How the Huawei Band 6 can help improve your health habits

Homebound life has a lot of people sitting indoors for hours at length, save the occasional trip to the bathroom or kitchen. It’s no good to neglect physical activity though, and having the Huawei Band 6 on the wrist makes a whole lot of difference health-wise versus the couch potato lifestyle.

Huawei’s newest fitness tracker provides plenty of exciting opportunities to move those stiff muscles around, especially with its variety of indoor-friendly workout modes, round-the-clock health monitoring, and super long-lasting battery uptime. Plus, the Band 6 is compatible with iOS and other Android devices so users across all platforms can enjoy maximum accessibility.

Check out how having the Band 6 can improve health habits and even productivity levels, just by having the tracker as a companion:

All-day SpO2 monitoring for ideal blood oxygen levels

It can be hard to identify fatigue until the adverse effects set in, which makes the Huawei Band 6’s all-day SpO2 (blood oxygen) monitoring a useful tool. Users can view their detailed blood oxygen saturation data on the Band 6, informing users of their ideal SpO2 measurements or alerting them if they fall within unhealthy levels.

By looking at this data, Band 6 users can be reminded to get out for some fresh air, drink plenty of water, and eat more iron-rich food to keep oxygen circulating through the body.

What’s more, the Band 6 can last for up to 2 weeks on a single full charge, assuring users of continuous and accurate health guidance without hassle.

Workout modes to fit any environment

With a whopping 96 modes for both indoor and outdoor exercise, the Band 6 provides a versatile workout program whenever and wherever the urge to get moving arises. The watch’s smart sensors identify which workout is being performed and gauges heart rate, calories burned, exercise duration, and other relevant data for later analysis.

This data can be viewed and used in conjunction with the Huawei Health app, useful when setting training goals or maximizing exercise efficiency.

Dynamic heart rate and sleep monitoring

With the Huawei TruSeen 4.0 tech onboard the Band 6, the watch can track both active and resting heart rates. This powerful tool can give users an idea for, say, optimizing exercise routines by targeting 60 – 85% of maximum heart rate. This also ensures intense workouts can be performed safely and avoid overexertion.

The Band 6 also provides resting heart rate data, which in many cases can mitigate health risks especially if low heart rate is accompanied by symptoms like chest pain, dizziness, etc.

The Huawei TruSleep 2.0, meanwhile, detects and analyzes the user’s sleep quality through monitoring of sleep stages, heart and breathing rate, etc. Examining one’s sleep duration and other patterns help identify issues such as insomnia, shallow sleep, excessive REM periods, and other problems. With this, users can make the appropriate adjustments to their bedtime habits for healthier sleep.

Compact and powerful form factor

Huawei developed the Band 6 to be a true all-scenario wearable, enabling users to maximize it as a fitness tracker or accessorize with it for other lifestyle purposes. The 1.47-inch FullView AMOLED Display allows for presenting crisp visuals for data and other information, while the aspect ratio contributes to its user-friendliness.

The customizable watch faces add an extra degree of personalization, on top of the multiple colorways available. Most importantly, the Band 6 is extremely durable despite its lightweight and comfortable fit, thanks to the application of fiberglass reinforced polymer for its materials.

Enhanced fitness guidance with Huawei Health app

Syncing the Huawei Health app with the Band 6 brings an all-in-one fitness monitoring experience to users. Access all data and analysis results within the app’s detailed but easy-to-understand visuals, share progress with friends, and even compete in global fitness challenges to satisfy that competitive spirit.

The Huawei Health app is compatible with non-Huawei devices as well, making it an adaptable method to access scientific health tracking, regardless of platform. Huawei users can download the app from AppGallery, while non-Huawei device owners can use official download links. For Apple users, the Huawei Health app is downloadable on the Apple App Store.

All-scenario AI life

The Huawei Band 6 is part of the brand’s massive device ecosystem, which constitutes the overall AI Life strategy it envisions. Basically, owning a Huawei device opens the user up to a multitude of intelligent possibilities with this tech ecosystem, letting them experience an AI-enhanced lifestyle that brings them the things they need in a seamless and cohesive fashion, regardless of the form factor.

As this ecosystem grows, more users benefit from Huawei’s vision of a smart life powered by innovation and ingenuity.

Pre-orders for Huawei Band 6 as well as the recently release Freebuds 4i are already open. You can head over here to know how to get your hands on one (or both).

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Cobweb review: A funny, dark film about making a film

10/04/2023

Cobweb hits close to home.

It shows all the things that could possibly happen (and go wrong) in a film set. And while a lot of the things depicted in the film might come across as exaggerated, I assure you, everything is totally possible inside the four walls of a set during the many times I’ve been in one.

Cobweb is a 2023 South Korean film directed by Kim Jee-woon. Being meta in its essence, this dark comedy movie is about director Kim Yeol (played by Song Kang-ho), in the 1970s, and how he believed his film would be a masterpiece if only he could reshoot the ending before it premieres. But, as film production goes, not everything falls into place for director Kim with only less than two days to reshoot.

The movie in itself is light and easy to watch — with dark scenarios (both literally and figuratively) happening almost continuously which filled the theatre with cringing reactions (due to the mishaps happening in the film) and outbursts of laughter.

Without spoiling anything, Cobweb has multiple layers of different socioeconomic aspects if you want to dissect it. But it could also be taken lightly by just going for the ride of ups and downs in the life of a filmmaker.

For one, it shows how in film (or any industry for that matter) is totally challenging when you don’t have a solid team with the same vision. You’ll see director Kim having problems left and right due to his actors and other talents, his set, and even the producer — Mr. Baek (played by Shin Sung-pil) who is closely watching their every move.

Mr. Baek’s presence alone is like watching a sitcom in itself since the film crew didn’t really get approval to reshoot the ending of the film which resulted in them going rogue and shooting behind the back of the producer. This formula alone already lets you imagine scenes of the director and his crew sneaking about to try and shoot.

Another takeaway is seen from the role of Shin Mi-do played by Jeon Yeo-been who handles the financial aspect of the movie they’re making. She reads director Kim’s script with the tweaked ending and became a believer of the director’s vision. She’s basically the one who gave the go signal to shoot in secret just to pull off the film’s new ending. Cobweb shows that it only takes one person who believes in you to be able to pull off almost impossible feats, and I personally find that powerful.

There is also a story of redemption for the film’s director. He has been known to produce his debut film which was critically acclaimed by the audience but a series of flops shortly followed after. He thought that his film with a reshot ending would be “a masterpiece” and would break his pattern of shallow drama films.

Apart from those, there is also a film-within-a-film treatment in the form of the actual movie they’re making. It intercuts with the movie as a black and white film so as the audience, you witness all the hullabaloo happening behind the scenes and at the same time, see the final version as well. And during the climax of their movie with the ambitious camera treatment of a long scene taken in one continuous shot, you simply enjoy it further, and is quite a treat being able to see two parallel films in one timeline.

Cobweb is not without faults, though. I feel like some of the characters were unnecessary like the actor who plays detective which, for me, didn’t really add a lot to the pool of characters for the film. A few of the scenes seemed like scenarios were pushed hard for the effect of humor, but felt shallow in my opinion.

Still, it was successful in contrasting light, humorous scenes with dark, disastrous scenarios which made the film enjoyable as a narrative.

Cobweb opens in cinemas on October 4 and is produced by Anthology Studios and globally distributed by Barunson E&A, the same studio that produced Parasite. 

Cobweb is exclusively distributed in the Philippines by TBA Studios. The same company that brought award-winning films such as Everything Everywhere All At Once and the box-office romantic drama Past Lives to the Philippines.

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