Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro review: An Android Apple Watch Ultra

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The Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro lands as an amped up version of the Watch Fit 4, aiming to offer an upgraded smartwatch design and plenty of extra smarts to make it an even better buy than its predecessor, the Watch Fit 3.

There’s big gains for both outdoor lovers and those who want to closely monitor their health, with Huawei’s HarmonyOS sewing things all together to give you that feel of using one of Huawei’s pricier smartwatches.

We were big fans of the Watch Fit 3 and with a little more money to spend on the pro model of the Fit 4, it feels like that extra spend, at £249, will be worth it for some.

Design & Build

• Two case size options
• Available in steel or titanium
• New side-mounted sensor

The Watch Fit 4 Pro comes in green, blue or black colours, so that’s fewer colour options available for the Watch Fit 3.

You now have your option of a fluoroelastomer or woven nylon bands and with titanium and aluminium both in play in the case department. Put those parts all together and it’s a smartwatch design that’s ticking a lot of boxes yet also giving us something we’ve seen before.

From the case shape to the rotating crown and button on the side, the Fit 4 Pro looks like an Apple Watch Ultra 2 clone. A nice clone, mind you, but definitely doesn’t try to do things too differently here.

If you can deal with people asking you if you’ve got an Apple Watch Ultra on (maybe you want that), you are getting a very nicely-made smartwatch that’s now slimmer than the Fit 3 and the Fit 4, and at just over 30g sits pretty light on your wrist too.

Another thing it has in common with Apple’s smartwatch is that it’s suitable for recreational diving up to 40 metres depth. That’s to go with a 5ATM rating, which means you can keep it on in the shower and for swims.

I’ve been wearing the Fit 4 Pro for a couple of weeks now and whether it’s been for exercise, swimming, sitting at a desk or taking it to sleep, it’s been a very comfortable smartwatch to strap on.

Screen & Audio

• New sapphire glass
• Improved screen brightness
• Speaker and microphone included

The display on the Watch Fit 4 Pro is the same size and resolution as the one featured on the Fit 3 and is also the same one included on the cheaper Fit 4. The notable upgrade here is the addition of sapphire glass to offer the kind of protection against scratches offered on more expensive watches and smartwatches.

That 1.82-inch, 480 x 408 resolution display is now a brighter one as Huawei notches up the peak brightness. It’s up to 3,000 on the Pro, which is double what we got on the Watch Fit 3 and an extra 1,000 nits over the non-Pro Fit 4.

There’s no change on the cellular connectivity front in that it still doesn’t have it. If you do want it on a Huawei smartwatch, you’ll need to grab the Huawei Watch 5. What you can still do is use the onboard speaker and microphone to take calls over Bluetooth and the speaker volume and mic clarity is good enough to intercept a call from your wrist.

Software & Features

• Some micro apps available
• Petal Maps mapping
• Custom watch faces

The Watch Fit series has evolved to become more smartwatch than fitness tracker and smartwatch hybrid, though you won’t get any major additions to bring it closer to fully-featured Huawei smartwatches like its Watch GT and Watch series.

As already mentioned, you can use it to make calls over Bluetooth as well as view notifications, add transport cards to it and there are both music controls and music player modes. The latter is once again off limits to iPhone users. You have access to Huawei’s Petal Maps and the screen is big and bright enough to make using it to get around worthwhile.

There’s a good collection of watch faces, where you can see which of those faces suck the most power with the new ability to add stickers and emojis to watch faces. It’s good to see the Fit 4 Pro showing a more playful side.

Inevitably, there are things you will miss out on the Watch Fit 4 Pro that you will find on more expensive Huawei smartwatches. The biggest one is the more limited access you have to Huawei AppGallery apps. It’s a more scaled-back affair with just a bunch available.

Fitness & Tracking

• Added ECG app
• Offline maps and point-to-point navigation
• Altitude barometer now included

Huawei makes some pretty sizeable upgrades from the Fit 3 when it’s time to take it for a run or you want to spend the day hiking with it. It’s now moved from a single-band GNSS system to a dual-band GNSS to give outdoor tracking a boost.

That improved route tracking now also extends to water sports, while the added barometer means it can be more valuable when tackling high altitudes. You’re now getting access to free offline maps for activities like trail running, and it’s also getting some of Huawei’s more advanced golf smarts, including access to over 15,000 course maps.

The sports tracking experience is strong for a watch at this price and in many ways much better than many more expensive smartwatches. You’re getting a GPS performance that’s been solid in our testing.

Even for indoor workouts, it performed strongly. Having offline mapping as well as turn-by-turn navigation is great to see and is slickly presented on