Glory bracelet 4 was released together with Glory 8X on September 5, and it was officially sold on September 11 at a price of 199 yuan. Its imaginary enemy is obviously Xiaomi Bracelet 3. With the extra silver of the Mai Spicy Chicken Wings Package, you can get a larger AMOLED screen and the sleep monitoring function certified by the CDB Center of Harvard Medical School. However, there is no offline payment function of Alipay from OTA. Even if it is a gift, it looks like a good deal.
Gear Fit 2、 Glory bracelet 4, millet bracelet 3 fitbit Charge 2
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Color: black, dark blue, pink
Three dimensional: main body 43 * 17.2 * 11.5 mm, wrist strap 126mm+95mm, 23g weight
Screen: 0.95-inch AMOLED
Battery: 100mAh battery, 1.5 hour charging, 20 day standby, Bluetooth 4.2
Sensor: 6-axis inertial sensor, separate PPG heart rate meter, infrared wearing detection sensor
Official logo endurance: scientific sleep+continuous heart rate is 6 days, scientific sleep+off continuous heart rate is 9 days, and off scientific sleep and continuous heart rate is 14 days
Selling points: high PPI AMOLED screen, 50m waterproof, swimming posture recognition, all-weather heart rate, sleep monitoring and services certified by CDB Center of Harvard Medical School, Alipay offline payment, bus and subway payment (unique to NFC version).
Appearance and wear
It is packaged in light blue. The accessories only include a snap on small charging base and a mirco USB cable (unfortunately, Type-C is not available).
The appearance of the Glory Bracelet 4 is sporty and masculine, with angular sides and buckles, and the watchband has asymmetrical twills. The front double silver ring decorated home key+0.95-inch color AMOLED screen is also a glass cover plate. Its durability is better than that of similar resin materials. I don't know how high it is. The screen is slightly curved, and the 2.5D polishing officially publicized has a very small radian. Fortunately, the screen and the frame fit well without scratching.
The strap is narrow, dry and soft
Gear Fit 2、 Glory bracelet 4, millet bracelet 3 fitbit Charge 2
Heart rate sensor comparison (pay attention to the size of the sensor in the middle and the upper and lower LED lights)
The size of the heart rate sensor of the Glory Bracelet 4 even exceeds that of the Gear Fit 2. The measurement accuracy seems to be guaranteed by hardware. At the same time, it also has the sensor cover plate that is the easiest to be scratched in history, which was scratched by the mirror wiping cloth.
The sensor bulge is relatively small, which may be more comfortable at first glance. However, in fact, the protruding heart rate sensor will be more beneficial to wearing comfort and heart rate detection: the former is because the heart rate sensor will lift the body and make the contact surface smaller, and the latter is because the sensor can stick to the skin.
Glory bracelet 4 is comfortable to wear as a whole (bracelet products, as long as the watchband and body are narrow, you can really do whatever you want).
The main drag is the length of the body: the body does not look very long, but actually the body extends to the inside of the watch strap (as can be seen in the chart below for changing the watch strap). This inflexible part is too long. For users with small wrists, the body does not fit the radian of the hand and is too long. Usually typing/writing/sleeping will make the body arch up and slightly feel "clunky".
The buckle has a very special shape, and the strap is also fixed in a special way. The buckle can be removed by pulling out the buckle in a violent miracle way, but there is no independent strap for sale, and the price is unknown.
Screen and touch screen
Glory Bracelet 4
Gear Fit 2、 Glory bracelet 4, millet bracelet 3 fitbit Charge 2
This is a good screen, In addition to the Samsung Gear Fit series, this is the most sophisticated bracelet screen I have ever seen. 0.95 inch, PPI is extremely high. Except for the glass cover, the reflection is a little fierce. The color performance, brightness and visual angle are all very good:
Glory bracelet 4 system interface
Fineness: Although the resolution has not been officially announced, the fineness of the 193 PPI Xiaomi bracelet 3 has nearly caught up with the 750P screen of the small iPhone. Because of its high precision, the default dial has "weather, temperature, notification and Bluetooth icons, power indicator" in the top bar, which is definitely the most arrogant and smallest bracelet icon.
Font rendering: But after all, it is A screen, and the white font will have a dotted edge when viewed from the writing wheel. Fortunately, the main elements of the system dial are blue, which is less affected. Of course, it doesn't matter because I'm used to watching the big fruit's bracelet screen. The fineness of the Glory Bracelet 4 has risen so much in one breath, which is worth blowing up.
WeChat notification reminder of Glory Bracelet 4
Notice: This screen displays 45 Chinese characters on a single screen. There is enough space, but unfortunately, WeChat notifications only use half of the location to display content, which is a waste of space. You can only see 40 numbers, starting with 20 Chinese characters, and can barely read most of the short messages.
Brightness: Definitely enough. The system has only three levels of brightness that can be adjusted (only on the bracelet, not on the app), and has the function of automatically reducing brightness at night. In the office where the screen is generally 100-150 nits, the brightness is set to the first level, and it still feels a little too bright; The brightness of the second gear is enough to cope with the sunshine in sunny morning; The third level is really bright, suitable for users who stay outdoors all the year round.
