Design and Screen

• Titanium case and sapphire glass
• 1.82-inch AMOLED touchscreen display
• Comes in three colours

If the Watch Fit 3 had a bit of Apple Watch about it. The Watch Fit 4 definitely feels like you’re slapping an Apple Watch Ultra 2 on your wrist.

It has a similar square frame, although it sits smaller than Apple’s alternative with its 44.5mm-sized case. It comes in three different colours (black, green and blue) with a nice matte finish titanium housing a rotating crown button and a secondary button.

It’s just the two buttons here, so Huawei hasn’t offered its take on Apple’s Action button and instead settles on a very useful crown and a button that can offer a shortcut to your most regularly used features.

For the strap, you have options. You can pick it up with either a woven nylon or fluoroelastomer kind, and I had the latter, which doesn’t offer anything out of the ordinary in terms of look and fit and is good to see and uses a traditional watch clasp to make sure it stays put.

While the case design has changed, the display inside it technically hasn’t. It’s a 1.82-inch one with tough sapphire glass to protect from scratches that offers a maximum brightness of up to 3000 nits. That’s double of what was offered on the Watch Fit 3.

It’s a lovely, bright screen that might lack the sheen of Huawei’s LTPO displays but is responsive to touch, offers accurate colours and can be set to stay on at all times.

If you want to take the Watch Fit 4 Pro for a swim or even a free diving session, it has the waterproof rating to let you do that. It’s the same 5 ATM rating as the Fit 3 that makes it safe to be submerged in water up to 50 metres depth, and also meets the EN 13319 standard to be fit to handle recreational diving up to 40 metres.

Performance and Software

• Works with Android and iOS
• Access to AppGallery
• No eSim support

The Fit 4 Pro runs on HarmonyOS just like the cheaper Fit 4 and other Huawei smartwatches like the Watch 5. You don’t get everything you’ll get on the flagship Watch 5, but there’s enough to make the Pro a more than capable smartwatch.

For starters, the software runs very slick on the watch. Whether you’re glancing at notifications, picking out a watch face, using the music controls or music player (for Android users) or using Petal maps, things work pretty slick.

What you’re mainly missing out on from the more expensive Huawei smartwatches is the ability to get full access to the AppGallery app store directly from the watch and enjoy eSim functionality. You can make calls via Bluetooth, however. You need to be a Huawei smartphone owner to make use of the onboard AI Voice assistant and there’s also no kind of payment support on offer, but you can add travel cards instead.

It’s never felt like an extremely limiting experience to use the Pro as a smartwatch. Having an Android phone paired to it is going to give you a more complete experience, but even for iPhone users, there’s software here that, at least on the watch, is easy to get to grips with and operates smoothly.

If you care about apps, then that’s probably not going to be a prime reason to grab the Fit 4 Pro. Though, that could be levelled at all Huawei smartwatches. There are apps available to add games, additional training features, but it’s more limited with what you can add to the Fit 4 Pro compared to the more fully-fledged Watch 5.

Tracking and Features

• Golf mode added
• Free offline maps
• New ECG sensor and HRV insights

The Fit line has, in previous iterations, offered a nice mix of fitness tracker and sports watch with some surprising additions I hadn’t expected to see on a tracker sitting well below £150. With the Pro getting pricier, Huawei has made sure you’re getting added value for that extra spend.

In typical Huawei fashion, it’s throwing a bucket load of sports modes at you, with notable additions in the form of improved GPS tracking for water-based activities like rowing and surfing. You’re also getting a dedicated golf mode with access to 15,000 courses to reliably track rounds. It also inherits some of Huawei’s dive-friendly features from the Watch Ultimate to make it useful for free-diving.

For outdoor lovers, there’s the ability to download maps for offline use, and that includes more detailed contour line maps for those who like to go for treks and trail runs. You can also import routes from the popular third-party app Komoot to bolster its adventuring credentials.

On the health tracking front, you’re getting an ECG sensor built into the bottom physical button, new heart rate variability measurements during sleep tracking, while the latest version of Huawei’s TruSense sensor system promises quicker and more accurate biometric monitoring.

Now it all sounds impressive on paper, but it’s about delivering on performance, accuracy and presentation and I’d say overall, the Fit 4 Pro does very well across the board.

I tested the dual-band GPS performance against dual-band watches from Suunto and Garmin and it held up well with both, though the Garmin still felt the most reliable. Once you’ve downloaded map regions from the Huawei Health app, they’re synced over and well presented on the watch screen, making good use of the rotating crown and swipes to navigate and zoom in and out of maps.

If you care about heart rate, I’d say heart rate ranges and ECG reading accuracy are good, and can feel at times during exercise a touch unreliable with average readings. Fortunately, you can pair external heart rate monitors to it to improve matters.

Both fitness and sleep tracking are solid. Daily step counts didn’t feel wildly out from other trackers I wore alongside it and you’ll see nice little animations to signal when you’ve hit one of your daily goals.

Sleep scores and duration chimed nicely with similar tracking from an Oura Ring 4, but when it comes to reviewing data in the app and delving into the sleep analysis and recommendations, it’s a reminder of one of Huawei’s big problems – the companion app is very messy.

As a package, there’s plenty to like about how the Fit 4 Pro goes about its business whether you’re turning to it for fitness, health or sports tracking.

Battery Life

• Up to 7 days in standard use
• Up to 10 days in battery saver mode
• Charges fully in 1 hour

The Fit 4 Pro shares the same 400mAh capacity battery as found in the regular Fit 4 and that equals the same battery numbers. That’s up to 7 days in standard use or 10 days if you’re basically not planning to use things like GPS and all of the available health and wellness monitoring features.

I found the Fit 4 could get comfortably through a week without the screen set to always-on mode. When enabled, the drop is unsurprisingly more severe and it was closer to 3-4 days the Fit 3 could also muster up. When using the GPS, the battery drop for an hour’s use was 5%, which is a good showing.

You do have to use a similar charging cradle found with the Huawei Watch 5 and it does charge quickly, going from 0-100% in an hour as promised.

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