and all the different aspects. We're going to look at the app to see what the primary differences are app to app when you come to the tic watch pro 3 and the Huawei gt2, and then we're going to come back together for a summary.

As in all these reviews, this whole YouTube, channel and website associated with it fit gearhunter. com is dedicated to testing and reviewing devices for the purpose of CrossFit or high-intensity interval training, and there are a lot of primary differences between these two. As far as how you evaluate workouts, how you get your you know: post-workout analysis and your load over time and details there. So, let's dive in, if you like this video, please give it a thumbs up again. The optical heart rate analysis review is going to come out for the tick watch pro 3, the full review for the tic watch pro 3 and then a major extended comparison of all the primary AMOLED smartwatch uh smartwatch options on the market today is going to come out in more of a comprehensive review.

So please subscribe to get it. You know stay tuned with upcoming content, let's dive into the watches now and then come back together for a summary. Okay. So look at these watches. What do we see the primary differences to be so? The tic watch pro 3 is 47 millimeters and the Huawei gt2 is 46 millimeters.

They actually look a little closer. When you look at the thickness differences, you can see a slight difference. The tic watch pro 3 is 13.6 millimeters, the Huawei gt2 is 12.4, so you get basically a shave, and can see a very clear difference. They both use there. You can see the heart rate sensor.

They both use a 22 millimeter, quick release band. If you watch part of the video I'm using a different band than this standard, one uh just because the rubber is a little stiff um, they both actually have you know same sort of type feel to the band um different heart rate sensors. But you know basically two strong diodes that pop up and populate as well as there. You can see it there on the Huawei gt2 as well as they both have pulse ox. They both use what feels like a stainless steel or aluminum body obviously is probably more likely or certainly stainless steel on the tic watch pro 3, because it's 61 grams versus 71 grams, so 10 grams heavier on the Huawei gt2.

They both have two buttons. One of the things about the design features is the tic watch pro 3 has a bezel and the Huawei gt2 actually just has like an all glass edge feeling. So as far as durability feel like the tic watch pro 3 would be definitely more durable, and you know better quality there, so they both have the same brilliance of screen. They both have um. You know the same overall AMOLED experience um the Wear OS.

I do like the way the notifications pop up. They pop up a little more clear to read, so you know you get like a difference of font style or difference of font detail. So here you just sort of get one singular font um, it's not quite as easy to read and then on the know, Wear OS. You get a much clearer font, which I really like a lot um, but looking at both of them, how do they perform in battery life? You know the tic watch pro 3 uses the snapdragon 4100 processors, which is uh more efficient and better for Wear OS and the Huawei gt2 has their own processor built into it. The Huawei gt2 is unbelievable for battery life, I'm just using it always on.

I don't turn it off at night. I don't you know, I don't I just don't do anything. Furthermore, I just basically have the auto adjusted backlight, and I just leave it on all the time. This is you know one of the number of five faces you can pick when you always do on. It actually has a different watch face than the standard watch face when you turn it on, but at that you know just sort of a standard, auto, adjusted backlight, I'm getting five days of battery usage and the other thing, that's really incredible is their recharge time, so their estimated recharge time is just over an hour and 15 minutes, or it's about 1.2 hours. So that is incredibly fast.

So five days of battery life with always on not thinking about it just wearing it. However, I want, but on the tic watch pro 3. So if you use GPS, it depletes it a little faster. I've been getting about two and a half days if you use the LCD sort of the secondary screen and actually for this review, I'm not gonna even look at the LCD screen, but this does have a secondary screen, which you can turn on or turn off to be. Your primary screen for looking at the watch and the LCD screen has its own backlight sort of like a Timex backlight.

As long as you don't turn the wrist um. The wrist raise gesture on it'll turn the backlight on for that. So two and a half days, if you use GPS, I'm getting about two days or actually yeah just right around two days and if you use the always on, like you see here where it goes down, I'm getting more like two and a quarter day. If you don't use GPS activities, when I do an hour long, GPS activity, I'm getting um about 1.75 days or just you know, you know, 40 hours, I think, is what it turned out to be. But the other problem with this is the recharge time is about two hours um.

So it's its been anywhere from, like you know, 1.9 hours to 2.1 hours for the recharge time, which is just a long time and the battery doesn't last as long but one of the primary differences. So what do you see in a workout? What do you see after workout? So if we just go to look uh? Well, let's just look at that since it just sort of popped up. So if you look at what you see after a workout on the tic watch pro 3 super-duper, generic I've been using fantastic because the tic watch pro 3 will not show you heart rate zones, and I've been testing the heart rate, accuracy and fantastic, which is an adidas. You know app, will actually give you the heart rate zones. So but look, that's that's what you get.