The biggest slot point is that even though the brightness is automatically reduced at night, the screen is still too bright, and the green light of the heart rate sensor is also very bright. When I wake up in the middle of the night, I raise my hand to see the time, illuminating the whole wall
clock dial: With a good screen, the area is not small, which is very suitable for putting personalized dials. Then it is found that the current version of firmware has only two preset dials #% # ￥ @% ￥ #% # ￥ @. Subsequent dials have to wait.
Touch screen and home key: The screen can only be lit by the home key. The touch screen is sensitive and the system responds quickly, but the touch screen is a bit too sensitive. The screen is not very sensitive when you hang your hand to turn off the screen (or when you raise your hand to turn on the screen, it is too sensitive). Occasionally, when you look at the time, you will find that the interface has been drawn elsewhere.
Hands up&heart rate&sleep monitoring
People who buy bracelets have different purposes. Fitness and health care users are for heart rate detection, data maniacs and insomnia users are for sleep monitoring, and some people just want to notify and remind (but the bracelet bought for this purpose has the highest probability of falling ash).
The three functions most concerned by the author are hand lifting, heart rate and sleep monitoring. The speed of raising hands is related to whether it can be a qualified watch. The heart rate and sleep monitoring are just to record more data.
Gear Fit 2、 Glory bracelet 4, millet bracelet 3 fitbit Charge 2， Speed contrast of raising hands
Hands up: The legendary 100ms bright screen, The speed is obviously higher than that of Xiaomi bracelet 3, slightly slower than that of fitbit Charge 2 and Samsung Gear Fit 2 (The Apple Watch has the same speed.). There is no big problem with the usual awakening angle and logic, A bracelet worth less than 200 yuan is finally available , moved. What puzzles me is that the glory bracelet also has a bright screen animation on the occasion that it is too fast to light up
All day heart rate detection data of Glory Bracelet 4 and fitbit Charge 2 (pay attention to the fluctuation range of heart rate value)
All day heart rate detection data of Glory Bracelet 4 and fitbit Charge 2 (pay attention to the fluctuation range of heart rate value)
On the heart rate side, the official label is the separate PPG heart rate meter, the third-generation product developed by Huawei, which has low power consumption and claims to run in a continuous heart rate mode for a week:
In terms of accuracy, The Glory Bracelet 4 is one of the few bracelets that does not require the right and left hands to be set. The left and right hands wear the Glory Bracelet 4 and the fitbit Charge 2 respectively. The heart rate accuracy of static detection is very accurate (In fact, it is difficult to find products with inaccurate static heart rate.) ， The dynamic continuous heart rate is a bit too sensitive. The heart rate recording interval is 2 minutes, which is more dense than fibit Set (the latter is 5 minutes), which is very fierce, but it seems that there is no filtering for the instantaneous obvious deviation data. Reviewing the data of one day, the fluctuation is far greater than that of fitbit. The advantage of this is that you can find some small situations (you can see the clues in heart rate detection when you wake up in the middle of the night). The disadvantage is that the high frequency of false positives will submerge the normal data.
Continuous heart rate and abnormal alarm: This used to be an important selling point of high priced foreign products such as fitbit and Jiaming. This year, Xiaomi and Glory, these entry-level domestic bracelets, have been put on a continuous heart rate one by one, which is very gratifying. Glory bracelet 4 has a high heart rate reminder (you can manually fine tune the reminder line), but you can't see the real-time heart rate on the dial!!! The continuous heart rate function needs to be displayed on the dial in real time. Even Xiaomi is honored, it does not have this function now (the glory description document mentioned the real-time heart rate dial, but it has not been online yet). It's too slow to open the app to see the heart rate if you want to pick up your phone. And who will pick up your phone @ #% # ￥ @!! ￥！
Detailed sleep data of Glory Bracelet 4 for three consecutive days
Comparison of sleep monitoring data between Glory Bracelet 4 and fitbit Charge 2
The Glory Bracelet 4 supports scientific sleep and has been certified by Harvard Medical School. Its staff went to Xihu to promote their products, and said that Xiaomi Bracelet 3 also went to Harvard Medical School, but was rejected due to the problem of heart rate accuracy. This is true and false, but the sleep monitoring of Glory Bracelet 4 is the first domestic bracelet that is close to fitbit and other foreign products.
Deep sleep, shallow sleep and rapid eye movement are marked, but like heart rate, the current The presentation method and precision are a little too sensitive, and the data is cut too finely. Although it is difficult to judge whether the sleep detection is accurate or not, the switch between deep sleep, rapid eye movement and light sleep is 3 or 4 times within an hour, which even our village people think is not scientific. However, with such a data source, the effect is still expected after optimizing the presentation method and algorithm.
