Flagship smartwatch with super-autonomy and almost no extra charge - Honor MagicWatch 2

8/10 Rating according to FerraHonor MagicWatch 2 Not long ago, Honor introduced the second generation of its smartwatches.

Classic case, glass and metal - nothingunnecessary. But is everything as good as marketers promise? Can MagicWatch 2 be confidently called a full-fledged smartwatch? And in the context of what was on the market a few years ago?

Table of contents

  • Appearance
  • Screen
  • Dials
  • Functionality and autonomy
  • Activity monitoring
  • Competitors
  • Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 (44 mm)
  • Amazfit gts
  • Total

If you look at the current lineup of smartwatches from other manufacturers, you can see a certain trend - the operating systems on wearable devices have become closed. The same Amazfit uses a closed operating system that allows you to work only with pre-installed applications.

Since the advent of the first generation of watches onAndroid Wear has been open for six years, and everyone had hopes for an almost full-blown wearable Android. Everyone who was not lazy released their devices on Android Wear: from giants such as LG, to companies that seemed to be unrelated to the world of technology. For example, Fossil is a brand associated with fashion, but not with technology.

Six years is a solid period for the mobile industry. Literally everything managed to change. Apple came and pushed Android Wear out of the market, Android Wear itself turned into a Wear OS pumpkin, and the Chinese began to compete in the first to make their shell for wearable devices better and faster. But it all turned out quite differently than the enthusiasts could have imagined running the full-fledged Windows 95 on the ancient LG G Watch. Now we somehow returned to the time of Pebble, when the interaction with the watch was limited by a set of predefined functions. Large and bright OLED displays appeared, the design became a little better, but the essence remained the same. But this is not bad. It is so?