Huawei Watch Fit Unboxing and first impressions

Huawei Philippines has just launched the Huawei Watch Fit, a new and stylish fitness-focused smartwatch. It’s the company’s first fitness wearable to sport a rounded rectangular design and carry new animated fitness courses that can be followed by the user. Check out our unboxing here:

The Huawei Watch Fit is one of the company’s latest wearables and boasts of a number of smart and fitness features to help the user gain a better, healthier lifestyle. Our Watch Fit comes in the Cantaloupe Orange color but there are other colors available.

The screen is, indeed, large and takes up a large portion of the wrist. Despite that, it remains fairly light and easy to wear. The 1.64-inch screen is big and bright but has noticeable bezels. Colors are rich and text on the device seems pretty sharp thanks to the AMOLED screen. It has a plastic build that contributes to how light it is while the 20mm strap is made of silicone which is very comfortable to wear.

On the right side of the watch face is a singular button that gives access to the menu and apps. Swiping to the right or left reveals various metrics. These include sleep tracking, heart rate monitoring, and stress monitoring. These are customizable through the menu so users can decide which metrics they want to see. Additionally, it’s also a quick way to see the weather and access music controls. Swiping down reveals a couple of quick shortcuts and access to settings while swiping up reveals notifications or messages.

Apart from the metrics mentioned above, the Huawei Watch Fit can also monitor menstrual cycles and measure SpO2 or blood oxygen levels. These are fairly new features smartwatches are starting to adopt these days. In particular, the SpO2 monitor measures how much oxygen is in your blood which can help determine how healthy you are; lower oxygen levels may indicate an incoming sickness.

To see more detailed information, users will have to pair the Watch Fit with the Huawei Health App. Pairing the device was quick but the initial firmware update took quite long. We had to go through three loading screens before we actually got the watch to boot up. But once you accomplish the initial setup, turning the device on takes no time at all.

There’s a microphone on the watch but no speaker and it also has 5ATM water resistance. As for its workout modes, it supports a number of sports and activities and also has automatic workout detection. The workouts offer are really varied and even offer uncommon activities such as plaza dancing, darts, or even hula hooping. Additional features include 4GB onboard memory, GPS, accelerometer, and gyroscope sensor.

For its smart features, the watch allows for message notifications, music control, camera shutter control, and the capability to take or reject phone calls. There are also a number of useful apps built in such as a timer, stopwatch, weather, and more.

For battery, it carries a typical 180mAh capacity that can supposedly last up to 10 days with average use and up to 7 days of heavy usage. It’s capable of charging to full in just 65 minutes. Huawei says that 5 minutes of charging can power the device for one whole day.

The Huawei Watch Fit is now available for PhP 4,999 and will come in three colors. Huawei will also have a pre-order promo where you can get over PhP 2,000 worth of freebies. It’ll be available on both Shopee and Lazada starting September 18.

We’ll be exploring this device even further and test all of its features and claims in our full review coming soon!

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ASUS Vivobook Pro 14 OLED First Impressions: Armed for Content Creation!

03/09/2022

As content creators both for our website and YouTube channel, having a reliable laptop is a must for on-the-go productivity.

With our work consisting mostly of photo and video editing, our laptop not only needs capable specs to crunch processes, but it also needs an accurate display profile that’s close to real-life colors.

This will allow us to effectively color grade our images whether we want to show lifelike colors or experiment with other color palettes.

This is one of the ASUS Vivobook Pro 14 OLED‘s many strengths. But unlike the more powerful but bigger ROG Zephyrus S17 that we recently reviewed, this one can fit in an envelope-sized sleeve.

So we’re looking forward to seeing if we can do our usual editing routine in this smaller package.

We’ll be sharing our full review in a week’s time but for now, here are my first impressions.

The Vivobook Pro 14 OLED (M3401) comes with many similarities with models from the ZenBook line. It has the same sleek and thin profile, subtle accents, and an overall straightforward design.

I like it in its Quiet Blue color for that sort of stealthy appearance that doesn’t demand attention when you’re outside. But there’s Cool Silver as well for a more sophisticated look.