You get beats per minute and calories burned in total time, so super generic there. But if you go into the Huawei, it is using first speed analytics so another one of the incredible things about the Huawei gt2 is that it uses first beat analytics. So if you look at the workout from today, you see you know pretty heart rate graph. You see the duration in calories. Actually, let's look at a different one: um heart rate graph, heart rate zones- we're going to talk about this in a minute about the optical heart rate accuracy, but it gives you all five zones built into the display, and then you get training effect and recovery time.

So this was saying that it did not have enough exertion to merit a recovery time. So if you can see there's another one, but you get a lot of useful information. Training effect 1.1 recovery time, one hour. So that's what you see from a workout itself. That's what the experience looks like after workout, like ultra generic here um, the information off the fantastic is, is you know it's got more information to it.

It's not quite as detailed as this we're not even close. This has got training effect. This has got a lot of stuff, but let's talk about the optical heart rate accuracy, the Huawei gt2 has been terrible for CrossFit training and high intensity interval, training just off the mark in every possible way. So you know I did a review just a full video of it, but it's getting about 44 accuracy. So that means it's missing.56 percent of the workout, but it's missing all the intense zones, but it's really not following the flow of the workout. If you see those workouts where I have lifting intervals, if I've got, you know rounds for time, more exertion, higher level exertion, it's just missing.

All of it doesn't look like the same heart rate graph at all. I'd like I had to triple check that I had saved the right heart rate graph because it didn't look like the workout in any way shape or form. So that is a problem. The tic watch pro 3 is getting more like 50 accuracy. The final review for that's coming out soon, but it at least, is following the flow of the workout.

So again, if you were to really compare these head to head, and you think, okay well, the Huawei gt2 battery life, unbelievable recharge them unbelievable price. So this is 300 watts. This is 175 or 156, or something like that you get on Amazon, um, and so the price is considerably cheaper, and it has first beat analytics. So it gives you all the analytical aspects. So if you have workout status- and I know- haven't fully used it well, why is that? It's because it's not tracking my heart rate, so it's got the best uh in the business for the workout analysis, and you know for individual workouts as well as your load over time, but it is the heart rate is, is not it's not good, but you can't.

You also can't connect to a Bluetooth chest strap. So in the tick watch pro 3, you can, through fantastic connect to a Bluetooth chest strap so at least for workouts at least accuracy for heart rate tracking um. The tip watch pro 3 is capable of it, but the downside of the tic watch pro 3 is that you don't get any workout analysis. You just get like look at that. That's that's not much.

At least when you're using fantastic, you can get um the details for the heart rate graph and the heart rate zone, so that's accurate. So if you're looking at this for training, the hallway is built like a beast. If you really could use the stuff, but it's not capable to connect to a chest, strap. Therefore, it's totally useless because the optical heart rate sensor is a dud is a fail. Um.

The tick watch pro 3 is doing somewhat better, and you can connect to a chest strap. So let's look at some other components. Um. One thing I was just going to show you is just in a workout if, if you're doing a workout on the Huawei gt2, you do get a lot more information. You get training effects, so this is one of the few watches you can see.

Training effect build over time throughout a workout and then basically the know the basic graph. But if you go running you get more information. Okay, but oh, come on so anyway, that's the differences between the two. If you look at other components like if you look at sleep, for example, um you get a lot of details, we're gonna look at this on the app, so we're not going to spend a lot of time. Looking at it here.

If you look at the sleep aspects, um, you can see a lot of the same types of details. So here you can see just the generic details on the watch, but tick watch pro 3 is, is pretty fantastic. With looking at sleep details on the watch, you get all the same sort of zones of comparison in the app itself here, so you can see all of these things in the sleep analysis, but you also get the benefit of pulse ox. The hallway gt2 has pulse ox, but it's totally useless. In my opinion, you can spot check your pulse ox, and I'm guessing it's probably accurate, but here you can do periodic checks where the watch is going to at least check once an hour to see what your pulse ox is and a lot of times in the regular part of the day.

It's not going to get a measurement at all because you're moving, but at nighttime, you're, st you're sitting still, so it's getting some pulse ox tracking through the night, and so you can at least see that as it compiles into your sleep. So the other thing that is, you know interesting about the tic watch pro 3. Is it does a decent job at tracking your stress throughout the day, it's supposed to check it once every 30 minutes and obviously, if you're not still you're not going to get accuracy, but at least it's useful in the Huawei gt2. You don't get true stress tracking. It will track it somewhat, but it basically never really works.

