Huawei Watch GT 7 and GT 7 Pro

Review: Huawei Watch GT 7 series – does not run out of steam easily

A varied family of watches that nevertheless collectively offers excellent battery life and a range of new features.

Published 24 September 2026 - 14:13

Huawei's Watch GT 7 series of watches primarily impresses with its battery life and the combination of that and what they are capable of doing. Huawei has always performed well in battery life comparisons, but has now taken it a step further.

I have tested the entire family of watches, but spent most time with the mid-range Watch GT 7. As the whole GT 7 series of watches is so similar in terms of features, we have nevertheless chosen to conduct a joint review here, but with separate rating boxes at the end to highlight the variations that do exist.

A sportier exterior

The Huawei Watch GT 7 series builds on what we are already familiar with. The focus is, perhaps slightly more than before, on sport and an active lifestyle. In this series, the watches have been given a more sporty rather than understated appearance, with mostly rubber straps in bright colours. Huawei's ambition to combine sporting use with a design that also suits an evening dinner party is therefore not as clear as before. The manufacturer itself also highlights the new straps, where the end of the strap folds in, as something unique, but I am more indifferent about that. Similar designs have long been available from other manufacturers, and anyone who does a quick Google search will see that it is one of the most common strap designs on sale, for example the Apple Watch Sport Band has essentially used it since that watch was first released. Nor has the old design with a loose end held in place involved any risk of it getting in the way or catching on something.

In addition to extensive sports tracking for around a hundred different sports, including dedicated golf and skiing features, the watches also offer health tracking and useful everyday functions such as mobile notifications, mobile payments and support for both Android and iPhone.

What consistently impresses most is the battery life. It takes many days of heavy use before I need to charge the watch. In general, with workouts and otherwise frequent use during the day as well as sleep tracking at night, the watch uses only six per cent of its battery per day. A one-hour run with GPS and all health tracking active uses two per cent. So I do not get the “up to 21 days” of battery life claimed by Huawei, but I do get two weeks, even with, as mentioned, heavy use. There is some variation in battery life between the different models in the series.

Can be charged using a standard wireless charger

If I use the smallest GT 7 with a 41 mm watch face instead, an hour of exercise uses around 3 per cent of the battery, but in return, its slim and compact design makes that watch considerably more comfortable to wear at night for sleep tracking. As soon as I wake up and turn off sleep mode, I receive a report on the night that has passed.

Hardly ever having to think about charging in this way, regardless of which watch in the series you choose, is of course useful. After all, the watch only provides the benefits of its health tracking when you are actually wearing it on your wrist.

The app brings everything together

You use the Huawei Health app on your phone to set up the watch, and it is also where you get summaries and analyses of the health data collected, as well as advice on how you can improve. The watch measures both heart rate and sleep, as well as GPS-tracked workouts, with good accuracy, regardless of whether you use an iPhone or Android phone with the watch. A couple of other things do differ, however. With the watch connected to an Android phone, you can store music files on the watch and play them independently of your phone, and you can reply to incoming messages using a small keyboard. When I begin the test, the keyboard is in English, but a couple of taps in the menus on the watch itself download a Swedish keyboard with autocorrect. Music and replying to notifications do not work when the watch is connected to an iPhone, however.

For the past couple of months, Huawei's watches have supported mobile payments, allowing you to tap the watch in shops. This is handled via the Curve app and works with the GT 7 series as well as older Huawei models, regardless of whether you use an iPhone or Android.

Some limitations

The GT 7 series has Huawei's AppGallery app store, but it cannot compete at all with the apps available for Garmin, Apple Watch or Wear OS. This means that you only get a few very simple apps here, and not, for example, Spotify or other music streaming services. The Huawei Watch GT 7 series does not offer eSIM either, which is part of the explanation for why battery life can be so good compared with several competitors.