Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro official in PH with sub-PhP 12K price

Huawei Philippines announced its latest smartwatch, the Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro. This new launch marks the latest addition to Huawei’s award-winning Watch GT 2 Series, one of the best-selling smartwatches in the world. With a rugged yet premium design, advanced sports tracking, professional health monitoring, two-week battery life and wireless charging, the new Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro is set to be a big hit with fitness fanatics and casual users alike.

Pro design that is built to last

At its core, the new Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro is designed to help users explore more. Whether exploring the world around them, learning new skills, or exploring the limits of their fitness potential, Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro is the perfect companion to record users’ sporting achievements and health status.

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The Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro is a minimalistic and comfortable yet robust smartwatch. The watch face is made of sapphire, has a harder, more durable, and textured exterior which is scratch-resistant, even during outdoor sports. The watch frame is made from titanium. Such is the durability of the Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro, users can take it on even adventurous excursions.

With over 200 watch face options to choose from, the Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro gives users many customization options. Going one step further, Huawei Share OneHop. Watch Face lets users simply tap their Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro to their smartphone to transfer images from their photo gallery, allowing them to truly personalize the watch face and express themselves. Users can choose different layouts showing tide times, constellation, and moon phases to master the elements as they explore outdoors.

Perform like a pro

Whether users are just getting into new sports or looking to push their performance to the next level, the Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro offers over 100 workout modes to choose from. This includes new sports modes such as skiing, cross country skiing, snowboarding, and golf driving range. The skiing modes monitor users’ average speed, distance, trajectory, cumulative descent, maximum slope, heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, and more, with voice reminders to ensure safety. Golf driving range mode is ideal for perfectionists as it analyses the user’s swing tempo and speed, even providing visual swing demonstrations on the watch face.

In addition to the new sports modes, Huawei continues to cater to a diverse range of extreme sports, leisure activities, water sports, ball games, and snow sports on the Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro. Huawei also offers automatic workout detection for six workout modes, delivering a seamless experience.

Whichever sport users are practicing, the outdoor safety guidance ensures they are ready to face the elements. Users can track the sunrise, sunset, moon phase, tide times, and severe weather alerts. This is particularly useful for outdoor enthusiasts.

Many consumers have spent a lot of time working out alone or at home recently, leading to high demand for virtual personal training. The Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro delivers on this front as it comes pre-installed with over 10 running courses offering a guided service to keep users motivated.

Professional health tracking

Huawei has significantly improved its health-tracking capabilities on the new Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro. Heart rate tracking is at its most advanced, as the upgraded Huawei TruSeen 4.0+ heart rate monitoring technology combines with a 6-in-1 LED lens and sapphire glass back to provide more accurate readings. The Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro also supports real-time heart rate monitoring, whether running, swimming, or practicing another sport, it monitors real-time heart rate, workout heart rate, high heart rate alert, highest oxygen uptake, recovery time, and more.

In health management scenarios, the HUAWEI WATCH GT 2 Pro supports 24-hour heart rate monitoring, resting heart rate monitoring, abnormal heart rate notifications, scientific sleep tracking, all-day stress monitoring, and blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) detection.

Pricing and availability

Pre-order the Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro in Night Black for PhP 11,999 via Lazada and Huawei Online Store from November 7 until November 12, 2020, to get freebies worth PhP 7,830 while supplies last. Below are all the available promos:

November 7-12 (Lazada) (Huawei Online Store)

  • Includes Freebuds 3i worth PhP 5,990 and Colorful Speaker worth PhP 1,390 Php for every purchase

November 13-19 (Huawei Online Store) (Offline Stores)

  • Includes Freebuds 3i worth PhP 5,990 for every purchase

November 20-26 (Offline Stores)

  • Includes Huawei Band 4e worth PhP 1,390 for every purchase
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Hacks review: A sharp comedy about making comedy

11/24/2021

If you’re looking for something fresh, unique, and satisfyingly clever to watch, then Hacks is a series you’ll eat right up.

It’s hard to pull off a show about showbiz to begin with but doing one about making comedy is an even harder act to do.

However, with the winner combo that is the brilliant Jean Smart and her booming young stand-up comic co-star Hannah Einbinder, not only do they pull it off, but they also knock it out of the park.

The premise is simple: Smart plays Deborah Vance, a veteran comic with a successful long-running show in Las Vegas who recently is told to give up her weekend slots so that venue owner, Marty, played by Christopher McDonald (Into Thin Air, Happy Gilmore), can book a new singing group to attract a younger demographic.

While Vance acknowledges her show regulars are people “who come up from Florida”, she is livid by having to give up her weekend shows to make way for a lip-synching singing group.

Meanwhile, Einbinder plays young Ava who has recently been canceled by a now very woke LA due to an insensitive tweet and is having difficulty booking writing gigs despite previously having lucrative enough prospects to be able to afford to purchase a townhouse for herself.

Hollywood has now turned its back on her just as the city has and has found herself ostracized from the industry with no one wanting to work with her.

Serendipitously handled by the same agent, Ava is sent to Vance in Las Vegas to work for her as a writer in hopes of freshening up her act to keep her weekend show slots.

Thus, the equally skeptical working relationship begins.

More importantly, the show also tackles the great generational divide between Smart and Einbinder’s characters. Coming from the tail end of the disillusioned Gen X myself, where we are taught that soldiering on in a job you don’t enjoy is just a part of life you need to live with, it’s easy to find Ava’s idealistic take on unemployment very annoying.

She will likely be judged by the viewer initially as an entitled slacker who does not really know what hard work means.

Ava is someone who likes to complain about everything and somehow manages to logically justify it to be a violation of her rights and does a lot of this throughout the show.

That is why it is also equally enjoyable to watch Vance not give any importance to these complaints and oftentimes make her do grunt work fit for a personal assistant than a hired writer who is employed to better your comedy.

As much as it is satisfying to see the entitled Ava disgruntled by donkey tasks, this dynamic does not last as the two eventually find a way to work together through circumstances that present itself when forced to work together.

This is where the show tackles the real essence of the generational divide and where both Smart and Ava open up their characters quite beautifully.

You are immediately drawn by the many layers of Deborah Vance’s character, toughened by years and years of shit-eating she had to do as a pioneering woman in the world of comedy.

Just as we are drawn to it, so is Ava, and her resentment easily turns into admiration as she first realizes that Vance was probably a major player in kicking down the door that opened opportunities for women of her generation today.

But the show also reveals, albeit very subtly, that Ava does have a unique point of view as a writer and is not as entitled as she makes out to be. Rather, she is a smart female in her twenties who has real talent, empowered without hesitations to stand up for what she thinks is rightfully hers for the taking.

As the two characters learn from each other and try to make each other better, it is not hard to root for them.

The show makes you hope that the two can sort out their issues and work together because you almost positively know for sure that when they do, it will be magic. We have yet to find out.

In the meantime, you will find Hacks truly engaging and surprisingly addicting as you find yourself caring deeply about its characters.

It’s not a surprise that the show has bagged a few Emmys just in its first season. It is brilliantly written and the two women who carry the lead roles are astounding in it.

You can catch Hacks on HBO, which has been airing since October 11, 2021.

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