It never really works. I think in the international version of oygt2 you get more accuracy there, but at least the stress tracking and then obviously the pulse ox is functionally working in the tic watch pro 3. , so training aspects. You know that we already talked about that the difference between the two with apps and details. You know, basically, you just get the generic Huawei app list and I think, if you're a Huawei user, if you're internationally based you can get more apps with the tic watch pro 3.

Obviously it's Wear OS. You can download things. You know you can get specialty things it comes built in with a lot more features and benefits a lot more interesting pieces. This can take calls on. They can both take calls on the watch.

This has got a built-in voice. Memo thing, I'm not testing those things because we're here to test things for CrossFit or high intensity interval training and just compare these two sort of head to head more generically. But the apps here is just super generic when it comes to Huawei gt2, but more expansive, because you have the Google Wear OS as well as you have. You know. Google Assistant, if you wanted to you, know, do some things there.

So the extras are great here, um overall and let's, let's look at the OS, but overall you know the Huawei gt2 is so close to a perfect watch. It is tragic because it falls short because the heart rate, accuracy of the optical heart rate built into it is fail, is faulty, so you don't get the benefit of all the other features and the battery life and all the beauty there. So, let's look at the app and then come back together the gaps, the tick watch pro 3 has two primary apps and if you want to actually do any workout analysis, you have to get others. So this is the main landing page for just the watch settings. You can see that it's connected at the top I'll say right now that a lot of my frustrations with the tick watch pro 3 is that it is often not connected.

I have to turn off my Bluetooth. I have to restart the watch. It's super problematic and I don't get why that why it can't be fixed, and then you have the move tracking app for the basics, so you can see in the top left it says connected. It's got the battery life. I mean it's like every time I go into this app.

I have to play with some stuff to try to get it to work to be connected, but either way here's how it looks in the health and wellness center. So you got your blood oxygen saturation. Well, if you know, shows you the nighttime tracking, that it was able to do so. If you look at other days, it's sometimes getting a reading during the day. It's just supposed to check once an hour.

You have stress tracking. If you look at other days, you can see sort of a range of stress, and you can see an average or highest and lowest. So it's its. It's far cry from Garmin from garments, heart rate variability tracking, their stress tracking, their body battery this tracking. All the time.

That's got a high level of at least um. You know tracking graphs, but at least it's better than others, so the sleep tracking we looked at on the watch. You can get all the same specifics. I do. Love, love, love that it ties in the pulse ox to the sleep tracking exercise.

So you know you can look back at previous exercises, um exercise days and see what it looks like when you do a workout. It gives you a generic graph, and then it doesn't give you any heart rate information, so very generic there, and so you don't get much information. When you go to look at workouts in the app itself, high intensity exercise, it's trying to track. You know, like certain amount of time in the zones, um noise, it will obviously that's another thing. That's a unique feature about tick watch pro 3 is it's got noise tracking? It can just sort of tell you if you're in a noisy room sort of like the apple uh Apple Watch does, but those are the two main watch apps and then the third app is fantastic.

So if you go into fantastic, you can get better graphs. I had to pay for this, so that's a bummer, but you can see at least you know you get your primary summary of information, and then you go into the heart rate, and you can see how much time you spent in each zone so that you can evaluate the intensity of your workout and then for me, so that I can actually compare the heart rate, the optical heart rate, um versus other devices or versus you know a heart rate monitor. So you can see different workouts. You can get this the basic things you can't at least I have not been able to find where you're getting any specifics and details as far as load building over time, but you at least get the heart rate zone, so you have to use fantastic. At least I have found you had to use, run fantastic to be able to accurately track information, and it's paid things.

So that's unfortunate! So what does it see when you see the Huawei health? How does it compare to tick? Watch pro 3, you get a good simple summary. If the Huawei. You know I mean its international watch, but if it is like always connected. It's like I don't have any connectivity problems. That's why I always get my text messages on the tic watch pro 3 there'll be like pockets of time, where I don't get messages because it's just not connected super frustrating.

Hopefully that'll get fixed down the road, but for now it's not working, so you get exercise history. This is where you can see your exercise record. So here on the details page. If it is experienced a high enough exertion, it would show me training effect and recovery time. This was a workout that had plenty of exertion um and, for some reason, just didn't show it.

So this is the workout from today you can see it on both devices. So uh, you know some lifting intervals and then a 10-minute imam on the end. The training effect is 3.1. You know six minutes 45 seconds in zone five and five minutes five and a half minutes in zone four. So it picked up some pretty good intensity, pretty good training effect, and this is what it looks like on the Huawei zero.

You don't have any clarity, it's just like a flat line. You have in the heart rate zones. Furthermore, you get nothing, nothing, nothing and nothing, at least in the tic watch pro 3 when using the optical heart rate sensor you're getting you know somewhat of a clarity, so you at least see the 10-minute imam on the end. So it's picking up some of that heart rate zone. You don't see a lot of the lifting intervals, because optical is just not working properly compared to the actual workout itself, but back to the Huawei.

