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Review: Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro - Thin and light, yet powerful and versatile

This is a competent package with many features, excellent battery life, precision in measurement results, and all this in a light and convenient format.

Erik Mörner

Published 22 May 2025 - 10:14

A major advantage of Huawei's watches is that they work with both Android and iPhone. This also applies to the Watch Fit 4 Pro, and now Huawei has added several new sensors, improved charging, and included a couple of new and unique features.

The Fit 4 series of watches consists of the Fit 4 and Fit 4 Pro. The Fit 4 is made of slightly simpler materials and lacks, for example, ECG and the golf mode, but in return costs 2000 SEK, 1300 less than the Pro model.

With a price tag of just over 3000 SEK today, the Fit 4 Pro we are testing here is everything you expect from a smartwatch today. It obviously measures your activity during the day, and the goal is to close the three rings the watch shows, rings that measure calories, exercise minutes, and standing hours. It is also possible to visualise the goals as bubbles that fill up instead of as rings. From time to time, I get reminders, for example, that I have been working well and that now only half an hour of activity is needed for me to achieve all of today's goals.

Comfortable in all situations

I have tested the watch for about ten days and am struck, especially since I wear it around the clock, day and night, by how thin and comfortable it is. Often I don't even think about having it on, which makes it problem-free to sleep with it without feeling uncomfortable. For constant use, battery life is also a clear strength. At the end of the test, the watch warns of a low battery level when I am about to go to bed. I then fear that the remaining 9 percent of the battery will not be enough for the night's sleep tracking, but those fears are not realised, because when I wake up, the watch has only lost one percent of battery, from 9 to 8 percent. I get about a week of battery life from the watch, and it is mainly GPS-measured workouts that drain the battery. I also appreciate that the watch supports regular wireless charging according to the Qi standard, so I don't need to use the included charger but can just as easily charge from any wireless charger I have available or from a phone with support for reverse wireless charging.

During the test period, I have completed 17 training sessions, mostly walks, but also a few runs, up to a half marathon. When I review these sessions and their plotted GPS route, I can confirm that the watch's measurements appear correct. The times I compare with another watch, an Apple Watch series 10, they follow each other almost exactly. With a watch on each arm, there is very little difference. When the Apple Watch thinks my walk through Stockholm is 5.71 km, the Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro thinks it's 5.75. However, on the Huawei Watch Fit 4 Pro, I miss the ability for the watch to automatically detect that I've started a workout and ask me if I want to record it.

Unique training assistance

In addition to the training forms I have tested, the Fit 4 Pro offers a wide range of others, all you might need, and there are some that are a bit extra useful. For example, there is a depth sensor so you can get information during free diving down to 40 meters, the watch has a barometer which is very useful during mountain hiking, and above all, there is a golf mode where you can directly on the watch bring up the golf course you are playing on with 3D maps for each hole, slope on the green, scorecard, and more.

Iphone and Android users get a bit different

Some features in the watch are available on Android but are missing when you connect the watch to an iPhone instead, mainly because iPhone does not give third-party products the same permissions. For example, you can load music files into the watch and listen directly to a pair of headphones if you have Android, you can navigate with Huawei's map app Petal Maps, and you can reply to app notifications directly from the watch. It is possible to reply with, for example, an emoji or with the keyboard on the watch, which, however, lacks åäö and Swedish as a language. None of this that I have now mentioned works when the watch is connected to an iPhone. On iPhone, you get app notifications, but you cannot reply to them from the watch.

In addition to training and activity, the watch can measure a range of different health-related values, and as mentioned, measure your sleep with extended analysis. Continuously and ongoing during use, without you doing anything, the watch can measure heart rate, stress, skin temperature, blood oxygen levels, and breathing while you sleep. Additionally, you can actively, by holding your finger against the sensor on the side of the watch, let it measure ECG and how stiff your arteries are. All data collected is then used for analysis in the app, where you get clear information and often quite helpful advice on how you can improve training, recovery, sleep, and general health.