Huawei Band 6 Complete Scientific Review

I tested the Honor Band 6 against a scientific EEG device, and tested the SpO2, heart rate and step counting accuracy. Subscribe to my weekly Newsletter(!) on www.robterhorst.com
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📹Fitbit Videos📹
Fitbit Charge 3/4 Sleep: • FitBit Charge 4 Ultima...
Fitbit Charge 4 Heart Rate: • Fitbit Charge 4 Review...
Fitbit Sense First look review and test: • Fitbit Sense Accuracy ...
Fitbit Sense Heart rate: • Fitbit Sense Heart Rat...
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Steps: • Apple Watch 6 Step Cou...
Test: • Apple Watch 6 Accuracy...
📹First Garmin Venu Sq Video📹
• Garmin Venu Sq Heart R...
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HRV Test: • Oura Ring Review: Hear...
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⏱️This comparison is part of a larger project where I spend over 11 hours a week tracking everything in my life. If you'd like to know more:
• This mad scientist sca... ⏱️
Timestamps:
00:00 General intro
01:07 Huawei Band 6 Basic Info
02:07 Results: Sleep Test Setup
02:46 Results: Sleep Test Comparison
07:15 Results: Sleep Test Overview
09:35 Results: Oxygen Saturation (SpO2)
12:33 Results: Heart Rate Test
17:38 Results: Step Test
19:04 Conclusions
20:00 Buy The Huawei Band 6?
20:41 Limitations
🎵Music🎵
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(2) Wonders by JVNA
(3) Can’t Sleep (KZbin Audio Library)
(4) Classique (KZbin Audio Library)
(5) Blurry Vision (KZbin Audio Library)
Person Waking up Video by Ba Tik from Pexels
Many thanks to Rob and Frederik (and his FUN:D SCIENCE FOUNDATION) for their help with the OpenBCI device.

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Can u please advise which is the best watch to buy for sleep tracking, spo2 sensor and heart beat monitoring . Which watch is most accurate?

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Is huawei watch fit better than huawei band 6?

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Honor band 6 vs Huawei band 6 which one best? 🙏 answer me

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Even when the focus is on accuracy It's difficult to recommend fitbit sense and apple watch as alternatives when the former is 5x the price and the latter is 7x to 14x the price depending on the model.

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fitbit seems somewhat close in price..the 4 imean

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My Fitbit Versa 2 counts about double the steps of my Huawei Band 6 - even set to dominant and worn on my non-dominant wrist, it counts so many are movements!

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Well. You can't expect a 59bucks gadget that you wear on your wrist to be as accurate at measuring your body conditions as medical and scientific devices but consider that the Band 6 has an overall accuracy of 90 to 95% seems rather impressive to me.

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@The Quantified Scientist ,Firstly kudos on this excellent review ,you really bring a lot of sense to the decision making process for any consumer in this growing wearables market. Your review of band 6 is an year old now and mostly probably based on old sw versions , can you check its HR abilities with the latest sw , would really appreciate it. I think even in your consolidated review of all watches which by the way was amazing , also uses old stats. I know its time consuming and probably too cumbersome to revisit the same watch but I guess if you dont find much variance within a small sample of old watches(take the older ones ofcourse and include band6) then probably it wont make any sense to revisit all old watches.

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Nice video but it could have been interesting to compare the results you got with the ones from the Honor Band 6 that you reviewed lately since these share almost identical hardware and software.

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Content based on scientific stats! Great. thank you for he review. love my band 6

[@andrey122011]

Pls do a comparasion between huawei band 6, huawei watch fit, honor band 6 and galaxy watch 3 or other mainstreem "flagship" device. All of this 3 "buget watches" look similar in therms of results and have a very good price-value. Keep it up. Your videos are amazing

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I'm currently infected with Covid-19 and I'm i really need to track my spo2. There's a lot of cheap oximeter, 10-15 bucks and then i bought this instead. The all-day spo2 tracking is definitely helping me to track if maybe my spo2 are decreasing. What a confusing and awesome content!

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[@TheQuantifiedScientist]

Glad you liked it!

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Awesome review thanks for the hard work, what's the best watch you've tested for heart rate monitoring and heart rate zones *OTHER THAN THE APPLE WATCH* ???

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[@DK-ox7ze]

Waiting for you to complete your polysomnography setup and do a full sleep comparison for the Huawei Band 6!

[@danm3d]

Would be interesting to see a comparison between all the Huawei/Honor watches of this generation. I have an Honor Band 5, which uses the older "TruSeen 3.0" sensor/algorithm combo vs. the new "TruSeen 4.0" on the Watch FIT, and both the Band 6s from Honor/Huawei. My band 5 really struggles when doing push ups or any arm exercises where flexing is prominent as you've mentioned.

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Verry cool video dude, now i think the band 6 is my favorite.

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[@JoeBob79569]

I know these devices aren't perfect, but I think they're definitely provide enough information to be useful. I mean, you don't need to know _exactly_ how much light and deep sleep you get every night, and the overall picture you get of your sleep patterns over time is probably more useful. It's a bit like the weather forecast, you know it's not always going to be right, but that doesn't mean it's not beneficial. With my GT 2e, for example, most of the time it tells me that my deep sleep continuity is low, and even if the device wasn't the most accurate it's unlikely to be wrong about the same thing every single night.

[@jefftyt]

impressive comparison, well done

[@SeroAnd]

I've had a problem with it while tracking sleep, it would have never detected awaken times, but after a reset and app reinstall, it worked better. I can't tell if the sleep cycles tracking has improved, but the awake time improved a lot

[@Rensoraa]

do you mean you reinstalled the health app or?

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What to buy bro @huawei band6 or @honor band6...which is best..

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Amazing review! This is the best channel on KZbin for smartwatches/fitness trackers` in-depth reviews! I have seen your review on more expensive watches like Apple watch / Samsung watches it was very interesting. I'm an Android user, and I see that the Apple Watch is superior to everything you reviewed so far. Would be interesting to see how a watch with Google Wear OS would handle your tests, as an example "TicWatch Pro 3 GPS"/"TicWatch E3" The new hope for an android user )))

[@wuhui]

Thanks for the analysis. For the price of Huawei 6 it's really good buy for spO2 and heart rate and step count. Not too concern for sleep test as long as it detects sleep time well enough. I've decide too buy

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I love your work. Great job. TY for suggestion apple watch 6 for HR and O2 monitoring.

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Thanks 🔥

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[@bhaveshdodia85]

Thanks for this fantastic video, the indepth review you came up with is fantastic. I wanted to know how good is the workout tracking on these bands coz it says it has 90+ workout modes how good are those ? Any way to test a few ?