You should get training, load, detail, details or training effect details. So, let's see, if there's another workout, here's one where it picked up a higher level of heart rate than it normally does. The graph doesn't look like the workout itself at all, but at least picked up sometime in the red zone, the extreme zone and the know orange zone anaerobic, and it did at least give me my training effect and my recovery time. So this is like super useful information. This is like one of the best training effect or training principles from first beat, but they just don't capture it, because the heart rate doesn't work so again like looking at the workout yesterday, it was hard, but here are no details for training effect or recovery time, because the heart rate, optic heart rate, didn't work here today same thing over and over and over and over again with Huawei, the optical heart rate tracking is not picking up so the sleep.

I like really. I like a lot that it gives you a sleep score. So in the tic watch pro 3, you don't get a sleep score. You just get efficiency, so you can sleep for four hours, and it says 95 efficiency, because you were asleep all four hours, but here you at least get a sleep quality score, and it goes into a bunch of different detailed stats, and you get similar stats. You know, as you got on the tic watch pro 3, but just the fact that it gives you a score is something you can.

Actually it's like quantifiable. You can take away from it stress tracking again it doesn't. You know it doesn't pick up much of the day, so there's a lot of stress in my day yesterday. It doesn't it didn't capture it, so not really useful there, the sbo2 it's like well, you haven't checked it, and you know you haven't done your spot check. So I just think: well, that's not useful at all, because I don't really want something.

That's you know I just have to go push a button to sit still and make it track. I want it to track it periodically throughout the day or periodically throughout the night, but that is the Huawei gt2. You can obviously see your exercise. You can just sort of link directly from the app itself, so the Huawei gt2, as well as the standard landing page for health and wellness for the tic watch pro three. Let's come back together for us to give the quick and dirty summary between these two, which is best about either one the gt2 size.

It's its thinner, and it's narrower and skinnier. It has just as big of a screen. Weight goes to the tic watch pro 3, being 10 grams, less the build quality between the two there's, a bezel on here, which gives it a better. You know overall size and strength on the gt2 you're, getting five days of battery life in a 1.2 hour, recharge time about an hour and 15 minutes versus two days is and an about a two-hour recharge time in the workouts Huawei gt2 has got awesome, training metrics the first beat data after the workout awesome metrics with first beat data you're getting your recovery time, your load over time. Your training effect exertion sleep, so they're both perfect at sleep.

But I give a little more analysis, credit to the Huawei gt2, because it gives you a sleep score pulse ox, so the tic watch pro 3 has pulse ox. That's useful and relevant it'll track your pulse socks throughout the day, although it doesn't quite get it because it has to be super still. But I am getting readings during the night. So at least I'm getting sleep-based pulse ox tracking, which is useful and helpful stress tracking tic watch, pro 3 stress tracking, is worthless. On the Huawei gt2, at least in the US training, obviously, the Huawei gt2 has got incredible training through first speed, analytics notification.

I, like the notifications on the Wear OS system, the look, the font, the color, the font is small and the gt2 apps. You know looking at app to app, I feel like they're about the same. So the know the move app versus the Huawei app connection, so the gt2 stayed connected to my phone and got notifications more consistently. I had connectivity problems with the tic watch pro 3, but maybe that's a bug. That's going to work out extras, nothing! Really extra! On the gt2! You get a lot of Wear OS type, apps and downloads and watch faces that you can get through the know, Google Assistant you can get through the tic watch pro 3 and the Wear OS family.

Can it connect to a chest? Strap gt2, no tic watch pro 3, yes through fantastic, which is subscription-based service. So, looking at all these things in their entirety, what is the best for CrossFit or high-intensity interval training? I wish it was the gt2 because it has all the training components, plus a better screen, plus a cheaper price plus later battery life faster recharge time. Awesome awesome awesome, but it is definitely not something I can recommend for CrossFit training, because it does not connect to a chest, strap for heart rate tracking. So all the analytics become worthless, and it is a tragic fail, because the gt2 has everything you could ever want for and a great price tag, but without proper optical heart rate tracking, and this is getting low 40s. It is just not trustworthy.

It's not worthwhile for CrossFit and high intensity interval training. I can't recommend it at all for CrossFit high intensity terminals, so the best one for the between these two is going to be the tic watch pro 3, because at least through fantastic you can connect it to a chest trap. You can get accurate heart rate analysis, so at least you can see your heart rate zones and get an idea of how much you pushed yourself in each workout to work out. So that's it for now the fit gear hunter. Please stay tuned for more.

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