Weighing in at 1.4kgs, the Vivobook Pro 14 OLED is light, and moving from one spot to another is easy — great for sharing content with Vikka or if I need her opinions on my edits.

I also appreciate the number of ports it carries. From a standard HDMI, microSD reader, audio jack, USB Type-C, and a total of three USB Type-A ports, you have most of the connectivity options you need to accomplish work.

The keyboard doesn’t span out the entire chassis so you have extra space on both sides.

It’s interesting to note that the Power button on the upper right corner is the only key that’s recessed to differentiate it from the rest.

This specific key also functions as a fingerprint scanner for that added layer of protection. It also comes with slight accents like this white pattern on the Enter key — it adds a nice highlight and gives character to the laptop.

The touchpad is something I also want to mention since scrolling using it feels really nice to touch. It does say in its little sticker that it’s silky smooth and I didn’t believe it until I experienced it myself.

Additionally, it can be transformed into a Number Pad with a simple press of the toggle at the top right part.

Moving on, the bezels are not that thick but not that slim, either. It does, however, have this webcam up top with its own privacy shutter which is great, especially with the influx of today’s virtual meetings.

I no longer have to manually cover the camera with whatever I find.

I’ve watched a couple of YouTube videos on its OLED display and streamed a few shows on Netflix as well.

The laptop comes with a 100% DCI-P3 color gamut and a PANTONE validated display which together translates to producing lifelike colors and accurate hues.

These have been so far evident with the overall color of the content I’m watching and are especially noticeable on skin tones. They have that warmer, realistic tint to them compared to the greenish hue of LCD displays, in my opinion.

Its 14-inch panel comes with a 16:10 aspect ratio which is something new to me as I’m used to working on a more common 16:9 layout.

I had no problems with that since it worked to my advantage when editing videos, but I found that the taller 16:10 ratio gives you better screen real estate for other things like browsing the internet in multiple windows.

For content creation, it has also provided me with more spaces for my Workstation in Adobe Premiere Pro so far.

And color grading with its OLED display has been easier as I could be confident its colors are accurate.

Blacks are also deep which is expected of an OLED panel so watching movies and even playing games are more enjoyable and benefit from this feature.

In terms of audio performance, I’m always streaming music and its built-in speakers are decent enough for personal use.

Although when watching movies, I prefer being immersed in big sound so I might just hook the laptop up to external speakers using Bluetooth.

Inside, our Vivobook Pro 14 OLED comes with an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 graphics. There’s an option to go for lower-tier AMD processors and NVIDIA graphics cards but this is the top configuration you can get.

Meanwhile, it comes with either 8GB or 16GB RAM and up to 1TB of SSD storage, but what we have here is the 16GB/512GB variant.

One of the unique features of this laptop is that it’s equipped with dual fans for more effective cooling.

With them, ASUS promises up to 50W CPU performance for heavy users using its ASUS IceCool Plus Technology. I still have to put that to the test as I spend more time with it and will include it in the full review.

The Vivobook Pro 14 OLED also boasts fast WiFi 6 connectivity which is able to establish a more reliable internet connection.

This should be especially helpful to us since when we shoot outdoors and need to quickly share all those materials online, we demand a stable connection.

Its battery is rated at 63WHrs which should be enough for a few hours of heavy usage before needing to plug it again.

From the short couple of days that I spent with the ASUS Vivobook 14 Pro OLED, I could already transition from my desktop with only little adjustments.

Of course, I have to charge the laptop every night or so, but in terms of handling my workload, it was able to do so with no signs of stress or slowing down.

The ASUS Vivobook Pro 14 OLED starts at PhP 47,995 for the base model but the configuration with us is priced at PhP 74,995.

You can also avail of its Valentine’s promo bundle — every purchase of the ASUS Vivobook Pro 14 OLED comes with free Wacom Pad Intuos worth PhP 6,300 to further sweeten the deal.

We also have a full review out on the ASUS Vivobook Pro 14 OLED. You can head over here to watch it.

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