Great quality, price and look. Long battery life and perfect for fitness

The Huawei Watch GT 2 is a really great fitness and health companion, covering quite a number of aspects of your fitness, sleep tracking, heart-rate monitoring, as well as stress feedback throughout the day. I found all of this very useful based on my current needs.

Two-week battery life; VO2Max sensor; GPS-enabled tracking; All about the fitness

No 3rd-party apps; Missing smartwatch features

We can't stress this point enough: the Huawei Watch GT 2 is actually two smartwatches. The first is the suave but sizeable Watch GT 2 46mm, which packs the headline features: two-week battery and phone call functionality. That’s the one we reviewed. The second, the 42mm Watch GT 2 is a lite version in our eyes, losing out on features, but it’s more elegant. In our month with the 46mm version, we've fallen for its design, and using it as a watch and passive fitness tracker has been great. The battery life is also solid, even if we couldn’t squeeze two weeks out of it. The Watch GT 2 is undeniably less functional than an Apple or Galaxy Watch, and doesn’t play nicely with third-party apps, so won’t be one for serious fitness fiends. If you’re okay with all that though, it’s cheaper and better looking and anything else under £180, and a great passive tracker.

Stunning design; Impressive battery life; Decent value;

Limited third-party support; No app store; No notification interaction;

The Huawei Watch GT 2 has excellent battery life coupled with health and wellness tracking features, but the software needs improvements in order to stand out from the competition.

Great battery life; Attractive design; Excellent fitness tracking;

No third-party apps; No NFC support; Can't customize it much

Huawei's Watch GT has built a reputation for crazy-long battery life and great health tracking data, with the GT 2 continuing that ethos, adding a couple of new features like the always-on lock screen and loudspeaker. That makes it a great fitness watch, but the lack of interactivity means it's still not a fantastic smart watch.

Really long battery life; Stylish good-looking design; Lots of health tracking data; Vibrant display; Two size options;

Watch faces aren't customisable enough; Refresh rate is slow and stutters; Always-on screen only has two styles;

Aimed at Huawei and Honor phone owners, the Watch GT 2 is a great choice so long as you understand and can live with its limitations.

Stunning design; Impressive battery life; Decent value;

Limited third-party support; No app store; No notification interaction;