Honor has introduced the Honor Watch 6 Plus, a wearable with comparatively typical options however outstanding battery tech.
The Honor Watch 6 Plus has a 1,000mAh battery cell, which is round double the capability of the 564mAh Apple Watch Extremely and last-generation 515mAh Honor Watch 5 Professional. It permits a cost to final a claimed 35 days, the place an Apple Watch Extremely is rated for simply 35 hours.
Such excessive energy capability has not led to a dramatic improve in case thickness both. The Honor Watch 6 Plus is 10.8mm thick — thinner than the 12mm Apple Watch Extremely.
Honor Watch 6 Plus Specs
Slightly context is required to keep away from overvaluing the Honor Watch 6 Plus’s endurance, although. It doesn’t have a full smartwatch-style working system, like Google’s Put on OS, which might see the Honor Watch 6 Plus final nowhere close to 35 days regardless of the 1,000mAh battery capability. It runs MagicOS, a proprietary system with extra of a health tracker taste.
35 days additionally solely stands for the Honor Watch 6 Plus’s lower-power mode, with the traditional mode rated at round 17 days of use. Or round 42 hours of GPS monitoring — sufficient for round 10 back-to-back marathons. It’s nonetheless an exceptionally long-lasting watch.
The Honor Watch 6 Plus has to this point solely been introduced for the Chinese language market, with a launch date of Might 29. However this still-remarkable system is predicted to launch elsewhere within the coming months.
One apparent query: how has Honor squeezed such a excessive capability battery into such a normal-sized watch?
This doesn’t seem to have been addressed straight through the Honor Watch 6 Plus’s launch, however the clues are clear in latest Honor telephones. The model has been one of the crucial aggressive in implementing Silicon-Carbon battery tech, which permits for larger milliampere-hour capability per sq. inch of battery quantity.
The Honor 600 Professional has a 7000mAh battery, for instance, in a body which may often home a 5000mAh one.
Battery specs apart, the Honor Watch 6 Plus’s options and specs are largely acquainted. It has a 1.46-inch OLED display with 3,000-nit peak brightness. There’s a speaker and microphone, dual-band GPS and 5ATM water resistance.
There are 120 exercise monitoring profiles, and whereas there’s no ECG function the optical coronary heart price reader is mined extensively to offer blood strain warnings, sleep apnea danger notifications and alerts for indicators of surprising coronary heart conduct. The Coronary heart Price Discount function additionally seems to warn of indicators of cardiac arrest. If any periphery components are snipped out in releases exterior of China, these considerably extra contentious well being alerts are prone to be amongst them.
A Honor Watch 6 Plus launch exterior of China hasn’t been introduced — and one within the U.S. is unlikely — however Honor does sometimes announce its wearables in China forward of a wider western launch. The watch begins at 1,199 Yuan, equal to round $176.