App and daily use
Sports health app of Glory Bracelet 4
The "sports health" app used by Huawei/Glory bracelet is a pre installed app of EMUI. Not used by Huawei/Glory mobile phones, The user will be prompted to install the app of "Huawei Mobile Service", and even detect the root status of the phone and remind. Clean users like the author are quite disgusted with this There are also restart and shutdown options inside the bracelet. This setting is very "smart watch" and engineering geek.
The app UI and even the built-in pop-up window are the original flavor of EMUI. The style is very unified and unique, and the interaction and fluency are very good. There is not much advertising promotion in it. There are very, very many health and fitness courses, instructions, experience and knowledge. It is a very authentic health tool, and even if foreign products are included, it is hard to beat it. This is a good comment. Don't beep.
The user guide contains very detailed descriptions of functions and UI logic
Vibrating alarm clock: The shaking force exceeded the average passing line, but was slightly lower than Xiaomi bracelet and fitbit charge. If it is above EMUI 8.1, the vibrating alarm clock can also be automatically synchronized from the mobile phone alarm clock (the mobile phones of other systems must be set manually). This is very good. It would be better if you could manually adjust the "Remind later" interval.
Motion monitoring: Besides running and cycling, there is also swimming, which is also rare. But like other domestic bracelets, these must be entered manually. It is hoped that in the future, it will be able to automatically monitor sports like fitbit and Samsung Gear Fit series, and automatically start simple running and cycling status records. Manual selection of sports mode is only suitable for a few fitness users, but they may forget to open the recording function in advance, so ordinary people use it less frequently.
Find mobile phone/remote shutter: The familiar function of looking for mobile phones turns out that the default ring tone is actually "I'm here" of Softgirl Paper, so you should pay attention to the occasion when trying new products. With Huawei/Glory mobile phones above EMUI 8.1, the camera shutter can be remotely controlled. These two functions are so unexpected that even when it comes to using them, it is hard for anyone to remember them. This function needs voice assistant or intelligent assistant, and can be used only when it has evolved to "automatically remind users to use different functions".
Alipay offline payment and NFC bus card: The former is a feature of many smart watches/bracelets, which is very easy to use, especially in stores with extremely poor network signals. However, the function of Glory bracelet 4 will not be pushed by OTA until September 30. The unique bus card function of NFC version cannot be used with iPhone. It has anti-theft brush function, which can be used up to 10 times after shutdown. Is it worth it? It depends on when the NFC version will be available and how much higher the price will be.
Endurance
Battery display: The default dial of Glory Bracelet 4 can display the power (the second dial can only see the power after clicking), which is very convenient. However, the accuracy of the electricity meter is not high. Although the system uses "%" to display electricity, the minimum electricity gradient is 10%. That is to say, the power is displayed by 10 grids, and there is a charge reminder when the power is lower than 10%.
Official data: Scientific sleep+continuous heart rate is 6 days, scientific sleep+shut down continuous heart rate is 9 days, and shut down scientific sleep and continuous heart rate is 14 days. After rigorous ternary linear equation solution, it means that the basic power consumption is 7% every day, the power consumption of heart rate function itself is 5.6% every day, and the power consumption of sleep monitoring itself is 4% every day, which sounds very low.
Actual use: Continuous heart rate+scientific sleep+hand lighting+notification+alarm clock+wrist turning and screen cutting, All functions are fully opened, and the four glory bracelets only lasted for three days. Is the system not debugged yet? Or do you need to turn off the light? The detailed power consumption test should be updated after the OTA of the new system.
For this all-weather heart rate detection bracelet, the author's expectation is that it will last about five days as fitbit Charge 2 . The endurance of the current version should still have much room for improvement. The disadvantage of the Glory Bracelet 4 is that the battery is not big. The green LED brightness of the heart rate sensor is significantly higher than that of the fitbit (it can be used as a searchlight at night). The advantage is that its sleep monitoring uses a more power saving infrared heart rate.
summary
For our early novice users, the firmware is not yet fully mature, such as anti false touch, dial, dynamic heart rate, UI logic, etc., there is still room for improvement, and the endurance has not met expectations. The glory bracelet 4 gives people the impression that the hardware is very powerful and has great potential, but it has not yet exerted 100% strength.
Even so, This screen, such heart rate and sleep data density are fully worth the ticket price. Even if the endurance pit cannot be filled, I would like to fill it in a few days. The price of the Glory Bracelet 4 is 199 yuan, compared with the Xiaomi Bracelet 3, which is 169 yuan. It is strong in the hardware specification, and there is an additional Alipay offline payment (but it was launched on September 30). This is the most fragrant smart bracelet, which may not be one of them.
However, Glory Bracelet 4 uses a futures strategy that many people hate. The first product sold on September 11 was sold several batches on September 30. Now it is still regularly snapped up every day. It will be delivered within 10 days after the advance payment. The price of the Glory Bracelet 4, the firmware to be improved and the purchase method made the author think of an unknown saying "Buy if you like, divide if you can't, drink more hot water and try again".
Fragrance rating: 4-star half ★★★★☆
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