Honor had unveiled a new fitness wearable – Honor Band 3– the first device to feature up to 50-metre water resistance in India. Honor Band 3 launched alongside the Honor 8 Pro in India earlier this month. While the company revealed the band’s features at the event, it chose not to disclose the pricing and the details. Honor Band 3 that comes with features like heart rate monitoring, walking/running and advanced sleep tracking, will be available on Amazon from July 21 at Rs 2,799.
Honor Band 3 Features
The Honor Band 3 is a water-resistant fitness wearable that features a heart rate sensor that allows continuous monitoring. The new ‘Honor Band 3’ is equipped with smart technology to help people use intelligent trackers to keep a close watch on their fitness statistics. It will be made available in “funky” colour options liked Dynamic Orange, Navy Blue, and Carbon Black colours.
The new fitness band from Honor features a 0.9-inch 128×32 pixel vertical PMOLED display that shows users data regarding their fitness activities. With the Band 3, Honor is claiming 50-metre water resistance and the company claims that the device runs for 30 days on a single charge and has customer-swimming modes to track swim time, calories burned and more. The battery is rated at 105mAh.
With Honor Band 3, users will be able to see data on heart rate monitoring, workout sessions, and smartphone notifications from the display. The Honor Band 3 comes with a 16mm wide strap made of thermoplastic polyurethane.
The Honor Band 3 weighs only 18 gramme and has been optimised for 10 different fitness scenarios, according to Honor, and can offer sleep monitoring and tracking light, deep and REM sleeps, as well as sleep interruptions, through Huawei’s TruSleep tracking technology.
Users will also be able to get access to this data through the company’s app on their smartphone.
In terms of connectivity, the Honor Band 3 comes with Bluetooth v4.2 BLE. As the band is water-resistant, it additionally comes with a swimming mode that tracks swim time and calories burnt in the activity.
“Further, the band’s larger bright display not only helps you track your statistics but also works as your All Day Assistant with notification alerts like caller ID, emails, call rejection, social media and calendar alerts,” the company said. With its TruSleep feature, the band is able to track sleeping patterns of the users as well.
While only the Carbon Black colour variant will be available initially, the company says that other colour variants will be introduced around Rakshabandhan and Independence Day.
